Tides Deathwatch

[metirish]

Is it possible they were so named after the yankee clipper?

[Benjamin Grimm]

From wikipedia:

]The Columbus Clippers are a Triple-A baseball team in the International League. The Clippers are affiliated with the Washington Nationals and play at Cooper Stadium (formerly Franklin County Stadium) in Columbus, Ohio. The team and Cooper Stadium are owned by the government of Franklin County, Ohio. The Clippers franchise was born in 1977 as an affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates, changing its affiliation to the New York Yankees in 1979. The franchise, however, traces its post-World War II roots to the Jersey City Giants, who played from 1937 through 1950. The Jersey City team moved to Ottawa, Ontario, in 1951 and played in Canada's capital for four seasons. At the close of the 1954 season, the Columbus Red Birds, longtime American Association affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals, moved to Omaha, Nebraska, opening the valuable Columbus territory. The struggling Ottawa franchise claimed it, and Columbus joined the International League in 1955. This team eventually affiliated with the Pirates and became the Columbus Jets. When the Jets encountered stadium problems, after the 1970 campaign, they moved to Charleston, West Virginia as the Charleston Charlies from 1971-76. With the availability of Cooper Stadium, the former Jets were lured back to Ohio's capital, and the Clippers were launched in 1977.

This page isn't official at all but it says that the Clippers got their name because Columbus had a "clipper ship" but as Willets points out clippers came along about 500 years after Columbus did.

[MFS62]

IIRC, the type of ships Columbus said on were called Caravelles.

Later

[soupcan]

MFS62 wrote: IIRC, the type of ships Columbus said on were called Caravelles. Later

Named so because these ships were mostly used to hunt Fudgy the Whale.

[Guest cooby]

You need to stop cracking me up before my boss comes and checks on me again

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

wham

[Valadius]

Cookie Puss Commercial

[Willets Point]

Whoa! Now there's a flashback. All it's missing is Tom Carvel's incoherent narration (or is that Tom Carvel with his voice disguised?).

[Valadius]

If you want Tom Carvel's incoherent narration:



Tom Carvel and Cookie Chick

"Now would you like to send one?... to a... friend?"

[Willets Point]

Tom Carvel was the keynote speaker at my uncle's graduation.

[Valadius]

Wow... he probably thanked your uncle for his patronage and informed him that he accepted most major credit cards.

[Guest cooby]

Tom Carvel's voice was created just to say the words "cookie puss"

[soupcan]

I just loved how Fudgy, Cookies Puss and O'Puss (nice names btw) and Chick were all made from the same exact lightbulb shaped mold.

I remember when I first figured that out I was like "Hey, wait a minute..."

[Benjamin Grimm]

It's like when you realize that the Alphabet Song and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star have the same tune.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Santa also got that mold

[Valadius]

Well Fudgy wasn't, but as you'll see here, the Fudgy and Cookie Puss molds were used for different purposes around the holidays:



Tom Carvel narrates a Santa/Hanukkah cake commercial

The Fudgy mold is used for Santa, while the Cookie Puss mold is flipped over for a Hanukkah cake.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Anybody remember Fudgetown Cookies?




Valadius spends a LOT of time on YouTube, doesn't he?

[Guest cooby]

MMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I loved Fudgetown!

[Guest KC]

YSG: >>>It's like when you realize that the Alphabet Song and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star have the same tune.<<<

I'm not going to even admit that I never realized that. Ooops, just did.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

="KC"]YSG: >>>It's like when you realize that the Alphabet Song and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star have the same tune.<<< I'm not going to even admit that I never realized that. Ooops, just did.

You obviously haven't spent any time in Gymboree classes.

Baa Baa Black Sheep also sounds like those two.

[Willets Point]

cooby wrote: Tom Carvel's voice was created just to say the words "cookie puss"

You guys are killing me. I laughed so hard I hemmoraged an internal organ when Cookie O'Puss came on in that commercial.

[Farmer Ted]

Back to the minor league issue, it appears the Yankees are locked on Scranton with the Mets haggling over the two cities left, NO and Norfolk. It looks like Norfolk wants more cash. No other reason to let this drag on. Are there no other options, say a vacant minor league stadium? Isn't that place in Maine, where the Phillies AAA once played, vacant? Perhaps Newark would be an option? Keyspan holds 8,000, more than many AAA fields. Why not?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I was thinking Brooklyn, too.

Maine is a good choice also, I guess. I remember a team called the Maine Guides. I think they played in Portland?

[MFS62]

Portland has a AAA team. They're called the Portland Sea Dogs.
I have their sweat shirt.
Later

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Portland is a AA team.

[Farmer Ted]

I did some googling and found the old AAA stadium in Maine is not only vacant but moreless abandoned. No room, no lockers under stadium. A mess and the town is trying to sell the land as commercial space. I go with Brooklyn. They can always find a low-level A town somewhere.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Brooklyn is unlikely to happen.

[stevejrogers]

I could have sworn I heard on ESPN Radio that we've got the New Orleans Zyphers

[Guest Edgy DC]

Hang onto Norfolk.

David Wright's youth is there. Willets Point also.

Gold Glove also.