The Detroit Tigers’ Double-A Erie Seawolves can be renamed the Erie Moon Mammoths after being picked by John Oliver of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight.”
Oliver devoted a Could 4 phase to names and promotions of minor league baseball groups, asserting: “We are willing to use all of our resources and stupidity to give one Minor League Baseball team a total rebrand. We will give you a new team name, a new mascot. We will even throw you a theme night. It will be personalized and it will be bespoke.”
Two weeks later, Oliver chosen Erie from amongst 47 crew submissions. Oliver mentioned the northwestern Pennsylvania crew had given 11 causes it needs to be picked, together with the crew had pioneered cotton sweet scorching canine and identified “The SeaWolves play baseball nowhere near the sea.”
Oliver introduced Sunday he had chosen Moon Mammoths, utilizing Bob Costas’ voice as narrator of a promotional video introducing the moniker.
The title was impressed by the 1991 discovery of woolly mammoth stays by George Moon, a Summit Township resident who discovered a bone whereas scuba diving in Lake Nice, about 8 miles south of Erie. The mammoth stays are housed within the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.
Erie, which has gained the previous two Jap League championships, can be renamed the Moon Mammoths for video games on July 19, Aug. 19, Sept. 12 and Sept. 13.
Main League Baseball mentioned Monday the crew will put on jerseys with a rising moon with the crew’s title throughout the chest, a moon on sleeves and a patch with a woolly mammoth carrying an area helmet.
Oliver is predicted to attend the July 19 recreation towards Chesapeake, known as a “Mammoth Fun” night time. The primary 1,000 ticketed followers will obtain a Moon Mammoths squishy toy and there can be postgame fireworks. George Moon was additionally invited to attend.
