Oklahoma City Comets

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There's a basic rule when it comes to teams putting comets into logo: there will be no evidence that the person who draws said comet has any idea what a comet actually is. For the record, comets are basically balls of various forms of ice: frozen carbon dioxide, frozen methane, frozen ammonia, frozen carbon monoxide, and frozen water. You wouldn't know that from comets in sports logos. Fort Wayne Komets? Apparently it's supposed to be a fireball (it looks more like a circular saw blade to me, but that's another matter). Utica Comets? The comet trail includes lightning. But the Oklahoma City Comets have taken it to a new level. The primary feature of their logo is the Moon.

To be fair, the logo doesn't imply the moon is a comet. There's another feature that may intended to be a comet which I'll get back to in a minute. But the biggest feature in the logo (other than the name) is clearly intended to be a moon. Why is there a moon in the logo? Did the logo designer think, "Well, the Moon is in space, and comets are in space, so they're the same thing!"? By that logic, you could pick any two things that are on earth and call them close enough. You could put a freaking sasquatch in the logo for a team named after a gem. You could put a rodent in the logo for a team named after commuters. You could put—

Wait. I've just cracked the code, haven't I? The Eugene Emeralds have Bigfoot in their logo. The Scranton Wilkes-Barre Railriders have a porcupine in theirs. The logo designers just picked some random thing on earth and said it was good enough. That also explains the Lancaster Stormers having a cow, the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers having a stuntman, and the Asheville Tourists having— no, wait. The Tourists also have the moon, which means using something in space as a logo for something on Earth. Yeah, I still don't get that one.

As I said a few paragraphs ago, there is another feature that may be intended to be a be a comet, and that's the baseball with the lines behind it. I have no doubt that if I asked the logo designer they would claim that was supposed to be the comet. But the problem is that it isn't. It's a baseball. And the "comet trail", were this a logo for a team with any name other than the Comets, would simply be lines indicating that the baseball is moving fast — particularly since comet tails typically get wider as they fall away from the comet, not narrower. Also, not to state the obvious, but comets don't include baseballs any more than they involve fire or lightning. So the designer can say that's the comet all they want; I'm not buying it.

And that leaves the Moon as the comet.

Which makes no sense.

But I guess it's really no worse than Sasquatch representing a gem.

Final Score: 59 points.
Penalties: Script, 7 pts; Equipment, 13 pts; Irrelevance, 39 pts.
Bonuses: None.