WaPo: A Minnesota baseball team's new pig mascot has been named in honor of Kellyanne Conjob!

[Princess Turandot]

I bet she can use some good news this week!

Link to tweet

"The team, which plays in the North Division of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball, which isn’t affiliated with MLB, made its announcement in a press statement filled with, well, alternative facts, the infamous phrase coined by Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway during a January episode of “Meet the Press.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/05/17/meet-alternative-fats-a-minnesota-baseball-teams-new-pig-mascot/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.6321bc761d56

Comedian Bill Murray has an ownership share in the team. But the porcine mascot was the inspiration of another part-owner, Mike Veeck. (Mike is the son of the legendary Bill Veeck, known in part for his stunts and promotions during ballgames.) In 2008, the mascot was named 'Boarack Ohama'. Last year's piggie was 'Little Red Porkette' in honor of Prince.

From the team's press release:

"When you’re a franchise like the Saints sometimes you need to SPICE it up, but this name is no CON and we’re doing it our WAY. Alternative Fats will enter the field each game like no other pig before him, with a white ground covering draped from his mansion-style pigpen to home plate for the billions of Saints fans to shower him with love and admiration. Alternative Fats will be so HUUUUGE it will make all other pigs jealous. Alternative Fats will go down in the pantheon of the greatest mascot names in the history of sports and we know a thing or two about great sports mascots. Welcome to the Saints Orwellian version of Animal Farm.

...The Saints revealed the name on their Facebook Live stream at StPaulSaints after the World’s Largest Game of Catch was canceled due to rain. The name was selected out of a record 4,124,862 entries in the Name the Pig Contest presented by the Star Tribune at startribune.com. Many of the names submitted took a political undertone like Boar’d of Trump, Ham Jong Un and Pigimir Putin. Others played on the 25-year history of the franchise and harkened back to 1993 with such names as Snoop Hoggy Hog and Saint XXV. Many Minnesotans wanted to show off their state pride with Mary Tyler Boar and Super Boar LII. But in the end “two plus two equals four, partly cloudy, partly sunny, and a pig is a boar.” That’s Alternative Fats."

http://saintsbaseball.com/team/news/saints-ponder-getting-rid-swine-instead-unveil-alternative-fats-new-ball-pig-2017/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[Cha]

1. Wow.. people are Pissed!

Mahalo, PT.. And, that's one way of showing it.

[Alice11111]

2. Poor pig...he better take lots of showers

[niyad]

3. that poor piglet--what a mean thing to do to it!!

[MineralMan]

4. That's My Saints!

The team motto: Fun is Good!