Trenton Thunder - Open Thread

Yesterday the Trenton Thunder unveiled their new logos for the 2008 season and I'm torn. I haven't decided what I think of them yet. The first time I saw the new logos I didn't care for them, so I put them aside and came back later and started to warm up to them. But now I'm looking at the PDF file of the whole package on Ballpark Digest and, well, I just don't know.

What do you think? The comment section is open (as it always is), I'd love to hear what you have to say about them. Try to convince me one way or the other.

I'll be back on Monday to let you know what I think

MONDAY UPDATE - After thinking about it over the weekend, I really like this logo in theory. I think it looks great as a logo by itself and like Dave said, it's very hard to visualize Thunder, and they have done a wonderful job giving the Thunder nickname a personality of it's own.

Where I think my problem with this logo lies is in the execution, take the primary cap (left) for example...

Personally, it's just too wide and too, I don't know, round or puffy for a cap. I like something a little more compact and more, for a lack of a better word, striking on a cap. The alternate cap (right) is much more successful in this regard, not to mention that the bolt and the bat form a "T" - don't know if this was intentional, but if it was, nice work.

Overall, I think it's a very good logo and one that I'm sure will be very successful. I just won't be sporting their primary cap anytime soon.

Team: Trenton Thunder
League: Eastern League
Location: Trenton, New Jersey
Stadium: Waterfront Park
Merchandise: All the new stuff is already available

Today in Sports Logos

Today I bring you a new feature here on The Sports Logo Pundit. In an attempt to keep up with what seems like a never ending amount of sports logo news that I am notoriously slow to react to, from here on out I will do what I can to gather that news and present it semi-daily along with the normal reviews. I really would like this to be a post-a-day blog containing up to date news, but I don't always have the time or motivation to think about and then write a full review. So we are going to this new quick wrap, linky style format for the off days. Anyway, watch for Today in Sports Logos often and if you have any tips, please don't hesitate to email me.

New ABA Team of the Day - Say goodbye to the Las Vegas Venom and hello to the Las Vegas Lights. The over/under for amount of games played next season by the Lights is currently listed at three. (OurSportsCentral)

USBL Loses Two - The new USBL season is off to a rough start. First the Boston ownership group pulled out days before the season leaving the league to field the coachless New Jersey Meteors for one game against Albany. Then today the Meteors and the Long Island Primetime folded. (Jackson Clarion-Ledger)

Sonics Gone? - The Washington State legislature decided that they would not be voting on the financing package for a new arena for the Seattle Supersonics during this session. In response, Clayton Bennett popped open the bubbly, smoked a cigar and celebrated with all of the lobbyists that he kept as far away from Olympia as possible. (Seattle PI)

Corporate Ballpark Deal of the Day - The Washington Wild Things of the Frontier League announced today that five year old Falconi Field will now be known as CONSOL Energy Park. The over /under for years until CONSOL Energy is swallowed up and renamed causing the park to also rename itself currently sits at two. (Ballpark Digest)

Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies

Say goodbye to the Bullies. "Bye, bye... see ya...adios...get the heck out of here... don't call us, we'll call you." See, didn't that feel good to finally bully the Bullies. Well that's what folks in Atlantic City are doing right now. Well not quite, most people probably don't care given the fact that they barely drew anybody to games in the first place but at least you feel like a big man now.

The Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies of the ECHL are on their way to Stockton next season leaving behind this pretty lame logo and one of the country's best looking arenas, Historic Boardwalk Hall, also the home of the Miss America Pageant every year. This should come as no surprise. All of the casino cities (AC, Las Vegas, Reno) have been a virtual wasteland of failed franchises, why would the Boardwalk Bullies be any different?

But today isn't a day to make fun of the Bullies and their miscalculation about whether or not hockey would work in Atlantic City. Nope, today is a day to chronicle the passing of yet another franchise and it's logo, albeit a weak effort.

Teal and Purple? Really, nothing says bully like teal and purple. I mean, I know I'm shaking in my boots. It may work from time to time on the evening gowns and swimsuits of the building's other tenant but it just ain't happening for poor Wooly, the team's mascot. Instead of looking tough, Wooly looks like he might have to run and hide from a bully picking on him. "Give me your lunch money Wooly," shouts one mean ass seven year-old girl. "Or I'll beat you with your own hockey stick you teal wearing mutha!"

Maybe they should have used her as their mascot instead.