The….Prog?
Now that Jacobs Field is to be renamed Progressive Field, it needs a new nickname. It used to be “The Jake.” But what will it be now? “The Prog” is hardly acceptable. Anyone got any better ideas?
Now that Jacobs Field is to be renamed Progressive Field, it needs a new nickname. It used to be “The Jake.” But what will it be now? “The Prog” is hardly acceptable. Anyone got any better ideas?
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January 13th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
I don’t know. I think it’s kind of appropriate that a team with a player named Pronk play in a stadium named The Prog.
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January 13th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Maybe The Pro? That’s semi-badass….maybe.
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January 14th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Wait a second. We’re talking about a baseball stadium named after an auto insurer?
How bout Ripoff Field at Bend Over Park?
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January 17th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
We could nickname the Cleveland Indians Ball Park “Pro Field”.
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January 17th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
We could just screw Progressive and nickname it…..GEICO!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Bwahahah.
Bwah.
Hah.
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January 18th, 2008 at 9:56 am
How about “The House That Women Who Want to Marry Grady Sizemore Built”? Or will that have to be a completely new stadium?
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January 18th, 2008 at 10:42 am
The problem with that is, it’s not really exclusive to the greater Cleveland metro area. I mean, don’t ALL women want to marry Grady Sizemore? Thus, couldn’t any free-standing domicile properly be called by that moniker?
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