Honey Nut Ichiros?
I absolutely love this: CBS Sports.Com’s list of the 200 most frequently used team names in its 100,000 fantasy baseball leagues.
1 Evil Empire
5 Bronx Bombers
6 Yankees/New York Yankees
7 Bombers
20 Murderer’s Row
42 Highlanders
86 Yankees Suck
131 Damn Yankees
136 Pinstripes
169 Beantown Bombers
I’m beginning to sense a little theme there. Obviously “Evil Empire” probably vaulted to the top with the help of more than a couple of Star Wars/Not Yankees fans, but still, that’s a lot of Yank reverence (honestly, how many “Beantown Bombers” could there be? No hard numbers are offered here – by 169th place three of one team might be sufficient).
2 Springfield Isotopes/Isotopes
9 Red Sox/Boston Red Sox
10 Cubs/Chicago Cubs
13 Mets/New York Mets
16 Tigers/Detroit Tigers
19 Brew Crew
23 Braves/Atlanta Braves
29 Indians/Cleveland Indians
32 Big Red Machine
39 Dodgers/LA Dodgers
49 Cardinals/St. Louis Cardinals
54 Redbirds
60 Phillies
61 Mudhens
75 Reds
76 Brewers
80 Splendid Splinters
81 Red Sox Nation
87 Durham Bulls
92 Amazins
100 Rangers
108 Mariners
115 Tampa Bay Rays
118 Gas House Gang
121 Cubbies
122 Minnesota Twins
123 Louisville Sluggers
129 Kansas City Royals
132 Astros
137 Orioles
140 Expos
162 Dodger Blue
165 San Diego Padres
166 Florida Marlins
172 San Francisco Giants
178 Toronto Blue Jays
180 Rockies
184 Chicago White Sox
185 Senators
188 Homestead Grays
190 Washington Nationals
Your fantasy team is named The Chicago White Sox? I mean I get “Washington Nationals” if you live in the state, or in Washington, PA. If you’re Jay, “Toronto Blue Jays” sounds pretty cool. But where are the Ed Sox, Dead Sox, Fred Sox, Ned Sox, Ted Sox,
and ‘Nuf Ced Sox?
14 Roid Rage
37 Juiced
57 Balco Bombers
64 Balco
82 HGH
127 Roid Ragers
170 Balco Boys
All right, enough ripping. Five of these I really liked, the first because as cliched as it might be, it represents an epic failure to come up with a fake name in a different context and might thus be described as “meta”:
35 McLovin
43 Kenny Powers
51 Honey Nut Ichiros
128 Little Lebowski Urban Achievers
139 Jeters Never Prosper
I would definitely be proud to call a team of mine “Jeters Never Prosper,” or, especially, “Honey Nut Ichiros,” which is inspired – as long as you’re not in an NL-only league.
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A couple years ago a buddy of mine, an Indians fan, used the name: “C.C.’s Crooked Hat.” It’s one of the better names I’ve heard. Obviously, he’s retired the “Crooked Hat” but has adopted “Big League Choo.” Also a solid name. As for ripoffs, I used “Roger Dorn Bat Night” in one of my leagues last year. “The Wright Stuff” is an obvious one.
Maybe topical names are fleeting, but I know, at least for fantasy hockey, two of the best names I saw were “Taxi Cab Kanefessions” and “Don’t Toews Me Bro!”
On the rip-off tip, my first fantasy teams were named the Mudhens. Boring! That soon turned into Sonic Death Monkey which, of course, became Barry Jive and the Uptown Five on the way to becoming Kathleen Turner Overdrive.
Then I was the Bug-Eyed Earls (named for Max Cannon’s comic strip Red Meat) for a while, and currently The Nappy Dugout (which you might need to be an Ice Cube fan to get).
We did have a Honey Nut Ichiros in our league last year for a while, but he changed it to something les funn
The last fantasy league I played in, about 10 years ago, my team was named the Spalding Grays, thus honoring Albert Goodwill Spalding, Spalding sporting goods (and Spaldeens), the nicknames of the Homestead and Providence teams and the monologist. This was before Mr. Gray’s suicide.
Love the name Honeynut Ichiros!
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I am in the MLB Blog bf league. My team’s name is “Locos Azules” For my Dodgers and my name crzblue.
Emma
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Given the Simpsons reference, I think Springfield Isotopes gets a pass.
My fantasy world is tied up elsewhere, but if I chose to enter the world of fantasy baseball how about “It’s Mauer Never” Go Twins !!!!!
Our fantasy draft takes place around Passover every year. I named my team the 9 Plagues just for the symmetry. Plus, I’m as bad as the Pharaoh at drafting hitters.
keith a fantasy league with the arrested development guys? need to know the other team names from that league! i think mine could/would have been “heyyy brother”
I was in a fantasy league back in the 80’s when it first started up. I was the only female in the league (ended up ahead of 4 of the 7 guys much to their chagrin) but we didn’t have names then.
As for picks, rookie John Jay of the Cardinals looked promising in the travesty of a game that is the Cards/Reds game now in rain delay (should have been called in the 5th inning).
If I were in a league today I think Red Bed Heads would be the name I would pick.
My favorite of all time was my friend’s football team name from about 18 years ago.
We live in New York. He lived downtown. His team was the Houston Oilers.
If you are a New Yorker, you will get the joke.
Best name ever, my friend’s kid this year creates “Byrnes When I Peavy”.
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