In a contest held by the Giants where fans were asked for ideas, six people submitted the name "Lou Seal." These lucky fans were then invited to a game that season where they sat in a luxury box and got to meet the newly named mascot, and one of them was randomly chosen to throw out the first pitch. In 2008 Forbes Magazine named Lou Seal the best mascot in sports. He has had 1,150 consecutive home-game appearances, and is one of the four subjects followed in the second season of the Hulu series "Behind the Mask". He wears the team's main or orange alternate jersey at home games with the team cap, whenever Brandon Belt plays he sometimes wears a giraffe hat with the uniform (in honor of his nickname "Baby Giraffe").