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Posted 2022 May 15
Sioux Falls, South Dakota has a population of roughly 200,000 people,
which is approximately 458% of the population of South Dakota. And if
I'm honest, I'm just a little bit jealous of one thing it has. Below is
a picture of Falls Park, located at the falls for which Sioux Falls is
named:
As you can see in the background, this is not outside of town or even on
the outskirts. This is basically downtown. See the person toward the
lower left of the photograph? You can walk from the spot where he is to
the corner of First and Main in about ten minutes. Or at least you could
if First actually intersected with Main, which it doesn't (it stops one
block west of Main). But you get the idea. Raleigh has nothing like
this. The closest thing downtown Raleigh has is a creek that got
covered over decades ago. That's...not the same.
The Canaries' stadium isn't much farther from downtown; it's about a
twenty-minute walk from the nonexistent corner of First and Main in the
opposite direction from the falls. Before the Canaries, it was home to
a team called the Packers, and before that to a team called the, um,
Canaries. Those Canaries were the original tenants of the current Sioux
Falls Stadium, but before them there was another stadium in town, which
hosted a different team called the— well, you know. Yes,
Canaries is one of those names that goes back to 1492, so whether
you like it or not it isn't going anywhere, or at least if it does it'll
soon be back. (The current team changed its name from the Canaries to
the Pheasants in 2010, and back to the Canaries in 2013.) Truth be
told, it's no worse than Cardinals or Orioles, and it's a
hell of a lot better than Trash Pandas or Biscuits.
As for the logo...well, it's better than the logos for the Trash Pandas
and the Biscuits, but that's not exactly a high bar to clear. Truth be
told it's basically a laundry list of the things in minor league logos
that inspired me to create the Bush League Factor in the first place.
Anthropomorphized animal? Check. Dressed as an athlete? Check.
Facial expression that's probably intended to look tough but fails
miserably? Check. You don't actually see logos like this much anymore;
it seems like teams have generally moved either toward less cartoony,
more stylized logos (think les Aigles de Trois-Rivières or the
Delmarva Shorebirds) or else toward utterly ridiculous atrocities (think
the Fort Wayne TinCaps or Lansing Lugnuts). These days, a logo like
this almost looks quaint.
That doesn't mean it's good though, and it isn't.
Final Score: 128 points.
Penalties: Humanoid, 30 pts; Cartoon, 47 pts; Player, 51 pts.
Bonuses: None.
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