The Hartford What Nows?
Major League Baseball’s Colorado Rockies will have a new AA affiliate in Hartford next year*. The Hartford club just unveiled its new name and logo, and both confirm that Connecticut is a very strange place.
Yes, that’s a goat. Its not just any farm goat or barn goat or wild goat either. Nope, the Hartford club’s mascot is specifically a Yard Goat. Seriously, Connecticut, what the fuck is this? Your drivers are dangerous and your liquor laws are downright nonsensical, but this is some bizarre shit. Are Yard Goats a species of fauna endemic to Hartford? Or maybe I’ve missed something and the team is taking its name from a new street gang?
Yard Goats. Whatever, Connecticut…just stay off our roads.
*Technically, the team is not new. The New Britain Rock Cats (another head-scratcher of a name) are relocating and rebranding.
A Serious Thinking Problem 