Minor-league baseball in The Big Easy has a new name, and it comes with a pack of Pampers.
The Miami Marlins’ Triple-A affiliate in New Orleans has given birth to the Baby Cakes, the team formerly known as the Zephyrs.
The new logo, a grimacing newborn wielding a purple bat, wears a crown above a full suit of Mardi Gras-themed regalia and emerges from a king cake, the holiday’s traditional circular dessert.
The Baby Cakes beat out six other possible names, including — go figure — the King Cakes. But the team said it views its fans’ vote for a name that targets its infant demographic as more than just a baby step for its organization.
“Our goal was to give the baseball fans of New Orleans a team and identity they can call their own,” said team president Lou Schwechheimer, according to NOLA.com. “…This new tradition will be something local and iconic and celebrate what makes New Orleans and minor league baseball so great: family and fun.”
But the new nickname is a crying shame to many of the club’s fans, who tweeted that they aren’t on board with the baby face: more
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The Zephyrs/Baby Cakes are the fourth minor league franchise to re-brand this offseason. Here’s an impromptu power ranking of their new nicknames:
- Binghamton Rumble Ponies (formerly the Binghamton Mets)
- Florida Fire Frogs (formerly the Brevard County Manatees)
- New Orleans Baby Cakes (formerly the New Orleans Zephyrs)
- Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (formerly the Jacksonville Suns)
Also, the Staten Island Yankees are currently in the process of re-branding as well. Their new nickname is up for fan voting. Here are the five nickname finalists: Bridge Trolls, Heroes, Killer Bees, Pizza Rats, and Rock Pigeons.
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Akron Rubber Ducks.
Quack.
Hey, it’s the minor leagues, what difference does it make. Just kidding, I actually like the name “Baby Cakes”, don’t ask me why but I do. AAA baseball is fun to watch and the games and the stadiums are usually more fun than the major league affiliate.
Gays gotta be buying up the franchises
San Francisco Poofters
Seattle Stool Softeners
Denver Stoners
More like Staten Island Bridge Tolls
Seattle has the Capitol Hill Cock Chuggers
The New Orleans No Clues
Seattle Tree Huggers
Seattle Potheads
Seattle Anarchists
Seattle Soviets
Seattle Safe Spacers (or Safer Spaces)
Seattle Unafordables
When the Fire Frogs play the Jumbo Shrimp at Red Lobster Ballpark minor league baseball will have reached the height of goofiness.
Sig94, thought you would go San Francisco Chocolate Starfish
Bay Area Bloody Stools
“Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome YOUR team, THE SEATTLE HOMELESS!”
I always thought “babycakes” was a term of endearment, like “sweet cheeks” or “butt breath”.
Wheeling (WV) Nailers
ECHL
The Savannah Bananas, in historic Grayson Stadium.
Hank Aaron played there.
@Meerkat – no, that one escaped me.
Bay Area Butt Plugs did not.
For Staten Island, I vote for Killer Pigeons.
Staten Island Suburbans
Staten Island 5th Boroughs
Staten Island Black Outs
Staten Island Flooders
I have caps with the logos of the Biloxi Shuckers, Charleston RiverDogs and Ft. Wayne TinCaps. My Christmas wish list includes Portland SeaDogs and Hartford YardGoats, as well as those Rumble Ponies. But no way could i wear the Baby Cakes.
Howsa bout “San Diego Shitpickles”?
What? Too anal?
I used to call the Seattle Mariners the Manures back when they were losing nearly every baseball season before 1995. And don’t even get me started on the Kingdome, I hated that place.
Portland Pierced Nipples.
Minor and independent league baseball: the last bastion of irreverance. Rubber Ducks, Muckdogs, Rumble Ponies, Mudhens, Rock Hounds, Flying Squirrels, Biscuits, Fire Frogs, and my personal favorite the Joliet Slammers (yes Joliet is a prison town). I’m sure that somewhere there are SJWs who will protest all of these names, and perhaps Baby Cakes as well, but the people who run these teams probably don’t care.
Good pubicity, bad publicity – just spell the name right Baby Cakes.
Netflix has a documentary called “The Dirty Bastards of Baseball”. It’s about the last truly independent farm team, the Portland Mavericks….They were owned by Bing Russell (father of Kurt Russell the actor) and Bing was an actor too…..If you like baseball, you’ll like this flick…
Toledo Mudhens; hard to top that one.