The Jake No More

[Valadius]

Jacobs Field has been renamed Progressive Field:

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AhGYKspUWhS16B4ShHMVLIkRvLYF?slug=ap-indians-ballparkname&prov=ap&type=lgns

[Willets Point]

Damn Liberal Bias!

[Benjamin Grimm]

I know what you're thinking: "At least it doesn't rhyme with 'shitty'."

[Farmer Ted]

The guy who runs the Progressive show. A big fan of the ganja.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_B._Lewis

[nymr83]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I know what you're thinking: "At least it doesn't rhyme with 'shitty'."

bingo

[G-Fafif]

They came so close, too. Had they sold the rights to Progresso, the place could have been called the soup bowl, they could have promoted Minestrone Mondays and there's no doubt what everybody would be purchasing at the concessions on cold April nights.

[Guest attgig]

wow....

]Progressive will pay an average of $3.6 million a year for the rights. ... annual average cost of the naming rights represents about 1 percent of Progressive's annual advertising and marketing budget.

so, then, they're spending $360,000,000 on advertising in a year. sick...

[DocTee]

Never mind "the Jake", it'll always be "the mistake by the lake" for me.

[stevejrogers]

DocTee wrote: Never mind "the Jake", it'll always be "the mistake by the lake" for me.

Wrong stadium. Browns do still play at the original site though, but the Indians moved to Jacobs Field in 1994.

Interestingly enough though, The Jake/Progressive does sit near a river.

[Willets Point]

DocTee wrote: Never mind "the Jake", it'll always be "the mistake by the lake" for me.

I think that's also the nickname for the entire city of Cleveland.

[MFS62]

="Willets Point"] ="DocTee"]Never mind "the Jake", it'll always be "the mistake by the lake" for me. I think that's also the nickname for the entire city of Cleveland.

Yep.
Cleveland was the place where a river caught fire - from the pollution floating on it.

Later

[Elster88]

Nymr83 wrote: ="Benjamin Grimm"]I know what you're thinking: "At least it doesn't rhyme with 'shitty'." bingo

I'm way behind on this one.

[DocTee]

]I'm way behind on this one.

Just some good natured ribbing at Val's expense. He is on a Rogers-like (Rogersian?) rant against the name of the new Shea, and the fact that Met haters will refer to "Citi Field" as "Shitty Field".

[Elster88]

Yup I meant that I was late making the joke. The party started without me.