Oklahoma City blunder

And we have a new entrant in the worst team name in North American sports competition. The team formerly known as the Seattle Supersonics is now known as the Oklahoma City Thunder. I've always hated team names that aren't plural; they seem cartoonish to me. And I like names that are geographically based, like the Seattle Supersonics, reflecting that area's connection to the world of aviation, with Boeing and all. The Oklahoma City Thunder simply reflects that the area has bad weather every now and then. I wonder what that's like.

The team trademarked six names, then waited until yesterday to pick one. They could have been (in alphabetical order) the Barons, Bison, Energy, Marshals, Thunder or Wind. None of those are very good, and we Clevelanders wouldn't like to see them named the Barons, because that's one of our old hockey names. But the Oklahoma City Marshals would have been a decent name.

It's incredible that the Thunder isn't the worst one they considered. The Energy? The Wind? Did they just open up a dictionary and pick whatever words their fingers landed on?