MLB orders little leagues to change names...

[bamanut_aj]

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..unless they buy jerseys from a specific, more expensive, supplier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YN4b1_QvFQ

[derek4tide]

I can see them not being able to use MLB trademark logos, but names?!?! That is stupid. While in LL (70s), I played for the Red Sox and Angels. Now, you can't use these? What a load of garbage. Does MLB need more noney???

[92tide]

that's pretty lame. after going to a braves game this past weekend, anything that MLB does to squeeze another penny out wouldn't surprise me though.

[IH8Orange]

It would be poetic justice if all these kids completely shunned baseball and started playing soccer or some other sport instead. Then in 15 to 20 years, when MLB goes under because no one cares about the game anymore, they can look back at their unbelievable greed as the cause of their demise.

I'm seriously beginning to hate all professional sports. They've been pushing the common fan out of the sports for years by removing general seating in order to build more corporate box seating, much of which often sits empty while a middle-class dad has to spend half a weeks pay just to take his kids, who probably owe their love of the game to a little league organization, to a game. Now, they want to punish that system that produces their fanbase?

How stupid can these people be? They're far too stupid to deserve to prosper. I hope that this completely destroys their organization and perhaps one more appreciative of their TRUE fanbase and consumers will spring up in its place. I wouldn't mind if the NFL and NBA went down the tubes as well.

[Bama Torch in Pcola]

MLB is a sick and dying animal. It's sad to see. I used to love it.

There isn't much of a problem with this on the intramural softball circuit. College kids think outside the box.

[DiamondDust]

The sport is run by Bud Selig.

Shouldn't that be a good enough reason for everything that is wrong?

[Capt. Jack]

as if I needed another reason to dislike baseball

[Displaced Bama Fan]

You know when I played LL in Mobile, I played for Zimlich Florist, Service Master and Thoss Sporting Goods...those were our team names, believe it or not...the names of our sponsors.

I'm on the board at Katy Pony Baseball and we do buy Majestic t-shirts...they aren't that expensive - $10/shirt.

[Displaced Bama Fan]

	Quote:	Bama Torch in Pcola
	MLB is a sick and dying animal. It's sad to see. I used to love it. There isn't much of a problem with this on the intramural softball circuit. College kids think outside the box.

In college our intramural team was "Left Hangin"...we left the noose off because it might upset our friends in the Alpha Phi Alpha frat.

[cbi1972]

[Catfish]

	Quote:	Displaced Bama Fan
	In college our intramural team was "Left Hangin"...we left the noose off because it might upset our friends in the Alpha Phi Alpha frat.

I've played in city softball leagues for years. Some great names I've seen:

Teenage Mutant Softball Ninjas
Nuclear Waste
Village Idiots
Vito's House of Porn
Loan Gunmen (mortgage company)
Free Willies
Teams sponsored by Fed Ex: Fed Sox, Federal Reserves

[dayhiker]

This is right up there with the NFL not letting churches broadcast the Super Bowl on screens over a certain size. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

[alatider]

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