Baseball folk

[Ritterskoop]

On the obvious major-league baseball page, if you saw a headline like this


Friars beat Reds


would you know what it meant?

[ulysses5019]

On the obvious major-league baseball page, if you saw a headline like this


Friars beat Reds


would you know what it meant?

Did the Pads beat the Redlegs?

[Ritterskoop]

On the obvious major-league baseball page, if you saw a headline like this


Friars beat Reds


would you know what it meant?

Did the Pads beat the Redlegs?

In 18 innings, yes.

They make us put the score in this tiny type over the photo

Padres 12, Reds 9

so I try not to use the team nicknames again in the main head. But I could not fit Cincinnati, so I tried to be creative.

I am told we don't use that nickname because no one knows what it means.

I am disheartened. I thought it was historically known.

[ulysses5019]

On the obvious major-league baseball page, if you saw a headline like this


Friars beat Reds


would you know what it meant?

Did the Pads beat the Redlegs?

In 18 innings, yes.

They make us put the score in this tiny type over the photo

Padres 12, Reds 9

so I try not to use the team nicknames again in the main head. But I could not fit Cincinnati, so I tried to be creative.

I am told we don't use that nickname because no one knows what it means.

I am disheartened. I thought it was historically known.

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You mean, no one knows about the famous Friars Club in Beverly Hills or the Warren Beatty Oscar winning movie?

[Ritterskoop]

You mean, no one knows about the famous Friars Club in Beverly Hills or the Warren Beatty Oscar winning movie?

Or the Swinging Padre mascot or how you can become a Frequent Friar?

I had a walk around the building and mostly got over it. I am getting better about letting go of needing to be right.

I have to save that argument for something that matters.

[TheCalvinator24]

I was able to figure it our pretty quickly, but I have never heard the Padres referred to as the Friars.

[ulysses5019]

I was able to figure it our pretty quickly, but I have never heard the Padres referred to as the Friars.

Of course I live here in southern California and have heard them referred to as the Friars quite often.

[ulysses5019]

I was able to figure it our pretty quickly, but I have never heard the Padres referred to as the Friars.

And having followed baseball for most of my life, I have heard "Reds" used many a time in the LA Times.

[Ritterskoop]

I was able to figure it our pretty quickly, but I have never heard the Padres referred to as the Friars.

OK, thanks.

Maybe it is regional, and I saw it in old essays and newspaper column collections.

[ulysses5019]

I was able to figure it our pretty quickly, but I have never heard the Padres referred to as the Friars.

OK, thanks.

Maybe it is regional, and I saw it in old essays and newspaper column collections.

Definitely regional. But the Padres are named after an old PCL club (Ted Williams, a local boy, played for them). But the name goes back to Father Junipero Serra, a member of the Franciscans who founded the first of 21 missions in California, at San Diego. I learned all this in my fourth grade catholic school and even had to build a model of one of the missions. Oh, I didn't learn about Ted and the PCL in Sister Veritas' class.

[littlebeast13]

On the obvious major-league baseball page, if you saw a headline like this


Friars beat Reds


would you know what it meant?

Yes...

And that game cost me a win in the BBBL thanks to the gift 18 points Aaron Harang gave Fishie by pitching the 13th-16th innings....

lb13

[elwoodblues]

For a few years in the 1950s the Reds were called the Redlegs because of the hysteria over Communism at the time.

[kayrharris]

I only knew half of it...never heard the Padres called the Friars. Maybe if I had thought about it a bit, knowing the Reds are a baseball team , I would have figured it out.

Glad you took a walk. It's good for the soul at times like these. Sorry you got a bit upset on your birthday. Picking our battles is a lesson we all need to learn.

[eyégor]

Now if you had called them the Fryers I could see the problem....

[starfish1113]

On the obvious major-league baseball page, if you saw a headline like this


Friars beat Reds


would you know what it meant?

Yes...

And that game cost me a win in the BBBL thanks to the gift 18 points Aaron Harang gave Fishie by pitching the 13th-16th innings....

lb13

I'm just glad he didn't pitch the 18th...