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I was going through all the Major Leage team site articles on Chinese Wikipedia, updating each team's list of minor league affiliates. The listings are in English and Chinese; they are all most of them up to date; I think I have to disambiguate in regards to the San Bernardino 66er's, as their double affiliation didn't seem easy for me to make a note of in Chinese. I checked every team's page and had the opportunity to take a look at a lot of lists and sites of minor league teams, on the English Wikipedia, in doing this work. There are some interesting teams in the land. The Burlington Royals, in North Carolina, not to be confused with the Burlington Bees, I believe it is, in Iowa, have the most supernally serene baseball website. There is a minor league team that has always sold fishing licenses instead of tickets, to the games, at the "ticket window". And this team looks good for some reason, in the Northwest League, it is a San Francisco Giants farm team, in Class A.

So, it seems there are two AAA leagues, the International League in the East and the Pacific Coast League in the West. The Pacific Coast League includes the New Orleans team, the farm team of the NY Mets; it is difficult to figure even accounting for the fact that once when leaves the Northeast the country has a lot to do with looking westward.

I think, if things settle down around here, in terms of games like today's, the 6-5 win over Baltimore featuring the 6-run 9th inning, I will have the freedom and opportunity to take a look at updating all the rosters over at Chinese Wikipedia. At this point every MLB team has a page, most of them are kind of long; not very many minor league teams have pages. Most of the teams I looked at had schedules from after the end of last season, so there are some changes to be made; I added "J.D. Drew to the Boston page before realizing the scope of the work to do; it is one of those typical wikiprojects that one accomplishes over a short period of 3 or 4 days of work, working a couple of hours a day, when one is in the right mood to get it done; this kind of work goes fast when one sets one's own pace. Of course it's not like jotting down the names on a piece of notebook paper; the work should be of encyclopedic quality, and there is a lot of Chinese involved; and if one has a question about unfamiliar teams and names, as definitely happens a lot, one must double check it, as that is the responsibility level one works at when doing encylopedia work.

Unlike in Japan, and on the Japanese Wikipedia, the Chinese seem to use "3A" and "2A" insteaad of AAA and AA. I was wondering why; there is probably some obvious answer, like perhaps the idea that AA looks like Chinese words that don't provide a proptius vocabulary environment for the baseball teams, or something like that. Maybe if someone named "Heidi Blankenship" was on the short list to become the first female NFL commissioner or assistant commissioner; some kind of name confusion. AA does look like a word, anyway. I was thinking about this repeatedly as I went from site to site, going through all 30 major league teams on zh wikipedia. It's like, one might hear the question: "Why is it 3A and 2A?", which is a question that is a lot like "Why is it "Texas League" and "Florida State League"?, in the minor league list. I guess "Florida League" sounds like the phrase "Florid, dull [and] eager", while "Florida State League" sounds more like "Flora Dust 8 League" or "Flora Dust Tull", which makes me think of my mom spritzing the plants in the house during the dry winter season; Jethro Tull himself was an agronomist and agricultural goods inventor; it is kind of a cool name. This situation is similar to AA and 2A in China.