Omaha Royals are now the Omaha Storm Chasers
Their website seems to be down, but Omaha Storm Chasers is the new name of KC's AAA affiliate.
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I talked to a guy who worked on the stadium negotiations and they wanted to get away from the Royals
name so they aren’t always tied to being affiliated with KC.
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I had told him I hope they don't change the name and he said I would be disappointed then.
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this makes sense but they still could have chosen something better if they were intent on switching names.
:(
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No one actually voted for that
I refuse to believe people would vote for that.
by NotAHippie on Nov 15, 2010 5:27 PM EST reply actions 4 recs
No one voted for Bush either but we got stuck with him for 8 years
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What echo chamber do you live in?
More than half the country did, at least the second time around. And almost half, the first time around. You don’t need to have agreed with them, but open your eyes and note that your opinion is clearly not the only one out there.
Chaim Mattis Keller New York City's # 1 Royals fan!
I Think The
Point is what people say after the fact as opposed to what they did.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Nov 15, 2010 5:58 PM EST up reply actions
Forgive me
I thought this was one of those moments like when some liberal said, after Nixon won in his 1972 landslide that he didn’t know anyone who had voted for him.
Basically, you’re saying that people who regret having voted for Bush deny after the fact that they did so? Can’t say I’ve experienced such, but I guess it’s all about the circles one moves in.
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Hmmmm
I call for a recount.
No way this beat the O-Royals.
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Lame
Makes sense from a business perspective for the team to change their name. Perhaps they should have done a little more market research into finding a good name.
Speaking of terrible marketing...
Why announce your new name via email and invite users to your new website which is down?
Anyway, here’s the image I got in my email.
by Trey Hillman's Chin on Nov 15, 2010 5:36 PM EST reply actions
They must be FLOODED with hits
Just like they will be from Moustakas next year!!!
Is this for real?
It looks like someone photoshopped a bad news weather promo.
Omaha Stormchasers! Now with Mike Moustakas and NEXRAD DOPPLER FORECAST!
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It is absolutely for real. I got the same e-mail.
And the website seems to be up now: omahastormchasers.com
Estimated time to return to Royals
I give it two years.
That’s about what Golden Spikes got, right?
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See "Stormy"
The new mascot here. His nose is a tornado, get it? (Sigh)
It's all ball bearings these days!
by CentralChamps20?? on Nov 15, 2010 5:50 PM EST reply actions
so, besides that "nose"
the weather vane on his hat has South and C(entral?)?
"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell
never mind
I’m going home to have a beer. That will make it all better.
"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell
I guess it is better than the OmaHogs
but not by much. Now I need to decide if I will buy any StormChaser gear when I visit next year.
"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell
It's A Fucking
Basic cable reality show that will be gone in a few years. Owls are forever; still my choice.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
The Oklahoma City Thunder LOVE this move
except that the team name ends in an S, which makes it easy to use in normal English
I've kinda hated the fact the Thunder is not plural
I remember reading an article about how the local journalists had to decide how to use it in a sentence.
Heres an article: http://blogs.newsobserver.com/grammar/why-the-ap-stylebook-can-drive-you-crazy
The names that annoy me most
are Red Sox and White Sox. Do you say “Ellsbury is a Red Sock”? or “Ellsbury is a Red Sox”?
Overgay is Destiny
You go old school
and say “Ellsbury is a Red Stocking.”
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Pale Hosers
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Nov 15, 2010 9:23 PM EST up reply actions
What an awful nickname
Why the hell couldn’t they have stuck with, I don’t know, the “Royals.” They have been named the “Royals” for decades. It made absolute sense. You could relate their team to the parent club. Why would they ever change it????
I agree with Matt K.
Ugh.
Not true that nobody voted for it.
I did.
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by KeepItCopacetic on Nov 15, 2010 6:44 PM EST reply actions
I've always found the idea of storm chasing to be fascinating
And think it’s a nice, unique mascot. Different tastes.
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by KeepItCopacetic on Nov 15, 2010 7:28 PM EST up reply actions
I actually don't think it's terrible
just angry that they switched from the classic O-Royals.
Overgay is Destiny
I much would have preferred that
But it seemed inevitable that they were eyeing a change from the Royals, and the fact that voting was non secure suggested that it wasn’t a true vote.
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by KeepItCopacetic on Nov 15, 2010 8:32 PM EST up reply actions
Also
There were like 10 options in the final vote. The winner is a plurality. You might as well choose at random.
by Trey Hillman's Chin on Nov 16, 2010 7:21 AM EST up reply actions
Ethos could be the worst name in all of sports.
Awful!
"2010: The year Mizzou gets over the hump. The year the Chiefs show the NFL that they're back. And the year Dayton Moore signs some washed up has been or never was to return us to the glory of the Royals not losing 100 in 2011."
by royaldaddy on Nov 15, 2010 7:59 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Or This maybe.
Damn iPhone.
"2010: The year Mizzou gets over the hump. The year the Chiefs show the NFL that they're back. And the year Dayton Moore signs some washed up has been or never was to return us to the glory of the Royals not losing 100 in 2011."
by royaldaddy on Nov 15, 2010 8:00 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
FTW!
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Nov 15, 2010 9:24 PM EST up reply actions
It's shit like this
that makes me wistfully look at my channel lineup where I get free Rangers games.
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What, was the Omaha Mythbusters already taken?
Marketing guys are the best. Just ask the Kansas City Wiz!
Piss Their Pants
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Nov 15, 2010 9:25 PM EST up reply actions
Yes, it's shitty on paper...
But think of the horrible tie-in announcer jokes for our acclaimed prospects, their world has just been opened up!
“He’s throwing an F-4 tonight… Possibly an F-5!”
“And they’re just hailing all over the field tonight, that’s the 15th hit!”
And then we get to bring back Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton clips from Twister on the scoreboard to pump up the crowd!
Ok, it’s shitty in reality too…
by Tracer Bullet 82 on Nov 15, 2010 9:02 PM EST reply actions
But they'd better be
distinguishable from the real tornado sirens
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I'm picturing cows flying around the park when they hit a home run
"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell
The new Logo should be
a 94’ Dodge Ram
Do these effectively hide my thunder?
by splitty on Nov 16, 2010 3:30 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I was there tonight
The crowd response was overwhelmingly positive. As an Omaha Royals fan first and foremost (before KC) I have to say that I really like the rebranding. Plan B does great work.
Yep, the crowd was more positive than I really expected.
I think I expected, like, crickets chirping? I don’t know. But people seemed to like it.
It was a fun event, at the very least. Good to see everyone.
WTF, self?
Not that I know of.
But the new park itself will affect my duties, since its layout is so different from Rosenblatt.
WTF, self?
Oh joy! I see they have a woman's sweatshirt
that is not only NOT the team color but also doesn’t seem to even include the logo or font the team uses either. Why again would I buy this from them instead of just buying my own damn sweatshirt for half the price and writing/ironing Storm Chasers on it (if I were so inclined)?
grumblestupid"womens"sportsapparrelisstupidgrumble
I had a few thoughts
I didn’t really get into the mascot issue. I gotta sleep on that to see how I feel. Mostly, I don’t feel a whole lot about mascots. They just ARE.
WTF, self?
fucking stupid
Minor league to its fullest.
Lame weird name.
Black (real original) color scheme
Essentially slapping your parent club in the face too.
I say forget them, buy the tbones and use the stadium in kck for the AAA. Call them the Kansas Royals.
a long fly ball to deep center field, back goes Damon to the track, the wall, and Gone!
by tcon125 on Nov 16, 2010 12:14 AM EST via mobile reply actions
How dare a Minor League team
come up with a name that sounds….GASP….like a minor league team name?!
It sure wasn’t my first choice, but really….who gives a shit? It’s still baseball. And I love me some baseball.
WTF, self?
Note to self
Because I dont like it, I should not give a shit.
And sorry I called it minor league. I meant amateur, possible american legion.
a long fly ball to deep center field, back goes Damon to the track, the wall, and Gone!
by tcon125 on Nov 16, 2010 2:53 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
For the record,
my comment was a direct reply to yours, if that makes any difference. I was just musing on stuff that people keep saying elsewhere.
Sure, go ahead and give a shit. That’s obviously your right. I just don’t understand the people out there who are like, “I’m never setting foot in that ballpark because I don’t like the team name!” Really?
REALLY?!
I like baseball. I will keep liking baseball. I will like watching the best prospects the Omaha area has ever seen, even if I wouldn’t have personally named the team the Chasers. To me, it’s not really worth missing out on baseball for. I dunno. Maybe I’m just mellowing too much in my old age.
WTF, self?
Ya, I never said the name would stop me from going to the game
And obviously it would not stop you. But it might stop someone else who thinks the team is an independent league team with silly graphics and team name.
The people the team needs to worry about louring to the stadium are quite obviously not you and me. And on top of just attendance, merchandise sales is a HUGE portion of redesigns. And I think there is no way this redesign sells more merch than if they went to a traditional O-Royals, script jerseys, ditch the red, and add a powder blue omaha jersey for the road. (not to mention the negative impact on the bottom line of actually paying a marketing group for their “work”!)
Because if you have a classic design, the gear can be worn outside of the stadium to positively represent yourself and possibly your city/team allegiance. And therefore, since the merch can fulfill more than just a shirt to wear to the game, (and potential customers can see themselves wearing it more often) people become more likely to buy the gear.
In a different note, I know multiple people, myself included, that have been looking for the script O hat for years to no avail. Why not sell some of the classic Omaha jerseys and cap styles? That way those of us who want gear we can wear in public, can actually purchase said gear.
a long fly ball to deep center field, back goes Damon to the track, the wall, and Gone!
I think I actually want a StormChasers hat or shirt
I have plenty of Royals crap, so I had zero interest in Omaha Royals crap. There were some pretty terrible names under consideration, and I think this one was middle of the pack or better. Though it does conjure up images of Indepedent League teams like the T-Bones (a name I like) or bad Arena League football names like the KC Brigade/Command. I think this falls in the middle of those.
Do you work for the Wizards?
Because that is kinda what they are doing – changing their name to “Sport Kansas City” or “Kansas City Soccer Club” or some variation of that.
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Do the teams in Europe just have city names for the most part?
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a team name from there other than Manchester United or Real Madrid, and I’m not sure those count as a name like Wizards. Most of the time it’s just where the team is located right?
I really don't know
Is Arsenal a city? I know there are Scottish clubs like Rangers and Celtics that don’t seem to incorporate their city name.
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Arsenal
Are named for the Royal Woolwich Arsenal, and old British army weapons depot.
There are few odd ones in England- Sheffield Wednesday, Aston Villa, Plymouth Argyle, Accrington Stanley
Most are not unique though, lots of Uniteds, lots of City/Town (as appropriate) a few Athletics and a few Rovers.
They should have just sold the naming rights and become . . . .
. . . something like the Omaha Red Bulls.
The Omaha Berkshire Hathaways
Seriously, the Mutuals of Omaha would have been kinda cool.
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by RoyalsRetro on Nov 16, 2010 9:39 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Nippon Ham could have sponsored the team.
The Omaha Nippon Ham Storm Chasers?
by AxDxMx on Nov 16, 2010 11:44 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
YES!
And the outfield experience could be “Wild Kingdom!”
Wondering where we will get our grit in 2011.
by mitchfreakingmaier! on Nov 16, 2010 11:58 AM EST up reply actions
Probably not the best move
given the bad blood surrounding the move away from the zoo.
by Trey Hillman's Chin on Nov 16, 2010 12:00 PM EST up reply actions
True, but I was going with the whole Mutual of Omaha theme.
I grew up watching Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom for years.
Wondering where we will get our grit in 2011.
by mitchfreakingmaier! on Nov 16, 2010 3:55 PM EST up reply actions
The O logo is cool
but the full “Storm Chasers” font is absolutely disgusting
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I LOVE it...
Really. It’s awesome. It’s probably more of a double-A name than a triple-A name, but that’s just a quibble. It’s original, specific, has a local focus, and is fun. A mascot is perhaps the least serious thing in the world, and this fits that bill perfectly. I’m in.
Go chasers!!!
by billexgordler on Nov 16, 2010 8:47 AM EST via mobile reply actions
No
at least it relates to Omaha/Nebraska/the Great Plains.
The historical Golden Spike was driven into the ground in Utah. To call an Omaha team by that name was a terrible failure of imagination.
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I'm going to assume the Golden Spikes were not named after the historical Golden Spike
I would imagine they were trying to say they had the best amateur talent in the country (too bad the other MiLB teams pay their players!), as well as it being the home of the College World Series:
Now, that made some sense
I’d never heard of that award before, but the connection to the CWS at least fits for an Omaha team.
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I think this is a great choice for a name if they are changing from the Royals.
Geographically it makes sense, and opens up merchandising opportunities to people outside of the Royals faithful. Who hasn’t seen frat boy douchebags wearing hats that have dumb team names on them?
Kinda disappointed in the O logo with the bolt through it. The bolt needs to be bigger I think.
ummmm
This is the type of hat that “frat boy douchebags” do NOT wear. College kids in general wear the hat of the team from their home town, or their favorite team…as long as it doesn’t look like a z-hat from the early 2000s. This hat fits that arena football/minor league/90’s mighty duck shitty graphics and font feel.
Also, kids in the midwest get made fun of for being “flyover” and in the ever expanding visibility to other “cooler” things in the world there is a huge push for kids to not do things that make them look “minor league” or small town, or not a big deal…if that makes sense. So in this case, having a logo and redesign which screams “everyone else did this 15 years ago” is not a good play to get the young and sensitive to being “flyover” crowd. (btw, of all the places I’ve ever been, Omaha best exemplifies this defensiveness to being thought of as not a big deal)
And in reality Frat DBs are more likely to wear a “it is so bad, it is a joke, haha I’m so witty” shitty hat they found at goodwill, or a low profile graphic polo/lacoste/prep hat.
a long fly ball to deep center field, back goes Damon to the track, the wall, and Gone!
I like the hat.
My brother collects fun and funny minor league baseball hats. He is about as far from being a “frat boy douchebag” as you can get however, even when he was still in college (although now he works at the college, so maybe he still counts as being there, although now he’s the director of the university’s library, so maybe not), so if that is the demographic being sought, he’s no help.
I also like the alternate jersey. Not as crazy for the font used on the “SC” logo thing, but I definitely like the O with the thunderbolt. And I’m okay with the name choice trying to make it more specifically local (SC=Sarpy County & Storm Chasers, so clever!) and less “KC Junior.”
I’ve only been to one game in Omaha, but from listening to the conversations around me that night, those in my section definitely didn’t follow the KC Royals very closely. While I’m sure there are lots of people there who were big KC fans, there were also lots who knew the O-Royals line-ups but had no idea what happened to those players when they weren’t in Omaha. It makes sense to me to let that team have it’s own identity to better connect with the people in their community who might actually come to games multiple times a year instead of the ones like me who specifically make a road trip once in a great while to see the prospects (and Minda!).
THIS:
those in my section definitely didn’t follow the KC Royals very closely. While I’m sure there are lots of people there who were big KC fans, there were also lots who knew the O-Royals line-ups but had no idea what happened to those players when they weren’t in Omaha.
Very, very important point. We care about baseball in Omaha because we’re KC Royals fans. People in the stands in Omaha – and around MiLB – are, by and large, fans of the team on the field at that location. It’s easy to forget that sometimes, but it’s very true and very important.
WTF, self?
I propose their mascot be named "Hannah"
Hannah Storm Chasers? Get it? HAHAHAHAHAH
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