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The Binghamton Rumble Ponies will be changing their name (for two games) to the Bathtub Donkeys in response to an obscure NYS law.


https://www.si.com/mlb/mets-minor-leagu ... donkey-law

RealityChuck wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 8:41 am The Binghamton Rumble Ponies will be changing their name (for two games) to the Bathtub Donkeys in response to an obscure NYS law.


https://www.si.com/mlb/mets-minor-leagu ... donkey-law

I preferred it when they were the Binghamton Mets. But that's because I'm not four years old.

Fman99 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 8:47 am

RealityChuck wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 8:41 am The Binghamton Rumble Ponies will be changing their name (for two games) to the Bathtub Donkeys in response to an obscure NYS law.


https://www.si.com/mlb/mets-minor-leagu ... donkey-law

I preferred it when they were the Binghamton Mets. But that's because I'm not four years old.

BORING. Minor league baseball is supposed to be quirky and weird.

DanielTigerSS wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:01 am

Fman99 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 8:47 am

RealityChuck wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 8:41 am The Binghamton Rumble Ponies will be changing their name (for two games) to the Bathtub Donkeys in response to an obscure NYS law.


https://www.si.com/mlb/mets-minor-leagu ... donkey-law

I preferred it when they were the Binghamton Mets. But that's because I'm not four years old.

BORING. Minor league baseball is supposed to be quirky and weird.

I disagree. The same reason I have no need at all for the Savanna Fucking Bananas.

I like baseball because it's baseball. I don't need cutesy poo nicknames, scoreboard hysterics, theme nights, or any of that. And I live in Syracuse and I attend quite a bit of minor league baseball, and have my entire life having always lived away from all of the MLB cities, so I've had time to formulate my own opinions on this topic.

Quirky and weird is fine.

Try-hardy is shit.

RealityChuck wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 8:41 am The Binghamton Rumble Ponies will be changing their name (for two games) to the Bathtub Donkeys in response to an obscure NYS law.


https://www.si.com/mlb/mets-minor-leagu ... donkey-law

I was hoping that the obscure NYS law was the reason behind the temporary name change. It sounds like the team was just inspired by the NYS law.

Like it would have been cooler if the law said something like "no assemblage of more than 25 ppl except when the event honors a farm animal...bla bla blah"

I was hoping that the name "Rumble Ponies" was illegal. (It should be.)

When I first saw this Subject Heading I was afraid to open because I thought this would involve a minor league team name even dopier than the Rumble Ponies.
But I was even more afraid that it was going to be a story with photos of Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and John Fetterman together in a hot tub ... so I guess I got off easy.

Frayed Knot wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 2:11 pm But I was even more afraid that it was going to be a story with photos of Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and John Fetterman together in a hot tub ... so I guess I got off easy.

That one would be in the non-baseball forum.

(now I have to get that image out of my head. Thanks a lot)

Later

Frayed Knot wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 2:11 pmBut I was even more afraid that it was going to be a story with photos of Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and John Fetterman together in a hot tub ... so I guess I got off easy.

Easier than me, I immediately pictured Hochul and Cuomo
(naked of course, smoking stogies) rowing down the river under
the Rip Van Winkle Bridge in an 80 gallon clawfoot tub.

Dumbest fucking name I’ve ever heard.

Booooooo!

Fman99 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 8:47 am

RealityChuck wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 8:41 am The Binghamton Rumble Ponies will be changing their name (for two games) to the Bathtub Donkeys in response to an obscure NYS law.


https://www.si.com/mlb/mets-minor-leagu ... donkey-law

I preferred it when they were the Binghamton Mets. But that's because I'm not four years old.

"Rumble Ponies" and such names are what happens when you let 23-year-old female recent college grads run the marketing department.

"Oh it's so cute and quirky!"

It isn't that.

I’m a 47-year old white dude and I fucking love the rumble ponies name.

I’m also down with bathtub donkeys. I love whe minor league teams go quirky. I’m fucking all about the trash pandas. And when they go extra quirky on limited runs… all the better.

What… would you rather they just go with a different color of socks?