I've changed my mind. I'm rooting for the Braves. I don't care how evil they are...I can't root for the Colt 45s (sorry, Annie), and I have respect for the Braves.
And lengthened again, in the 50s, during the McCarthy era, to "Redlegs." They were also the first team to wear uniforms without sleeves, because Ted Kluszewski couldn't fit his biceps into them.
I actually did, but the format had been established, and the incredible thing is that Y actually did it all season, so Zero complaints here. Still, I'd like to see 15 for a win, 5 for a loss.
But that's the source of the rural roots of "supper." It may be also something of a class thing -- "supper" a working class meal around a kitchen table, "dinner" served more formally in a dining room.
It is a rural thing. On a farm, the big meal -- dinner -- is the midday meal, and they have a smaller one -- supper -- in the evening. But that doesn't bring the Mets back. Until pitchers and catchers.