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  1. And keep in mind within this concept that MLB a lot of these "leftover" teams will end up in the "Dream League" pool where undrafted players would play. Which is also, itself would be a pretty firm attack on Indy ball as it exists now.
  2. I don't know that Deadspin readers are all that loyal to any particular writers but I would expect they're loyal to the tone/voice/ethos/whatever you want to call it of Deadspin.
  3. The thing that always kills me about Rays attendance is that their local TV numbers are fine, so it's not like they're completely unsupported.
  4. Seems like they're setting up a race between the two cities- first one to budge and actually build a ballpark gets the team. Ever innovative, the Rays have moved to squeezing 2 cities at once.
  5. Reference to the NDY statues the tourism folks put up around town a few years ago, but it doesn't quite look right in this application. https://www.visitindy.com/indianapolis-ndy
  6. This is the logo of an evil company in an action movie
  7. If there's a word for something beyond schadenfreude, the feeling of watching an NFL team going through what the Raiders are is that.
  8. Now imagine if the name wasn't galactically stupid. Prairie Dogs? Nah, gotta put a twist on it for no actual reason.
  9. Fatbacks does flow better. The downside is lack of staying power- they'll just change the name in a few years when the food name trend is over and merch isn't moving as well.
  10. Hey! There's a metropolitan Binghamton. Just ask the Census Bureau. Binghamton Metropolitan Area
  11. But what is the right uniform for Kurt Russell?
  12. Looks it's just a good old fashioned Indy League play for attention. But a damn good one. Cards Against Humanity Saves Baseball
  13. Ok, I see the perspective now. Don't really agree with it because the entire relationship is open and no one is actually being dishonest about or obscuring the relationships between the ML and Minor team. And the relationship between the customer and the team is independent of the affiliation. People buying tickets don't care who's stocking the roster. They're supporting the local baseball business, and like knowing there's going to be a couple guys on the field who'll actually make it to the Majors. Given the periodic churn of affiliation,there's an argument that local ownership/naming is actually more honest by projecting more accurate level of permanence to the local team.than naming based on the ML organization. The existence of the team isn't predicated on the affiliation. Just because the Pirates aren't going to be affiliated with the Small City Donut Bunnies anymore, the operation will continue to exist, but with Brewers players. In the end, I'll take the less sterile path.
  14. Why is that desirable at all? I guess from a top-down perspective it makes it easy to identify, but you only really need to pay attention to where your favorite team has affiliates. It's not like being able to glance at minor league standings and know whose team is what tells you anything remotely useful about other teams' player development. Meanwhile for minor league owners it has to help to have a little local identification for the team, and sell a little merch along the way while affiliation agreements are on 2 year cycles (though everyone involved prefers stability there). I can't figure out how there is any actual benefit for anyone to this thing you think is optimal and just results in a very sterile baseball world.
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