Shohei Ohtani, Logo Edition

I didn’t have time for this. I’ve got about seven weeks to finish this crazy-wonderful project I’m working on (yikes!). I’ve got some trips coming up. I’ve got family things happening. I absolutely did not have all morning to work on this one dumb thing.

But I did it anyway.

I woke up with this idea — you all saw the iconic image of Shohei Ohtani after he hit the walk-off home run Friday night, right?

Well, I woke up thinking about the MLB logo. I love the MLB logo. I really do. I love its iconic look. I love that it’s been around since 1968 — so basically since the start of the Expansion Era. I love that the artist insists it was not modeled on Harmon Killebrew, even though it was obviously modeled on Harmon Killebrew. I love that depending on how you adjust your view, the batter can appear to be hitting right-handed or left-handed.

And I thought: You know what? That Ohtani image should be, like, a City Connect MLB logo. Every team ought to have its own MLB logo based on one iconic image. And I thought, “Hey, maybe I’ll make all 30 MLB logos over the next few months, you know, as a fun little treat for JoeBlogs readers.”

And then I remembered: “Oh yeah, you have no artistic abilities whatsoever.”

But I was ultra-focused on it. So I put aside the writing that I should have been doing, and told my family that I would join them for Mother’s Day in a little bit, and I sat at this computer with Canva and Adobe Illustrator and a whole bunch of other art applications that I have no idea how to use.

Finally, this is what I came up with.

I kind of like it. I mean, it’s rough, and I probably should have spent my morning and early afternoon writing. But … I kind of like it.

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