Baseball team ditches Gold Diggers name change after outrage

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A small league baseball team is digging gold with new promotions, but just digging a hole with fans.

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The Sacramento River Cats, a Triple A branch of the San Francisco Giants, have denied a promotion that would have renamed the team to several games this season.

The team gave up their heads after a promotional video posted on YouTube sparked anger at the sexist Trope.

This season, the minor league clubs of five games this season are scheduled to play against the Salt Lake Bees this Saturday.

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“Inspired by the regional history of the California Gold Rush, this new identity is associated with the significant influence of this era when Sacramento grew into the major city closest to the golden field,” the River Cat told the Sacramento Bee.

However, YouTube videos are designed to promote alternative names, putting the team into the crosshair only when you see the player with two women with the dollar sign.

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This video has since been removed from YouTube, showing players appearing in a gold mine carrying Pickaxe. As he walked through the city, the two women noticed him and turned their attention to their male companions.

According to those who saw the clip before being deleted, the woman’s eyes showed signs of animated dollar in her eyes as he crossed the local bridge and changed the bags of bats and bags filled with golden baseballs.

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Sacramento Bees columnist Robin Epley called the team’s name “Misophobia.”

“I don’t have to explain why this video is terrible, but, hey, maybe you hit yourself in the head recently: ‘Gold Digger’ is not a good name,” she wrote.

“This is not a name that is usually used in any way, except insulting women. By the way, it is often used to describe a situation where, for many women, is through the use of a privilege (i.e., their bodies) that society has always encouraged them to use, and that is the only sense of financial security they can get.”

Sacramento City Councilman Lisa Kaplan also criticized the ad campaign and posted “Missed Mark Big Time” on X.

“This is a sexist and demeaning video. I hope your organization is better.”

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The team apologized for its lack of sensitivity to name changes and promotional videos.

“Our recent marketing campaign to provide alternative identities has clearly missed this goal,” River Cat said in a statement to SFGATE.

“Our intention is to creatively refer to the long history of Sacramento and the Gold Country, but our approach is wrong and we are sorry for this error. We will no longer use this identity.”

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