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Posted 2015 June 30
To be totally honest, I'm not sure why I even review teams from the
Appalachian League on this site. I don't get all the leagues, after
all. I don't get any of the collegiate summer leagues. Within the
realm of independent baseball, I skip over a few leagues either because
they're new and haven't proven they're going to be a reasonably stable
league, or because they're not new and have proven they're not going to
be a stable league (over on the hockey side I don't bother with the
Federal Hockey League for much the same reason). And I skip the Gulf
Coast and Arizona Leagues because they all use the same name and logo as
their parent teams. All of the Appalachian League teams use the same
name as their parent teams, and most of them just use a variant of their
parent teams' logos. (The main exceptions are the Johnson City
Cardinals and the Kingston Mets.) So why do I bother? I'm sure I had a
reason when I made the decision to include them, but damned if I
remember what it was. And at this point, it's really just inertia that
keeps them in.
The Bristol Pirates don't help any, either. Their logo is the
Pittsburgh Pirates' capital P, with "BRISTOL" added above it.
Not only are they being boring by just using a variant of their parent
team's logo, they're being doubly boring by just using a variant of
their parent team's boring logo. The least they could do is replace the
"P" with a "B", in much the same way that the American Hockey League's
Providence Bruins use the same logo as their parent team (the Boston
Bruins) but with a "P" replacing the "B".
And honestly, it's a shame the baseball team in Bristol is affiliated
with Pittsburgh in the first place. For those who don't know, Bristol
is actually two cities: Bristol, Virginia and Bristol, Tennessee. The
two cities touch, and share a downtown (the main street in downtown
straddles the border, with the eastbound lane in Tennessee and the
westbound in Virginia). The team should really be affiliated with
Minnesota so they can be the Bristol Twins. Instead, Elizabethtown is
affiliated with Minnesota, and uses the Twins name despite it making
absolutely no sense in Elizabethtown. Come on, guys, work something out
here. Swap affiliatons and swap names already. And once you've done
that, see if you can work on coming up with better logos. Because both
of you have lame logos.
Final Score: 36 points.
Penalties: Offspring, 12 pts; Letter, 24 pts.
Bonuses: None.
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