Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
It’s baseball season, time for the professional complainers to start whining about sports team names. I have a suggestion – change them all to Sox.
Baseball teams traditionally wear tall leggings. We already have the Red Sox and the White Sox. Change every team to Sox.
ROY-G-BIV won’t get you very far, there are too many teams. That’s okay, have contests to let the fans choose their new team name, maybe something linked to their location or history.
Atlanta – Georgia – Peach State – obviously, they become the Peach Sox.
Phoenix – desert – they become the Hot Sox.
San Francisco – gay rights – Fabulous Sox (team color becomes lavender).
Texas – everything is bigger – Big Sox.
Minnesota – Twins – identical – Matching Sox.
Detroit is tough. Their water is poisoned – Dry Sox? Their infrastructure is in ruins – Wrecked Sox? They seek a federal bailout – Need Sox? The town is run by Democrats – Your Sox? Tough one. Besides, why does a town that has no running water need a baseball team? Move them to somewhere prosperous and call them the Silk Sox.
Or we could just ignore the whiners and get on with life.
Joe Doakes
Cleveland could be the Buckskin Sox.
JD, the obvious name for the Detroit franchise is Sox To Be You.
I thought it would be the Black Sox.
BG, actually Sharia Sox is more appropriate for the area.
In any case, glad to see JD you finally came around to what CFL had been after for decades.
Detroitl, being run by Democrats, should be: OUR, not your Sox.
But what if Sox is “discovered” to be “code” for something totally racist?
Wouldn’t SF be the colon sox? Nothin Fabulous about the colon.