What's in a Name: Vermont Lake Monsters

by Vermont Cubs Fan on Dec 24, 2009 3:33 PM CST

The border between Vermont and New York State is set at Lake Champlain. Over a period of many years, there have been numerous sightings of, well, something in the lake.

A video of the something.

The creature is rumored to be a dinosaur, and has been given the nickname Champ. He also serves as the mascot of the Vermont Lake Monsters and is often more entertaining than the game.

Showing us how to do an air guitar. Be sure to turn down your computer's volume.

This creature is, in Vermont, approaching the same rumor status as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster have in much of the world.

Do I believe Champ exists?

To be honest, I don't know what to believe, and I live here in Vermont! Every time I think Champ doesn't exist, I see something that apparently shows he is real, and every time I think he is real, I see or come across some proof that he is, in fact, a fantasy.

Poll

After watching the first video, do you believe Champ exists?

Yes

12 votes

No

12 votes

24 votes | Poll has closed

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this is what the AHL's

Lake Erie Monsters are named after right?

baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out

by Cubbie-Tim on Dec 24, 2009 4:14 PM CST reply actions

Remember getting to see

them play a couple of year’s back. The game itself was quite boring but they had a nice really old ball park. Also, I think they were still called the Expos then.

by Liverpoolcubsfan on Dec 24, 2009 5:50 PM CST reply actions

Wouldn't surprise me.

They didn’t change their name until after the Expos left Montreal.

They nearly left Vermont last year, Centennial has really decayed and even Wrigley is probably in better shape these days.

Bound for New York City: January 6-9! Can't wait!

by Vermont Cubs Fan on Dec 24, 2009 7:40 PM CST up reply actions

I saw a wonderful extra-inning game at Centennial Field that was called during play when the sprinkler system popped up a soaked everything. The groundskeepers had already left.

Visiting teams dressed on their bus. It was a Cincinnati affiliate back then.

Numbers may not lie, but they don’t tell the whole truth (and nothing but the truth), either. -- Doug Glanville

by leothelip on Dec 24, 2009 10:14 PM CST reply actions

by Vermont Cubs Fan on Dec 29, 2009 12:23 PM CST up reply actions

2 years/$20M then

I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures.
~Earl Warren

by lookingdeadred on Dec 29, 2009 1:13 PM CST reply actions