Twitter and game hash tags
With the advent of the Twitter age, we’re going to try to post tweets by individual games this season. Starting with spring-training games, we’re adding a “hash tag” to game-specific tweets so that fans everywhere can read and provide commentary on individual games. You can read all of the related posts using Twitter’s search or by going to another aggregator, such as hashtags.org. We’re still experimenting with the syntax, but right now the plan is to go with the following format:
- yymmdd{3-letter visiting-team abbreviation}{3-letter home-team abbreviation}
So, for instance, yesterday’s game in which the Cardinals played the Mets was #090227slnnyn. Today’s game vs. the Nationals is #090228wassln.
Please let us know if you have any other ideas on syntax or question on how this works.
Three-letter team codes used by MLB Gameday:
| National League | American League | ||||
| East | Central | West | East | Central | West |
| phi | chn | lan | tba | cws | ana |
| nyn | mil | ari | bos | min | tex |
| flo | hou | col | nya | cle | oak |
| atl | sln | sfn | tor | kca | sea |
| was | cin | sdn | bal | det | |
| pit | |||||
March 9th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Late to the game here, but I’m confused by MLB’s 3-letter abbreviations. The Cubs are CHN, but the White Sox are CWS? How/why does that make any sense?
If it were up to me, every team would be two-letters city (or, to my personal annoyance, the state) followed by n or a, with no reference to the team mascot/nickname.
March 9th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I wish I had an answer for you. I’ll check with some MLB people who might know and get back to you.
As for your idea, it’s a very logical solution!