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Old 09-30-2004, 10:27 AM
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Is it true that the team will be the Washington Expose'.

(Coors field has certainly been a huge catalist in rejuvination lower downtown or "LoDo" here in Denver. Great condos, restaurants and clubs in a former warehouse district/slum.)
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Old 09-30-2004, 11:53 AM
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The local media is still speculating on what the team will be called.

Lots of ideas but not a definite yet.
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Old 09-30-2004, 11:56 AM
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If they're not called the Senators I'll go apeshit.
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Old 09-30-2004, 12:41 PM
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Actually, I heard they may be called the "Gray" or maybe "Grays" in honor of an original (?) team in the old Negro League. That info was from NPR this morning. Hope I heard it correctly since I was driving thru a construction zone at the time.

ETA this from a website on early black baseball"

"Homestead Grays of 1931

Considered by many to be black baseball's best ballclub ever, this talented aggregation forged a 136-17 mark for the season. With no league in the east, Cum Posey's men played as an independent ballclub. Featuring Josh Gibson in his first full season and veteran Smokey Joe Williams in his latter years, the team was so strong that superstar slugger Oscar Charleston batted lead-off. Other strong players on the team included Jud "Boojum" Wilson, George Scales, Vic Harris and Ted Page. Other pitchers were Lefty Williams, Willie Foster and Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, who also relieved Gibson behind the plate. Gibson is credited with 75 homeruns that season, playing against all levels of competition, but in games against top black teams his homerun percentage, although still impressive, was less Ruthian."
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Old 09-30-2004, 01:00 PM
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Actually, I heard they may be called the "Gray" or maybe "Grays" in honor of an original (?) team in the old Negro League. That info was from NPR this morning. Hope I heard it correctly since I was driving thru a construction zone at the time.



I really hope they don't use that name, or there will be a lot of pissed off Pittsburghers (including myself). Why steal our name and our history? Why not use whatever the Negro League team in that area was named?
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Old 09-30-2004, 01:05 PM
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During the late 1930s through the 1940s the Grays played their home games at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates. However, during this same period the club adopted the Washington, D.C. area as its "home away from home" and scheduled many of its "home" games at Washington's Griffith Stadium, the home park of the Washington Senators.

From the NLB site
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Old 09-30-2004, 01:21 PM
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That's interesting stuff. A little like a lot of people don't know how many "home" games the Packers play in Milwaukee.
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Old 09-30-2004, 03:20 PM
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During the late 1930s through the 1940s the Grays played their home games at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates. However, during this same period the club adopted the Washington, D.C. area as its "home away from home" and scheduled many of its "home" games at Washington's Griffith Stadium, the home park of the Washington Senators.

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But they're not the Washington Grays or the DC Grays. They're the Homestead Grays.

Not to mention the sci-fi aficionados who will say "they're naming a baseball team after these?"
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Old 09-30-2004, 03:42 PM
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Just saying.
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Old 09-30-2004, 03:45 PM
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I know, nothing against you. I'm just pouting.

How about the Washington Watergates? It's alliterative.
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Old 09-30-2004, 03:56 PM
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I don't care what the team name is...I am just glad it isn't the Norfolk (VA) Expos. The powers that be are too high on their horse that we don't have a professional team, when we can't support one here in this area.

Way to go DC. Should be interesting that they are considering building the stadium just blocks away from the Capitol. Driving and parking at a game is going to SUCK!
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Old 09-30-2004, 05:27 PM
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How about the Washington Watergates? It's alliterative.
That was a possibility I heard the other day! How about the Washington Lobbiests?
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Old 09-30-2004, 06:42 PM
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If they're not called the Senators I'll go apeshit.
I was reading somewhere that the Rangers (is it the Rangers the Senators became?) still hold the trademark to "The Washington Senators". Which is unfortunate.
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Old 09-30-2004, 07:24 PM
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I was reading somewhere that the Rangers (is it the Rangers the Senators became?) still hold the trademark to "The Washington Senators". Which is unfortunate.
Yes it is the Texas Rangers that hold the rights to the name. So DC may have to pay a lot of money to get that name back... but I just can't see the team being called anything else.
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Old 10-03-2004, 02:52 PM
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That's interesting stuff. A little like a lot of people don't know how many "home" games the Packers play in Milwaukee.
None since County Stadium went down - I don't think Miller Park is conducive to a football game.

And can I just say that I dislike the entire Selig family, who, btw, just sold the Brewers?
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