D.C. Baseball Team Could be 'Nationals'

It's terrible and doesn't sound like the Nats. I don't mind the Nats at all.

 

Doesn't make me care about them.

 

But just think of chanting: Go Nats....

 

why would they rename the team at all, without having an ownership group. a new ownership group is going to get saddled with a name that MLB chose?? dumb dumb dumb. baseball at its "best".

 

Like the article says... they need a name to market the club for the upcoming season.

Nationals was the original name for the Washington MLB team. Only later did they become the Senators. I think it's cool.

The Men's soccer team is just the United States. They don't have a nickname and they're not supposed to.

 

they have a name ...... the expos. market that until new owners come and choose a name. this is so mickey mouse. expos nationals ...... and then a new owner finally comes in a year or two and changes the name again. ughh

 

I never could understand why Montreal used Expos in the first place. They had a long tradition with Royals in AAA.

 

Montreal Expo—The Expos are named after Expo '67, the world's fair held in Montreal two years before the team's inaugural game. The fair ran for the entire year and drew approximately 50 million people.

 

Nationals is a dumbass name for a baseball team, as you have the fricking National League.

 

The way things go these days, they'll be lucky not to be called the "Washington Wallmarts" or something similar ... "Nationals" doesn't sound that bad anymore, does it?

 

That's what the San Diego Padres were going to be called when they were all but on their way to Washington in 1974. Historically, before the current team nicknames became more or less official, teams were often referred to as "Americans" and "Nationals" as a reference to which league they were in.

To baseball fans, this is a fine name. Certainly better than Raptors or Burn or BC DC 05.

 

Right. But it did not make long-term marketing sense. A world's fair is one recent thing but they forgot all about their many years of excellent baseball tradition. Jackie Robinson broke in with the Montreal Royals. And literally "Montreal" is based on "Mt Royal" nearby.

 

I happen to like the name Washington Nationals. I could give a rat's arse about the team, but I do like the name.

We are still the Nats !!! No one can take that away from us. And to the poster who said we are the United States and we don't need a nickname...you're crackers. Almost every country in the world has a nickname for their nat'l side.

 

I've always been fond of Gringos.

 

I like that one tho'.

 

As a former baseball fan from the old days, I can state that "Nats" was strongly associated with the first Washington Senators team. Just as "nats" is used for the usmnt, "Nats" was used for Wash Senators. It always was their unofficial nickname. I think that Washington Nationals is a great name for them. After all, Washington is the capitol of the Divided States of America, oops, I mean the United States of America.

 

They should just call the team the Orphans.

 

After the bomshell that Chaiperson Linda Cropp dropped yesterday, this whole baseball situation might have disappeared by this time next week. Mayor Williams and Councilman Evans might not have the votes that they need to approve the staidum deal...

 

All true, but it still made more sense than the Utah Jazz...

 

Well they aren't really nicknames (in the traditional american sporting culture sense) but some nations refer to there national teams occasionaly as:

England - Three Lions
France- Les Blues ?

I am sure they're more but I don't care enough to look it up further.

 

i've never liked nats as a nickname, i'm not even sure it could even really be called a nickname. its not like other national nicknames (azzurri, la furia roja, el tri, indomitable lions), it says nothing about the team or our country. it basically exsist so people dont have to type out united states national soccer team.