MOVING

Hello and welcome to episode 1632 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Rally of FanGraphs and I am joined as always by Ben Limberger of the Ringer. Ben, how are you?

Doing okay. You know, I'm celebrating a birthday soon and I think I have reached the age at which I will stop updating my mental index of corporate sponsorships for ball parks.

I think I'm just going to stop remembering what the new names of ball parks are. I think I'm comfortable with that because I read recently that the Oakland Coliseum has another new name.

Oh no.

We already had so many to keep track of.

And evidently, there's been one that it's been called in some places for a couple of years.

There's been a contract dispute that has now been resolved and so it is officially known by a new name now, the Ring Central Coliseum.

I have made no effort to ascertain what Ring Central is and I don't really plan to.

And I think that I may just forget about this and I feel some pressure as a professional cover of baseball to know what the names of the ball parks are.

But I feel like once you get to a certain age, maybe your corporate sponsorship, it's just sort of frozen in your mind.

Yeah.

You know, unless it's the ballpark that you go to that your team plays for maybe, but like T-Mobile is pretty much going to be safe go to me forever.

Probably it's it's kind of like at a certain age, you stop listening to new music or whatever.

And I think for me, that is ballpark names like I'm just going to keep calling them whatever they were called at a certain point.

And not update that at all because the nice thing about the Coliseum is that you can just call it the Coliseum.

And so you don't really have to know that it is the McCaffey Coliseum or the Oco Coliseum or whatever it is currently called Network Associates.

It was before McCaffey.

So now it's this new thing and I think I am probably never going to call it that.

They're obviously entitled to sell the rights and Ring Central.

Whatever it is is entitled to pay what the Azer asking to have their name on there.

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