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Minor league baseball logos are far cooler than their grown-up counterparts — they usually employ cartoons, keeping things more playful and not as serious as the professionals who feel the need to turn themselves into unnaturally muscle-bound freaks in order to play. Which is refreshing in a culture that treats sports as less of a game and more of a religion or dangerous cult. I’ve actually seen someone beaten with a stick over a Red Sox game. One of those situations where you have to sit back with some popcorn and laugh, because otherwise you’d cry.

Various minor league baseball logos

Anyway, I was always more of a tee ball guy, but I understand that some people aren’t scared of projectiles being lobbed at them. So I present to you, The Dedleg Outfielders. However, try-outs were last Saturday. So… sorry champ, maybe next year.

Why not?

Well… still doesn’t look like a g, but whatever. It’s 140 characters or less, and that’s all the kids care about anyway.

In light of our one-sided discussion about coats of arms leading way to modern logo design earlier this week, this is the story of a logo, who cried a river and drowned the whole… uh… hm.

I guess making parodies of cheesy pop song lyrics doesn’t really work when you switch out an easily rhymed word like “girl” with “logo.” 

Originally the idea here was to take an element from the first “logo,” as it were, and carry it over to a new doodle, letting it evolve naturally (hey, weed is natural, prudes). Nonetheless, I lost the reigns here a little bit, in case that wasn’t obvious, and I think this ended up as more of a devolution than anything. For one thing, “DG” isn’t even a logical abbreviation for “dedleg”. But not like that matters, considering by the third iteration it was totally illegible anyway.

I often lament that what I love to do doesn’t pay the rent. But sometimes, I can really understand why.

Anybody need a male escort? Special talents include mediocre logo design.