# Long Beach Armada of...Barrow, Alaska

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-beach-armada-of-barrow-alaska/406900
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 5, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-beach-armada-of-barrow-alaska/406900 "2007-06-05T21:52:42Z")
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### Author: ![Threadkiller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@Threadkiller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Threadkiller)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-beach-armada-of-barrow-alaska/406900/1 "2007-06-05T21:52:42Z")

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[O.K. it’s a little old but I just heard about this and find it hilarious](http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3482138)

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> May 28, 2007: The Long Beach Armada professional baseball team announced today that it has changed its official name. The new name will be the Long Beach Armada of Los Angeles of California of the United States of North America Including Barrow, Alaska.

Of course this is a direct shot at the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim name change a little while back

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> “Our inspiration was Arte Moreno’s brilliant marketing gambit of positioning the Anaheim Angeles as an LA team. Being a real Los Angeles county team, we too wanted to extend our reach as far north as possible.”… "Instead of burying our home town at the back of our long name, we are proud to lead off with Long Beach at the top of the order”.

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> The team will carry an abbreviation of LBALACUSNAIBA.

😃  
Thoughts?

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### Author: ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-beach-armada-of-barrow-alaska/406900/2 "2007-06-05T21:57:29Z")

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There is only **one** LA baseball team, and they **don’t** play in the American League. Good for the Armada. I wonder if they sell t-shirts?

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### Author: ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-beach-armada-of-barrow-alaska/406900/3 "2007-06-05T23:56:36Z")

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If they’re associated with Barrow, Alaska, maybe they have parkas.