Team name of the week

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As even casual observers have noticed, 99.99% of the good sports team names are taken. This poses a problem for the legions of high schools, colleges and minor league teams looking for decent mascots and logos.

I picked up two caps tonight at the Blue Rocks game, partly because they both fit reasonably well (I wear a 7 3/4 hat, so most adjustable one-size-fits-all caps are too small for me), and partly for the concepts alone.

One was the <a href="http://www.whitecaps-baseball.com">West Michigan Whitecaps</a>. A nice, simple logo (an anthropomorphic wave carrying a baseball in its curl), a non-overused name, I liked it.

The other was an example of how goofy names and mascots can get when the good ones aren't available. Ladies and gents -- the <a href="http://www.biscuitsbaseball.com">Montgomery Biscuits</a>.

Really.