Talk:Pacific Coast League
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[edit] Teams Timeline
JCam, I restored the team name changes intentionally because of a number of reasons. 1) You left a number of team name changes anyway, so if we're going to do this, it should be consistent. 2) In at least one edit in which you kept in the name change, you "fixed" a date which contradicted the timeline. 3) Name changes more often than not reflect a change in affiliation (an in many cases, ownership or leadership) for the team, such as with the Tuscon Toros/Sidewinders change. Yes, Tacoma has a lot of name changes, but they are basically different teams. The Tacoma Rainiers have not been the Rainiers since 1966, they've only been the Rainiers since 1995. 4)All of these name changes are already reflected on the specific team pages, so to not reflect them on the timeline is simply ludicrous.
Yes, there are a lot of name changes, and the Timeline looks a bit busy, but if there is to be a timeline of team evolution, it has to fully reflect the histories of the teams. Minor League baseball is notorious for its instability. To try and gloss over that is a disservice to the entry. Coyote42 08:38, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
- What's the source for this timeline? It doesn't necessarily agree with all the articles - for example, the 1918 Sacramento Solons aren't mentioned in their article as being a continuation of the 1903-1917 Portland Beavers, but rather a replacement ("When Portland dropped out of the league after the 1917 season, a new Sacramento franchise was admitted to the PCL in 1918."). Taking another team's vacated place in the PCL isn't the same as being that team. I love this timeline, being able to chart franchise movements, but we need to source it carefully, especially the early days. SixFourThree (talk) 16:01, 15 April 2008 (UTC)SixFourThree
