The Hillsboro huh?
The new minor league baseball team on the west side of Portland is going to be named after a vegetable:
Shades of the Stanford tree!
Our grandfather, who used to refer to any person he didn't like as a "hop in the a*s," would surely be amused.
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Comments (29)
Vegetable? I thought it was a verb.
Posted by reader | October 16, 2012 6:13 PM
Let's go to the Hops
Let's go to the Hops
Aaaaah aaaah
Let's go to the Hops
Posted by reader | October 16, 2012 6:26 PM
Where is the bunny in the logo?
Posted by It's Mike | October 16, 2012 6:30 PM
Looks like an evil, unripe strawberry.
Posted by Pom Mom of LO | October 16, 2012 7:04 PM
I'm sure they paid a design firm thousands of dollars to scrape up this dreck. I'm beginning to have almost no faith in the decision making process around Oregon Government
Posted by Mike Reddin | October 16, 2012 7:12 PM
The color is right and I like the logo. So, although I may stand in the minority let me be the first to order a hat. Here's to hoping the team representative (note that I didn't say mascot) is a babe with a beer in her hand.
Posted by gibby | October 16, 2012 7:12 PM
What a stupid name.
Posted by Carol | October 16, 2012 7:19 PM
no faith in the decision making process around Oregon Government
The decision was by the team, not the city -- right?
Posted by Jack Bog | October 16, 2012 7:53 PM
Carol wins with the truth
Posted by ron89 | October 16, 2012 7:54 PM
Idiots. There's an "e" after the "p" in the word "Hopes". Can't they even use a basic spell-checker?
Posted by Max | October 16, 2012 8:02 PM
Seriously, how bad were the second and third choices if Hops won? And if they were going to choose a food item, it should have been: HillsBurritoes! Not PC, but at least it has been the city nickname for years.
Posted by Pom Mom of LO | October 16, 2012 8:14 PM
It's a vegetable whose most prominent use is as as ingredient of beer -- a good choice for a baseball team.
Posted by Isaac Laquedem | October 16, 2012 8:22 PM
Hillsboro Mazzioti's would have been my choice.
Posted by Mister Tee | October 16, 2012 8:25 PM
PomMom, you mean "Boroitoes"?
Posted by lw | October 16, 2012 8:26 PM
I googled "Hillsboro Hops" and sent emails to the "Hopsters" expressing my informed view of their name choice.
Posted by Carol | October 16, 2012 8:28 PM
The Hillsboro Haggs would have been better.
Or The Hillsboro Hills?
Hillsboro Hangers
Hillsboro Ballers
Hillsboro Burros
Hillsboro Silicones
Posted by Baseball Mom | October 16, 2012 9:01 PM
I kinda' like it -- And I'm a negative ol' curmudgeon. It's just a ball club! If you wanna' bash the so-called design professionals, get the folks who made the new logo for Xerox. And AT&T..., er excuse me, at&t. THEY are the clowns who command seven figures for their "talents." (Angry strawberry, heh heh heh)
Posted by Old Zeb | October 16, 2012 9:12 PM
The mascot reminds me of Oscar from Sesame Street.
Posted by Erik H. | October 16, 2012 9:17 PM
I thought all of the hops are grown in the Woodburn/Mt. Angel area. Hillsboro Fabs? Hillsboro H1-Bs? Hillsboro Pentiums?
Posted by Usual Kevin | October 17, 2012 12:33 AM
I like it. Baseball and beer, beer and the Pacific Northwest. I feel like Pyramid/MacTarnahan's, Bridgeport, Weinhard's, Widmer and Mcmenamin's should all want to be there. Maybe Deschutes and Rogue too.
An Intel name would've fit, but I say let them pay to put their name around the stadium.
I have no doubt there will be radio/TV ads with "Lets go to the Hops (oh baby)."
Posted by Stanton | October 17, 2012 12:55 AM
PS the city of Hillsboro's new nickname is "The Hills'"
Posted by stanton | October 17, 2012 12:59 AM
Why not Hillsboro (silicon) Chips?
Posted by PDX Grace | October 17, 2012 4:32 AM
Hillsboro Commuters!
Posted by Mister Tee | October 17, 2012 6:06 AM
I like it! Nice logo too.
Posted by Jon | October 17, 2012 6:59 AM
The "Fighting Artichokes" did it first! Chose a vegetable as their mascot, that is.
http://www.scottsdalecc.edu/
Posted by Frank | October 17, 2012 8:16 AM
From the looks of the mascot, it must be a sour beer...
Posted by Tim | October 17, 2012 8:21 AM
Now I need a beer to go with my hamburger. ..but folks, these aren't vegetables in the same way that tomatoes aren't vegetables.
http://www.herbs2000.com/herbs/herbs_hops.htm
Posted by Eastsider | October 17, 2012 5:42 PM
Little good can come of this.
Are their fans going to be Hop-Heads?
Batboys and batgirls will be Little Hoppers.
Posted by Downtown Denizen | October 17, 2012 7:53 PM
Fans with a knowledge of Greek history and a taste for Miller might form a club and call themselves the Hoplites.
Posted by Isaac Laquedem | October 18, 2012 9:34 PM