When the summer time collegiate Clinton LumberKings introduced earlier this month that they deliberate to make use of the Shadflies identify for Friday night time video games this season, followers instantly acknowledged the April Idiot’s joke. Shadflies, additionally known as mayflies, are short-lived flying bugs that stay close to waterways such because the Mississippi River, which flows proper previous the LumberKings’ baseball subject on the river.
The joke landed on the workforce when followers responded that the workforce ought to proceed with the alternate model. Lower than two weeks after April Idiot’s Day, the LumberKings introduced that they’d certainly take the sphere this season because the Shadflies. (It is notable that if the LumberKings had been nonetheless affiliated, it could have taken properly over a 12 months to finish the approval course of to make this occur.)
“The suggestions actually blew us away,” LumberKings common supervisor Nate Vander Bleek mentioned on the workforce’s web site. “If you get such a optimistic response, it’s important to give the individuals what they need.”
The workforce has but to announce when the theme night time will happen, however the Prospect League season begins on Might 28.