Great Team Names
A New Hampshire minor league baseball team has decided not to go by the name New Hampshire Primaries and I just have to wonder what they're thinking. What's the fun of having a team unless you can a) win the World Series, or b) have a great team name?
The high school in Belfry, Montana, is never going to win the World Series (I don't believe they even HAVE a baseball team) but they get to have a big sign in front of their school saying "Home of the Bats." Likewise the Northern Montana College teams -- not exactly a powerhouse on the field -- have the wonderful name "Lights."
In college I wanted to organize a pickup basketball team full of economists, and call it "Cetirus Paribus" (I may have misspelled that, but it's Latin for "all other things being equal"). That's a famous assumption of economists, part of what makes the discipline so irrelevant. All other teams being equal, the economists' team should garner a winning record.
Those poor folks in New Hampshire: first the libertarians are going to take all the fun out of their government; now they can't even have any fun with baseball.
What do YOU think? Drop a line to info@johnclaytonbooks.com. To receive these posts via email, write to johnclaytonoutreach-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. (You need not put any text in the message.)
The high school in Belfry, Montana, is never going to win the World Series (I don't believe they even HAVE a baseball team) but they get to have a big sign in front of their school saying "Home of the Bats." Likewise the Northern Montana College teams -- not exactly a powerhouse on the field -- have the wonderful name "Lights."
In college I wanted to organize a pickup basketball team full of economists, and call it "Cetirus Paribus" (I may have misspelled that, but it's Latin for "all other things being equal"). That's a famous assumption of economists, part of what makes the discipline so irrelevant. All other teams being equal, the economists' team should garner a winning record.
Those poor folks in New Hampshire: first the libertarians are going to take all the fun out of their government; now they can't even have any fun with baseball.
What do YOU think? Drop a line to info@johnclaytonbooks.com. To receive these posts via email, write to johnclaytonoutreach-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. (You need not put any text in the message.)
