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Opps, my bad then. Sorry about that.

Either way, I would not pay $100K to change my teams name. Maybe $10K, but not $100K. That money is just too valuable to me. Plus, I love my team name. It has a lot of meaning to me and where I come from.

Thumbs up if you quickly read his team name after reading this quote :P

Plus, I love my team name.

Happy Season 19 :)

I've used the team name Harlan Hillbillies in a fantasy baseball league ever since 1991. I'm very proud of where I'm from.

I'm from a small town in Kentucky called Harlan Co. It's one of the most famous little towns in the USA. The movie Justified is based on Harlan Co.

But we are most well known as BLOODY HARLAN......... google it if you don't believe me......... because our coal miners went on strike and when people crossed the picket lines, the miners would kill them. It's a fact that some men went underground in the coal mines after crossing the picket line, and never came out. Nobody ever found out what happened to them. But we all know, they took them underground and buried them there. Or cut them up and fed them to the pigs.

If you want to see something amazing, go to YouTube.com and look up the movie trailer HARLAN CO. USA. The trailer is like 3 minutes long, and I gauratee you, you watch it, you'll want to see the movie. Well, the movie Harlan Co. USA is also on YouTube for free. You'll see men fire guns at each other, on film, for trying to cross the picket line. You'll also see women carrying guns. You'll also see how we lived here, not that long ago, without running water and indoor plumbing.

Would you believe that in 2001, I still lived in a home without running water and without a toilet? We used the bathroom in an outhouse. And this was only 10 years ago.

There's also a famous song by Brad Paisley called You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive.

Most people would not be proud to live where we do, or how we do, but life is so much simpler here. We don't have crime, because everyones owns a gun and will shoot you in a heartbeat. We leave our doors wide open at night. You don't worry about someone coming into your home, because people are not that brave.

If you ever want to see something truly amazing, just watch the trailer to the movie Harlan Co., USA.

For anyone who is interested, watch this 3 minute clip on YouTube.

I guarantee you, this is a world that most of you never knew existed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCiVMngILEI

Some really unique stuff there. I wouldn't have thought that there wouldn't be a place like this, but this is certainly a surprise :)

If you watched the video, you see those guys going into the coal mines. People really have no clue what it's really like. THey think it's just a hole you go in. They don't realize you go sometimes a mile or two underground. And it takes hours to get there and back outside. And when there is a rock fall or a cave in, many times they just seal it up and leave the bodies underground because there is no way to get them out. We've got mines that are sealed up with 20 or more bodies in it. I'm sure some times men are left underground who are alive. But there's just no way to get them out.

And in that video, you may wonder why people would live in those houses with no water and no heat. Well, when you worked for the mines, you didn't get paid cash. They gave you a house to live in and store credit at the company store. If you needed milk and bread, you bought it from the company store on your credit you got for working in the mines. You didn't get to go to any store you wanted, you had to go to just that one.

I'm only 41 years old, and I remember working from 5 a.m. until 7 or 8 p.m. in the mines for $150 a week. And that was a lot of money here in 1988. We're talking about $3 per hour plus your food and house was free.

No running water, but by golly theyll get you your internet....only in america

We finally got running water here in 2001............. we only got internet 4 or 5 months ago, and that was only through satelite. We still have no cable TV or any of that in our area. And I live only 12 miles from the biggest county in Kentucky.

We have the strangest septic system I've ever seen. We do not have septic tanks. We do not have city sewer. Instead, it's called a Lagoon, and you basically dig a pond a few hundred feet from your home and when you flush your toilet, it runs out into this pond-like body of water. There's something in the ground that catches the solids and just lets the fluids run out the other end. Still, very nasty if you ask me.

Dayum.