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[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

soupcan wrote: ="metsguyinmichigan"]What everybody calls a buffalo is actually a bison. I learned this the hard way. My curiousity is peaked.

Not that exciting. When I was a kid, we had a trip to that animal place that used to be out the island (might still be there, but I've forgotten the name. ) We had to pick an animal and study it for a couple hours. I picked a bison -- it didn't do a hell of a lot for those two hours, I tell you -- and got marked down big time for calling a it buffalo and not a bison.

[Centerfield]

Me too. Did you call refer to a Buffalo as a Bison at a bar? Some of them get really touchy about that.

[soupcan]

="metsguyinmichigan"]Not that exciting. When I was a kid, we had a trip to that animal place that used to be out the island (might still be there, but I've forgotten the name. ) We had to pick an animal and study it for a couple hours. I picked a bison -- it didn't do a hell of a lot for those two hours, I tell you -- and got marked down big time for calling a it buffalo and not a bison.

Boooo.

I was hoping it had something to with these big honkin' horns.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yeah, really. The "hard way" would definitely involve getting gored, at least a little.

[Fman99]

AG/DC wrote: Newburgh is the armpit of New York.

I think Buffalo, then, is the salty grundle of New York State.

[seawolf17]

I'd love Rochester, but I know they're pretty happy with the Twins. (Don't know how reciprocal the feeling is.) Compared with Syracuse and Buffalo, though, it's heaven.

Rochester's something of a Yankees town, FWIW. Always kinda drove me nuts. Not to say the Mets couldn't win them over.

The team logo is buffalogically correct, however.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

See? Now there you go. They would lose all kinds of points in Mr. Ludwig's class. Just like me.

[G-Fafif]

They're both a million miles from here, but I tend to think everything above Riverdale is upstate.

Voted for Buffalo because I have a friend, originally from Long Island, up there whom it would make very happy.

I visited SU twice for high school journalism conferences. Bought one of my all-time favorite t-shirts there, an orange going through a net, the orange saying Syracuse in Sunkist lettering. Man did I wear that thing to death.

If Syracuse wins, prepare to hear how the Mets are grooming their Chief prospects.

[seawolf17]

I know it's a hoof, but it kinda looks like he's wearing pumps.

[G-Fafif]

Metphistopheles (my Buffalo-based friend) gives an informed take on Bisons vs. Chiefs here.

[metirish]

seawolf17 wrote: I know it's a hoof, but it kinda looks like he's wearing pumps.

True ,and very gay.

[Methead]

"Its stadium is also smaller, far more sterile, possessed of artificial turf..."

Wikipedia claims they switched to real grass last year. I don't know for sure though.

[Centerfield]

seawolf17 wrote: I know it's a hoof, but it kinda looks like he's wearing pumps.

Shouldn't his hands also be hoofs as well?

[seawolf17]

Centerfield wrote: ="seawolf17"]I know it's a hoof, but it kinda looks like he's wearing pumps. Shouldn't his hands also be hoofs as well?

No, it's too hard to hold a bat or throw a curveball.

[soupcan]

Methead wrote: "Its stadium is also smaller, far more sterile, possessed of artificial turf..." Wikipedia claims they switched to real grass last year. I don't know for sure though.

Yup

[Farmer Ted]

Buffalo stadium review:

http://www.ballparkreviews.com/buffalo/buffalo.htm


Syracuse Stadium review:

http://www.ballparkreviews.com/syracuse/pc.htm

[nymr83]

i guess i'd rather be closer in Syracuse, but either one is a big improvement over New Orleans.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I wonder who's going to lose the musical chairs game and end up in New Orleans?

Cleveland appears headed to Columbus. Toronto looks like it will be looking for something else. (Maybe they'll get Buffalo.)

Who's currently in Columbus? Is it Washington? I bet they get New Orleans.

[nymr83]

maybe they should move the new orleans team to a city that nobody considers "losing" the game, because i can't think of an MLB team that would want to be stuck there

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. The New Orleans franchise can relocate to Ottawa, restoring baseball to that city and the Blue Jays can play there. Then the Nationals could get Buffalo.

I think it wouldn't look good for Organized Baseball to abandon New Orleans, though. They probably get public relations points for staying there and being part of the recovery. But that doesn't make it any better for the team that ends up stuck there.

[Guest sharpie]

New Orleans' population is still much larger than somewhere like Syracuse. I'd rather travel there than either Buffalo or Syracuse.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It wouldn't be inconvenient for the Astros. I bet there are a lot of Houston fans in New Orleans.

[Farmer Ted]

Would still like the Mets to cut through the muckety red tape and move the AAA team to Brooklyn and add 5,000 more seats.

[Guest AG/DC]

I'd guess that there'd be a third big-league team before a AAA team. Maybe the Yanks would agree if they could upgrade their area team, but that would just underscore their failure.

Yanks should have set up their local A team in Hoboken. Jersey, Sinatra, drunken entitled post-college mooks, organized crime --- got the Yankees all over it.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Farmer Ted wrote: Would still like the Mets to cut through the muckety red tape and move the AAA team to Brooklyn and add 5,000 more seats.

If I lived in Brooklyn, or anywhere really, I'd rather have a AA team near me than a AAA. Double A has prospects, Triple A has a lot of retreads and hangers-on.

[Frayed Knot]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: It wouldn't be inconvenient for the Astros. I bet there are a lot of Houston fans in New Orleans.

Houston had their AAA club there for a number of years until the Nolan Ryan owned Round Rock, Tx (suburb of Austin) team upgraded themselves from AA to AAA status. Now with Ryan in the front office of the Rangers club Round Rock might shift to them - along with AA Corpus Chisti which he also owns - leaving Houston to do some off-season scrambling.

New Orleans can't just decide to up and go to Ottawa especially since those are different leagues. It would create an imbalance in both. If the Mets wind up somewhere in the Int'l Lg it means that someone there now has to wind up in the PCL.

[DocTee]

New Orleans would make sense for Houston or Atlanta, I suppose.

Montreal should have a AAA squad.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I was thinking that Ottawa could be a PCL team.

[Frayed Knot]

I can't imaging that the PCL would approve of that. Think of the travel.



Atlanta is one of the few teams that actually owns their AAA team and they announced months ago that they're abandoning Richmond, VA and moving the team to ... Atlanta! A suburban county near Atlanta actually some 20-30 miles outside of town.

[Guest cooby]

why are they moving?