There was no miner any little known, had three sons all fully grown.

When the time came to make at its will, all he had left was a little grist mill.

A single baldig a diol, baldig a dame.

He called him as elder son, said son, oh son, my race is run.

If I'm a maleer of your name, pray tell me what told you to take.

Hello and welcome to episode 1639 of Effectively Wild a Fangirls baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh a fangirls and I'm joined as always by Ben Lindberger the Ringer. Ben how are you?

Doing okay, how are you?

Doing okay.

I went on a little rant recently, qualifies as a rant by my standards of the ballpark naming and corporate sponsorships and how I'm just not going to bother to remember the new names when they changed now.

That was prompted by the Oakland Coliseum getting yet another new name.

It's the Ring Central Coliseum now and I've already forgotten what you told me Ring Central was.

I've endeavored to forget that that is even the name of the ballpark, but there's another new name that we need to know or maybe don't need to know at all for the 2021 season.

And it's that Miller Park is no longer officially Miller Park.

What?

Yeah, American institution of Miller Park is now renamed American Family Field.

Apparently this happened last year, but it didn't go into effect until January 1st of 2021.

So Miller Park is no more except in our memories and maybe in our minds and our hearts.

So the gist of that earlier conversation was that we're not necessarily obligated to update our mental maps of the ballpark.

We don't have to call it by these new names if you're a broadcaster who works for the team, you probably should if you're a reporter who is describing the game action and want to be factual about where the game's taking place.

You should probably say the name, but we don't have to refer to it that way.

And so if it's the Coliseum, then it's handy because you can just call it the Coliseum.

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