I am sitting here watching something called the TicketCity Bowl which is being played in Dallas at the Cotton Bowl. Later there will be a game called The Cotton Bowl Classic which will NOT be played at the Cotton Bowl.
This continues the conspiracy to keep our youth uninformed.
In the NBA, Oklahoma City plays in the Northwest Division. Can't you hear some young couple saying, "Hey, we should take a trip up to see the beautiful Northwest." "That sounds great. How about Oklahoma City?" Washington plays in the Southeast (The NHL also places Washington in the Southeast).
The NFL places Dallas in the East, Indianapolis in the South, and both Kansas City and St. Louis in the West. That does show some improvement over the recent situation that had Atlanta, Carolina, and New Orleans joining St. Louis in the West for a few years.
Major League Baseball is better, but placing Texas in the West is another geographical problem.
The NHL has Dallas in a division called Pacific and Pittsburgh in the Atlantic. Pittsburgh is what, maybe 350 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. Not too bad, I guess, but it's not exactly an oceanfront city. Still, it's better than the 1,200 miles between Dallas and the Pacific.
I understand the need to keep division rivalries together (i.e. Cowboys, Redskins, Eagles, Giants), but can't they stop naming the divisions in such misleading ways?
And then there's the NCAA, which has 12 teams in the Big Ten and ten teams in the Big XII.
Our kids don't have a chance.
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The Rangers, sadly, are the best option for the AL West. They are farther west than anybody else.
Of course you could go to something more abstract like "The Leaders" or "The Legends".
Perhaps something more descriptive like "The Geezers" could be applied to the NERD(?).
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