Talk:Amarillo, TX
https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/double-a-amarillo-picks-out-five-nickname-possibilities/ I hate them all. --Jeff (talk) 17:58, 30 May 2018 (UTC)--Jeff (talk) 17:58, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
There has been a trend toward stupid two-word names ('Rumble Ponies')that don't even make sense. They're marketing driven and I imagine created by people who actually don't know or care that much about baseball itself. Alexsautographs (talk) 18:32, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
I agree most of these names are stupid. Someone told me that the Rumble Ponies is actually based on Binghamton being the main manufacturer of ponies for carousels, which are called Rumble Ponies. So that one actually has local business roots, like team names used to in the early 20th Century. - --Mischa (talk) 19:26, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
When Sacramento came back into the PCL, they had a name the team contest. I submitted Solons (the traditional name for our teams) knowing that it would lose. There is no such thing as a "River Cat". We're known as River City sometimes, and cats are universal I guess. --Jeff (talk) 21:22, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
The ones that bother me the most are the WNBA-style names, things like Storm. That said, I think Altoona Curve is a great play off a local landmark (the horseshore railroad curve) and a baseball term (curveball) - --Mischa (talk) 23:26, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
http://news.sportslogos.net/2018/11/13/minor-league-baseball-returns-to-amarillo-as-sod-poodles/ --Jeff (talk) 19:44, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
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