A California baseball team canceled his nickname to the Gold Diggers after the marketing trick that caused outrage for the sexist trope.
The Cats del Río Sacramento, the triple-A affiliate of the San Francisco giants, had planned to use alternative uniforms with the new name for five games this season, on Saturday against Salt Lake bees.
“Inspired by the regional history of California’s gold fever, this new identity offers a connection with the significant impact of this era where Sacramento grew the main city closer to the gold fields,” said the cats of the Sacramento Bee River.
But a promotional video for the change of name that was issued last month caused outrage after he presented two women with dollar signs that flash in his eyes when he saw a player.
In the YouTube video now eliminated by River Cats, a baseball player emerges from a gold mine with a peak.
While walking for Sacramento, two women, each accompanied by a male couple, note and moves away their attention from their classmates.
The animated dollar signs appear in the women’s eyes while the player crosses the Torre bridge to West Sacramento, where he exchanges his pickoxe and a bag of gold ball balls for a bat.
“I shouldn’t have to explain what video is bad, but hey, maybe you were recently hit:” Gold Digger “is not a good name,” wrote a Sacramento Bee Robin Epley columnist, calling the nickname as “misogynist.”
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Epley added that the video “showed us exactly what the leadership in the Women’s Cats River thinks.”
“There is no hidden” is just a joke “after this.”
Lisa Kaplan, a member of the City Council of Sacramento, also criticized the advertising campaign.
She wrote in X: “He was missing a great time in this Gats River. It is a sexist and degrading video. I hope better in her organization.”
The team apologized for its lack of sensitivity.
“Our recent marketing campaign for an alternative identity clearly lost the brand,” said the River Cats in a statement to Sfgate.
“Our intention was to make creative reference to the rich history of Sacramento and Gold Country, but our approach was incorrect, and we regret the error. We will no longer use this identity.”
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