How could I have missed this?

Well, no time to waste now: right now in Home Run Derby’s MLB Mascot brackets San Francisco Giants’ mascot Lou Seal is going head to head with Billy the Marlin. Personally, I’m torn.

On one hand, Lou Seal is featured in the header on my website and is the mascot for a team near where I grew up in the Bay Area. On the other hand, everything this website stands for tells me I need to crush the seal as seals are bloodthirsty, man-eating, ravenous beasts of the sea.

But… I must say that Billy the Marlin is potentially one of the worst mascot designs I have come across in years. Since when did mascots start wearing rubber/ foam/ whatever the hell that head’s made out of? I have to say that I do not approve of this new, Disney-esque mascot look and it must be stopped. Its one thing when mascots wear tights - mascots should never… under any circumstances, wear tights - but this is worse. Much, much worse. Justice must be served!

Vote Lou Seal in 2007