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Friday, October 03, 2008

Fort Wayne TinCaps!

Fort Wayne, IN - When Parkview Field opens next season, Fort Wayne and the surrounding communities in Northeast Indiana, Northwest Ohio and Southern Michigan will be cheering on the Fort Wayne TinCaps. Hardball Capital CEO Jason Freier, and team general manager Mike Nutter, unveiled the team’s new identity and logo at a press conference at the Grand Wayne Center this morning.

The “TinCaps” moniker is a reference to the beloved pioneer Johnny Appleseed, who was known for wearing his tin cooking pot upon his head. The primary logo will be an apple wearing Johnny’s trademark “Tin Cap.” Two alternate logos will incorporate the City’s initials, “FW” with each a “Tin Cap” and an apple stem and leaf. The team’s primary color scheme will consist of organic colors—green, red and brown. This color scheme is consistent with both the Johnny Appleseed theme and the project goal of creating Parkview Field as a true park and gathering place within the center of downtown Fort Wayne.

It’s always good to have another ridiculous/unique name in the minors that isn’t of the form “(Randomword)Cats”, “(Randomword)Dogs”, or “(Randomword)Dawgz”.  And the logo is almost as intimidating as the Visalia Oaks, the Lansing Lugnuts and the Montgomery Biscuits.

Crispix Attacks 2: Swag Airlines Posted: October 03, 2008 at 02:14 PM | 8 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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   1. Dan Contilli Posted: October 03, 2008 at 03:19 PM (#2966172)
This stinks. I had a Ft. Wayne Wizards hat in high school. I wore it all the time. It was one of the best logos in sports.
   2. Crispix Attacks 2: Swag Airlines Posted: October 03, 2008 at 04:19 PM (#2966273)
You mean this weird green horse beast?

I like the apple with the metal hat. Bizarre minor-league team identities are the new market inefficiency, and Fort Wayne is capitalizing with both the "Tin Caps" and "Mad Ants" starting play this year.
   3. Belfry Bob Posted: October 03, 2008 at 04:24 PM (#2966278)
Green, red, and brown are 'organic colors'?

What, no love for blue? aqua? blanched almond?
   4. Neutral Milk Dotel (Dan Lee) Posted: October 03, 2008 at 04:32 PM (#2966285)
I kinda like it. Better than a half-dozen NHL team names, anyway, and better than most of the names in MLS.

Fort Wayne and the surrounding communities in Northeast Indiana, Northwest Ohio and Southern Michigan will be cheering on the Fort Wayne TinCaps.

FWIW, that's a bit of a stretch. I've got a bunch of family and friends in Northwest Ohio and the ones that care about baseball are unanimously Toledo fans when it comes to the minor leagues. There are more Lima Locos fans than Fort Wayne TinCaps fans.

But hey, I know what it's like to write press releases. You've gotta make things sound bigger than they really are. That's your job.
   5. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: October 03, 2008 at 04:45 PM (#2966304)
While searching for what they used to be called (hadn't seen #1 yet), I ran across a great throwback name they should have used: Fort Wayne Colored Giants. Awesome!
   6. Edmundo got dem ol' Kozma blues again mama Posted: October 03, 2008 at 04:49 PM (#2966311)
Fort Wayne Colored Giants
A couple of mascots come to mind, the Jolly Green Giant and Babe, the Blue Ox. Both giant, both colored. They could race a la the Meat Products or Presidents.
   7. Fly should without a doubt be number !!!!! Posted: October 03, 2008 at 05:27 PM (#2966366)
FWIW, that's a bit of a stretch. I've got a bunch of family and friends in Northwest Ohio and the ones that care about baseball are unanimously Toledo fans when it comes to the minor leagues. There are more Lima Locos fans than Fort Wayne TinCaps fans.

People are minor league baseball team fans? To the extent that they won't attend the games of another team in a different league at a different organizational level?

I don't think that's where minor league baseball is making their money. Minor league teams know they don't have fans, they have people that love baseball and attend their games. Usually, these people root for the home team. And if the Fort Wayne TinCaps have a game with decent ticket prices on a nice July evening, maybe an evening when Toledo is playing somewhere in Rhode Island, I'm sure people will make the 20 mile drive from Northwest Ohio.
   8. F.W. Pothead Posted: October 16, 2008 at 09:03 PM (#2984097)

Fort Wayne Tin Caps? More like the Fort Wayne Pot Heads!

The Officials, aka: MORONS, who came up with the name Tin Caps <u>must</u> have been smoking some <u>really good</u> marijuana. (Probably direct from Fort Wayne's very own, "Little Columbia"! Shhh - Don't tell! FWPD and ACSD would not be happy!)

The name, Tin Caps, is as bad as when the Peoria Rivermen (of Peoria, IL) were called the Peoria Prancers. Why was the PUBLIC not allowed to vote on a name like with the Fort Wayne Wizards?

What a slap in the face to historic 'Old Fort Wayne'!

Go Pot Heads?!

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