Did you ever try to go to some baseball team's website by typing in their nickname followed by ".com," only to discover that that team doesn't have the right to that web address? I remember this happening in the early 2000s when I'd try to get tickets to see the Red Sox in Baltimore. I'd type "orioles.com" and it would always be some weird site about alcohol or vacations or something--I don't remember exactly. Remember, this was in the days when all the MLB sites weren't linked up; you couldn't just go to one site and click the drop-down menu for the list of all the other teams' sites. (I liked it better when each team's site had its own personality.)

Anyway, the O's have long since solved their problem, which I'm sure many teams used to have. But there are some teams who still don't own "[theirnickname].com." Here are those unlucky eight:

1. Twins.com takes you to a site run by two people (who I assume are twins), Durland & Darvin Miller. It's just one page which tells you the site is under construction, and gives their contact info. I wonder if they're still waiting for that call from the Twins to see if they'll sell. The only other thing on there besides their crude logo is a little counter which shows two and a half million hits...

2. Cardinals.com is one of those weird search sites that has specific searches for birds and bird-related stuff.

3. Rockies.com is a tourist site with info on both the American and Canadian Rocky Mountains. With expansion teams, there's a chance the site was there before the team even existed. The Rockies probably went in thinkin', "we're probably not gonna get rockies.com..."

4. Athletics.com just links to a page that says "bad request (invalid hostname)." Put in a "www," though, and you get a login screen for something called "NetAthletics," a division of "SelliQuest."

5. Giants.com was scooped up by the New York football Giants before the baseball team could get their hands on it, it appears.

6. Rangers.com was not grabbed by the New York Rangers, but the Texas club couldn't get it either, as it's an Oxide.com search page.

7. Devilrays.com still links you to the team's site, but they're officially called the Rays now. Rays.com was taken by a restaurant in Seattle, though. Tough shit, Tampa.

8. Finally, the coolest one, angels.com. Just click there and check it out. Some dude from South Korea owns it, and the Angels tried to screw him over! The guy just won't give in, and has the law on his side.

All these teams can also be reached by their full name, like, oaklandathletics.com will take you to their site. Actually, I haven't typed all those in, maybe some teams don't own their full city name and nickname dot com. But like I said, all the MLB sites are linked together, so you really only need to find one and you've found them all. Or, you know, just do a search on the team name. But I still think it's cool that some people have these sites and refuse to sell!