Mascot flop of 2014: Cub fans unhappy with their new pantless mascot

[Liberal_in_LA]

as you can imagine, there are pics online of photoshopped mascot made anatomically correct.


Mascot misstep trips up Cubs
Cartoonish 'Clark the Cub' an easy target for disgruntled Cubs fans in internet age

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The mascot flop of 2014 is just another link in the chain.

When the Cubs announced the creation of a furry, pants-less mascot earlier this week, it set off a wave of incredulity and hilarity online and off. Far from a Twitter joke phenomenon, Clark the Cub was also mocked from Deadspin to Keith Olbermann's Show to the New Yorker.

Yes, the revulsion toward Clark cuts across cultural boundaries.

http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/10298797/chicago-cubs-picked-wrong-introduce-clark-cub-mascot-disgruntled-fan-base

Comcast SportsNet Accidentally Airs NSFW Image of Cubs Mascot

Shortly after the Cubs' announcement, Tom Ley of Deadspin (NSFW) entered the fray and asked readers to fire up their Adobe Creative Suite and do horrible, abominable things to the new mascot. The site kicked things off by featuring Gawker art director Jim Cooke's rendition, which included a set of furry genitalia to the pants-less bear-child.

From there, a veritable zoo of unspeakable Clark the Cub creations were pumped out into the Internet, but it was the original Deadspin alteration that ended up accidentally airing on a live edition of Comcast SportsNet in the Washington area.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1924237-comcast-sportsnet-accidentally-airs-nsfw-image-of-cubs-mascot

[KansDem]

1. What about Donald Duck?

Not to mention Daisy.



And how about Huey, Looey, and Dewey?





Perhaps the Cubs' fans protest too much...

[Brother Buzz]

2. I knew it, MFM done got reincarnated

[nomorenomore08]

3. + (infinity symbol)

[frazzled]

4. I don't get the unhappiness

It's cute. Animals don't wear pants. There's nothing wrong with it. How is it more stupid than, say, the Phillies mascot (Phillies Phanatic), who also doesn't appear to have pants.



I think the reaction is because all the disgusting, vomiting drunks who fill the stands at Wrigley Field don't want to attract kids to the game: interferes with their drinking. After all, what else is there to do when you go to a Cubs game? Not watch it certainly. (I say this as a former Cubs fan who used to go to games back in the 70s; when we moved back to Chicago I went twice, and it was such a horrendous experience I haven't returned.)

[MadrasT]

5. That is ridiculous.

Animals don't wear pants. People put little sweaters and shit on their dogs all the time and it doesn't seem to bother anybody that the dogs' balls are flapping in the breeze. Geez Louise people are weird.

[NightWatcher]

6. Hope the bear goes wild and mauls the guy with the tshirt shooter

That'd make Sportscenter's Top 10.

[1000words]

7. It's not that it's pantless (Oregon Duck is pantless) ...

it's that it's lame. The kind of lame that comes from too many folks having a say at the marketing meeting.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. Bingo.

As I said in an earlier thread, this is going to go over in Wrigley somewhere between The Wave and ketchup on a hotdog. If they want to be more family friendly, lower the ticket prices.

[JaneyVee]

8. Eff it. Go completely nude like this guy

[Drale]

9. As a die hard Cubs fan, I think he's cute

To many Cubs fans think that the only part of a baseball teams business is on the field. The Tribune Company destroyed the Cubs organization and Jim Hendry, their last GM, helped. The Rickette's are trying to build the organization from the ground up and change the Culture of said organization from spend all the money, to develop players who will then help you long term. The "Fans" who hate this move, are the people who know nothing about how to operate a baseball team or the Cubs in general and think that they should have won the World Series the first year the Rickette's took over.

[1000words]

10. Obviously, it is a family-friendly marketing vehicle. You can still make it cool.

This is "Yogi the Bear" meets "Poochie."

Nice backwards hat ... dude.

[Brigid]

11. New Cubs mascot gets a Brigid thumbs down.

Pants or no pants.

[dsc]

13. well I have seen some cute bears without pants

some people just don't have any taste.

[surrealAmerican]

14. The lack of pants isn't really the issue.

That thing is just scary looking. That's the sort of face that will make small children cry.