What the heck?

A year or so ago, Richmond mayor L. Doug Wilder refused to provide public money to finance a new stadium for private profit, and so our Braves baseball franchise returned home to the mother ship of Atlanta (how lame is it to have your farm team in the same metro area as the pro team?). Somehow, Richmond has managed to survive so far without a mediocre team playing a dying sport.

Another double-A baseball team has decided to abandon Conneticut for the greener pastures of the Old Dominion. There's currently a contest to name this new team. All of the current possibilities are absolutely dreadful. Rhinos? Oh, I see the connection ... those huge herds of armored beasts roaming central Virginia. Hambones? Generations of junior high school boys yet unborn will delight in mocking them. Flying squirrels? Feh.

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