Game Thread: Twins v Orioles, 7/6 @ 7:10pm CT

I couldn't agree with you more regarding the slight of the Olive-sided Flycatcher. I mean, who WOULDN'T love singing a team song that starts with a low pep pep pep with variations from soft rapid ptw ptw ptw to harder pew pew to single note pep with a final verse a sharp, penetrating whistle of whip WEEDEEER.

 

The last verse basically sounds a lot like "quick, three beers!" Right?

Other birds that are unfortunately ignored when coming up with a team nickname:

- Pigeons 

- Peacocks

- Storks

- Flufftails

 

Other birds that are unfortunately ignored when coming up with a team nickname:

- Pigeons 

- Peacocks

- Storks

- Flufftails

 

 

Great Tits. Look it up.

Say hi to Aunt Gladys from all of us, Bri.

Great Tits. Look it up.

Don't try this at work.

I think the Chachalakas would make for a great team name.

Say hi to Aunt Gladys from all of us, Bri.

And get some extra night crawlers.

 

Aunt Gladys don't hold with no new fangled lures.

 

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Some friends are planning to go to Fargo later this summer, and i may join them.

 

Anything should know?

 

I was 1-2 years old when last i was there, so i don't remember very much.

 

Some friends are planning to go to Fargo later this summer, and i may join them.

Anything should know?

I was 1-2 years old when last i was there, so i don't remember very much.

I don't think there was much to remember.

 

I think the Chachalakas would make for a great team name.

as in "Boom, Chachalakas?"

 

We'll have to get Bill Veeck right on it.

Reno had an independent-league team called the Chukars (pronounced chucker) between their single-A Silver Sox and AAA Aces eras.

 

 

The team mascot had a Chief-worthy groaner of a name: Chubby Chukar.

I don't think there was much to remember.

Mrs Ash and I spent pretty much our last weekend of freedom (i.e., she was about 8 months pregnant for our first child) on a spur of the moment vacation in Fargo, and we loved it. Delicious locally grown steaks on the menu, and the Red River is a lot of fun for canoeing. Very pleasant town. Plus a short drive into the prairie brought us to the tallest man-made structure in North America, or so it was claimed.

 

I liked the place so much, I have never gone back!

 

Mrs Ash and I spent pretty much our last weekend of freedom (i.e., she was about 8 months pregnant for our first child) on a spur of the moment vacation in Fargo, and we loved it. Delicious locally grown steaks on the menu, and the Red River is a lot of fun for canoeing. Very pleasant town. Plus a short drive into the prairie brought us to the tallest man-made structure in North America, or so it was claimed.

 

I liked the place so much, I have never gone back!

Tallest man-made structure in North America? Um, hmm, taller than the Willis Tower? That was man made, I believe.

I don't think there was much to remember.

Ah.

 

That would explain it.

 

Still, i expect there is always someing there to remind me...

I think a professional football team with doves has it's moniker has potential.

Tallest man-made structure in North America? Um, hmm, taller than the Willis Tower? That was man made, I believe.

Some antenna out in the middle of nowhere 40 miles from Fargo. It's a Fargo must-see, or so the guidebooks told us at the time.

Tallest man-made structure in North America? Um, hmm, taller than the Willis Tower? That was man made, I believe.

From wikipedia aticle which came up googling that phrase.

 

KVLY Television Tower (Fargo NBC 11)

Height: 2,063 ft (629 m)

Blanchard (47°20′32″N 097°17′21″W)

Year built: 1963

Owner: Meyer Broadcasting

This tower was known as the KTHI Television Tower until June 1995. It is the third-tallest structure in the world, eclipsed only by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (completed in 2009), and the Tokyo Sky Tree in Tokyo, Japan (completed in 2012). From 1974 until its collapse in 1991, the Warsaw radio mast in Poland also eclipsed the KVLY-TV mast. This tower is used so KVLY-TV can cover both Fargo and Grand Forks.

KRDK-TV Television Tower (Fargo/Valley City CBS 4)

Height: 2,060 ft (628 m)

Galesburg (47°16′45″N 97°20′27″W)

Year built: 1998

The KRDK-TV tower is the world's fourth-tallest man-made structure. It had collapsed three times due to winter and summer storms, though the first time it collapsed in 1968, it was caused from a Marine helicopter cutting four guy wires of the tower. The KVLY TV tower, the world's third-tallest man-made structure, is only about six miles (10 km) from the KRDK-TV tower. This tower is used so KRDK-TV can cover both Fargo and Grand Forks.

Wicked cool!

Edited July 6, 2017 by sampleSizeOfOne

 

Tallest man-made structure in North America? Um, hmm, taller than the Willis Tower? That was man made, I believe.

 

I thought Paul Bunyan's statue was the tallest man-made structure! 

 

Great Tits. Look it up.

Boobies!

 

 

Reno had an independent-league team called the Chukars (pronounced chucker) between their single-A Silver Sox and AAA Aces eras.

 

 

The team mascot had a Chief-worthy groaner of a name: Chubby Chukar.

You would have thought they would have had a female chuckar with a baby in her arms....a mother chukar!

 

Say hi to Aunt Gladys from all of us, Bri.

Otherwise known as Aunt Happybutt...gladass, happy butt, what's the diff?

I like those pretty boobies!

 

 

From wikipedia aticle which came up googling that phrase.


Wicked cool!

Two tousand feet! Uff Da! I heard dat dey can see Norway from up dere. You betcha!

Two tousand feet! Uff Da! I heard dat dey can see Norway from up dere. You betcha!

Are you suggesting they might let me climb on it?

A team in Cleveland named the Turkeys?

 

Well...there should be.

The Rangers should be the Lonesome Doves.

 

I don't think there was much to remember.

 

I remember having nothing to remember

 

Are you suggesting they might let me climb on it?

 

Someone has to

 

It's not going to sit there unclimbed. 

The Rangers should be the Lonesome Doves.

Maybe our sports teams should be named for our state bird. So which team gets to be called the Loons?

 

Maybe our sports teams should be named for our state bird. So which team gets to be called the Loons?

Okay ... looking at the list of state birds, that might not work ... we'd have too many Cardinals followed by a number of Turkeys, Mockingbirds and Meadowlarks. Then we'd have to distinguish between eastern and mountain Bluebirds, and who would get Robins?

 

But truly, Minnesota is the only Loon among the bunch.