Alright, let’s gab a bit about this here… Braves mascot, you know, that Blooper fella.
First off, they tell me this Blooper guy is the official mascot for the Atlanta Braves baseball team. Now, I ain’t never seen a creature like him before. They say he’s big and fuzzy, with ears that stretch out like rubber bands. Sounds kinda goofy if you ask me, but them city folks, they like all sorts of strange things.
This Blooper, he ain’t just sittin’ around pickin’ his nose, no sir. He’s out there dancin’ and prancin’ and doin’ all sorts of silly stuff to keep them fans entertained at the ball games. You know, down there at that fancy Truist Park place. And it ain’t just the games, neither. He goes around shakin’ hands and smilin’ for the cameras, doin’ that “public relations” thing. Guess that’s important for them Braves folks.
But hold on a minute, it wasn’t all sunshine and roses when Blooper first showed up. Folks were fussin’ and complainin’, sayin’ he was uglier than a mud fence and a sorry excuse for a mascot. They even went so far as to say he was worse than that Philly whatever-they-call-it, that Phanatic fella. Can you believe that? People gettin’ all riled up over a fuzzy fella in a baseball shirt. But that’s just how some folks are, I guess, always lookin’ for somethin’ to gripe about.
- But you know what? Five years down the road, and folks seem to have warmed up to Blooper.
- Maybe they finally figured out he ain’t so bad after all.
- Or maybe they just got tired of complainin’.
- Either way, he’s still out there doin’ his thing, so I reckon he must be doin’ somethin’ right.
Now, they tell me this Blooper guy, he’s a “product of science run amok.” I ain’t got the foggiest idea what that means, but it sounds like somethin’ you’d read about in one of them dime store novels. Basically, they say he’s everything that makes a Braves superfan, all rolled up into one big, fuzzy package. He wears a Braves jersey with the number 00, and he’s got these big ol’ trumpet ears and a nose the size of a small potato. But the funny thing is, they say he ain’t got no mouth. How’s he supposed to eat, I wonder? Or yell at the umpire, for that matter?
And speakin’ of mascots, Blooper ain’t the first one the Braves ever had. Way back when, there was this fella named Chief Noc-a-Homa. He was the mascot from the 60s all the way up to the 80s. A real long time, if you ask me. I heard tell he passed away a while back, went on to that big baseball field in the sky. Rest in peace, Chief.
Then, after the Chief, there was another mascot, Homer the Brave. But he hung up his hat, so to speak, and that’s when they brought in this Blooper fella. They cooked him up at the fan fest back in 2018, and I guess he’s been doin’ a decent job ever since, despite the early grumbles.
So, that’s the story of the Braves mascot, as far as I can tell. From the Chief to Homer to this Blooper fella, they’ve all had their time in the sun, bringin’ a little bit of fun and excitement to the ball games. And I reckon that’s what it’s all about, ain’t it? Just havin’ a good time and cheerin’ on your team.
Blooper the mascot, a weird lookin’ fella for sure, with his big ears and no mouth, but the fans seem to like him now, even if they didn’t at first. It just goes to show you that sometimes, even the strangest things can grow on you, like a vine on a fence. And that’s all there is to it, as far as I’m concerned. This Atlanta Braves mascot thing, it’s just a bit of fun, ain’t nothin’ to get too worked up about.
