Minor League Re-alignment

[Lintyfresh85]

Maybe something to do with Gold and Oil?

Like the Prospector and Surveyor?

[Jistic]

So... if we did this....

If we make that switch... we could call one of the AAA Leagues... something Civil War related... Blue and Gray or something.... then make these teams from the North East the Union Division

UNION DIVISION

Trenton Liberty
New York Comets
Flushing Chiefs
Lynn Patriots
Portsmouth Atlantics
New Haven Bluefish

...and the teams from the South the....

CONFEDERATE DIVISION

Martinsburg Badgers
Winston-Salem Warthogs
Memphis Railcats
Mobile Tides
Richmond Rams
Annapolis Admirals


Certainly not historically accurate... but it is in the ball park and does create a nitch.

That would leave the other side of the coin as the Midwestern teams... and the West of the Rockies....

HMMMMMM... trying to think of what we could do with that.... maybe something with the Midwest Teams being Blue Collar, Industrial... and the West Coast/Western teams being...... I don't know...

Thoughts?

For reference:

WEST OF THE ROCKIES

Tucson Bulls
Boulder City Big Horns
Bakersfield Cannons
Silver City Outlaws
Gardena Card Sharks (Assuming this is Gardena, CA)
Portland Brawlers (Assuming this is Portland, OR and not Maine)


MIDWESTERN DIVISION

Chicago Lions
Detroit Union
Fort Wayne Comets
Joliet Jackhammers
Des Plaines Golden Heroes
Allentown Talons

If you're going Civil War, you could make the division names after generals. LIke Midwestern could be Grants Division, etc.

[Plastic]

Maybe something to do with Gold and Oil?

Like the Prospector and Surveyor?

Not a bad idea...

[Ryan]

Sounds good to me.

[Clay]

What if for the Midwest and West of the Rockies we did something like....

TERRITORIAL LEAGUE

Then split the divisions into...

James Madison Division (Midwest) and Guadalupe Hidalgo Division (West). These names would be based on the significant events that formed both areas.

James Madison, after the Lousiana purchase formed the Indiana Territory that originally contained Indiana + both Illinois and Michigan. Both were later split out to include the Illinois Territory and Michigan Territoty.

30 years later at the end of the Spanish American War, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is what gave the US (from Mexico) the land that now includes California, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, etc.

Thoughts????

[Riverman]

What if for the Midwest and West of the Rockies we did something like....

TERRITORIAL LEAGUE

Then split the divisions into...

James Madison Division (Midwest) and Guadalupe Hidalgo Division (West). These names would be based on the significant events that formed both areas.

James Madison, after the Lousiana purchase formed the Indiana Territory that originally contained Indiana + both Illinois and Michigan. Both were later split out to include the Illinois Territory and Michigan Territoty.

30 years later at the end of the Spanish American War, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is what gave the US (from Mexico) the land that now includes California, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, etc.

Thoughts????

Anything but the Civil War idea. I have enough trouble refighting that one every time they hire a Southerner here at work

[Carlos]

Seems like a lot of thought into division names. :)

[liquidcrash]

I would just with A, B, C and D myself. Or perhaps colors? Shapes?

[Guest]

Allentown in the Midwest is kinda iffy...it's right outside of Philadelphia.

[robster1225]

I think realignment in the minors is a good idea.

[Clay]

Allentown in the Midwest is kinda iffy...it's right outside of Philadelphia.

Yeah... I stuck them together more for the whole Blue Collar aspect. They don't really fit geographically or by the whole Indiana Territory thing.

Maybe Random is the answer. We'll just slot team in randomly... call AAA something like "Founder's League" and name the division after original owners (either still here or gone). Something like that.

[Sully]

Diesel has enough minor league players to form his own division. We just have to sort the remaining teams into the 3 other divisions.

[Clay]

(Waits for Diesel to chime in with bad "I'm already in a league of my own" joke)

[Pat]

Nope. Wasn't that clever. I even read Sully's response and tried to think of something funny..........











Fuck you Sullivan.

[Clay]

Well... in your defense... you are high.... and hopped up on HGH.... and not funny.