The Orioles Double-A Affiliate, The Chesapeake Baysox, Unveiled A New Alternate Identity Logo And It Just So Happens Look Identical To A Vagina
Minor league baseball is great for a handful of reasons. Ballparks are nice and small, can get an unclose and personal look at the future superstars of your favorite teams, great food options, usually some fun promotions too. Anytime you can get out to a minor league ballpark it's a great time. One of the things a lot of teams have been doing is adopting a new identity for a handful of games a year. They'll change their name, use a new logo, some new uniforms to go along with it and it's a blast.
Well the Orioles Double-A affiliate, the Chesapeake (formerly Bowie) Baysox, had that plan for a new identity that they'd roll out a few times during the summer and were pumped to reveal their logo to everyone. We got teased with it throughout the week and then they laid it out for us and boy oh boy did it catch our attention. Let me introduce the Chesapeake Oyster Catchers!
I mean, that's just a pussy in a glove. That's a straight up vag. It's actually the first logo that you can smell through the screen too, pretty neat. They even have the baseball up there where the uhhhh…nvm. The original tweet was quickly taken down but thank god the internet moves quick because we got multiple screenshots of the new logo. The fact that this was passed through multiple rounds of approvals and sent out is hilarious, this is what makes minor league baseball the best. They really just don't care sometimes, that has to be what happened here. I mean any publicity is good publicity, they got everyone talking about those Oyster Catchers.
This is also what makes the minor leagues so good, one day you could be working on a project unveiling a new logo and identity and then the next thing you know you're taking it down and having to explain that somehow the logo ended up looking like a vagina. The amount of texts and DMs I got asking if this was real or if it was some fake photoshop was wild too, that's how off the wall it was.
They were the laughing stock of twitter for a few hours but credit to the crew in Bowie for burning the midnight oil and turning this into a positive. It is Woman's History Month after all so they decided to throw the logo back up there to attract some attention and announced that they were donating 10% of all Oyster Catchers merch sales to a charity benefit Cervical Cancer. Talk about a great pivot, that's how you spin something into a good thing. They've got some great merch available online, but I'm still holding out hope for a hat with the vagina on it, I'd buy that in a heartbeat.
Seriously though guys, how many beers for this? How can you not be romantic about baseball?
Long live the gloveussy!