Oklahoma City’s minor league
baseball time has cut ties with the Dodgers name. Who wants to be associated
with a World Series champion, anyway?! Moving forward, the team will be known
as the Comets, an ode to Oklahoma native Mickey Mantle and his nickname, “The
Commerce Comet.” But Michael Byrnes, president of the baseball club, also said
the new name — the sixth one in less than 30 years — was meant to tap into the
state’s “burgeoning aerospace industry.”
Oklahoma has
seen its aerospace industry grow in recent years, although the state is not
even in the top 10, according to the Aerospace Competitive Economics Study from
AeroDyanmic.
But the state’s
actual top industries don’t necessarily make for great baseball team names. The
Frackers (oil and gas)? The Potheads (marijuana)? Or what about The Tater Tots
(Sonic)?
All in all, The
Comets is a cool name. But we can’t wait to see the next name in a few
years.
This article appears in Queen of Oklahoma.