The Saints will have to wait another day to play ball.
Almost immediately after the team announced the name this week ahead of Saturday's opening day game, criticism began pouring in on social media.ST PAUL, Minn. — For a Minnesota minor league baseball team known for a history of outlandish promotions, the idea of naming its longtime live pig mascot after the weight loss drug Ozempic made perfect sense.
“In today's world, people don't want to be diminished, they don't want to be made to feel a certain way and I'm not going to tell them how they feel is wrong,” Aronson said. “But I can tell you there was no ill-intent, there was no maliciousness, there was never even a discussion in the room when we were going over the name that hey, this may offend some people.”
The Saints' pig is a beloved participant in the team's games played at CHS Field in downtown St. Paul, about 10 miles from the much larger home of the Minnesota Twins in downtown Minneapolis. The animal carries out balls to the umpire and over the course of the summer becomes noticeably larger — so much larger in fact that another young pig takes over duties midway through the season.
With such past stunts in mind, some Saints fans defended the name as a play on words and nothing more.
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