MLB Mascot Brackets – Ace vs Fredbird
Posted by: Richie Rich in Blue Jays, Cardinals, Mascot Brackets, Mascots
Recapping the last matchups, the Swinging Friar barely worked up a sweat in dispatching Captain Jolly Roger (with 72% of the vote) thanks to a well-coordinated effort by the Padres fanatics at Gas Lamp Ball.
Pirates fans didn’t have a chance to save their Pirate. I’m told by some Padres fans that the Friar will be in the finals.
Meanwhile, TC Bear laid early claim in the Mammal Division with a solid whomping of Junction Jack with 88% of the vote.
However, there was a lot less voting in that battle of woodland creatures (only 33 votes) - which could bode poorly for TC in the second round.
Moving on, we have our first international competition in the Mascot Brackets, as we head to the Feather Division …
#4 Ace (Blue Jays) vs. #5 FredBird (Cardinals)
Ace is the Toronto Blue Jays’ current blue-feathered mascot, having replaced BJ Bird when the team’s logo and uniforms got all stylized and an ugly shade of gray a few years back.
Change isn’t always good.
That Blue Jay is more gray than blue.
He’s not the only mascot for the Blue Jays either … apparently he’s dating a lady Blue Jay named Diamond.
And since her name is Diamond, she must be a stripper.
How many girls named Diamond do you know who aren’t strippers?
Ace also has some unreliable friends.
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FredBird has been roaming Busch Stadium for 28 years now, having debuted in 1979. And it looks like the Cardinals haven’t changed the costume very much since then. Really – that might be the cheapest looking mascot costume in the Majors.
FredBird likes to go around biting people in the head, and the fans seem to love it. Someone has to explain St Louis to me one of these days.
Here’ Fredbird on a trampoline at an event of some kind. You can’t do that with an expensive costume.
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Voting is open until Thursday, August 2, 2007 at Midnight.
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July 30th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
The Blue Jays rock and so does Ace!
July 31st, 2007 at 10:28 am
Yeah right – The Blue Jays and Ace are awful.
I’ll tell you who would be a good Blue Jay’s Mascot – Denim Dan…He would be a drunk guy with a mullet, jeans, jean shirt, jean jacket, and a jean hat with a Molsen logo on it. He’d just wander around the stands going “eh!”
July 31st, 2007 at 10:43 am
I cannot bring myself to vote for anything Cardinal-related, but man does that new Blue Jay suck. And Ace? Really? Perhaps instead of Diamond they should have named the partner Gary.
July 31st, 2007 at 10:55 am
Hold on a minute.
The Cardinals are also very well represented by drunken, mulleted, denim-wearing, slack-jawed hillbilly fans.
They just wear Budweiser shirts.
And jarble the English language.
But still … that Blue Jay sucks.
July 31st, 2007 at 11:14 am
Wait a sec….. I do NOT have a mullet.
July 31st, 2007 at 3:53 pm
This match-up is pretty tough to pick for anyone not affiliated with either team.
Both mascots seem pretty lame, but I’m going with the Cardinal because the Jays are constantly licking my Red Sox’s boots and Ace got out-danced by that fat bastard O’s fan in his own house.
If you’re a mascot and you see a walking heart attack who roots for the other team who’s causing more of a stir than you are in your own stadium, it’s time to retire.
July 31st, 2007 at 7:41 pm
diamond stinks!
i rule!
July 31st, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Ace and Diamond. Hmmm.
That must mean he’s getting laid while Fredbird is a “solo” act.
Ace gets my vote.
August 1st, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Fredbird is the shit.
What’s the Mets’ mascot some queer with purple hair, who rides the seven train, next to some 17 year old mom with two kids?
Exactly. If that’s not the Mets’ mascot it should be.
August 1st, 2007 at 3:28 pm
To shed a bight of light on the whole Blue/Grey thing…
In Canada, there are two main beer rivals. They established colors as a brand (LaBatt Blue). I forget the names of both companies (is one LaBatt itself?) but one is red and one is blue. Back in the day, the Blue jays were owned by the Blue company. Since then the teams has changed hands and is now owned by the red company. Seeing as how familiar the essential “gang colors” are, the new owners are doing everything they can to rid the team of the color blue. That is why the mascot/uniforms have VERY little blue in them. They even dont want the word “BLUE” associated with the team, hence the uniforms just saying “Jays”
January 20th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Toronto’s for f*cking queers.
Fredbird rulz and so do the Cardinals.
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:47 am
I agree. Toronto sucks w/o B.J. Birdie. Fredbird rules the entire world.
March 27th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Labatt’s is blue and Molson is red.
Did anyone else get a strong “Mexicans are bound to get drunk and either fight each other or run away” from that commerical?
May 4th, 2009 at 6:48 am
So, I guess Toronto isn’t sucking anymore. Ace is a riot!