10 Silliest Minor League Baseball Team Names

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- No offense, internet users, but you should not have any role whatsoever in naming a baseball team.

There seems to be a trend among minor league baseball teams -- some might call it an epidemic -- to turn to the web for help in coming up with new monikers. The result? We very well might end up with the Staten Island Pizza Rats, the Binghamton Stud Muffins, the New Orleans Baby Cakes and the Lynchburg Love Apples -- all are somehow finalists.

They would join this list of the most ridiculous names in minor league baseball.

Akron RubberDucks

No one was more excited when this team changed its name in 2014 than Ernie from "Sesame Street."

Cedar Rapids Kernels

This name is about as corny as it gets. So was that joke.

Lansing Lugnuts

We guess it's no more absurd than naming a basketball team the Pistons. Wait, yes it is.

Modesto Nuts

They grow a lot of nuts around that part of California. And it's not as though there's some other connotation of the word that opponents could use to tease the players.

Montgomery Biscuits

At home games, biscuits are shot out of a cannon to fans chanting, "Hey butter, butter, butter!" Seriously.

Reading Fightin Phils

Anyone else picturing a red-faced Phil Collins? No? Donohue? An ostrich?

Albuquerque Isotopes

This name was inspired by an episode of "The Simpsons" in which Homer goes on a hunger strike in an effort to keep the Springfield Isotopes from moving to Albuquerque. When the Calgary Cannons moved to New Mexico in 2002, two-thirds of Albuquerque Tribune online readers voted for the name. D'oh!

Traverse City Beach Bums

If some of the players don't show up for batting practice, you know where to find them.

El Paso Chihuahuas

That logo! Was this dog buried in a pet cemetery?

Fort Wayne TinCaps

At least they're guaranteed victories against mind readers.