Pictured here are some team mascots that we have watched recently.
On Friday night, we were in Toledo and watched the Mud Hens. Toledo knows baseball. The game was sold out and there were over 10,000 people in attendance. Practically every person we saw had a shirt or cap on proudly displaying this mysterious mascot of theirs. There must be more Mud Hens fans in Toledo than Royals fans in Kansas City.....and they are a AAA minor league team. We ate at the legendary Tony Packo's right across from the park and were stunned at how fantastic the food was! Thanks Toledo, this was an awesome baseball experience. If anyone reading this knows what a "mud hen" actually is....please, we are dying to know.
The next evening, we went to a Ft. Wayne Wizards game. The opponent team was the Cedar Rapids Kernels (corn that is!) We absolutely loved this mascot that sometimes I cheered for them just for fun. This is A baseball, but it made for an exciting game cause people would successfully steal bases and miss the ball and even hit some home runs. The fans were very relaxed and pretty much never cheered with the exception of this one six year old girl behind us that was screeeeeeching at the top of her lungs and the worlds decibel level "strike the turkey out!"
Tonight, I am chilling in my motel room and Will is taking in a Northern League game in Joliet. Joliet, IL, Jackhammer! Gary, Indiana Railcats are their opponents.
I was talking to one of my friends who just moved to Lansing, MI and they have a minor league team named the Lugnuts. I was commenting to her that it seemed like a funny mascot and she said: "You think that's bad, Centralia, IL High School teams are the Orphans!"
So, I want to open the conversation up to all sports fans, please send a comment here to my blog stating what the most interesting, mysterious, or humorous mascot that you have come accros.
5 comments:
I know that since you are from New Mexico, you are familiar with the Isotopes. Is there a chance that you could tell me what an Isotope is?
One good on in central California is the Modesto Nuts. Their costumed mascot was actually an elephant. They have recently changed their name to the A's.
"Isotope" have something to do with outerspace, maybe they are commetts or something?!
I remembered that it was a science term. So I did a google search and found the description in the Wikipedia. It's the Greek word meaning "at the same place". (also in the description)
Just another thing you had to know before going to bed...
My mom said that Isotopes have something to do with splitting the atom. The lab in Los Alamos, NM is the place where they split the atom.
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