was even the name Rapides chosen at first for this event since one of the new owner, Rick Anderson is president of “Rapidz Sports and Entertainment”? but since they weren’t sure the deal would go through, was it planned so they have chosen an interim name close enough to do the transition when the deal would be done?

anyway, the new owners have interesting ideas:

http://www.ottawasun.com/Sports/Baseball/2008/04/29/5415226-sun.html

not to do the move of selling the team in this circumstances would have a sign of Bush Leagues but now, on the contrary, we have dedicated owners

I still regret the blue logo but I supported the red Lynx uniform for so long, I can still live with something close to it

I think it is especially important that we now have local owners. I know nothing of the company nor its executives but I like what I read in Tuesdays papers. The new Logo depticted in the news is much nicer than the scripted “Ottawa Rapidz” shown on this blog. The elimination of the two names: “Rapids & Rapides” is another excellent change.

The bottom line is when you buy something for $750,000 it gives you the right to make changes. I wish the new owners well & hope all local baseball fans support this team by showing up at the ball park.

Any ideas?

First, if the new Z website was up, it’s not right now, just a few hours after André put up the link. By the way, I checked and that domain name was registered by Momentous two weeks ago.

So I guess that makes it official although I have yet to see this new site and no mention on the old one or the Can-Am league site.

Lol! I couldn’t have said it better.

“Mr. Wolff also proudly revealed the new blue and silver Rapidz logo, which features a bilingual version of the team name (Ottawa Rapidz d’Ottawa) above a stylized baseball.”

This is just depressing. “Rapids” or “Rapides” are good names. “Rapidz” sounds like a Giant Tiger brand of $7.99 skater shoes.

And yeah, it is just a name, but the point is that it demonstrates a certain disregard for the fans and a pronounced self-interest on the part of the owners. Not that there is anything wrong with self interested ownership necessarily, but we just don’t feel like dropping the money on season’s tickets now that we know that they’re planning to use the team as a marketing vehicle for their antiquated DVD rental business.

Blerg.

but today, looking at it, it ain’t that bad

for the name “Rapidz”, to me it’s bilingual enough, it is a mistake in french and in english, no issue there

(for the name Rapids and Rapides, the original plan was to play one day with a jersey with the french version and the other day with the english version, which was an original solution but now, with the new name, we forget about it)

anyway, we must give the benefit of the doubt to the new owners, anyway, besides a couple of baseball nuts, I don’t think the city was aware of the first logo so it was still time to change it

with local owners, if they are serious, our chances of having a long story with the new team are better, remember, it came close to having no more baseball

Since they give us Rick Anderson’s email address, I’ll fire off an email to him.