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New York Mets' Double-A Affiliate Releases Another Alternate Identity For 2025

The Binghamton Rumble Ponies, already a fun identity in its own right, will play as the Binghamton Spicy Meatballs for a series in August.
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The Binghamton Rumble Ponies lost their home opener, 5-2, to the New Hampshire Fisher Cats on Friday, April 5, 2024 at Mirabito Stadium in Binghamton, NY.
The Binghamton Rumble Ponies lost their home opener, 5-2, to the New Hampshire Fisher Cats on Friday, April 5, 2024 at Mirabito Stadium in Binghamton, NY. | Jeff Miller / Special to the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin / USA TODAY NETWORK

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The Binghamton Rumble Ponies, the Double-A affiliate of the New York Mets, have revealed another alternate identity for the 2025 season.

The group will play as the "Binghamton Spicy Meatballs" from Aug. 14 to 16.

From a team-issued press release:

Binghamton’s newest name is inspired by the rich Italian Heritage found not only in Binghamton, but throughout the Southern Tier region; specifically Endicott, NY. In the early days of Endicott, NY an area known as the “North Side,” was huge with Italian roots. Many of the Italian immigrants moving to the region worked at a shoe factory known as Endicott-Johnson. However, local property owners wouldn't sell land to Italian Immigrants, so Endicott-Johnson purchased properties for their employees and along the cobblestone streets of Endicott grew the vibrant community of Little Italy with fantastic food destinations. Some of those restaurants remain to this day on Oak Hill Avenue.

Their uniforms will be in the colors of the Italian flag -- red, white and green -- and the primary logo is a meatball that resembles an Italian gondolier holding a fork as a baseball bat.

The Rumble Ponies also will play a handful of games this season as the "Southern Tier Shortcakes," which is part of a rivalry series they are having with the Double-A Somerset Patriots.

The Rumble Ponies will open up the season on April 4, one week after the Mets open up the major leauge season on March 27.

According to the popular "X" account @MiLBPromos, the Spicy Meatballs gear is already for sale on the Rumble Ponies website.

Take a look at the post below:

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is the senior writer for “Minor League Baseball on SI’’ and the host of “The Payoff Pitch’’ podcast, which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. Follow Brady on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady.

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