Updated major league logos - MLB

I pretty much stopped reading ESPN’s Page 2 when Hunter S. Thompson blew his head off — I think he would have wanted me to — but there’s something really good over there today: Updated MLB logos. Each team’s, reimagined in such a way as to capture the essence of its bein’, ya know?

Here’s the National League. Here’s the American League.

Observations: the Mets one is dead perfect, and would have been even if K-Rod hadn’t socked the wife’s old man last night. The Indians one, I presume, will be stolen by many a Cleveland-based sports blogger. Most of the other ones are pretty clever too, though the Yankees is a bit too obvious. Really, there has to be a way to take the piss out of that team these days without making an easy reference to their payroll, right?

That quibble aside, I judge the efforts to constitute near brilliance.

TORONTO — The Blue Jays clinched a postseason berth Thursday without taking the field.

Toronto was assured of an AL wild card berth when the Boston Red Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 5-3.

If Toronto holds its current position as the first of the AL’s three wild cards, the Blue Jays would open a best-of-three wild-card series at Rogers Centre next week.

“These guys are excited to be in this position,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said after Wednesday’s 8-3 loss to the New York Yankees. “You’ve got three really good pitchers lined up against a good Boston team, playing at home. So I think it’s more excitement more than it’s nerves or anything. I think the guys are going to come out and be ready to roll on Friday night.”

Toronto became the fourth AL team to clinch a playoff berth, joining division champions Houston, the Yankees and Cleveland. The Astros and Yankees have first-round byes.

The Blue Jays last went to the playoffs in 2020, when they were knocked out with two straight losses to Tampa Bay.

Eight of the 12 berths in the expanded postseason have been clinched: The Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis earned division titles, and Atlanta and the New York Mets are assured no worse the wild cards while still competing to win the NL East. The Dodgers have a first-round bye.