Nashville Sounds

66

Man, is this a boring logo, and there's no excuse for it.

Nashville Sounds is obviously some kind of music reference; even if you don't know precisely what kind of reference, it stands to reason that when a city synonymous with country music has a sports team named the Sounds, it's some kind of music reference. (For those who care, the "Nashville Sound" is a subgenre of country music, basically an attempt in the 1950s to make country music more sophisticated). And as such, there are so many ways you could put a music reference in the logo. Various main and alternate logos in the past (and to be fair, some of the alternate ones they're currently using) have done some of these references: a background shaped like a guitar pick or a guitar. A letter that looks like a musical note. A violin's f-hole underlining the team name. And so forth.

But for the main logo they put together this snoozefest. All we get is a letter, a baseball, and a circle. Oh, and a couple of stripes, which just screams "We know this needs more but damned if we can figure out what." I mean, if this logo were any more dull then I don't think ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Final Score: 66 points.
Penalties: Wordplay, 23 pts; Equipment, 13 pts; Letter, 24 pts; Logo, 12 pts.
Bonuses: Local, -6 pts.