Change: The tool of the Devil
May 6th, 2008, 7:12 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Edward Carifio
Me, I’m not about change - said the guy who was single living in a po-dunk east Texas town three years ago and is now married with a child in Arizona.
So maybe I am about change. But not in sports. And especially not with team names. That’s something that’s sacred and not to be taken lightly.
When the biggest laughingstock in baseball, the Tampa Bay DEVIL Rays, dropped the Devil from their name, I laughed. The worst franchise in pro sports history - except for maybe the Vancouver/Memphis Grizzlies - think a name change will help.
Well, the Devil Rays are winning, and it’s not because of a name change. It’s just a silly hook the club came up with to do the media’s job for it - and it’s working. If you read the sidebar in that link, you’ll notce the thing abut the $1 donation they dmand every time the term Devil Rays is used instead of Rays.
But a Devil Ray is fearsome. Heck, a Devil Ray is solid, unlike a Ray, which presumably means a ray of light looking at their knew logo. So I’m offering a dollar donation to my favorite charity (The Let’s Buy Eddie a PS3 So He Can Finally Buy Grand Theft Auto 4 Foundation) for every time a media member DOES say Devil Rays.
And its not just the D-Rays. Same thing with the Angels. It’s bad enough they want to be the L.A. Angels, but the L.A. Angels of is ludicrous. And damnit, its still the Washington Bullets!
