[Fwd: Re: What team name for the DC "Expos?"]

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:26 PM -0500 10/13/04, Mariann Maris wrote:
>A student enrolled in a first semester freshman seminar on baseball I'm
>teaching this semester suggested "Blue Sox." See forwarded message.
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>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject:        Re: What team name for the DC "Expos?"
>Date:   Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:48:25 -0500
>From:   micahrs2 at uwm.edu
>To:     Mariann Maris <sarim at uwm.edu>
>References:     <410-2200410313145340270 at uwm.edu>
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>The Name should be the Blue Sox, then we'd have the Red, White, and Blue Sox.
>Plus they are from DC, which makes it more patriotic

Well, indirectly, since they'd only be patriotic through a union (or
intersection) with the Boston and Chicago AL franchises, a.k.a. the
[sOks] (open o) and the [saks] (low fronted to central).  And
besides, the Utica, NY franchise might sue (if it hasn't folded yet).
How about following the lead of animal-named franchises currently
named for large mammals (Tigers, Cubs), birds (Orioles, Blue Jays,
Cardinals), reptiles (Diamondbacks), and fish (Marlins) with a
representative of the *small* mammals, viz. the Potomac River Rats?

Or, if we want to stick to the hosiery theme, given all the scandals
in the White House and Capitol Hill over the years, maybe it's time
to legitimize the "Black Sox", playing their games at Watergate
Memorial Stadium.

Or--given all those formal state dinners and rubber chicken circuit
affairs that government officials are always going off to, paid for
by tax dollars or lobbyists--the Washington Penguins, with a
tux-wearing mascot?

larry