Sun article bashing cartoon bird

[OriolesMagic83]

2 hours ago, Sanfran327 said:

I like the cartoon bird. Just bought a new cartoon bird hat, as a matter of fact.

I remember how glad everyone here was when it came back. Seemed like we started winning right after the change. Unfortunately, all we do is lose these days. I digress...

I am not one to make an association between something as insignificant as our hat with winning and losing, but I wouldn't mind seeing a change. Going the "classier" route has its appeal to me. Basically, the Friday night hats in all black with an orange script O's would be our version of that. Or something in an all black with an orange script B (kinda like the Baysox hat, but not nearly as loud). 

Again, no problem with the hat at all. Still a big fan. But I'm a huge hat guy (no exaggeration, I have probably 200 59 Fifty hats laying around), and as an adult, the cartoon bird hat is a little childish. Great to wear at the ball park or for yard work. But it's hard to rock a black, white, and orange tri-color hat with a cartoon bird on it in basically ever social situation outside of OPACY.

I guess  I won't be going to those social situations then.

[OriolesMagic83]

1 hour ago, DrungoHazewood said:

Strange. Of all the things to complain about.

Not that this has anything to do with the article (I guess, didn't read it, just saw exerpts) in 1989 the Orioles ditched the cartoon bird and it seemed appropriate.  Everyone at the time loved the ornithologically correct bird and the new black-themed hats and uniforms.  It was a clean break with the malaise and crapulence of the 1984-88 era.  I wouldn't be opposed to some kind of 2023 uniform and/or logo change signifying a new era of success.

Maybe a Salvador Dali/Picasso bird?

[mrbig1]

Another vote for the cartoon bird.

[DrungoHazewood]

29 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

I think I liked the orintohlogircaylreeally correct bird when it first came out in '89 because...well, it was new.  I was also 8 and didn't know any better.  

But by the mid 90s, I really thought it was kind of lame.  Especially with the tweaks they'd come out with every so often.  I remember for a few years, I think in the early 2000s, it looked more like a pigeon than an Oriole.

It was just so...ugh, boring.  And bland.  And businesslike.  And unoriginal.  Other bird teams like the Blue Jays had that sharp profile of the Jay with the maple leaf but then they went ahead and philanderered with their own cartoon bird before getting back to their  roots.  The Cardinals have the sweet interlocking STL logo.  

But yeah, we were rocking essentially a picture out of a Sibley Guide to Birds book.  

I like the cartoon bird a lot with the black panel and the orange bill like Tony posted above.  Or a black panel, black bill is sweet, too.  I cannot stand the O's Friday night hats, I think they're the worst that we've ever had.

You know, birds aren't real.  It's about time the Orioles dispense with this ruse that they're cute little feathered animals and get on with the reality of apocalyptic spy drones.

[mrbig1]

Just read the article. this is a person with too much time of their hands. When people see the cartoon bird everybody knows it's the Orioles.  The cartoon is as much of Maryland as crabcakes and beer.

[Morgan423]

I love all of our logos... the cartoons, the anatomically correct ones (even though they are confined to a handful of appearances now)...

They are all awesome, and anyone wanting to change any of them needs to take a long walk off of a short pier. 

[SteveA]

2 minutes ago, mrbig1 said:

Just read the article. this is a person with too much time of their hands. When people see the cartoon bird everybody knows it's the Orioles.  The cartoon is as much of Maryland as crabcakes and beer.

Not everyone.   This story made the rounds on social media in the past couple years:

[City Councilman Ryan Dorsey] Spotted this guy on the train in Tokyo. Asked, “How ‘bout dem O’s?” Very dryly he responded in a German accent, “Oh. I see. It’s because of the, uh [points at hat]. I just like the duck. I think it’s cool.”

[Moose Milligan]

13 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:

You know, birds aren't real.  It's about time the Orioles dispense with this ruse that they're cute little feathered animals and get on with the reality of apocalyptic spy drones.

I've seen these guys!  They're hilarious!

 

 

[Frobby]

4 hours ago, Aristotelian said:

I can't believe I wasted 30 seconds of my life reading that. If that was supposed to be humor it failed miserably, and if it was serious I really don't know what to say. 

I thought the parts that were intended to be funny were pretty damned funny.   

“The horrible, hateful Yankees have done one (and only one) thing right in their sordid history: a classic, recognizable hat. When you watch the Yankees, you don’t have to wonder whether they’ll be donning caps with a caricature of Yankee Doodle or a cartoon Statue of Liberty sliding into home plate.”

And I do think he has a point that the Orioles change the style of their hat more than any other team.  For my money, stick with the cartoon bird.  

[Il BuonO]

2 hours ago, DrungoHazewood said:

Strange. Of all the things to complain about.

I wouldn't be opposed to some kind of 2023 uniform and/or logo change signifying a new era of success.

Tell you what, if they were winning I couldn’t give a rip about what the unis look like.

I became a fan after the ‘70 series victory and Brooks wore the iconic cartoon bird on his hat. 

[Frobby]

4 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Not everyone.   This story made the rounds on social media in the past couple years:

[City Councilman Ryan Dorsey] Spotted this guy on the train in Tokyo. Asked, “How ‘bout dem O’s?” Very dryly he responded in a German accent, “Oh. I see. It’s because of the, uh [points at hat]. I just like the duck. I think it’s cool.”

I took my 3-year old cousin to a game once and he was convinced the Oriole bird was Donald Duck.  Spent the whole game asking his dad, “where’s Donald Duck?”  My cousin is probably 37 or 38 years old now but i never tire of telling that story whenever I see him. 

[drdelaware]

Here is everything you need to know about the author of this rubbish.

Stephen Ruddy (stephenruddy@gmail.com) is an instructor at the New York based storytelling nonprofit, The Moth; and regular contributor to the New York Times and McSweeney’s.

 

[Can_of_corn]

26 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I took my 3-year old cousin to a game once and he was convinced the Oriole bird was Donald Duck.  Spent the whole game asking his dad, “where’s Donald Duck?”  My cousin is probably 37 or 38 years old now but i never tire of telling that story whenever I see him. 

I'm sure he's not tired of hearing about it.

 

[Moose Milligan]

21 minutes ago, drdelaware said:

Here is everything you need to know about the author of this rubbish.

Stephen Ruddy (stephenruddy@gmail.com) is an instructor at the New York based storytelling nonprofit, The Moth; and regular contributor to the New York Times and McSweeney’s.

 

I'm not sure what that has to do with anything.

[spiritof66]

The caps are among the few things about this team that don't need to be, and shouldn't be, changed. 

I think the script O's caps are really cheesy -- especially the upside-down apostrophe that they've kept for years now. If the Orioles want to have an "O" or "O's" cap, which I think is preferable to a "B" cap because it it's more distinctive, I would use a blockish like the vintage  Oklahoma State cap:

https://www.shopokstate.com/p-61723-nike-on-field-vault-o-cap.aspx

I've always supposed that the team chose "O's" rather than "O" to avoid being called Zeros, but maybe Zeros would be appropriate right now. Or maybe completely blank uniforms, like some teams wore in late 19th and early 20th century, to suggest that these placeholders aren't the real Orioles -- that team will show up in 2023, 2024 or  . . .