Name the New Richmond Baseball Team Contest!
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Richmond Lolcats!
Richmond Secondhand Smoke!
Richmond Pie!
Richmond Hackers!
WHY IS BOCOCK?!
by Lars The Wanderer on Sep 29, 2009 10:30 AM PDT reply actions
Hell’s Satans
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The Richmond Tire Kickers
Proud father of Juan Carlos Perez. Think Albert Pujols at a position to be determined.
Name Richmond’s new baseball team and win season tickets for life!*
*or until the Richmond baseball team moves to Truth or Consequences, NM in five years because the City of Richmond refuses to renovate the stadium or build a new one. Whichever comes first.
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Sadly, this would probably get some serious consideration. After moving to VA, I was shocked when I learned we got off for Lee-Jackson Day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee-Jackson_Day
lolsouth
From 1983 to 2000 it was celebrated as Lee-Jackson-(MLK)King Day.
LULZ
/knows Civil War wasn’t about slavery (initially)
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by say hey nation on Sep 29, 2009 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Wait, how could the civil war not be about slavery?
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
Wrong usage…but the succession of the south from the Union was a result of Lincoln’s election. Lincoln wasn’t pro or anti slavery per se, but I believe he was against adding additional slave states to the union(from territories in the west). The south wanted to keep the balance of slave and non slave states equal so the south succeeded. So yes, it was about slavery, but more about protesting the unfair treatment of the slave states
Please excuse inaccuracies done from memory, also spelling is probably atrocious
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by say hey nation on Sep 29, 2009 12:06 PM PDT up reply actions
lincoln was anti-slavery, as was the republican party, the rise of which is what compelled the south to finally secede. lincoln, however, was a moderate within his party in that he didn’t feel it necessary to outright abolish the enterprise. he believed that preventing the spread of slavery into new states and territories would be enough to end it eventually. the south didn’t care for the semantics and considered any restriction to be equal to abolition (which is mostly true). the irony is that, by seceding, the south actually caused abolition to occur sooner rather than later. too bad 600k people had to die in the meantime.
slavery wasn’t the only cause of the civil war, but it was very much a key reason. i’m not sure about the unfair treatment of the slave states though, considering dred scott, fugitive slave laws, and nullification. the north always seemed to want to appease the south, who threatened secession many times, until the 1850s when things got real.
the south saw that the main political parties had been fractured along geographical lines and that a number of populist, free-soil, and abolitionist parties had coalesced, along with former whigs and northern democrats, into the republicans, which outnumbered the southern democrats in congress. this cost the south a lot of northern allies, which meant they wouldn’t get much help with pro-slavery legislation. there wasn’t much hope for compromise anymore and they saw that the north was getting serious, so they decided to get seriouser.
/nerd
One question
Is this going to be on the final?
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-Taliesin September, 2009
It was about preserving slavery.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 29, 2009 6:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I just think its not that simple
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by say hey nation on Sep 30, 2009 6:05 AM PDT up reply actions
No slavery, no South. No South, no Civil war.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 30, 2009 6:32 PM PDT up reply actions
No north no civil war. So what? Look slavery played a role, I just think that it played less of a role than most. I believe the south went to succeeded from the Union in protest to wait they thought was unfair treatment and bias.
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by say hey nation on Sep 30, 2009 8:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Richmond Mitches!
No, really, I have updated my blog this year: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
The Richmond SUCK IT RUSSEL MARTINS
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Sep 29, 2009 12:40 PM PDT reply actions
I WOULD SUPPORT THIS TEAM.
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Sep 29, 2009 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Richmond Fibbing Jpornys!
WHY IS BOCOCK?!
by Lars The Wanderer on Sep 29, 2009 2:44 PM PDT reply actions
Richmond Rebels seems most likely
However, considering that according to recent demographics that the city is more than 50% African-American, I have a hard time believing that name will go through. The owners may not want to potentially offput any possible ticket purchasers with a name that even indirectly might celebrate the south’s racist and slavery-support past.
I also like the Richmond Rapids. Someone wrote somewhere that Richmond is the only major metropolitan area with Class IV rapids within city limits.
I suggested the Richmond Jeffersonians, after one of the area’s favorite sons, but I highly doubt that’d make the five finalists…naming a team after a person is rarely popular.
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That is a name that should offend non African-Americans too.
by seyheystretch on Sep 29, 2009 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions
And the Empire.
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Rebels seems pretty benign
They’re referring to the American Revolution, obviously.
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Ha. I submitted the Richmond Jeffersonians as well.
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Sep 30, 2009 9:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Richmond Murder (representing their high murder rate)
I vote for the name to follow the WNBA trend of naming the team after one singular object, a la the Sun, or the Sky, or the Fever.
A Murder… of Crows!
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I've already suggested....
…that in acknowledgment of their affiliation with a Bay Area team, they should be the Richmond Bridge.
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Nice
And presenting the new team mascot, Beggarman Thief!
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by EliminateMe on Sep 30, 2009 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions
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