Happy Birthday to the Philly Phinatic. It’s time for my sometimes annual Mascot Breakdown Article, ranking all 30 (and then some) mascots out there into tiers. THE “THATS NOT REALLY A MASCOT” TIER #30. LOU the SEAL – SF Giants Here’s why I am ranking Lou the Seal dead last. The more I think about it, the less anyone actually knows who the Giants mascot is. In fact, if you polled 30 random people and said who is Lou the Seal related too, they would think you are talking about Seal’s daughter who is named Lou. That’s not a good association here. Furthermore, a team as well established with Baseball history as the Giants and a fantastic ballpark, excellent broadcasters and good fans does not need a mascot. He looks like he is your drunk old, overweight Uncle who has no kids and 3 restraining orders from local Elementary schools for looking creepy at kids. He’s a seal. There’s nothing interesting here. Rank, 30th. #29. THE LA ANGELS – No Mascot I guess it’s a California thing here that either you have a really good mascot history or you have no mascot at all. I am sorry, but the Rally Monkey just does not count. The Angels actually do not list an official mascot. But yet, I still have them ahead of the Giants. #28. LA DODGERS – No Mascot I can only assume that they do not want to make Vin Scully roll over in his grave and disgrace the organization with something bad and for fear of messing up they have not officially named one yet #27. SLIDER (GUARDIANS) The Cleveland Baseball Team created slider in an attempt to copy the Philly Phinatic. They have failed miserably in this regard. Along with the name change from the Indians to Guardians and removing Chief Wahoo as well, this is just a disaster that should have had the plug pulled many years ago. NICE TRY TIER #26. DANDY – THE ONE AND ONLY YANKEE MASCOT The Yankees should not and shall never have a mascot. And I give the Dodgers credit for staying true in their own right on that, but at the same time I do want to recognize some level of greatness that the Yankees had with ‘Dandy’ (1979-1981). Imagine being a kid and going to see the Yankees and having your Dad or Grandfather or…...
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