OKAY, THIS SOUNDS KINDA COOL
11.13.08
Former Red Sox GM Dan Duquette has teamed up with New England fan favorite Brian Daubach in re-branding a minor league team that will be comprised entirely of former members of the military. The news story is kind of long and confusing, but Sports by Brooks manages to make sense of it:
The former team was called the Nashua Pride and had Duquette running personnel and Daubach as hitting coach. The new club, called the “American Defenders of New Hampshire,” will be managed by Daubach with Duquette still running the front office. The team will play in the indie Can-Am League at a park in Nashua, NH, while wearing camoflauge jerseys and charging $9.11 for tickets.
Even though camouflage jerseys are stupid (the Padres always look terrible when they “honor” the troops with them), I have to admit that I don’t hate this idea. “I wouldn’t try to tag up on a fly ball. The right fielder really has a cannon. No, seriously: there’s a 155mm howitzer out there, and it’s dialed in on home plate.”
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Yeah, that face point looks cool on a poster, but it’s not all that great for hiding in the woods. Dark paint on the prominent facial features (nose, chin), lighter paint on the sunken parts (mouth, eyes). It makes camouflage more effective.
(It also brings out those pretty blue eyes.)
I’m just gonna say it. If your team’s name is “Pride,” rainbow-colored unis are the way to go. Especially if the roster is full of Marines.
Because what says american pride more than charging ticket prices that make people remember one of the nations saddest days.
Who switched the door signs on the room full of retards and the marketing department?
I thought that was Ed Harris at first glance.
thanks for the tip Matt. Now you’ll never see me lurking on the rooftops across from your window tonight.
@Matt
I prefer the Kiss-Star cammie paint pattern myself.
Any camouflage tips for, say, hiding in a girl’s locker room? Whatever happened to Doogie, anyway?
So you can either do that Uff or just be Wesley Snipes at night.
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I thought that the rule was if you live in New Hampshire, you didn’t have any pride.
The American Defenders of New Hampshire??? Who the fuck is going to invade New Hampshire???
Don’t get any fucking ideas, Olde Hampshire.
Enrico- That’s actually only true for those parts of NH that have been infected by the douchery of Boston…or really, MA in general. So, essentially, anywhere south of Concord.
I’ll wait ’til FU MARINE CORPS weighs in before rendering my opinion.
I’m come from a military family and am about as pro-military as you can get. That being said, GET OVER YOURSELF. We get it–you served in the military–we appreciate your service, but is it necessary to bring up this service at every turn? This site used to be a good read until it turned into “Withleather: If you have no military experience, kindly take your eyeballs out with a knife and shove them (and the knife) up your ass”
Good one, ridewithbirds. I should make that the site’s tagline tomorrow.
Except instead of “if you have no military experience,” I’ll make it “if you’re commenter ridewithbirds.” I think it’s a little catchier.
Wait…I’m confused. I have no military experience, so should I shove a knife up my ass? Someone, please, tell me what to do!
/going upstairs to masturbate
ohhhh noooo–not so fast. I’ve played that game before. You see, if you changed the wording around like that, in essence you would be saying for ME (and ME only) to take MY eyes out with a knife and to shove all that stuff (my eyes, the knife, etc) up MY ass. In all seriousness, you can change the site’s name to whatever you want–it is your site after all–good luck with the decision.
Awesome! Finally – a baseball team not comprised of complete pussies who takes months off for blisters, dry eyes, hangnails, etc. I never unserstood the need for days off in a sport where an everyday player will exert himself for about 5 minutes.
Seriously? $9.11? I’m pretty sure that if some patriotic sports team wanted to charge my grandfather $12.07 to see a game in remembrance of Pearl Harbor he’d call them faggots. Good cause, just change the f’in price.