{"id":46792,"date":"2020-01-09T21:32:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T01:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46792"},"modified":"2020-08-12T21:32:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T01:32:51","slug":"lol-good-riddance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46792","title":{"rendered":"lol good riddance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In short<\/a>: SunTrust Park begins removing all traces of SunTrust identity on account of merger with BB&T and the re-naming of the company<\/span><\/p>\n

I know that at the root of it, ScumTrust is not truly dead, but still in existence under a different name, merged with another company, but damn does it feel nice to know that the logo that I was so familiar with during my tenure and eventual layoff with ScumTrust is being wiped from existence.\u00a0 Especially from the ballpark, of my preferred team, that I was so diametrically opposed to from the onset, for a variety of reasons, including the fact that they were named \u201cScumTrust Park.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the fact that ScumTrust isn\u2019t truly dead, the fact that they\u2019ve completely lost their identity and headquarters, ScumTrust is pretty much dead.\u00a0 In short time, few people will remember the ScumTrust identity, and only the corporate stooges who have to take an orientation class will actually ever hear of the name ScumTrust in the future.\u00a0 Even shorter will be the time it takes before cranky customers bitch about how shitty of a bank Truist is, and then it\u2019s only a matter of time before Bank of America or Wells Fargo consumes them too.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think my favorite part about the whole saga is that it wasn\u2019t that long ago in 2014 in which ScumTrust signed a 25-year contract to the naming rights of the ballpark that would soon become ScumTrust Park.\u00a0 Six years, in a 25-year contract, and although the terms of the contract have not been necessarily severed, the fact that ScumTrust\u2019s name is coming off of the entire property might as well be the same thing as the whole contract being dead in the water.<\/span><\/p>\n

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ScumTrust didn\u2019t sign that contract necessarily knowing that they weren\u2019t going to be the name on the by the time 2039 rolled around; no, they signed the deal hoping that not only would they become an iconic ballpark like Fenway Park or Wrigley Field; but instead, they\u2019ve been relegated to the single-serving naming that\u2019s more akin with the herky-jerky fly-by-night naming of a minor league park, by Joe Schmoe\u2019s HVAC company that happened to have the most amount of money to burn in order to get some advertising space.<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, I think I\u2019ll feel more at ease going to baseball games in the future, especially now that the ScumTrust name won\u2019t be anywhere in the park by the time the park is open for business again.\u00a0 Inevitably, I knew I\u2019d end up going to a game or two, in spite of my insistence that I wouldn\u2019t, because of the name.\u00a0 I did end up going to two total games since they\u2019ve been open, but I didn\u2019t pay for tickets each time, so ironically, I successfully kept my word in that I wasn\u2019t going to pay to go to a single game as long as the ScumTrust name were on the building.<\/span><\/p>\n

Afterall, once my kid shows up, it\u2019ll be mandatory that I get my photos of my baby at her very first ballgame.\u00a0 It\u2019ll be that much sweeter knowing that it\u2019ll be at a place not having ScumTrust\u2019s name on it anywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In short: SunTrust Park begins removing all traces of SunTrust identity on account of merger with BB&T and the re-naming of the company I know that at the root of it, ScumTrust is not truly dead, but still in existence under a different name, merged with another company, but damn does it feel nice to … Continue reading lol good riddance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,62,45,52,12],"class_list":["post-46792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-ballparks","tag-baseball","tag-fail","tag-owned","tag-scumtrust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46794,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46792\/revisions\/46794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}