{"id":7694,"date":"2011-04-07T01:49:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T08:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=7694"},"modified":"2011-04-07T01:49:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T08:49:13","slug":"baseball-teams-and-cruise-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=7694","title":{"rendered":"Playing Games with Baseball Names"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By our count, there are only four major league baseball teams with names that form a natural connection to the sea \u2014 Marlins, Devil Rays, Mariners<\/em> and Pirates<\/em>. A natural connection should make for a natural association with a cruise line.<\/p>\n

One team already has it. One is thinking about it. The other two don’t fit, despite the names.<\/a><\/p>\n

Seattle Mariners<\/a> and Holland America<\/a> are now corporate business partners, an announcement<\/a> made yesterday. It makes sense. Even though “Mariner of the Seas<\/a>” is a ship that belongs to Royal Caribbean<\/a>, Holland America is based in Seattle<\/a>, so like the Mariners corporate community presence matters.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>For a price (undisclosed), the cruise line will have a private suite level named the Holland America Line Suite Deck, the Mariners will participate in a theme cruise every year, and Fan Appreciation Night at the end of the season will be sponsored by HAL. Together, the Mariners and Holland America will go to bat in a big way for breast cancer, already a pet cause of the cruise line.<\/p>\n

Diametrically across the country, near the other ocean, Florida Marlins<\/a> are entertaining bids for naming rights to their new stadium, due for completion next season. Among the candidates are two of the cruise lines based in Miami<\/a>, where the Marlins play: Royal Caribbean and Carnival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So in 2012, the Marlins could be playing in Carnival Stadium<\/em>, or Royal Caribbean Stadium<\/em> (or Stadium of the Seas, since all 22 Royal Caribbean ships are “of the Seas”). Local pundits \"\"<\/a>point out some glitches. Carnival’s Chairman Mickey Arison owns Miami’s basketball team, the Heat, and his moving into the baseball field is viewed as a longshot. Royal Caribbean has the wrong word (Royal) in its name, because of the Kansas City Royals<\/a>, and major league baseball might from on calling the new stadium\u00a0Royal<\/em> anything.<\/p>\n

In addition to our favorite, Stadium of the Seas<\/em>, there is another option. Celebrity Cruises<\/a> is also based in Miami, as part of the Royal Caribbean family, so Celebrity Stadium<\/em> would work, too.<\/p>\n

The other two teams?<\/p>\n

The Devil Rays<\/a>, like the Marlins, are named after a creature of the sea and, despite being on the Gulf of Mexico, are geographically undesirable. No cruise lines are in Tampa<\/a>, and few cruise ships stop for a visit.<\/p>\n

The Pirates<\/a> are in Pittsburgh, close to neither the water nor a cruise line. What cruise line would be interested in hooking up with pirates anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By our count, there are only four major league baseball teams with names that form a natural connection to the sea \u2014 Marlins, Devil Rays, Mariners and Pirates. A natural connection should make for a natural association with a cruise line. One team already has it. One is thinking about it. The other two don’t… Continue reading Playing Games with Baseball Names<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25,31,19,15],"tags":[154,71,578,579,51,86,35,580,23,581,33,582,583],"class_list":["post-7694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-people","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-carnival","tag-celebrity","tag-corporate-partners","tag-cruise-lines","tag-cruise-ports","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-florida-marlins","tag-holland-america","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-tampa-bay-devil-rays","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}