Regulators, mount up.
The official identify of Lengthy Seashore’s new minor league baseball workforce was introduced Tuesday together with the identify of its “alter ego”: the Lengthy Seashore Regulators. Each monikers have been revealed throughout Lengthy Seashore’s State of the Metropolis tackle.
Formally referred to as the Lengthy Seashore Coast, the brand new Pioneer League workforce is about to play beginning this season on the storied Blair Area, dwelling of Lengthy Seashore State’s baseball workforce, the Dirtbags.
“Alter egos are nothing new,” reads a text-only slideshow posted to the workforce’s Instagram on Tuesday. “Each week, Lengthy Seashore Coast will play as our alter ego. The Regulators.”
The identify, in fact, is a nod to workforce co-owner Warren G’s easy 1994 chart-topper “Regulate,” which additionally featured fellow Lengthy Seashore native the late Nate Dogg, and celebrates Lengthy Seashore’s G-funk hip-hop roots.
“To have the ability to say that I’m part of Lengthy Seashore, like a workforce that’s a part of town the place I used to be born and raised, is wonderful to me,” the rapper instructed TMZ in September. “We’re going to get it going and attempt to win some championships.”
A workforce spokesperson instructed the Lengthy Seashore Submit that the Regulators identify “will seem by choose in-ballpark experiences, particular activations, artistic storytelling and restricted merchandise drops.”
Lengthy Seashore has been dwelling to a few impartial minor league groups during the last 30 years. The Barracuda, later renamed the Riptide, in 1995-96, the Breakers in 2001-02 and the Armada in 2005-09.
The 11-team Pioneer League additionally consists of the Oakland Ballers, Modesto Roadster and Yuba-Sutter Excessive Wheelers, in addition to groups primarily based in Idaho, Montana and Utah.
