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Rk Team Comments
1 老虎 The archetype of a good team name. Something exotic that can
rip your face off.
2 海盜 A name that suggests swashbuckling adventure, so it could lead
to a false-advertising suit, but it still works as a good name.
3 巨人 Works on a literal and figurative level. Classic. I'm not biased
at all.
4 水手 Geographically appropriate, and makes me think of tridents, which
makes me think of Ruprecht in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."
5 游騎兵 Texas Rangers were pretty respected and feared by the bad guys,
and the name makes me think of those hilarious Chuck Norris jokes.
What ever happened to those? Bring 'em back, I say!
6 藍鳥 It's a good team name because it might distract the opponent by
making them think about how annoying blue jays are.
7 釀酒人 Beer.
8 響尾蛇 Snakes are underrepresented in the team-name landscape. There's
no reason why that should be. They'll freak you out, and then
they'll kill you. The prejudice is probably because of a lingering
anti-Cobra Kai sentiment left over from the '80s, but it's time
to move on.
9 洛磯 Straddles the line between "geographically appropriate" and
"boring," but it's about as appropriate of a name as you can
get for a team in Denver.
10 太空人 The Houston Astronauts would have been kind of boss, but this
isn't a bad consolation prize. Reminds you of "The Jetsons,"
which isn't the worst thing in the world.
11 道奇 Used to be Trolley Dodgers, which was kind of cool in its
uniqueness.The name hasn't fit, though, ever since Prop 33
criminalized public transportation in Los Angeles, so they're
the Utah Jazz of baseball.
12 洋基 A pejorative term that's used with pride, hinting at a kind of
arrogance that only winners can afford to display. Yeah, that's
about right.
13 紅雀 Completely boring birds. We're just lucky the ornithologists
金鶯 got there before the botanists, or we'd have to watch the
St. Louis Hawthorns and the Baltimore Black-Eyed Susans.
14 馬林魚 They get bonus points for having the most delicious team name
out there.
15 教士 Inoffensive and forgettable. So at least it fits.
16 光芒 Moved up once they dropped one part of their old four-part name.
There's ambiguity too, as you don't know if they're the kind of
rays you can pet in an aquarium, or the kind that kill nature-show
hosts.
17 雙城 The most boring name in the majors.
18 國民 I stand corrected. At least when you think of "Twins" there's a
chance you can get the song "Frankenstein" stuck in your head.
19 大都會 Alright, fine. This is the most boring team name in baseball.
Nay, the most boring team name in sports. Short for "Metropolitans"