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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.
The St. Paul Saints quickly found out that not everyone was amused by the pig's name, Ozempig, or the team's posting of a backstory about the pig's embarrassment at gaining weight and promise to try to remain trim.
Almost immediately after the team announced the name this week ahead of Saturday's opening day game, criticism began pouring in on social media from people distressed by the name, calling it hurtful and insensitive.
Sean Aronson, the Saints' vice president and media relations director, said the team only wanted an amusing, topical name for its pig when it chose Ozempig from nearly 2,300 entries in its 'Name the Pig Contest.'
Team officials were shocked that so many people found the name offensive, Aronson said.
The St. Paul Saints baseball team in Minnesota has named its mascot for the season Ozempig
Some people have criticized the decision to name the pig after the weight loss drug Ozempic
The Saints are around 10 miles from the much larger home of the Minnesota Twins in MLB
'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
