So what would you name the Washington team ..... bring back the Senators? the Grays? Something else? Something funny?

I personally like the Senators, but of course if that were to come to fruition, I'd have to change my fantasy baseball team name, since I always use an old franchise's name, so my 2005 fantasy BB team would become the St. Louis Pilots.

It is not likely to be the Senators. The Texas Rangers have the rights to that name and are not going to let it go for free. The DC management team isn't likely to spend another million or two just to get the right to the name.

The worst idea I've heard so far is to just keep calling them the Expos.

Kornheiser and Wilbon on PTI this week bandied about the idea of naming them the Angelos in "honor" of the Orioles owner and Washington enemy Peter Angelos. That would be a subversive hoot.

As I stated on another thread, I hope for the Washington Irvings (with Ichabod Crane as mascot) or the Washington Rotundas--bring Kruk out of retirement & it fits. wink

~Adam

Washington Gridlock? Washington Insiders? Washington Bureaucrats? wink

How about:

Washington Statesmen
Washington Scandals
Washington Insiders

or, my favorite: The Capitol Gang

The Washington Wankers.

The D.C. Dicks has a better ring than Wankers.

I kinda like the Monuments. Not sure about what the mascot would be.

I just hope its not some politically correct name like the grays or something.

As is posted in the other thread, they should be called the Washington (baseball) Redskins, especially if Dan Snyder buys the team.

Maybe Coach Gibbs could manage the baseball team too. He may find himself with some free time on his hands sooner than people thought.

At least when St Louis had 2 teams named the Cardinals, the baseball team had a winning record once in a while. Not sure Washington could handle having 2 losing franchises named Redskins.

Or since Redskins is already such a politically incorrect nickname, why not bookend it by naming the baseball team the Drunken Trinket Sellers? Or the Scalpers? Savages?

The St. Louis baseball Cardinals had winning records MOST of the years the football Cardinals were in St. Louis. The baseball team won the World Series in 1964, 1967, and 1982, and won the pennant in 1968, 1985, and 1987. That's more than "once in a while."

The football team, owned and ruined by the porcine and parsimonious William V. Bidwill, Sr., managed to snatch defeat from the Jaws of victory time and time again, and to avoid winning a playoff game for almost its entire stay in St. Louis. It came to be known fondly--or not so fondly-- as the "Cardiac" Cards.

Washington Lawmakers?
Washington Lawbreakers?
Washington Dealmakers?
Washington Lobbyists?
Washington Third-Time's-A-Charmers?

Wow - this is BAD. Along these lines, maybe because it's Washington they could be 'The Great White Fathers'

Washington Partisans.

(Although I like JIP's suggestion of Washington Bureaucrats....Go Crats!)

In another thread, gamecock posted

The Washington Monuments -- LOL .....a radio caller this morning suggested the Washington WMD's because then the opposition would never be able to find em and the ballclub would win every game by forfeit.

Supposedly the frontrunner for the team nickname is the Nationals (or Nats, for short)....I didn't realize until I read it yesterday that the Texas Rangers still own the rights to the name Washington Senators, which just doesn't seem right considering the way that former Senators owner Bob Short treated the Washington fans (denying the team was moving, etc) prior to high-tailing it to Texas in '71....apparently DC Mayor Anthony Williams is also opposed to the Senators name (which I happen to be in favor of since an NL team played under that name in DC for 72 consecutive years), due in part to the taxpaying residents of Washington still not having any representation in Congress....even with the millions of dollars that Selig and MLB are giving Angelos in an attempt to appease the crybaby up the parkway they should have a few more bucks available to buy the rights to the Senators name back from the Rangers, right? -- unless George Bush somehow still controls it from his ownership days in Texas, in which case there's no sense even trying to have a rational conversation about it.

I'm sure a few of us gay baseball fans can come up with a more clever nickname, though, if we give it some thought.


CPT_Doom replied

For a while the idea has been bandied about to call the new team the "Nationals" which will still allow the team to be called the 'Nats.


theodoresdaddy replied

how about the Ex-Expos
I stole that so I can't take credit


Ballbusters replied

Man I hate the nic "Nationals" it just doesn't do anything at all for me. I know my suggestion of the "Monuments" is kinda hokey but it seems unlikely that we will get the Senators with all the baggage its seems to carry.

Put on your thinking caps fellas. I am sure we have some creative minds in here.


BPT336 replied

They should drop the city of Washington from the team name, and just call 'em the "Beltway Bandits" Youppi could put on some Zorro clothes or something and become El Bandito


PCC replied

The team should be called the Washington (baseball) Redskins.


dcbulgefreak replied

New team name... The Washington Porn Chasers. From the diagrams, it looks like the soon to be former Secrets/Ziegfields/Follies will be sitting in left field once the new park is built.


scottie replied

Washington Justices? Washington Supremes? or how about Washington Bandits?


Adam replied

I'm kind of partial to the Washington Irvings or, if they can lure John Kruk out of retirement the Washington Rotundas. wink


Jim Allen replied

There's a movement to name the new DC team the Grays, after the DC Negro League team. I could really go for that, since the Texas Rangers--boo Bob Short!--own the Senators name.


Seph replied

Re: a new team name: Since MLB loves its bird teams so much, and because of the way they hovered over the carcass of this dead franchise for so long, how about the Vultures? Or, in light of the "Wave of Outings Hits Congress" thread, how about Washington Swallows?


canmark replied

eek! Naughty boy!


DCBucky replied

Yeah Seph -- that's very good!

I like the Grays. The Senators has that "been there, done that, it didn't work" jinx to it. Plus, to echo Mayor Williams, the District has no Senator/s of its own -- well, actually we have 100 of 'em meddling in our affairs.

Jim Allen -- there's a group (or at least a website!) dedicated to the cause -- rememberthegrays.org.


Ballbusters replied

Probably get shot down major here BUT

Please not the "grays" not another politically correct nickname. How the heck can you promote the "grays"?

Surely there will be something more creative than Grays or Senators......


wade n atlanta replied

Washington Gray? Might as well call them the Washington Blah, Blah, Blah.... no offense to the Negro League team, it's just a boring name. They need a name that will be exciting and energizing!

Easy, the Gibbs'

Or like National Airport, the Washington Rayguns.

How about the Washington Eagles? That would be completely viable: the national symbol of the "bald eagle" would be represented in our nation's capital, and all gay men everywhere could take comfort in knowing that a long-standing gay social hangout responsible for serving as the hook-up joint for millions of horny homosexuals over the years would be commemorated. I can see a hunkish Tom of Finland-looking eagle with a pair of biceps hitting a ball, and even some hot catching gear to enrapture all of those who are turned on by such accoutrements.

Hmmmm...

Weasels?
Cockroaches?
Vermin?
Lawyers?

Nahhh... Way to nasty to vermin.....

Rob

The Nationals maybe, though I like The Grays as well.

I prefer something short and catchy like the Washington Spin