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| Victoria Seals | 91 |
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Posted 2009 May 23
I think this logo is trying to heighten my social awareness in a profoundly disturbing way. I don't know how it's doing on the social awareness front, but it's clearly getting ahead on the profoundly disturbing part.
First, there's the ball-balancing part. This is a fairly iconic way of drawing a seal. But of course, this is exploitation of animals for human entertainment. We all know that seals don't balance balls on their noses in the wild. They can't, because the polar bears won't share. So one glance at this logo, and we are reminded of man's inhumane treatment of other animals.
But look a little closer at the scene. He is, obviously, balancing a baseball on his nose. But the baseball is as big as his head! They don't make baseballs as big as an adult seal's head. There is only one conclusion: this is a juvenile seal. So this isn't just animal exploitation, it's child labor as well.
And now that we've established the age of the seal, we can't help but look at the baseball bat and realize OH MY GOD THEY'RE ABOUT TO BEAT THAT BABY SEAL TO DEATH WITH THAT CLUB!
The red "V"? That represents blood, of course: the blood of the poor, battered baby seal whose only chance at life was cruelly ripped away by the inhumanity of man.
I'm still working on the symbolism of the baseball cap.
Look, guys, I'm not saying I don't care about animal welfare, but I just came to watch a baseball game, okay? Why've you gotta throw all these ethical issues in my face? The heaviest ethical issue I want to face right now is whether it's a sin to steal second base.
But it's at least a decent name. Not great, but better than some of Victoria's previous forays into baseball. In the late 1970s they had a team called the Mussels. In the 1880s they had a team called the James Bays. James Bay, for the record, sits between Ontario and Québec. I have no idea why anyone would have ever named a team on the West Coast the James Bays. For that matter, I have no idea why anyone would have ever named a team anywhere the James Bays. No one names things after bodies of water. I looked through the entire list of current minor league baseball and hockey teams, and found not one body-of-water name. And do you know why I didn't find that? Well, neither do I, to be honest. I can't say the fact that they'd be lousy team names has anything to do with it when the list includes names such as the Fort Wayne TinCaps and the Montgomery Biscuits. Clearly, being a lousy name for a team is no obstacle to actually being a team name. Maybe we're just not as scared of the sea as we were in the days of pirates. No, wait, it's the age of pirates again. Fine, I admit it: I have no clue.
So today, instead of teams named after bodies of water, we get teams named after things in the water, or occasionally on them. Riversharks. Blue Crabs. Armada. And, of course, Seals. All of these names work better than "James Bays".
On the other hand, I doubt a fan of the Victoria James Bays ever looked at that team's logo and found himself confronted with an ethical issue any heavier than whether it's a sin to steal second base.
Final Score: 91 points.
Penalties: Equipment (doubly-egregious), 42 pts; Letter, 24 pts; Colorful
(for the fade effect), 31 pts.
Bonuses: Local, -6 pts.