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Giants' Double-A Richmond club to be named the...: "
The Giants' Double-A affiliate is moving to Richmond, Va., as you've probably heard, and they're holding a competition to name the franchise.
This is a tough one, because Richmond is known for pretty much two things -- the tobacco industry and being the capital of the Confederacy -- and neither one of those scores too high on the ol' political-correctness scale.
So these are the five finalists: Flatheads, Flying Squirrels, Hambones, Rock Hoppers, Rhinos. But this saga doesn't end there. Apparently, the choices were so, uh, out of the box that CNBC's Darren Rovell, a terrific sports business writer and a friend of mine from college, offered to take the search nationally and make room for a sixth entry. Richmond club officials said, aw, why the heck not.
Here are the instructions, as posted on the Richmond Times-Dispatch's Web site:
To submit an entry, e-mail sportsbiz@cnbc.com on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. EDT. CNBC will choose its wild-card suggestion (Thursday) morning. Rovell projected that CNBC would receive about 200 submissions.
(Via Extra Baggs.) I like exploring the union between tabacco and baseball, but somehow I don't think anyone is going to go for the "Dips" or the "Chews".
Posted by Tom Clifton on 10/6/09; 4:20:40 PM
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