Stan Hochman…hey, at least he dislikes Frank Crosetti.
They talked softly because Manny Ramirez totes a big stick. They patiently explained that the team was called the Isotopes, and that an isotope is any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and position in the periodic table and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass.
Manny was OK with that, especially when they told him the air was thin and the fences cozy and the pitching mediocre. And yo, testosterone-breath, the team logo was cool, an abstract A with no crossbar. Just two of those slanted circles featuring an atom or a proton or a neuron, whatever.
It is a cool logo because it refers to the secret place outside of Albuquerque where scientists perfected an atomic bomb that blew away huge chunks of two Japanese cities and brought a swift end to World War II, making the world safe for democracy once again.
...We’ve had our share of woeful logos in the city. Take the A’s symbol, an elephant perched on a ball with a bat in its trunk. Ugh.
It was bad, but not as awful as the Red Sox, represented by a pair of red sawx, appropriate for a laundromat but not a big-league baseball team.
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1. Enrico Pallazzo Posted: June 30, 2009 at 11:19 AM (#3237529)Or the Simpsons. Yeah, that one too.
What else would you expect?
And since this logo coincided with the rise of Senator Joe McCarthy and the Red Scare in general, you can see why the Reds renamed themselves the "Redlegs" not too long after that.
Stan, I love ya, you old lunk, but this is one of the coolest logos of all time.
The Cardinal perched on the bat is my favorite standard style logo.
http://www.sportslogos.net/logo.php?id=2909
Edit: Sorry about non-clickable link. Not sure how to do those here.
What else would you expect?
It should be a picture of a bloody skull with an Uzi in its mouth. That would be cool. Also the colours should be black, teal, black, aqua, black, teal and black. That would so totally rock!
Needs some purple.
Who was it on this site that had a theory about the teal-ization of America?
No, I don' think it was Teal and Black's idea.
Click on the <a> link above, in between the @ and the "Close Tags".
Copy the URL you want to share into the blank hyperlink line, and click "OK"
Then enter whatever name or words you want to use to make the link, for example Greatest Website Ever.
I really like the Marlins' uniforms, particularly the road grays. Just enough teal to give it some impressive accents without overdoing it. I do not like their black tops, however, since the only color more ubiquitous than teal lately has been black.
definitely a neuron (or an axon)
I like the logo! Elephants are cool and it has history.
The thinking person's logo...
Electrons.
I hated the logos of the 90s. They were so clunky and busy. The Jays, the Rangers, the Angels, the Astros, the Pirates all had awful, awful logos back then. It was difficult finding hats I could wear back in those days. I remember I tried to get a simple Tigers had with the Old English "D", but all I could find were these hideous huge orange logos with a Tiger on it around a "D". It was like marketing wizards in MLB kept asking themselves "how much crap can we squeeze onto this logo?"
I vaguely remember a story about a rival claiming that the A's team looked like it was purchased at a white elephant sale, so the team adopted the logo. Don't know if it's true, but it made me a fan of the logo. How can you represent an "athletic" anyways?
From wiki. How the A's became associated with the elephant mascot.
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It's only talked about when Angel fans reminisce about games started by the great Ken Hill. In other words, never.
I was so sick of waiting for Hill, Jack McDowell and Time Belcher to get healthy back then. Man, the Angels sure liked to waste money on washed-up injured starters back then. I think they even gave Jeff Juden a shot roughly within that same period....
Anyone who would think that, has no taste, period. The Athletics logo is the coolest in baseball, partially because it's so off the wall, partially because of the history behind it. John McGraw, BTW, was presented with a toy elephant by the Athletics prior to the 1905 World Series, which he apparently accepted with humor, not the image we usually have of McGraw.
The best logo in North American team sports, though, by a wide margin, is this one:
Windsor Spitfires
The Yankees NY said the Mets are a bunch of second-rate choke-artist pansies. Then it popped open a Veuve and drowned itself in champagne.
The Cleveland Indian smoked a pipe (non-peace variety, you racist pricks) and said the Angels, while a worthy foe, are merely a shadow striding aside their former selves.
The Washington National logo, when commenting on Capitols, was heard to remark, "Drrr. I'm retarded."
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