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Notice: All logos on this page are included within the parameters of 17 U.S.C. § 107, which states that the reproduction of a copyrighted work for purposes of criticism and/or comment is not an infringement of copyright. No challenge to the copyrights of these logos is intended by their inclusion here.
Posted 2009 April 19
There's about an 88% chance that you could look at this logo for five minutes and not notice one of the first things that leaped out at me about it.
You've heard of gaydar, right? In case you're one of the dozen or so people in America who have no idea what I'm talking about, it's the uncanny ability of homosexual people to tell whether someone else is homosexual or not. Okay, before I go any further, let me just go ahead and say that I did not notice that the chili pepper is gay. I have no idea what the chili pepper's sexual orientation is. My guess, if I had to go out on a limb, is that he's attracted to chili peppers. I have no idea what the word is to indicate a sexual attraction to chili peppers. If you're a human who's attracted to chili peppers then the word for it is "strange", but what the term is for a chili pepper who's attracted to chili peppers, I have no idea.
Anyway, I'm left-handed, and one thing I've noticed over the years is that lefties generally notice other lefties in fairly short order. Right-handers almost never notice that someone is left-handed unless it's pointed out to them. Now, unlike gaydar, it's fairly easy to see how a lefty can recognize other lefties: We notice that the person is doing a particular task with their left hand. Right-handers can be truly oblivious to this: I've watched people express surprise at the revelation that Paul McCartney, Kurt Cobain, or Jimi Hendrix is/was left-handed, despite the fact that they hold their guitars in the opposite direction from most people. Meanwhile, left-handers often catch the more subtle things, such as which hand people write with, which hand people use when chopping vegetables, and so forth. My wife has learned to accept with good humor the fact that we can be watching damn near any TV show and I will point out that a particular person is left-handed.
By now you've figured out what I noticed so quickly: the chili pepper is holding the bat in a left-handed stance.
My guess is that the artist who drew this didn't put a lot of thought into it. He may not have even been aware that he was drawing him left-handed. Here's an interesting little experiment to try some time: Read the comics, and note which characters are left-handed and which ones are right handed. Then keep track of this for a couple of weeks. The vast majority of them switch back and forth. Most people — including the artists who draw them — don't even notice this, but it drives me nuts. The only exception to this rule that I know of is the title character from "Luann", who is consistently drawn as being left-handed. Guess what the cartoonist's hand preference is.
I'm sure it says something about me (and probably not anything flattering) that this was what leaped out at me more than things that ought to be more obvious, like, oh, I don't know, how about the fact that we have a chili pepper on steroids playing baseball? Or how about the demented grin? And I'm not sure whether he's got large, all-black eyes or sunglasses that somehow stay on despite not having ear rests, but whichever is the case, it should still be more noteworthy than how he holds a baseball bat, right? And finally, how about the mere fact that he is, in fact, holding a baseball bat which is about as tall as he is? Were any of these absurdities the first thing I noticed? No, I took one glance at him and said, "Oh, wow, he's left-handed!"
There's not much else to say about this logo, because that pretty much sums up the logo right there: a left-handed chili pepper with large black eyes, an addiction to HGH (CPGH?), and an evil grin. The only other feature of the logo is a capital "D", which is a little unusual since a single letter in a logo generally is the initial of the location name, not the icon name. On the other hand, the "D" is the only direct reference to the icon name, so maybe they felt they needed to have it in there.
Anyway, left-handed or not, this logo is a good example of everything that's wrong with sports logos. Anthropomorphizing food items with sports equipment is something that no human being should ever have to look at. I almost regret having reviewed this team and made you see it. I do regret having reviewed the team and looked at it myself.
Final Score: 222 points.
Penalties: Letter, 24 pts; Humanoid (egregious), 61 pts; Irrelevance, 39
pts; Cartoon, 47 pts; Player, 51 pts.
Bonuses: None.