# Introducing...Albuquerque Isotopes (really!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 6, 2002, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-albuquerque-isotopes-really/127315 "2002-09-06T18:09:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-albuquerque-isotopes-really/127315/1 "2002-09-06T18:09:14Z")
How sweet is this? I love it. [http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/06/offbeat.television.simpsons.reut/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/06/offbeat.television.simpsons.reut/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-albuquerque-isotopes-really/127315/2 "2002-09-06T18:28:41Z")
When the NHL granted a franchise to Anaheim and the team adopted a nickname from a Disney movie, you ought to have seen this coming!! (G, D, and R) ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2002, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-albuquerque-isotopes-really/127315/3 "2002-09-07T07:05:26Z")
I definetly want a hat. BTW, Polycarp, I think the Toronto Raptors are named after “Jurassic Park”. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2002, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-albuquerque-isotopes-really/127315/4 "2002-09-07T08:10:18Z")
The minor leagues are born for goofy nicknames. Having been a longtime reader of the transactions wire on the sports page, I have been entertained by such teams as the Macon Whoopee and the Rochester Skeeters. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-albuquerque-isotopes-really/127315/5 "2002-09-07T16:11:13Z")
Somewhere in California are the Mudville Nine, though whether Sean Casey ever played for them I do not know! ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-albuquerque-isotopes-really/127315/6 "2002-09-08T01:09:59Z")
Note Mayor Chavez’s lack of a sense of humor: > [@](#): > > “This isn’t a second-rate city that should be taking our name from a cartoon show,” Mayor Marin Chavez told reporters upon hearing the name for the new local team. If _I_ lived in Albuquerque, that would’ve cost him my vote; I can’t stand humorless people, much less politicians. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2002, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-albuquerque-isotopes-really/127315/7 "2002-09-08T01:52:59Z")
Coolest. Team. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2002, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-albuquerque-isotopes-really/127315/8 "2002-09-08T02:59:04Z")
I want a hat as well. At the same time the Las Vegas team is known now as the 51’s, a reference to Area 51 and they have an alien as a mascott. Slee ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-albuquerque-isotopes-really/127315/9 "2002-09-08T16:14:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pantellerite \* > \*\*If _I_ lived in Albuquerque, that would’ve cost him my vote; I can’t stand humorless people, much less politicians. \*\* He can do whatever he wants, for he…is the MAYOR OF ALBUQUERQUE! ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2002, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-albuquerque-isotopes-really/127315/10 "2002-09-08T16:44:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Polycarp \* > \*\*Somewhere in California are the Mudville Nine, though whether Sean Casey ever played for them I do not know! \*\* That would be Stockton.