The best team name in minor league baseball is...

Minor league sports teams are, by definition, inferior to their major league counterparts in almost every way. The skill level, funding, venue, coaching and much more at the Major League Baseball level is always better than their farm teams.

There is one exception to the rule - team names. The creativity of those small market teams have produced some of the best mascots and names in the sports world.

There’s the Lansing Lugnuts (Class A, Toronto Blue Jays), Montgomery Biscuits (Class AA, Tampa Bay Rays) and Modesto Nuts (Class A, Colorado Rockies). All are actual minor league baseball teams with full rosters, schedules and mascots.

The creativity is in full swing in the Aiken-Augusta area with both the Augusta GreenJackets and Aiken Foxhounds. Starting today, those names are being put to the test.

CNBC.com’s Darren Rovell has put together the top 64 team names in minor league baseball. In true March Madness fashion, the teams have been seeded 1 through 16 and will duke it out through the rest of the month.

Both the GreenJackets and Foxhounds made the field. The Foxhounds are a No. 3 seed. The GreenJackets came in as a No. 12 seed.

Voting began today for the first five matchups and will end Tuesday at 9 a.m. Among them, the No. 12 Augusta GreenJackets are facing the No. 5 Lake Elsinore Storm. With just over 500 votes cast by early afternoon, the GreenJackets were well on their way to an upset.

The first-round action will continue on Tuesday and will include the No. 3 Aiken Foxhounds facing the No. 14 New Hampshire Fisher Cats.

Obviously, the poll is about as unscientific as it gets. The team with the most dedicated and computer-savvy season ticket holders will most likely win it all, but it is fun to look at the crazy names and their mascots.

There’s the Casper Ghosts, the Kansas City T-Bones and the Jamestown Jammers, whose mascot appears to be a highly angered grape.

Check on the tournament’s status at www.darrenrovell.com.