rodean@hpfclo.UUCP (rodean) (10/08/84)
[Win one for someone]
This past summer we had a team name of "Stray Bats" which unfortunately
came true most of the time since our hitting disappeared quite often. I
had originally proposed "Stray Dogs", derived from the band named "Stray
Cats", but someone else modified it to "Stray Bats" and we went with
that.
Bruce Rodean
{ihnp4|hplabs}!hpfcla!rodeanwall@ucbvax.ARPA (Steve Wall) (10/09/84)
I was wondering if anyone else out there has a unique name for a softball team that they might have played on. I play on a team called "S.S. Hotsauce", which is short for "U.S.S. Hotsauce", the horse that came in last in the 1984 Kentucky Derby. We play in the UC Berkeley Rec. League, and our record over the summer was 1-6, right in fashion our name. But we had a helluva good time!! Anyway, I was just curious about other strange names for softball teams; there is a good chance that we'll be changing our name next year! Thanks, Steve Wall wall@ucbarpa ..!ucbvax!wall
rossiter@cornell.UUCP (David Rossiter) (10/09/84)
At Cornell there are many good names in the intramural leagues. My favorite
is the 'Human Servants', who represent the Department of Human Services
Studies in the College of Human Ecology (no I'm not making that up! If you
think that department name is pretentious, how about Design and Environmental
Analysis, or Human Development and Family Studies, all from the same source?).
The Plant Pathology department's team is the 'Naked Ascii'; this refers to
the fruiting structures of certain fungi.
In the Ithaca City softball leagues there are several euphonious names,
derived from the sponsors (often bars), e.g. 'The Chanticleer' and
'The Dugout' (of course). Fantastic mental images are invoked when one
reads headlines like : Hal's Deli destroyed by Finger Lakes Contractors.
Any ex-Ithacans will remember the fabled 'Eddy Street Truckers', who
flourished in the late 60's. Eddy St. is the heart of the ex-student
slum housing (ex-students often outnumber students here), and these guys
(and the center fielder, Dunbar the dog), all with their hair down to their
waists, would play benefit exhibitions against the various local law
enforcement agencies ('Truckers off Pigs' as we said in those days).malnar@ssc-vax.UUCP (10/11/84)
My team's name is GANG GREEN. Used to be CRTS (boring!) with ugly
green shirts whence cometh the current name. BTW, I've heard that
there was/is a Boston-area band called Gang Green. No relation.
I used to be on a couple of math department intramural teams at the
local humongous university. The men's team was the ADJOINTS which
evolved into LEIPZIG ROCKET BATTERY (obscure reason, write for details
or make up your own).
The mixed team was CO-ADJOINTS --> BECKY'S TEAM --> NO MORE BECKY.
Becky was on our team and also ran the intramural programs. When we
were the co-adjoints we'd talk to others about our team and they'd say
"Oh, you're on Becky's team." We finally changed our name. When Becky
left the team...
A good name for a math-related softball team is BASE TEN.
A good name for a world championship baseball team is DETROIT TIGERS.
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joe malnar, {cornell,tektronix,ubc-vision}!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!malnarwoods@hao.UUCP (Greg "Bucket" Woods) (10/11/84)
> I was wondering if anyone else out there has > a unique name for a softball team that they > might have played on. We had a meeting before the season started last spring to come up with a name for our co-rec team. What a bunch of bozos. Definitely a party team. As far as the anticipated quality of play, well, I can only quote the infamous Leonard Pinth Garnell, "Awful, awful, couldn't be worse!" Well, we had several names in mind, most of which I don't remember, but one of them was "Next Joke". Then, a late arrival came into the room and asked the now-infamous question, "Where's the beer?", and we all looked at each other and exclaimed, "That's it!". Thus was born the team of bozos and scumbuckets, "Where's the Beer?" We even have shirts with that printed on the front. We just thought that name summed up our attitude towards the game. And after going 4-8 in the spring season (which resulted in several bets for six-packs being won and lost, since our over- optimistic manager was anticipating a .500 season (next joke!), and several of the more pessimistic among us (like yours truly) were anticipating a nearly winless season), we have come back to be 4-3 thus far in the fall season. We are looking forward to the snowshoe games before the season (mercifully) ends on Oct. 21. A 4-3 record just goes to show that no matter how bad you are, it is possible for other teams to be even worse! --Greg -- {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!stcvax | harpo!seismo | ihnp4!stcvax} !hao!woods "...the bus came by, and I got on, that's when it all began..."
dbc@fluke.UUCP (10/12/84)
Our church league team: 'The Holy Sox' Would have made an interesting logo.
woods@hao.UUCP (Greg "Bucket" Woods) (10/12/84)
My boss plays for a team from the Boulder Mental Health Center. They used to be called the Psychos until some bigwig at the center found out about it and made them change their name. > Any ex-Ithacans will remember the fabled 'Eddy Street Truckers', who > flourished in the late 60's. Eddy St. is the heart of the ex-student > slum housing (ex-students often outnumber students here), and these guys > (and the center fielder, Dunbar the dog), all with their hair down to their > waists, would play benefit exhibitions against the various local law > enforcement agencies ('Truckers off Pigs' as we said in those days). Here at CU Boulder, the students and police have a football game every year called the "Hairy Bacon Bowl". --Greg -- {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!stcvax | harpo!seismo | ihnp4!stcvax} !hao!woods "...the bus came by, and I got on, that's when it all began..."
ajf@pyuxa.UUCP (A Figura) (10/15/84)
There is a team in our fun-league here at Bellcore/Piscataway called The Masterbatters Of course, I would never play for such a team. I'm a proud member of the Aardvark Softball Society (no acronyms please). -------------------------------- ________________________ | It's 10:00 PM - | | Have you hugged your | Al Figura @ Bellcore | Aardvark today? | ------------------------
mp@ganehd.UUCP (Scott Barman) (10/17/84)
<Softball is not a game of the weak at heart>
The best name for a softball team that I ever heard was the
"MASTER BATTERS". Needless to say this was a team in one of the
UGA dorms who won the championships two years in a row.
I personally was never on the team.
The CS Department had a team that we called the BIT PITCHERS.
On the sleeves of the shirts we had was LPB (for Load and Pitch Bits,
our second favorite instruction). The pitchers mound was known as the
bit bucket <and I better stop because it gets worse :-}>.
--
Scott A. Barman USPS: Department of Computer Science
UUCP: {akgua, gatech}!ganehd!mp The University of Georgia
DDD: (404) 542-2911 415 Boyd Graduate Studies Research Ctr.
Athens, Georgia 30602nemo@rochester.UUCP (Wolfe) (10/17/84)
Two names of teams I have played against come to mind: The Swingin' Misses (an all-female team, accurately describing their batting average), and the Nads (whose cheer was "Go Nads!"). Nemo
kovalsky@spp2.UUCP (10/19/84)
----- "Master Batters" for a softball team name has been used THOUSANDS of times. It seems that every league I ever played in had a team (or more than 1) with that name. BORING. Some of the teams I have been on over the years: Sultans of Swing (named after the Dire Straights song in the late '70s) Diamond Cutters Free Agents Ruthless (we didn't have Babe Ruth, but we were tough) Fried Frenzy (don't ask me how that name was thought up) I'm not saying these names are the best, but at least they are original. ----- Bruce Kovalsky ..sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!kovalsky
riddle@emory.UUCP (Larry Riddle) (10/23/84)
The intramural softball team for the mathematics department at Emory is called the 'Galois Fielders'. Funny, though, there are not any really hardcore algebraists on the team. I don't think this is by any means an original name. Our volleyball team is called the 'Perfect Sets' Before my time at the Univ. of Illinois, the Math dept graduate students had a team called the 'Mother Functors' and later the 'Transfinite Cardinals'. Larry Riddle
hawk@oliven.UUCP (Rick) (10/31/84)
Okay, how 'bout "With Themselves" (our bowling team once used this --- in lane 3, team four plays . . . ) rick
wall@ucbvax.ARPA (Steve Wall) (10/31/84)
I received several responses to my request for interestin softball team names, and someone asked me to post them to the net, so here you go... Steve Wall wall@ucbarpa ..!ucbvax!wall ====================================================== 1) From ihnp4!drutx!rkp Tue Oct 9 10:07:51 1984 The strangest one in our league last year was: PENGUINS IN BONDAGE 2) From ihnp4!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!erik Wed Oct 10 13:27:30 1984 Well, my own team's nickname is the 'Sting'. There is also a team in our league that's known as 'Homegrown', with the appropriate symbol on all of their jerseys. My real favorite is a pick-up team called 'The Excitable Boys'. Their emblem is a bat hanging vertically with a pair of softballs on either side at the top. 3) From ihnp4!masscomp!trb Wed Oct 10 13:28:09 1984 I played on Bell's Angels at Bell Labs Whippany, NJ. We had a great T shirt with the Ma Bell logo with wings. I don't think Bell Labbies are allowed to use the old Bell Logo anymore. 4) From ihnp4!ihldt!frb Wed Oct 10 13:29:56 1984 I played for three years (so far) on a softball (actually sissy ball - (anyone who needs a glove to play softball may as well also wear a dress (as you may tell, I am from Chicago where REAL softball is played (16') but that's another story))) team here at Bell Labs called 'Berfel's Lummox Farm'. Now this name has absolutely NO significance to anything, but came about when our fearless leader was organizing the team and requested suggestions for a name for the team. Two weeks or so passed without a single suggestion, so in his infinite wisdom (and spite) he named the team the most ridiculous thing he could come up with and ran out and had the uniforms printed before anyone could stop him. Despite the handicap we were respectable, and the name kind of grew on us. 5) From ucla-cs!rick Wed Oct 10 21:52:12 1984 i have seen the Computer Center Data Basers, Computer Science Turing Machine, and the Computer Science Terminal Cases. 6) From ihnp4!mhuxj!cbosgd!cbscc.UUCP!rsg Fri Oct 12 07:11:11 1984 Here's a couple: 1. Back in the late 60s/early 70s when IBM was heavy into computers (are they still?), one of the common JCL commands was: //DD * (or something like that). Our Ohio State Computer Science Department graduate softball team was called the DD STARS. 2. This is more common: the Figawees. Often we would be standing out in the field saying something like: What the f--- are we doing out here anyway? The "f--- are we" part translates directly. BTW, I've heard this name in lots of other environments. 3. One of our coed teams is called: Internal Dissent. The men wear a shirt that says: Get me a beer. The women wear a shirt that says: Get it yourself. 7) From ihnp4!ihuxk!rs55611 Fri Oct 12 15:20:51 1984 There is another team in our Bell Labs softball league (I'm not on this one) called Dilligas, which stands for "Do I look like I give a shit?" We also have a Helidono (say it fast). Also, I had a friend who played on a team in an industrial league, but they didn't have a company sponsor, so they created a fictional company: "Beecher Tool and Die"