{"id":156079,"date":"2018-10-22T07:44:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T12:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=156079"},"modified":"2018-10-22T07:45:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T12:45:19","slug":"after-84-years-chiefs-moniker-leaves-syracuse-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=156079","title":{"rendered":"After 84 years &#8220;Chiefs&#8221; moniker leaves Syracuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-156080\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Syracuse-Mets-logol.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"141\" \/>SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) &#8211; The Syracuse Chiefs have a new name and a new commitment to stay put.<\/p>\n<p>The Triple A team will now be known as the Syracuse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/new-york-mets\/\">Mets<\/a>, a decision that comes after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/new-york-mets\/\">New York Mets<\/a> purchased the team last year.<\/p>\n<p>The team was known as the Chiefs for 84 years, a record number of years for a nickname for a minor league baseball team.<\/p>\n<p>The new name was announced Tuesday, when state and local officials announced a $26 million stadium renovation plan. Under the deal, the team agrees to remain in Syracuse for at least 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>New York state and Onondaga County will each pitch in $12.5 million for the renovations to NBT Bank Stadium. The city of Syracuse will contribute more than $1 million.<a name=\"pagebreak\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/new-york-mets\/\">Mets<\/a> fan, spoke at the announcement wearing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/new-york-mets\/\">Mets<\/a> jacket that belonged to his father, the late Gov. Mario Cuomo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) &#8211; The Syracuse Chiefs have a new name and a new commitment to stay put. The Triple A team will now be known as the Syracuse Mets, a decision that comes after the New York Mets purchased the team last year. The team was known as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156082,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156079\/revisions\/156082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/156080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}