In case you ever wondered why you’re cheering for a group of young bears, Northern statesmen, or tiny birds, here’s a Venn diagram of baseball team names and their etymology.
[I really can’t summarize this link better than Ainsley Drew has at kottke.org, so I’m just quoting her and taking the opportunity to mention that I’ve added a custom field to Movable Type for link attribution. It’s not visible in the RSS feed but you can see a “via” link in the footer of relevant posts.
Update: after some quick research, I’ve added a link item to my Atom feed with rel="via". I don’t know how newsreader clients will respond, but it’s in there.]