The Anti-Mascot
1984 was a grim year for the San Francisco Giants. The team finished dead last, losing 96 games. But no one -- not the players, not the front office, not even the fans -- had as nightmarish a time as Wayne Doba. That season, the 3...
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"I'm just gonna say.... I love bad mascots and I love bad team names. So combining a bad mascot with a bad name is utterly hilarious. Clearly people in San Francisco in 1984 were a little more rugged and angry, and I guess they were were all gentrified out of the area in the coming decades considering most San Franciscans are pretty pleasant. Either way, the abuse the Crazy Crab took was pretty wild, but the way people remember it is pretty heart warming. The crab was daring performance art, playing the ancient ideal of thrusting your anger onto one creature and then vanishing it along wit..."
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While the San Francisco Giants were not ready for a mascot in 1984, they ultimately agreed on Luigi "Lou" Francisco Seal when he debuted in 1996. He has become so popular that he was named the top mascot in Major League Baseball in 2008 and was the subject for HULU's Behind the Mask series.
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1984 was a grim year for the San Francisco Giants. The team finished dead last, losing 96 games. But no one -- not the players, not the front office, not even the fans -- had as nightmarish a time as Wayne Doba. That season, the 3...