TinCaps? Fine. Rawhide? Sure. Whatever. But, come on! Are they serious?
Bowling Green Hot Rods
"Hot Rods” was officially unveiled tonight as the nickname of Bowling Green’s new Minor League Baseball team.Cave Shrimp? I could have gotten behind Cave Shrimp.
Officials with the Bowling Green Hot Rods made the announcement before roughly 300 people at an event at Circus Square Park, less than a mile from the Hot Rods’ under-construction ballpark, where the Class A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays begins play in April as a member of the South Atlantic League.
Hot Rods was the ultimate winner from thousands of publicly suggested nicknames. It beat out six other finalists - Bluegills, Cave Shrimp, Mammoths, Speedsters, Sparkplugs and Turbos - in an online vote conducted this summer.
“To finally get to a point where you don’t have to sit on the name anymore, to worry about letting it slip when you’re in a meeting in public, it’s a relief,” said Brad Taylor, general manager and CEO for the Hot Rods.
The team also introduced its color scheme - black, yellow, red and silver - and its logos. The primary logo features a yellow hot rod with baseball hubcaps and red flames shooting from its exhaust pipes. A second logo, which the players will wear on their black caps, shows the interlocked silver letters “B” and “G” trimmed in yellow, with red flames on the “B.”
And it's not black, yellow, red, and silver. It's Tire Black, Racing Yellow, Fire Red, and Tailpipe Silver. See the difference?
Why Hot Rods? Well, apparently the Corvette is manufactured in Bowling Green.
Good thing we don't have to play them....until 2010.
5 comments:
In the last month or so (TinCaps, Hot Rod's...) i've never been more happy that we're the Timber Rattlers!!!
The Rays' are on a roll with affiliate nicknames. Last week they announced their new FSL (A+) team will be the Charlotte Stone Crabs. Stone Crabs and Hot Rods, at least we have the Durham Bulls.
I personally like Stone Crabs (i checked the website and it looks like the logo isn't ready yet).
Just something about inanimate objects as mascots...
And yes, Durham Bulls, one of the all time classics. No doubt.
Rays prospects will really be hoping to make it to Durham. They would go from Hot Rods to Stone Crabs to Double-A where they are the Montgomery Biscuits.
Thanks for stopping by, Doug. the kid gets a little lonely in here as the only commenter.
Hard to have a minor league blog in the offseason, I'm impressed by the work you have done. If you haven't done it you wouldn't realize how much work goes into a site, and second guessing, but it's fun. On the Rays, I'm hearing lots of std jokes re Rods and Crabs, don't know how to work in Biscuits, Bulls or Renegades. I'm sure someone will. And I'll add you to our minor league links tomorrow, good site.
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