The New York Mets Double-A affiliate, the Binghamton Rumble Ponies, aren’t horsing around about a fun new change to their team name for the 2025 season.
The Rumble Ponies announced on Monday that they would adopt a new name, the Bathtub Donkeys, for two games this year in humorous reference to a New York state law relating to—you guessed it—donkeys in bathtubs.
The Rumble Ponies will officially become the Bathtub Donkeys on June 28 (playing against the Portland Sea Dogs) and July 30 (playing against the Harrisburg Senators).
Mets Double-A affiliate Binghamton Rumble Ponies will become the Binghamton Bathtub Donkeys for certain games next season
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) January 13, 2025
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Splish Splash, we were taking a bath. 🛁🫏https://t.co/6UGg14a8kR pic.twitter.com/Ky2qVQYnfN
— Binghamton Rumble Ponies (@RumblePoniesBB) January 13, 2025
Apparently, New York lawmakers of past generations put into effect a blue law stating that donkeys could not sleep in bathtubs.
It's widely rumored that the law is based on a bizarre case in which a donkey fell asleep in a bathtub, and then the bathtub washed away during a flood down a river. Locals had to haul the donkey back home and decided to sign a law to prevent the sort of thing from ever happening again.
One could probably assume that such a strange incident wouldn’t occur again for many, many more years in human history, but you know what they say about assumptions…
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This article was originally published on www.si.com as Mets Minor League Team Adopting New Team Name Based on Obscure Donkey Law.
