The real problem with the Sox minor league system is the lack of really cool team names.

The Sox have 6 minor league affiliates, and 3 of them are called the Red Sox. How imaginative! Whose the farm system director - George Foreman?

And two of the other 3 are the Drive and the Spinners. Ok a little more creative, but no "Wow" factor. The closest thing the Sox have to a fun minor league name is the Sea Dogs.

Meanwhile, other teams have the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs and the Lansing Lugnuts and the Akron Rubberducks.

Why don't the Sox have a team name like any of the following:

Mongtgomery Biscuits
Batavia Muckdogs
Vermont Lake Monsters
Kannapolis Intimidators
Savannah Sand Gnats
Omaha Storm Chasers
Quad City River Bandits
New Orleans Zephyrs
Chattanooga Lookouts

I get some of these have local flavor in their team name. But can't some local flavor or legend about Greenville, Lowell, Salem and Pawtucket to give them better names? I'll allow the Sea Dogs.


I mean, Pawtucket is the home of Hasbro, and nothing? Red Sox? C'mon!! There are some serious possibilities with Hasbro products alone!!

Pawtucket Action Figures
Pawtucket Lite-Brites
Pawtucket Board Games
Pawtucket Batteries (Batteries Not Included)
Pawtucket Hungry Hungry Hippos

Heck, just the Pawtucket Toys works for me here.

Thoughts?