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[KLINE]

Am I the only on that dislikes these companies buying the naming rights for stadiums?!?! The newest one is now 'The Jake' or Jacobs Field is being renamed "Progressive Field"-
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/01/11/cleveland.ballpark.ap/index.html

It's terrible!!! I for one hope the O's never sell the rights to OPACY, I guess if they did it would still be Oriole Park to me....

[blueberryale77]

Am I the only on that dislikes these companies buying the naming rights for stadiums?!?! The newest one is now 'The Jake' or Jacobs Field is being renamed "Progressive Field"-
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/01/11/cleveland.ballpark.ap/index.html

It's terrible!!! I for one hope the O's never sell the rights to OPACY, I guess if they did it would still be Oriole Park to me....

Aesthetically it is incredibly distasteful, but when compared to taxpayers forking over even more obscene sums of money for sports/entertainment venues or ticket prices being further raised to squeeze out the middle class altogether I find it to be the least of the evils. :(

[glenn__davis]

Yeah, it annoys me a bit, but I stopped getting worked up over that a while ago.

What I don't like, though, are the sponsorhip names for the college football bowls. I've learned to accept things like "The FedEx Orange Bowl" and stuff, but the Peach Bowl went from "Peach Bowl" to "Chick-fil-a Peach Bowl" to just "Chick-fil-a Bowl". What's wrong with keeping the "Peach Bowl" in there? Ditto the Citrus Bowl becoming the "Capital One Bowl". Just weak, IMO.

[blueberryale77]

Yeah, it annoys me a bit, but I stopped getting worked up over that a while ago.

What I don't like, though, are the sponsorhip names for the college football bowls. I've learned to accept things like "The FedEx Orange Bowl" and stuff, but the Peach Bowl went from "Peach Bowl" to "Chick-fil-a Peach Bowl" to just "Chick-fil-a Bowl". What's wrong with keeping the "Peach Bowl" in there? Ditto the Citrus Bowl becoming the "Capital One Bowl". Just weak, IMO.

Yeah, how on earth does it hurt the corporate sponsor to remove the original name completely? To me, when they lose their original name and just go with the corporate sponsor, it just makes it sound like on of those crappy bowl games that mediocre teams have to settle for. With the Peach Bowl, you'd think Chick-fil-A could have turned it into a marketing promotion. They could have done a limited time thing where they sold peach cobbler in their stores around Peach Bowl time or something.

[Boy Howdy]

I used to refuse to use the new names, continuing to refer to Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Candlestick Park, Jack Murphy Stadium or whatever.

Now though, there are a bunch of parks that've never had a "real" name, and I'm very confused trying to keep it all straight.

[DuffMan]

I used to refuse to use the new names, continuing to refer to Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Candlestick Park, Jack Murphy Stadium or whatever.

Now though, there are a bunch of parks that've never had a "real" name, and I'm very confused trying to keep it all straight.

Just do like I do and use the team name in front of the word stadium. i.e. Ravens Stadium

[blueberryale77]

I used to refuse to use the new names, continuing to refer to Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Candlestick Park, Jack Murphy Stadium or whatever.

Now though, there are a bunch of parks that've never had a "real" name, and I'm very confused trying to keep it all straight.

I think fans should just let the corporations put their signs up on the stadiums and then come up with their own nicknames for them. To official media outlets, it can be Port-A-Potty Field or whatever they want to call it, but to the fans, it's whatever they want it to be.

[backwardsk]

I'm not quite 30. If I live to be 100, I would not be surprised if the teams we watch are not the Orioles or Ravens or Redskins or Red Sox, but are corporation names such as the Atlanta Home Depot against the Seattle Starbucks in the Wells Fargo World Series.

There's a disgusting thought for your Saturday...:D

[orioles119]

Oriole Park at Camden Yards really has two names. I bet one day, the "Oriole Park" part will be sold, but the "Camden Yards" part will not. Therefore, everyone will still call it Camden Yards.