What's in a name, part II
Gate City points out that we've started referring to the Greensboro Grasshoppers as the "Hoppers." In fact, that's how we referred to the newly named team in a headline in this morning's paper and online.
In fact, the sports headline writers sighed when the name was announced last week, but not because they don't like it. A long name plays havoc with headlines. In print, the word Grasshoppers takes up a lot of space. In today's paper it would have taken five inches to stretch that sucker across the page. As it is, the entire headline is only nine inches long.
Actually, I'm a little surprised we didn't shorten the name more than that. "Bats," now that was a name headline writers loved. Eddie Wooten, our sports editor, assures me that we won't whittle the name down to Hops or G-Hops.
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How about just the Grass? Imagine the possibilities:
The Mudcats stomped down the Grass.
Braves mowed the Grass last night.
The Grass is on fire this season.
More on my blog...maybe.
Posted on October 9, 2004 4:38 PM
I see what you mean:
The Braves smoked some Grass
The Yankees kicked Grass
Has potential
Posted on October 12, 2004 2:22 PM