quickly, some in the sports media asked "double the pleasure? or, double the pain?" news of a naming contest led to suggestions like swing and a miss, more and annoying, and bird and brain. for their part, the "globe" issued an editorial calling the situation "a baseball civics lesson", suggesting that no one asked the public, "and when you don't ask citizens of a democracy if they want an icon to be changed you must expect them to rise up in revolution... or at least cry out: give us back our bird."