For the record, jumbo shrimp, when prepared and ready to eat, should be that usual, cooked color. That enticing reddish pink and white combination.

The “Jumbo Shrimp” we’re talking about, however, aren’t the ones you dip in cocktail sauce and shower with a squeezed lemon before daintily dropping into one’s salivating pie hole.

The ones we’re alluding to play our national pastime, as a Double A farm team for the Miami Marlins, and call Jacksonville, Florida home. A few years ago, they were named after the star at the center of our solar system. And wore yellow and black uniforms.

But no longer.

They’re baseball players who don red, white and blue — as an ode to the region’s huge military population and naval installations — and boast a crustacean as a mascot.

“That stood out to us immediately,” team owner Ken Babby told The Florida Times-Union . “And then the water …”

“And why shrimp? We thought it would be a fun animal. And there is a great shrimping industry here.”

Babby, a former Washington Post digital manager, also owns another minor league ball club in Akron, Ohio. They’re the RubberDucks.

No, really, they are.

See for yourself. Verified military members can watch both squads online at a discount! through the power of MiLB.TV. All you have to do is click here.