Tin Caps all around!

[Panamabob]

The Fort Wayne Wizards Single A baseball team gets a new downtown stadium and a new name.

 

[Pilgrim]

Tin Caps, eh??

Where are the Pythons when we really need them? I'm sure they could have a field day with this.....

 

[Rider]

They shall end up being called the "pot heads." You watch.

 

[carter]

They shall end up being called the "pot heads." You watch.

lol lol lol

 

[dhermann1]

Is this all somehow supposed to tie in with Johnny Appleseed? Or what???

 

[indycop]

I can see a brutal rivalry with the bucketheads!

 

[Rider]

Is this all somehow supposed to tie in with Johnny Appleseed? Or what???

Bingo. Fort Wayne has a Johnny Appleseed Festival annually. I believe we are the burial place of the chap.

The city is building a new downtown stadium with an adjacent hotel, parking garage, and condominums that will allow owners to sit on thier balconies and watch the ballgame. City leaders have fantasies (delusions?) that the downtown stadium will be the impetus for revitalizing downtown Fort Wayne. Nevermind you that there are more empty than filled sits at most games in the current stadium. I understand that the condos aren't exactly selling like hotcakes either.

Owners decided to rebrand the team. The name "Wizards" had no connection to the city so after a naming contest "Tin Caps" was selected.

At least our new mascot will be wearing a hat -- well, a pan anyway. :eusa_doh:

 

[dhermann1]

I predict confusion and derision. Johnny Appleseed was a cool and fascinating character, but I just get a feeling that this ain't gonna come off.
I still love the old Disney short cartoon about him from the 1948.
For those that don't know, Johnny Appleseed was born John Chapman (1774 - 1845) in western Pennsylvania. He decided that the best way to spread his belief in the Swedenborgian religion was to plant apple orchards across the American frontier, which he did for the rest of his life. One of those legendary American characters who actually were real people. He was famous for using his cookpot for a hat.
Maybe they should have called the team the Appleseeds. I also wonder why the little apple fellow mascot looks so pissed off! Not very Swedenborgianistic. They preached a very gentle form of Christianity.

 

[KObalto]

Also, according to Michael Pollan in the Botany of Desire, these orchards, since they were grown from seeds, did not produce edible apples. Rather, the apples were used to make hard cider and Chapman made a boatload of money selling the orchards .

 

[Rider]

Also, according to Michael Pollan in the Botany of Desire, these orchards, since they were grown from seeds, did not produce...

Well, in that case the name "Tin Caps" is the perfect name afterall. lol

 

[Lone_Ranger]

When I read the title of this thread, I thought we were going in this direction....


http://zapatopi.net/afdb/


lol

 

[indycop]

When I read the title of this thread, I thought we were going in this direction....


http://zapatopi.net/afdb/


lol

I went on a dispute call about one of those! Lady said she had foil on all her windows and wore it on her head because her neighbor was reading her mind.. lol