Possibly the Worst Team Name in Sports

I hate the new name of the Tampa Bay baseball team. It sounds so fucking retarded. Devil Rays at least sounded good, had a bit of an edge to it. Tampa Bay Rays sounds like a WNBA team. Ray is a person’s name, and Rays come out of the sun. Does Carl Crawford now go around bars in St. Petersburg telling girls he’s a Ray? Are Rocco Baldelli’s parents proud of him because he’s a Ray? Doesn’t that just sound stupid?

And why did they change it? Was the word “devil” offending all three of their fans? Is that word even a big deal, especially when it’s part of an animal’s name? Should Looney Tunes change the name of the Tasmanian Devil to Tasmanian Marsupial? Should Wake Forest simply become the Deacons? Should Arizona State call themselves the Suns? What about the Duke Blue Devils, the New Jersey Devils, or Manchester United (known as the Red Devils)? Should Miroslav Satan file for a name change?



I hate the over sensitivity to team names these days. Every team named after an Indian tribe gets grief for it. How come nobody criticizes Notre Dame for having a nickname and logo that portrays Irishmen as drunken brawlers who look a lot like monkeys? There’s a D-III school called the Alfred Saxons, and as a person of Saxon descent, that name offends me, because they blow. Or what about the MSU Spartans, a team named after a warlike Greek city-state that abused its children.



Tampa Bay Ray owner Stuart Sternberg proved how retarded and gay this name change was when he described it as:

"A beacon that radiates throughout Tampa Bay and across the entire state of Florida."

Wow.

-The Commodore