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If the Wichita AAA Team has no Name Yet, Let's Give it One...



...because "Baby Cakes" is about as atrocious a name for a team as you're ever likely to find. It sounds like something my grandmother would have called a toddler's backside: "Oy! vould you look at dises bebbeh cakes!" Yes, yes, I know it's the name of a Louisiana pastry but it's still a pretty half baked name for a baseball team. If you disagree with my assessment, just close your eyes for a minute and imagine this scenario: you're sitting at a bar in the Latin Quarter (on payday, which would be about the only time a minor leaguer could afford a mint julep in the Latin Quarter) and a hot babe sidles up to you and tries to get acquainted. You tell her you play baseball for a living. Her eyebrows go up. For which team, she asks. And you have to say "the Baby Cakes."

See what I mean?

Anyway, these benighted young men are moving to a new town with less moisture, more tornadoes and cows and, I suspect, a significantly more bored and therefore less discriminating community of Annies. Those are the upsides. Given their owner's proclivity for cringeworthy names, I thought it would be nice gesture if we came up with a name for the team before does.

The winner will receive one of my acclaimed carambola upside down coconut rum cakes. Really. At a special ceremony at home plate! (I mean on a plate here in my kitchen in deepest darkest Kendall - no way I'm going to fly United Airlines to Wicita).

So let's hear 'em.

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