Get off of My Lawn!: Rico Brogna and Mets in Retirement, 2024

[Cowtipper]

Tim Bogar is managing the Amarillo Sod Poodles.

[Frayed Knot]

I don't want to know what a Sod Poodle is.

[Cowtipper]

I don't want to know what a Sod Poodle is.

Lots of minor league teams now have those two-word, wonky marketing department-created names that exist more to sell merchandise than to actually mean anything.

Sod Poodles
Trash Pandas
Jumbo Shrimp
Rumble Ponies

Etc.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

The Dodgers' AAA team in Oklahoma City is for this season called the "Oklahoma City Baseball Club" while it awaits a stupid new name that will announce after the year.

They are transitioning from the Oklahoma City Dodgers which was a boring name. Used to be known as the Red Hawks and before that the 89ers.

[Frayed Knot]

I don't want to know what a Sod Poodle is.

Lots of minor league teams now have those two-word, wonky marketing department-created names that exist more to sell merchandise than to actually mean anything.

I am well aware of that. Almost all of them come out of the same (SD-based IIRC) marketing agency which takes time to give each of their
client teams a name that is totally unique ... and also one that is just like every other one of their client teams.
I just don't know, and don't want to think about, what a Sod Poodle might be.

[MFS62]

Rumble Ponies

That one has some semblance of a tie to their city. Binghamton is where they used to make carnival carousels, and the name is a tribute to the horses on them.
Later

[Cowtipper]

Rumble Ponies

That one has some semblance of a tie to their city. Binghamton is where they used to make carnival carousels, and the name is a tribute to the horses on them.
Later

Oh, then to replace that we also have

Space Cowboys
Yard Goats
Blue Wahoos

[MFS62]

Oh, then to replace that we also have
Yard Goats

Another one with a historical tie - yard goats are the engines that move trains in a depot, and Hartford used to be a big railroad hub. The name was voted on by the locals.
Later

[Edgy MD]

They all have a semblance of a tie to the city.

That doesn't change the reality that they all deliberately chose a name that diminishes, infantalizes, and sometimes even emasculates the player for the sake of tired and cliched marketability through goofiness.

I blame Max Klinger and his Mud Hens hat.