Wikipedia defines a booby prize as the following:
A booby prize is a joke prize usually given in recognition of a terrible performance or last-place finish. A person who scores last, for example, may get a booby prize such as a worthless coin. Booby prizes are sometimes humorously and jokingly coveted as an object of pride.
And in fact, goes on to educate us on its origin:
The word "boob" stems from the Spanish bobo meaning stupid, which in turn came from the Latin balbus meaning stammering; the word booby to mean dunce appeared in 1599.
Booby-prize literally means "idiot's prize".
I've heard from a fly on the wall in the Commissioner's office that the trophy pictured above will be this year's booby prize. And just so it's clear, the animation that you're seeing is because the trophy is a bobble-butt (rather than a bobble-head). So for our last place manager, he will get to enjoy looking at a bobbling horse's ass for the rest of the year. Gentlemen, this is not a comment on the company you keep but rather what awaits you should you end up in the basement.
The Commish is scouting out ideas for the first place trophy, so if you run across anything interesting, post your comments here.
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