Most Disturbing Mascot?

[The Commissioner]

Borrowing from Dianasmoon's previous post, what do you find to be the most disturbing mascot in minor league baseball? Right now, I'm torn between the Montgomery Biscuit and the Lansing Lugnut?

[Atlanta Braves Freak]

All of the names are stupid, but they are supposed to give the team's respective city an identity. Most minor league teams are based in small cities so you might not know them, but the most disturbing one to me is the Batavia Muckdogs. The Muckdogs are the Class-A short season team for the Phillies.

[The Commissioner]

That's a good one, it kind of looks rabid to me.

[DianasMoon82]

Biscuits are harmless. Laughable even. But, this is disturbing for a pro team...Sausages!!!! (Would wack a sausage too, and maybe even Bennie the Brewer). (This is humor)

Diana

[DianasMoon82]

Of course you have the Cancun Lobstermen too...

[westsidegrounds]

Gotta be "the Crab":

[westsidegrounds]

Sorry! This is the Minor League forum, isn't it. Whoops.

Still, "the Crab" is probably the most disturbing mascot in OB.

[Atlanta Braves Freak]

The Crab is very scary, it looks diseased! Seriously, where the heck did that thing come from?

[westsidegrounds]

The Crab is very scary, it looks diseased! Seriously, where the heck did that thing come from?


Top secret Cold War-era experiments ...

[Indiana COBB]

Biscuits are harmless. Laughable even. But, this is disturbing for a pro team...Sausages!!!! (Would wack a sausage too, and maybe even Bennie the Brewer). (This is humor)

Diana

Looking to pull a Randall Simon?????????

[Indiana COBB]

Didn't the Triple A Iowa Cubs have a mascot named Clammy Sammy or Sammy Clammy a giant Clam in a Iowa Cubs uniform that would open it's shell and "eat" fans?

[E.Banks#14]

Borrowing from Dianasmoon's previous post, what do you find to be the most disturbing mascot in minor league baseball? Right now, I'm torn between the Montgomery Biscuit and the Lansing Lugnut?

Lansing Lugnuts are now the Peoria Chiefs, the team has moved, but I agree that it was an odd mascot. The uhhh... Storm are kind of weird, don't know what city they are but the team logo is a pair of what looks like villainous eyes.

[The Commissioner]

This one is just plain wrong on so many levels.

[DianasMoon82]

What the F*** is that thing representing?????????????? :eek:

I say it looks like a cross between a teenage mutant ninja turtle and and overweight superhero in nude tights....

And the Crab, had a good laugh. I do not know if you watch the "Chappell Show" at all but it looked a whole lot like "Herpes" from one of his skits...

Diana

[brewcrew82]

The uhhh... Storm are kind of weird, don't know what city they are but the team logo is a pair of what looks like villainous eyes.

Lake Elsinore of the Cal League (A).

[brewcrew82]

What the F*** is that thing representing?????????????? :eek:

I say it looks like a cross between a teenage mutant ninja turtle and and overweight superhero in nude tights....


The Savannah Sand Gnats mascot, I never realised that their mascot was that bad (I always thought they had a cool name though).

[DianasMoon82]

I guess the southern U.S. has a lock on really bad baseball mascots...

Sting of the Augusta Greenjackets.... :eek:

Diana

[DianasMoon82]

I retract the southern jibe....our friends to the north have added to the list.

From Canada, the Chatham Ironmen's mascot, Screwball :eek:

[bluezebra]

The High Desert Mavericks (Class A, CAL League) have a mascot called Wooly Bully. It's a rather nice costume.

However, a few years ago, Wooly was "credited" as being the first mascot ejected from a game. It was even shown on Fred Roggan's Hall of Shame on NBC that night. The front office people neglected to tell Wooly that this is professional baseball, and you don't interfere with the umpires.

To add to that incident, about a season or two later, Wooly started annoying the opposing manager, who was coaching 3B, and got a punch in the head.

Bob

[Yankees]

The Crab is very scary, it looks diseased! Seriously, where the heck did that thing come from?

Straight from the Holocaust Museum?

[Aa3rt]

The Jamestown (NY) Jammers of the New York-Penn League have a Tazmanian Devil looking mascot holding a baseball bat. What the heck is a "jammer"?

Check him out at: Jamestown (NY) Jammers homepage (http://www.jamestownjammers.com/)

[totalautoracing]

Lansing Lugnuts are now the Peoria Chiefs, the team has moved, but I agree that it was an odd mascot. The uhhh... Storm are kind of weird, don't know what city they are but the team logo is a pair of what looks like villainous eyes.

Those lovable Lugnuts are still around. The Cubbies just moved their affiliation from Lansing to Peoria.

[Captain Cold Nose]

The High Desert Mavericks (Class A, CAL League) have a mascot called Wooly Bully. It's a rather nice costume.

However, a few years ago, Wooly was "credited" as being the first mascot ejected from a game. It was even shown on Fred Roggan's Hall of Shame on NBC that night. The front office people neglected to tell Wooly that this is professional baseball, and you don't interfere with the umpires.

To add to that incident, about a season or two later, Wooly started annoying the opposing manager, who was coaching 3B, and got a punch in the head.

Bob

What did he try to do to you, Bob? Or to whomever the umpire was?

[Atlanta Braves Freak]

I retract the southern jibe....our friends to the north have added to the list.

From Canada, the Chatham Ironmen's mascot, Screwball :eek:

That thing looks like a monster from Scooby Doo!

[DianasMoon82]

It looks like Mascot love for Thunder, of the Lake Elsinore Storm

(humming Captain and Tennile, Muskrat Love)

[DianasMoon82]

A USA Today report follows:

http://www.usatoday.com/money/2004-06-21-cover-nicknames_x.htm

[The Commissioner]

It looks like Mascot love for Storm, of the Lake Elsinore Storm

(humming Captain and Tennile, Muscrat Love)


I can't wait to see what their offspring look like. Oh wait...nevermind...

[DianasMoon82]

Don't poke it, it might bleed to death, with all the in-breeding.....

[bluezebra]

What did he try to do to you, Bob? Or to whomever the umpire was?

Not to me. I'm in the booth, keeping the batting stats for the scoreboard operator. Wooly kept getting too close to the umpires, and not only doing silly things, but interfering with them.

Bob

[Captain Cold Nose]

Not to me. I'm in the booth, keeping the batting stats for the scoreboard operator. Wooly kept getting too close to the umpires, and not only doing silly things, but interfering with them.

Bob
During the actual action? I hope his boss had a talk with the guy after the game about stuff like that. Professional or not, you don't do that. I know in my training we were taught we were absolute authority on our field.

[DianasMoon82]

those loveable lugnuts

[DianasMoon82]

and what the F*** is a Louisville Riverbat? Do you use a Louisville Slugger to kill it? Is it an older Barney with a kid or what????

The southern U.S. now has taken the lead again.

[DianasMoon82]

No Comment on the following, fill in your own jabs....

West Michigan Whitecaps????

Since this is family friendly refrains....

[The Commissioner]

and what the F*** is a Louisville Riverbat? Do you use a Louisville Slugger to kill it? Is it an older Barney with a kid or what????

The southern U.S. now has taken the lead again.

Can't you recognize him? It's Barney after he's gone off of steroids!!! The heck with Bonds, Sosa, and McGwire. This truly convinces me that there is a problem in baseball today!!!

[DianasMoon82]

No Comment on the following, fill in your own jabs....

West Michigan Whitecaps????

Since this is family friendly refrains....

(AP) Three Baseball Mascots were arrested today under a suspicion of child molestation, namely, the mascot of the West Michigan Whitecaps... :radio

[DianasMoon82]

I wish somebody would weigh in with a poll, we have many deserving contenders for all time worst....

[Atlanta Braves Freak]

O.K. serious business what is a Riverbat?

[DianasMoon82]

I dunno myself...anybody from Kentucky want to weigh in on this and shed some light on it?

[bondsgirrrl]

I retract the southern jibe....our friends to the north have added to the list.

From Canada, the Chatham Ironmen's mascot, Screwball :eek:I would have to agree with that one :eek:

[SonofLu]

Didn't the Triple A Iowa Cubs have a mascot named Clammy Sammy or Sammy Clammy a giant Clam in a Iowa Cubs uniform that would open it's shell and "eat" fans?

You're refering to "Clammy Sosa", Indiana. He's one of many Zooperstars characters that visit minor league ballparks and other venues. I first saw the Zooperstars at the Triple A All-Star game in Norfolk, VA several years ago. They had the crowd of 15,000 or so "rolling in the aisles"! Other characters include "Cow Ripken", "Ken Girrafey", and "Harry Canary".

[Atlanta Braves Freak]

Does anybody have pictures of the Clammy Sosa or Cow Ripken?

[The Commissioner]

Does anybody have pictures of the Clammy Sosa or Cow Ripken?

Here's Clammy...

[The Commissioner]

And here's Cow....

[DianasMoon82]

Yikes...that is bad (wonders where the McGwire mascot is), "Andro" the Bull...

[DianasMoon82]

Barry the Bi-Polar Giant....
HO Ho HO

http://images.usatoday.com/life/gallery/mascots/03-11-jolly.jpg

and you can file this under bad mascots.

This is Humor, and no offence intended...

Diana :atthepc

[DianasMoon82]

Is this like seeing UFO's and ET's....

No, Just another Riverbat sighting....

Diana Sends :atthepc

[DianasMoon82]

Storm and Bessie have competion, this is Cosmo from Las Vegas (with 4 eyes should be able to teach)

[DianasMoon82]

What did he try to do to you, Bob? Or to whomever the umpire was?

Humming "Bad Boys, Bad Boys, watcha gonna do, watcha gonna do"

[Atlanta Braves Freak]

Is this like seeing UFO's and ET's....

No, Just another Riverbat sighting....

Diana Sends :atthepc

The thing about the Riverbat is that is an inflatable, is that an actual person in there?

[dodgerdave]

What about that Marlin mascot that sprays everyone with water?

[Staredge]

I'm so deprived. All I got way back when was Max Patkin. :clapping

The Frederick Keys have "Keyote."
http://www.frederickkeys.com/photos/beachkeyote.jpg

[ez906]

Right now, I'm torn between the Montgomery Biscuit and the Lansing Lugnut?


what bothers me abt the lansing lugnuts logo/picture guy(not the, i think cute, mascot) is that IT IS NOT A LUGNUT!! it's a bolt!

ez

[Staredge]

So THATS where Jar Jar Binks went after Lucas cut him out of the Star Wars movies!!!!!! :laugh


Storm and Bessie have competion, this is Cosmo from Las Vegas (with 4 eyes should be able to teach)

[Bluesteve32]

Borrowing from Dianasmoon's previous post, what do you find to be the most disturbing mascot in minor league baseball? Right now, I'm torn between the Montgomery Biscuit and the Lansing Lugnut?

I don't know how disturbing this really is but "tremor" and "Aftershock" of the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the long Class A California League has a "rallysaurus" as it mascot. My three year old cried everytime last season when he saw either Tremor or Aftershock.

[DianasMoon82]

Yikes!!! If I was a four year old I would be very afraid!!!!

(hides under the covers)

[DianasMoon82]

Wearing the sash from Canada, lets give it up for SCREWBALL...

[west coast orange and black]

and what the F*** is a Louisville Riverbat? Do you use a Louisville Slugger to kill it? Is it an older Barney with a kid or what????

The southern U.S. now has taken the lead again.
is the small one wearing spats?

[Bluesteve32]

Yikes!!! If I was a four year old I would be very afraid!!!!

(hides under the covers)

When my 12 year old was 2 and 3 he loved Tremor. Perhaps we should not have let him seen that dinosaur exhibit at the San Diego Wild Animal Park last May. He was scared when one of those dinosaurs squirted water at him.

At least he does not like Barney. :clapping

[DianasMoon82]

New England has chimed in:

the Bridgeport Bluefish!!!!!!

[DianasMoon82]

enjoy thus, screwball...yikes :dance

[scrabblehack]

I always thought this would have been a funny Zooperstar skit: have Clammy swallow a bat and spit up a cork.

[Astros4Life]

I dont know any texas minor league mascots other than i think teh hooks have a fish and the express have a engineer...but houston has got to have the gayest major league mascot ever...its a rabbit in a railroad costume...we need to go back to our mascot from teh 90s

[CuriousBoston]

That's a good one, it kind of looks rabid to me.

That's my landlord's girlfriend's dog. Dog and person have same personality. The dog is a proven biter.

[CuriousBoston]

Borrowing from Dianasmoon's previous post, what do you find to be the most disturbing mascot in minor league baseball? Right now, I'm torn between the Montgomery Biscuit and the Lansing Lugnut?

Does the Biscuit come with a side of Gravy, or Butter? Is it a Beatin' Biscuit? Montgomery... shouldn't Peter Cottontail, or a Q-Tip be the mascot?

[CuriousBoston]

http://nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/texas/slideshows/sld131.html

[CuriousBoston]

The Jamestown (NY) Jammers of the New York-Penn League have a Tazmanian Devil looking mascot holding a baseball bat. What the heck is a "jammer"?

Check him out at: Jamestown (NY) Jammers homepage (http://www.jamestownjammers.com/)


is a kind of *boat*, but I think someone should ask a gastroenterologist. :rolleyes:

Or a microbiologist; maybe it's one of those things that lives on eyelashes.

[B-Ham Barons Fan]

Well there is the Winston-Salem Warthogs (high A for the Chicago White Sox).

[DianasMoon82]

RiverDog from Charleston....

[DianasMoon82]

Beak of the Anchorage Bucks (he seems to be holding that child a bit too close for comfort)

[MesaMinersBaseball]

It looks like Mascot love for Thunder, of the Lake Elsinore Storm

(humming Captain and Tennile, Muskrat Love)

What is that Blue thing?? Does is come with batteries?

[Iron Jaw]

The most disturbing mascot I've seen is at the high school level. Here in Yuma, we have five high schools. The oldest of the five, Yuma High, has a mascot called a "Criminal." Yuma has the famous, historic Yuma Prison. But still, having a HS mascot of criminal. The physical mascot is a hard looking guy in a blue prison suit with a number across the back.

But then again, it might be pretty fitting for some of the kids at YHS.

[bluezebra]

Biscuits are harmless. Laughable even. But, this is disturbing for a pro team...Sausages!!!! (Would wack a sausage too, and maybe even Bennie the Brewer). (This is humor)

Diana

Technically, the Sausages are not mascots.

Bob

[bluezebra]

is a kind of *boat*, but I think someone should ask a gastroenterologist. :rolleyes:

Or a microbiologist; maybe it's one of those things that lives on eyelashes.

"jammer" is probably short for Windjammer, a type of "Tall Ship" sailing vessel.

Bob

[pads4ever]

The most disturbing mascot I've seen is at the high school level. Here in Yuma, we have five high schools. The oldest of the five, Yuma High, has a mascot called a "Criminal." Yuma has the famous, historic Yuma Prison. But still, having a HS mascot of criminal. The physical mascot is a hard looking guy in a blue prison suit with a number across the back.

But then again, it might be pretty fitting for some of the kids at YHS.
I like the Yuma Criminals mascot. I can understand how someone who doesn't know Yuma history or who is an outsider would have issue with it. I also like the logo, the bad boy looking cartoon type character. It makes it unique among too many cookie cutter mascots. San Pasqual has the Warriors, Kofa the Kings, Cibola the Raiders (so unoriginal), Yuma Catholic Shamrocks (Irish intent?). What is San Luis and Wellton? I like the Criminal mascot.

[westsidegrounds]

I like the Yuma Criminals mascot. I<...> It makes it unique among too many cookie cutter mascots. <...>.

Well ..... yeah .......

I like the website:
"Welcome to Yuma High!
Criminal Pride!
Criminal Academics!" [etc. And no, I'm not making this up]

[ccbsball12]

the Harrisburg Senators Riverside Rascal, the picture speaks for its self

[Iron Jaw]

I like the Yuma Criminals mascot. I can understand how someone who doesn't know Yuma history or who is an outsider would have issue with it. I also like the logo, the bad boy looking cartoon type character. It makes it unique among too many cookie cutter mascots. San Pasqual has the Warriors, Kofa the Kings, Cibola the Raiders (so unoriginal), Yuma Catholic Shamrocks (Irish intent?). What is San Luis and Wellton? I like the Criminal mascot.

San Luis High is called the Sidewinders, which are quite common here. The HS in Wellton is called Antelope. I can't remember what their mascot is. I officiate HS wrestling, so I generally remember most of them.

[CriminalIntent]

I am a proud crim and yes i do admit it's an odd history but we can be proud to say people come from all over the world to see the Crims and buy a t-shirt!

and yes there might be a few real criminals surfacing at yuma high... as for wellton which would be Antelope its the Rams

[JordanDL3891]

http://www.rob-clarkson.com/duff-brewery/goofball/01.jpg

[ColbyPants]

http://www.rob-clarkson.com/duff-brewery/goofball/01.jpg


The Capital City Goofball is AWESOME! Don't go hating, lol!

TomC

[ColbyPants]

I find the Lowell Spinners Canligator annoying. Its not too terrible aesthetically, but it is huge, and always in the way. Also, while there are Canals in Lowell, there are no Alligators in Massachusetts. They could have put more thought into him.


By contrast, the Muddy, the Toledo mudhen, whom I see most often now, is cool as hell.

TomC

[Atlanta Cracker]

We were at a Norfolk TIDES game recently and "BirdZerk" from Louisville and his pals were there. BirdZerk was fine - sort of a San Diego Chicken knock-off, but his inflatable pals were a bit odd. Couldn't quite put my finger on it, but they left a disturbing image in my mind.

[cerealspoon]

4 pages and none of the infamous, Henry the Puffy Taco?!?

[MontrealExpos]

I find the Lowell Spinners Canligator annoying. Its not too terrible aesthetically, but it is huge, and always in the way. Also, while there are Canals in Lowell, there are no Alligators in Massachusetts. They could have put more thought into him.

As a Lowell native, and Spinners fan, yes he is a bit awkward, but he's built an association and he's got a family to feed, he needs that job :D

[MontrealExpos]

Storm and Bessie have competion, this is Cosmo from Las Vegas (with 4 eyes should be able to teach)

Jar Jar Binks's new job? :noidea

[spark240]

The High Desert Mavericks (Class A, CAL League) have a mascot called Wooly Bully. It's a rather nice costume.

However, a few years ago, Wooly was "credited" as being the first mascot ejected from a game.

Was this before Youppi was ejected in '89?

[Yankeebiscuitfan]

We were at a Norfolk TIDES game recently and "BirdZerk" from Louisville and his pals were there. BirdZerk was fine - sort of a San Diego Chicken knock-off, but his inflatable pals were a bit odd. Couldn't quite put my finger on it, but they left a disturbing image in my mind.

Birdzerk visits a lot of other Minor League teams too, doesn't it?

[The Prowling Cat]

I used to think that the most disturbing was Crater from the Salem/Keizer Volcanoes. He's got a baseball head and I don't know what he really is. Then last April we went to California and saw a game in Visalia. The squirrel costume was so dirty and torn that my g/f swears it was a rabid squirrel. The kids wanted to run up and get a picture with him and the g/f freaked. I remember her saying something about 'STAY AWAY! THE THINGS PROBABLY GOT RABBIES!'

[riredsox]

If I had to guess, I'd say the Crab was a victim of Chernobyl, who recived a massive overdose of radioactive debris and was just pulled from the site, only to be dropped in a nuclear bomb, and reincarnated in a uranium mine.

[NJMetfan4life]

Jack the Jackle.

[Urbanshocker13]

enjoy thus, screwball...yikes :dance

OMG it's me in mascot form!! Is there a way that I can sue them LOL!!! But really thats kind of scarey!!

[efin98]

Jar Jar Binks's new job? :noidea

Well they are both aliens and Jar Jar's been out of work for a few years :rofl::hide:

They better hope George Lucus doesn't make them change the design...