Suggested bloody pairing: Bloody Maria.
I haven’t 100% decided on the new name yet, so if you’d like to suggest one or endorse one that comes up, feel free!
Keep in mind that the team color is red, which is the color of a baseball if you only look at a little bit of it.
I tried to come up with a funny joke suggestion but all my pre-coffee brain could come up with is the New Lancaster Free-For-Alls, which just sounds like an unironically halfway-decent team name. Oops
I *guess* you could use one of those spambots’ gibberish as a suggestion?
But as a more serious guess, “The Squids”? “The Nothings” (bonus points for making them confusable with the *other* sports team from New Lancaster)? “The Serial Killers”???
Love that double meaning on ‘out of order.’
They should be called the New Lancaster Cranblasters. on account of cranberry sauce is red, and it’s good.
Now if they WERE a base’m ball team, I would say the New Lancaster Crotchgrabbers, but that’s not how beachballs do. MAYBE Snallygasters. or… Red Vines. Or the Very Alives.
I hate this modern trend of a team name being more of a concept than a plural noun, like ‘the Wild’ or ‘the Heat’ because now you can’t say “I’m a Laker/Brave/Twin” or whatever like you would normally. But if they were going that direction, the Perjury, or the Senescence. Or sticking with the color theme, the Rash.
Jump: To me, the Free-For-Alls sounds a band name, and I immediately assume they’d sound like OK Go.
Xin: The Squids was already in the running. In the real world, it would be the only name anyone even considered. The Nothings is a funny idea. I hadn’t even taken a step down that brainstorming path.
Cold: I, too, hate team names that aren’t plural, countable things. In an ideal world, this story line would end up renaming the Nothing, but the whole thing came out of the owner’s dialogue in panels three and four. I’ve actually been sitting on it for years.
ANYWAY, the Snallygasters is fun, but no Snallygaster has ever been spotted anywhere near the Mountain Time zone. I grew up in a Twizzlers household.
I gotta admit, I like the Senescence.
Seconding New Lancaster Serial Killers. It’s perfect!
and the sad thing is it thinks we’re in Thailand. This is Mountain Time, not Extremely Wet Tropical Jungle Time aka Indochina Time. That comic is REALLY different.
Oh, Vietnam. Sorry, spambot.
Wait, I had another idea while driving for three hours today!
…”The Blocktopi”! Or, “The Singing Blocktopi”.
Times like this I realize oh yeah I don’t have any way of contacting ol’ isto. there used to be like, ways.. people had their emails out.. or links to things that weren’t accursed social media..
Xin: That’s a very specific callback, but I like it.
Cold: There’s always isto at mountaincomics dot com.
Oh yeah maybe i knew that. On account of the guest comics. Well I’ll try to remember the next time we get a spammening.
I don’t get what all the spam is about! I’m paid up with my spam filter, but we’re being inundated with (what I can only assume are) ads for pho. I already eat pho whenever I want (which isn’t that much; if I’m going for noodle soup, I’m usually going for ramen), so chill out, spambots!