It's been brought up here before (perhaps in this very thread), but if you're going to go that route, you call them the Worcester ShireSox.
Rename the Red Sox AAA Team!
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The Wormbats with a weird worm/baseball bat/wombat hybrid mascot and logo.
There is no way they can do worse than NY's high A team did last year, a name guaranteed to give you a double take:
I dunno, I don't mind Tarpons, even with the obvious and easy misinterpretation.
They're gonna call them the Woo-Sox or something idiotic.
They're gonna call them the Woo-Sox or something idiotic.
I would like to reiterate: Ruby Legs or Roosters.
Would it surprise you if it was the Polar Bears though?
Would it surprise you if it was the Polar Bears though?
I'm still pissed the name of the park isn't the "Polar Grounds."
"Rusney Down in Triple-A":
Let me tell you a story of a man named Rusney
On a tragic and fateful day
he signed a contract for 70 million
then got stuck in Triple-A
Did he ever return? No, he never returned
and his contract's still unearned
he may play forever in the upper minors
he's the man who never returned
Now you citizens of Boston
don't you think it's a scandal
how we never got to see him play?
Screw the luxury tax, go and tell John Henry
get poor Rusney out of Triple-A!
Agreed, they're on a turd streak and it's gonna get a bit longer tonight.
I mean we know this right?
According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the PawSox have trademarked the names “Worcesters,” “Ruby, Legs,” and — last but not least — “Wicked Worms.”
Trademark names for the Worcester Red Sox
I'd be great with the Ruby Legs. I can live with the Wicked Worms if they want to sell merch. The Worcester Worcesters while historically correct is probably my least favorite.
According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the PawSox have trademarked the names “Worcesters,” “Ruby, Legs,” and — last but not least — “Wicked Worms.”
Trademark names for the Worcester Red Sox
I'd be great with the Ruby Legs. I can live with the Wicked Worms if they want to sell merch. The Worcester Worcesters while historically correct is probably my least favorite.
Screw Larry and the Dentist. I won’t be going to any games in Worcester no matter what they name the team.
It's safe to say the choice has already been registered as a trademark, but the PawSox aren't necessarily the listed owner. (It could be transferred to them later.)
For example, the same attorney who registered those names also recently registered the Tarp Skunks for baseball entertainment, listing some guy at her office as the owner.
The Worcester Woosters with Bertie and Jeeves as mascots would be fun. They could do Wodehouse-based skits between innings.
Seems right on point for a team whose best players will someday be playing in the toilet, no?There is no way they can do worse than NY's high A team did last year, a name guaranteed to give you a double take:
In all seriousness: I occasionally go to Staten Island Yankees games (A-ball short season, a free 15-minute ferry ride from my office, perfect summer evening event). Why not just name all the teams the Yankees?
Speaking as someone who was born and raised there, Worcester Worcesters would be the most apropos of being completely boring, lame and disappointing like the rest of the city.
FWIW, Ruby Legs makes me think of the Lamplighter or Fuzzy Grape.
FWIW, Ruby Legs makes me think of the Lamplighter or Fuzzy Grape.
Its not disappointing to me. It's disappointing for anyone who doesn't know better and thinks the second largest city in New England won't be lame.
Haha, that's fair. I'm embarrassed to say I haven't been to Worcester (that I remember anyway; I may have been toted there once or twice as a kid), but at the risking of pissing off half of SoSH, my general sense is that most of the cities on that list after #1 are at least somewhat lame. I mean, most of the CT ones on the list are Yankees country, so not even really New England, haha. Thanks for the excellent trivia question, though!
I was honestly surprised the trivia question still holds, I've used it for years and thought either Hartford or Providence must have passed us by. And agreed on the others being at least somewhat lame, but Worcester is a strong #1 on the lamest cities in New England, just check out this sign from one its high schools.
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I don’t think it’s too bad. Main problem is that “woo” isn’t the first syllable of “Worcester” so makes me think more of Woburn.
Regarding the trivia on Worcester. At a parents orientation when my son started at Assumption, they said Worcester was second biggest in NE. Woman next to me turned and asked “what’s number one?”
The smiley looks like they threw in a placeholder on the first draft before planning to brainstorm about a real mascot and then forgot about it.
The smiley face is a nod to Harvey Ball, Worcester native and creator of the smiley face that was popularized in the '60s and '70s.
Me: The name can't be any worse than the Hartford Yard Goats
Worcester: Hold my beer, watch this.
Worcester: Hold my beer, watch this.
Then, make it a smiley baseball. 99.9% of people who see this logo will just think it is an emoji.
I learned on reddit that the reason for the heart in the W is the city's flag.
But my god this is an abomination.
But my god this is an abomination.
You could make a great cap insignia out of a red W inside the wreath from that flag.
I think it's far, far better than the typical cookie cutter Brandiose minor league baseball creation. They're the marketing, ahem, "branding", firm behind the paint-by-numbers quirky nicknames dominating the minors nowadays.
They're trying to be too cute with the Worcesteriana. The smiley face thing is way too esoteric. And if they wanted to invoke Ortiz and Ted Williams' swings, they should have made Smiley Face left handed.
Looks to me like he is left handed. He’s at the end of his follow through with a top hand release swing.