The Atlanta Braves’ Double-A baseball affiliate moving from suburban Jackson, Mississippi to Georgia's Chattahoochee Valley will be called the Columbus Clingstones.
In a Friday night press release, Diamond Baseball Holdings, the owner of the Columbus ballclub, states that the clingstone peach is “one of the most popular varieties of peaches, named for its flesh that stubbornly clings to the pit, signifying the grit and determination the team will display on the field as well as an unyielding commitment to the community. Both the name and the logo embrace the peach as an iconic representation of the state of Georgia.”
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Had to look up what a clingstone was…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupe
I thought it was a dingleberry that had solidified.
Hey Atlanta, not everything needs to be named after peaches
And every April 20th they rebrand as the Columbus Clingstoned with branded rolling papers and dollar cookies.
This name is the pits
the peach with pants is so much cooler than the head only peach.
Are they relocating their current affiliate?
🎶*Moving to Columbus, gonna rebrand as some peaches*🎵
So, they’re going down yonder on the Chattahoochee. Alan Jackson is just pumping his fist in the air somewhere.
🎵”*CLING-STONES! MEET THE CLING-STONES! THEY’RE THE MODERN STONE-AGE BASEBALL TEAM!*”🎵
God I love minor league baseball
And their hated rival, the Fulton Freestones
Still nowhere close to being as cool as another Braves affiliate, the Rome Emperors.
So many haters
I’m still incredibly bitter towards the Braves for moving my childhood AAA team out of Richmond 😢
I really like it. They did a great job.
So if a peach is a butt and the butt is the head what are the pants covering?
We had a low A/summer college(?) team previously called the ChattAHoots with an owl mascot and that was so much better. You can see the river from the park they play in. There are like 3 peach trees in the whole city.
I still wish they were the G-Braves.
Clingstones sounds like Dingleberries to this non-Southerner
I live ten minutes from the Biscuits, but I might honestly start driving from Montgomery to Columbus to watch Braves players.
Braves really loving down the state of GA.
I think personally they should add academy teams and expand those into Alabama, SC, NC, and TN.
I love the AAA Gwinnet stripers branding. I love the high-A Rome Emperors, but this is just a miss.
I need the peach with pants hat asap
And the next team will be the Dartmouth Dingleberries…
Clingstone peaches admittedly piss me off so much lmao
Welcome to the ranks of being a minor league team named Columbus! The Clippers tip their cap to you!
Are they unfamiliar with the meaning of the peach emoji?
Were they on the Flintstones?
Are Clingstones better than Dingleberries?