Mascot flop of 2014: Cub fans unhappy with their new pantless mascot [View all]

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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