The Sugar Land Skeeters is the name, and, no, they're not affiliated with Major League Baseball.
Sugar Land is an independent team that, according to the club, has talent with past AA and AAA experience.
"I think having a team here will bring more excitement to like the town," Jessica Raack, a huge baseball fan, said.
A lot of buzz in town about the Skeeters' $35 million Constellation Field, which will be ready for Sugar Land's opening day against the York Revolution on Thursday, April 26.
"We're looking at season tickets for the four of us. [We're all] very excited. Baseball is a family game," said one fan.
Catching games off Highway 6 is a lot easier, for some, than driving to Minute Maid Park to watch the Astros.
"We don't have to battle with going downtown to Houston," Elizabeth & Isabella Macias, who live in Sugar Land, said.
"It's a lot closer [than driving on 59 North to Minute Maid Park]," Mynde Bruhn, a Skeeters baseball fan, said. "We'll make [it to] more games."
"Houston Astros: it's a wonderful team, but it's kind of a faraway thing," another baseball fan said. "For us, it's [all about being able to watch baseball in] Sugar Land. It's here in the city. We're from Sugar Land so we're looking forward to that."
The financial impact of fielding a team in Sugar Land is projected to pour millions into Fort Bend County, too.
"It's gonna be win-win all the way around," the Macias family said. "It's gonna be wonderful. It also provides employment for the people."
Skeeters, Southern slang for mosquitoes, is a fitting name considering the little pests will annoy all of us very soon.
The million dollar question: do you like the name Skeeters?
"Not really," said the Macias family with a big smile.
