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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 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.
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