{"id":49670,"date":"2023-11-17T14:07:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T19:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49670"},"modified":"2023-11-18T14:08:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T19:08:03","slug":"introducing-the-rome-emperors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49670","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Rome Emperors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I don\u2019t hate it<\/a>: the Rome Professional Baseball Club formerly known as the Rome Braves, unveils new team name and branding identity, the Rome Emperors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sure, it\u2019s not the snarky low-hanging fruit like the Rome Rednecks<\/a>, or the outside-the-box idea I had of calling them the Floyd County Archers, but it\u2019s not like we didn\u2019t know that it was going to be something safe, kid-friendly, and homogenized, because at the end of the day, the Rome Professional Baseball Club is still a business and going safe, kid-friendly and homogenized is still the modus operandi of trying to squeeze money out of as many demographics and parties as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

So yeah, the Rome Emperors \u2013 as stated above, I don\u2019t hate it.\u00a0 Smart to have unveiled everything at once, or at least that\u2019s how I found out because I live under a rock and this was fed to me by friends before I could even find out about something this baseball minutiae on my own like I used to, but whatever, because I saw everything all at once, I didn\u2019t have time to speculate, dissect and eventually hate it, because everything was done upon delivery.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s one aspect that likes that they\u2019re calling themselves Emperors, which sends a message that they intend to rule the Sally League or the Carolina League, or whatever level of A-ball they\u2019re in these days, I\u2019ve lost track, but at the end of the day, Minor League baseball is still a feeder league to higher leagues, and so often times is the case, especially with Braves affiliates, is that their records aren\u2019t ever really that great.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember the last time, or ever, when a Braves affiliate won a league championship, so it\u2019s kind of funny that they have the name of Emperors, but will more often than not, be doing anything but ruling the league.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s kind of like Team Emperor in Initial D<\/em>, because they were introduced to be this badass guerilla team of Evos that dominated lower-tier street racing clubs<\/a>, but then eventually became another fodder squad to the Hachi-roku, the Redsuns, Kogashiwa\u2019s MR2 and even Mako and Sayuki\u2019s Sil-Eighty.\u00a0 In spite of the menacing sounding name, they ultimately were just mid, at best.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless, in spite of the snarky analysis, good on the organization for picking a name that remotely goes tangibly with the name Rome, and I like the explanation of their direction to go with a penguin, instead of the Little Caesar\u2019s mascot, because when the day is over, everyone loves animals and frankly I don\u2019t know anyone who doesn\u2019t like penguins.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sure, it\u2019s ironic that an animal most known for living in arctic conditions will be the mascot for a team that plays in a state that has nuclear summers, but when kids and grown-ups like me that like chintzy, novelty crap like penguins with baseball bats see a penguin, there\u2019s money to be made in moving merch.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not lost in the rebrand is the fact that they actually got away with using the overkill\u2019d Trajan font with the Rome wordmark on their away jerseys, because if there was ever something that could get a pass on using the most basic and Rome-ey fonts there ever was, it was a brand that was actually called Rome.\u00a0 I still think they\u2019re lazy for not sharpening off the tips of the serifs, but at the same time, I can understand why.<\/span><\/p>\n

Overall, I\u2019m quite satisfied with the rebrand altogether.\u00a0 Kudos to the organization for pulling it off, even if I wish they didn\u2019t try to sparsely try to satisfy the Braves by keeping so much red in their branding, but baby steps, I suppose.\u00a0 They\u2019ve already taken great strides stepping away from their overlords, and hopefully things can only get better from here.<\/span><\/p>\n

I look forward to (not) hearing about the promotions, shenanigans and general business that the team will be able to do in the coming season and in the future, when they\u2019re not quite so held down by the shackles of the Atlanta Braves stuffy corporate branding.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t hate it: the Rome Professional Baseball Club formerly known as the Rome Braves, unveils new team name and branding identity, the Rome Emperors Sure, it\u2019s not the snarky low-hanging fruit like the Rome Rednecks, or the outside-the-box idea I had of calling them the Floyd County Archers, but it\u2019s not like we didn\u2019t … Continue reading Introducing the Rome Emperors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,62,131,66,100,94,87,64,58],"class_list":["post-49670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-art","tag-baseball","tag-branding","tag-braves","tag-comparison","tag-graphic-design","tag-initial-d","tag-minor-leagues","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49672,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49670\/revisions\/49672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}