With the nickname already a bust, I was hoping for something more than a disturbing amount of orange. And it's very hard to make pigs look and sound menacing when most people associate them with this and this. Or, God forbid, this. Yet it could have been a lot worse:
''We went from a cartoon [character] to a kind of a robotic pig; at one time we had more of a Porky Pig-type character, at another we had a regular pig in overalls, like a steel worker pig,'' Domino said. ''But at the end of the day, we came to the realization that an IronPig should be constructed of iron."
Did I say worse? Because when I said "worse," I meant "more awesome." I would have loved to see a small child's reaction to the playful tomfoolery of a hideous cybernetic pig mascot straight out of The Island of Dr. Moreau.
But this a minor quibble. The important thing is that relevant baseball has finally come to the Lehigh Valley. And if I'm calling AAA ball "relevant," you know we've suffered enough to tolerate a hackneyed "aggressive" makeover of a relatively benign animal.
Riveting Day in 'Pigs History [The Morning Call]
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I have a similar story from home with our UHL hockey team, the Rockford Icehogs. Yes, Icehogs. And the thing is, people love them. Quite a logo as well. Pigs don't play hockey. I'd be more inclined to think of them playing baseball, so consider yourself lucky. Except for all that orange.
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