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Sure, Iāll join.
Thanks for the offer, would love to take you up on that sometime! Is there a DM feature on here?
Anyone want to start a minor league baseball feud / rivalry?
Gastonia just got the Honey Hunters and play in same league as High Point Rockers
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the Honey Hunters? lulzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz GTFO
is that some kind of bootleg Honey Badger?
oh crap - the more reading I do the more embarrasing it gets -
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ok, i feel bad now after reading about the nameā¦its a proper name, logo is kind weak, but solid name
gonna be hard pressed to find a better logo/name/mascot combo anywhere else in all of sportsā¦the Furniture Capial of the World is home to the crown
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not much better than sitting right behind the dugout in a rocking chair watching a ball game with a horseā¦pony up bitches!
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easy Bill Bellamy, yall dont want this smoke
What league is this? I was saddened to see my PT employer the Salem red sox were dropping to low Aā¦prayers that the free golf comes back, seriously losing that hurt, only reason I worked there.
btw, thats the 2019 Ballpark and Mascot of the Year youāre look at aboveā¦be sure to treat both with the proper respect they deserve
Didnāt pick the best option of the team names but didnāt pick the worst either:
In 2020, the team announced five names that were under consideration: Gastonia Fire Ants, Gastonia Hogzillas, Gastonia Hotshots, Gastonia Uppercuts, and Honey Hunters.
the finest league in all of baseball of course, the Atlantic League aka some random independent league with 6 teams in it
nothing is random. We used to make fun of the announced attendance because it was always like 13x higher than it actually was. Those lies may have saved baseball here and free golf for me.
hogzillas would have been dopeā¦i do like that they incorporated a shout out to Ransom Hunter in the name though, that was a classy touch
stadium looks like it should be pretty cool too; the one they built in HP is pretty legit to be honest
iām pumped I love minor and summer league ball
interned in Madison Wisconsin one summer and went to a few games - they had the soup nazi come as a promotion that day. Dude had been riding that episode for 20+ years at that point
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haha thats awesome man, ride that shit til the wheels fall off
i love it as wellā¦we got WS and GSO both within 25 minutes of the house and now the Rockers as well which a nice addition
definitely was a shame that all 3 of their seasons were cancelled in 2020
i say at some point we set up a home & home match and catch a ball game after
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@tylernichols91 did you realize Mugsy Bogues and Dell Curry both played with the Gastonia Rangers back in the day?
I did not but Russell Wilson was on the Gastonia Grizzlies during his NC State days