[quote author=Ralphis link=topic=528.msg5315#msg5315 date=1321024892]<br />[quote author=ItalianStallion link=topic=528.msg5307#msg5307 date=1320967564]There was a poll and the majority of the league opted to choose their own name.[/quote]<br /><br />Nope. They didn&#039;t. Here are the numbers:<br /><br />[b]25[/b] (52.1%) Voted that team names should be league designated<br />[b]23[/b] (47.9%) Voted that captains should choose their own names<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Oh this is rich. It&#039;s disingenuous (and incorrect) to lump the first 3 options in the poll into 1 category of &quot;designated&quot;. The first two are pretty clearly board actions. We pick the names. I&#039;m willing to lump those together. The latter 2 are not board actions, as in the administration does not assign names. I&#039;m similarly willing to lump those together. The new (and more correct) statistics of that poll look like this:<br /><br />[b]20[/b] (41.67%) Voted that team names should be league designated<br />[b]28[/b] (58.3%) Voted that names shouldn&#039;t be league designated<br /><br />I would argue that your 21% discrepancy is rather large and in context of the previous statistics constitutes a landslide for &quot;not designated by the board&quot;. I do think how you framed the issue was cute though.<br /><br />Right now the board voted on team names being picked by captains and the voted passed with a 3/5ths majority. Bones has indicated that he will veto regardless of both board majority and [u][b]a clear[/b][/u] majority in the public opinion poll.<br /><br />I personally know of at least 2 veteran captains that are choosing not to captain on account of the prescribed team names. Whether or not we as a league care about that is up for discussion.