Of course Long Beach's new pro baseball team will also be known as the Regulators

Regulators, equine up.

The authoritative sanction of Long Beach’s caller insignificant league shot squad was announced Tuesday on with the sanction of its “alter ego”: the Long Beach Regulators. Both monikers were revealed during Long Beach’s State of the City address.

Officially known arsenic the Long Beach Coast, the caller Pioneer League squad is acceptable to play starting this play astatine the storied Blair Field, location of Long Beach State’s shot team, the Dirtbags.

“Alter egos are thing new,” reads a text-only slideshow posted to the team’s Instagram connected Tuesday. “Every week, Long Beach Coast volition play arsenic our change ego. The Regulators.”

The name, of course, is simply a motion to squad co-owner Warren G’s creaseless 1994 chart-topper “Regulate,” which besides featured chap Long Beach autochthonal the precocious Nate Dogg, and celebrates Long Beach’s G-funk hip-hop roots.

“To beryllium capable to accidental that I’m a portion of Long Beach, similar a squad that’s portion of the metropolis wherever I was calved and raised, is astonishing to me,” the rapper told TMZ successful September. “We’re going to get it going and effort to triumph immoderate championships.”

A squad spokesperson told the Long Beach Post that the Regulators sanction “will look done prime in-ballpark experiences, peculiar activations, originative storytelling and constricted merchandise drops.”

Long Beach has been location to 3 autarkic insignificant league teams implicit the past 30 years. The Barracuda, aboriginal renamed the Riptide, successful 1995-96, the Breakers successful 2001-02 and the Armada successful 2005-09.

The 11-team Pioneer League besides includes the Oakland Ballers, Modesto Roadster and Yuba-Sutter High Wheelers, arsenic good arsenic teams based successful Idaho, Montana and Utah.