The Dodgers Mistakenly Gave Their Minor League Team A New Name That Translates To "Jerk Offs", Which Is Actually Kinda Genius When You Think About It
LA Times- Chaqueta is the Spanish word for jacket. But it also has another meaning that is, let’s just say, NSFW. The word can also be slang for masturbation. The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes were unaware of the word’s second meaning when they chose the nickname Chaquetas for Minor League Baseball’s Copa de la Diversión series this season. The Dodgers’ single-A minor league affiliate has decided to stick with Chaquetas as their name during their three Copa events this season — but only after a few tense hours following their announcement of the moniker Thursday morning.
“We went live at 10 o’clock and we’re so excited,” Grant Riddle, Quakes executive vice president and general manager, told The Times in a phone interview Friday. “You know, we’ve been working for this for two years, gone through this extensive process, all of that. And then we started to get some comments that we didn’t understand.”
And through all of that, Riddle said, the team never heard anything about the slang definition of chaquetas. But folks on social media were quick to point it out Thursday morning, causing the Quakes to remove all of its announcements regarding the name from social media for a few hours while they went through an expedited version of the vetting process all over again.
Here's the defintion for Chaqueta in Urban Dictionary, with some WILD examples of using it in a sentence.
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So this story has been gaining some traction, with the Dodgers getting dunked on for making such a glaring mistake. But I don't get the hate. Do you know how hard it is for minor league baseball teams to gain any type of notoriety in today's world? It's hard enough for Major League Baseball teams to make news considering the biggest story from Spring Training was that you could see more of your favorite baseball player than you ever wanted to.
The only time you hear about a minor league baseball team these days is when one of them offers some zaaaaaaaany promotion, like giving free tickets to anyone with the same first name as someone trending on Twitter or some shit. How wacky! Don't get me wrong, I love taking my kids to minor league games because it is 1000% more entertaining than a MLB game for 1/1000th the price. But I feel like the only point of minor league teams these days is to develop your organizations players and chip in as much money as you can to the big league club.
Which is why it is so important in this day and age to separate yourself from the pack. If that means naming your team Los Jerk Offs, so be it. At least people will not only pay attention but also may pay some money for your gear. I don't know how things work in today's world, but when I was growing up, the hottest hats in school were ones that had some sort of connection to sex.
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If a hat that translates to Jerk Offs still moves the needle as much as those hats did in the 90s, the Chaquetas won't be able to stock them fast enough. Also can you imagine if Shohei Ohtani has to go to the minors on some rehab assignment and is a Jerk Off for a week? His Rancho Cucamonga jersey will instantly be more legendary than anything he wore in Anaheim.
Baseball is fun and so is jerking off (not at the same time though, that would be weird). So shout out to the Dodgers for steering into the skid of a NSFW name, unlike the cowardly Magic who deleted this tweet minutes after posting it.