The Professional Women's Hockey League has unveiled the names of its teams, and the local squad will be the Boston Fleet, rather than, as long rumored, the Boston Wicked, which would have been majorly annoying for anybody in eastern Massachusetts, since that would basically make them the Boston Very.
And now, they can try to get some games in at the Garden, which they could then temporarily rename the Fleet Center.
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Know your
By Homer Bedloe
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 10:19am
enema.
Enemas indeed
By anon
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 10:38am
As a former consumer of enemas due to medical issues, the first thing I thought of was the popular enema brand.
This poor choice of a team nickname will be the butt of many jokes.
Even as a former Navy guy
By Friartuck
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 11:32am
My first response to fleet is indeed enematic.
I thought
By ScottB
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 4:23pm
It's a pretty douche-y name.
Frenemas?
By Frelmont
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 6:43pm
Frenemas?
Good news for those of us who care about language
By mg
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 10:25am
An author I usually like set one book in a series in Boston after having visited here for a weekend and obviously not having anyone from around here beta read her book. Among her many trespasses was using "wicked" as an adjective instead of an adverb.
Lopsided Whalers?
By John Costello
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 10:27am
Just saying.
Binghamton Whalers
By TownieTrash
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 12:04pm
Yup. My first thought too,
By Sean Behan
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 3:44pm
Yup. My first thought too, only with a T in the middle instead of an H.
Also, historically, I believe the last fleet in Boston left in 1776, and that belonged to HM King George III
Rotate 90 degrees counterclockwise
By ScottB
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 4:22pm
And it's very reminiscent of the female reproductive system.
SAVE THE WHALE!! (Insert
By MassMouse
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 8:00pm
SAVE THE WHALE!! (Insert brass machine here)
i propose "Harbor Master" as
By grahams
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 10:44am
i propose "Harbor Master" as Aerin Frankel's new nickname.
That's so Boston
By Don't Panic
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 11:26am
That's so Boston adamg.
Awww..
By Lecil
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 12:33pm
Wicked would have been fun. Particularly if their logo included a wide-brimmed pointy hat and maybe a broom. But no doubt someone seriously lacking a sense of humor would have complained because of Satan or something...
"Fleet"? What does that even mean in this context? All I'm seeing is my old bank card...
Like the baseball team in Tampa Bay
By adamg
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 12:44pm
But unlike the New Jersey men's hockey team, because nobody puts New Jersey in a corner.
I guess I'm too much of a Boston English purist to appreciate "Boston Wicked," though. Maybe if they had gone with Wicked Wicked, it would work, but then they'd have to move to Providence and work out a promotional deal with Newport Creamery (home of the Awful Awful).
Recall there was theory the
By anon
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 7:48pm
Recall there was theory the NJ Devils went w/ red & green as their colors their initial years at Meadowlands (1982-92) over red & black to tamp down any supposed Satanic inference
That logo is evocative of the
By Frelmont
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 12:41pm
That logo is evocative of the old Charbuck’s logo before they focus-grouped-away the feminine, receptive “come hither sailor” lower aspect. I stull remember the Fleet shark fin predator logo spoof.
I have met the enama and it’s us.
https://logos-world.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03...
Damn
By Kaz
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 1:10pm
I was really hoping they'd stick it to the NHL and call themselves the Boston Whalers.
Is that their real logo?
By CopleyScott17
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 1:45pm
I see fishhooks, but wouldn't that make them the Boston Hookers?
Maybe the enema name's not so bad after all.
Boston Harpoons
By CH
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 2:05pm
Boston Harpoons
The Boston...
By Hunter
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 2:04pm
...Ethel Mermaids
those are mostly collective nouns
By Vicki
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 2:05pm
Fleet, Frost, Victory (in French, because it's Montreal), and Charge, along with two plurals: Sirens and Sceptres.
Still, it could be worse: consider the Utah men's soccer team, "Real Salt Lake," which uses a bunch of crown imagery while playing in a stadium called "America First Field." Of course, the Salt Lake City basketball team is the Utah Jazz.
Jazz
By SamWack
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 6:29pm
I love Utah Jazz, the most oxymoronic name in sports. Of course it's just an accident, they migrated there from New Orleans. No pro sports owner could be so perversely brilliant.
PS - Fleet is a collective noun, Frost is a mass noun, and Victory is an abstract noun. All that talk about the crime of using Wicked as an adjective is giving me a grammar buzz.
a competitor for that crown
By JJ
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 9:49pm
The Los Angeles Lakers. Same deal. Made sense in Minneapolis. But I'd still give the award to the Jazz.
I've always thought that when the Minnesota North Stars moved to Dallas they should have named themselves the Lone Stars. Would have been all sorts of complaints along the lines of "how can there be more than one lone star?"
The Boston Pissers.
By Frelmont
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 7:14am
The Boston Pissers, or maybe just the Pissers. And, since everyone (mainly SNL and The Sam Adams Billionaire) nationally mocks and abuses the local (non-Brahmin) accent it would be The Bahstin Pissahs.
Wicked Boston
By Bostoneer
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 5:13pm
Wicked Boston would have been good.
Waiting for the inevitable name change to Boston TD's
By noahproblem
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 5:33pm
Maybe Tom Brady can buy the team first...
I hope no one is stupid
By blues_lead
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 9:58am
I hope no one is stupid enough to name a women's team the titties
As there is no Comiskey Park
By Frelmont
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 6:51pm
As there is no Comiskey Park there is no Boston Garden.
The only national name recognition for “Fleet” is the Fleet enema. What is the thought-process here?
Does “baseball” even actually exist anymore? This new sport nobody has any patience to watch what with its timers up the yazoo and instant replay? The beauty of the sport is the creativity and the drama over calls made by humans with human perceptions. ESPN just wants a random results generator to fuel their enterprise of vice.
Usually, a good economy is a sign of a healthy economic and political system, but what we see here is a people being bought-off.
The fact that there aren’t a 50-50 mix of day/night games means we’re all wage-slaves working way too much.
Usually, a good economy indicates a health economy and political system, but in this case we’re being bought-off against our interests.
Baseball is a business
By necturus
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 9:04am
It's all about TV ratings, subscriptions, and advertising revenue.
MLB is a monopoly. It should be broken up. We should have the National League and the American League as independent organizations, and the minor leagues should stand on their own.
Ditch the new rules; ditch the technology that made baseball boring; go back to playing the game as it was played when it was truly America's national pastime. Bring ticket prices down to where people can afford to go to games.
Oh, and make pitchers go to bat again.
Yes!
By Frelmont
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 6:48pm
Yes!
Charles Comiskey was an *sshole
By necturus
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 9:10am
Musk Garden, anyone? Trump Center? I'm sure I can think of other prominent *ssholes to name the place after.
Not the smart ones
By lbb
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 10:38am
Notice that Peter Thiel's name isn't on anything.
True, but most world-beaters
By Frelmont
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 6:59pm
True, but most world-beaters are. Most people don’t know about the Comiskey and Yawkey back story, those words only meant and only mean “baseball.” The truths can co-exist. We come from a common ancestor. One love.
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