If my Little League team is the “Cubs,” who is to say it’s not lion cubs, opossum cubs or some other cubs critter real or imagined and not Chicago’s bear Cubs?

My first pee wee team was the Mets. Later, I moved to a different town and the teams there didn’t have mascots. We were Ramsey’s IGA, First National Bank, etc. No one used those names much, either. You were either on the green team, the red team, the gold team, etc. We didn’t have particularly creative folks, though, as we had an eight-team league and two ofthe teams were blue—dark blue and light blue. Honest.

is just pushing away future fans from the game. MLB Inc seems hellbent on destroying itself with what it is doing – things like this and limiting bloggers, etc. it’s one thing to protect IPR. it’s a whole other thing to copyright the english language while at the same time hurting your own image. we need to go back to the days when corps could only sue when someone benefited financially from using a copyright. eight years of corporate rule has really killed freedom in this country. i mean, a woman named sam buck couldn’t even use her own name on her coffee shop in small town oregon!

kids won’t understand why they can’t be the cubs now, but they won’t forget it. bud selig needs to DIAF. worst. commish. ever.