I think Little League should stay away from naming their teams after MLB clubs for this very reason ... My son's little league never had MLB teams. Since he started, they've always had animal names (Cobras, Jaguars, Ravens etc.) Particularly because you have to pay royalties for those ML names/logos/colors. Any LL outfit that wants to be ML teams for the 'status' it gives them but then complains to be in a money crunch gets no sympathy from me. Suck it up, give them all different colored t-shirts, and call them something un-copyrighted. My LL never had ML team names and it never occurred to me that they should. The different age/skill levels (I think there were six) each had a theme: one would be all animal names, another was birds, one Indian tribes (prolly couldn't get away with that one now) and no one ever felt cheated that those weren't "real" teams. I remember being a Beaver and a Comanche ... and there were at least two others although I'll be damned if I can think of any right now.