Getting Ready for Game Threads

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"Cuppa" Joe Mauer

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Aaron "Stretch" Slegers, merely because tall people sometimes get called that

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Ervin "Johan the Younger" Santana - technically inaccurate after he legally changed his name.

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"Hip Hip" Jorge Polanco - trite by now, and IndianaTwin's idea was better

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Anibal "Lecter" Sanchez - gruesome, but perhaps works.

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"Angel" Gabriel Moya

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Grouping these three together...

• No one as yet has mentioned the low-hanging fruit of Ryan "The King" Pressly?
• Ditto, Jason "Fidel" Castro.
• Ditto, Eduardo "Pablo" Escobar, though slightly more obscure.

[ashbury]

Ehire "Ay-Ray" Adrianza - to teach people how to say his name is enough

[gocgo]

 

Jake Odorizzi: Credit goes to whoever came up with the Bermanism “Eggs” Odorizzi on a prior thread. This also acknowledges the goose eggs he’s going to put on the scoreboard every five days.
 

Sorry...I gotta go with the obvious on this one - Stink.

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Zack "Countertop" Granite - love it or hate it, probably hate it

Leaning toward Rock...just Rock...no first name, no last name, kinda like Cher, Madonna....just Rock.

[ashbury]

Leaning toward Rock...just Rock...no first name, no last name, kinda like Cher, Madonna....just Rock.

Yeah, it's inevitably going to be something like that. He probably got tired of the playground banter by third grade, but oh well. He could pull an Ervin Santana and file for a legal name change, if it bothers him.

[Tom Froemming]

 

OK, the rules said one at a time. Brace yourselves...

 

Kennys "Bye Bye" Vargas - for the home runs, or for his destiny with the team?

How about Viva Las Vargas? 

[Riverbrian]

 

Chief: The Dinosaur

 

Uncanny resemblance. 

 

[Riverbrian]

 

Zack "Countertop" Granite - love it or hate it, probably hate it

 

I'm good with that. 

 

Who wouldn't want the nickname "Countertop"

 

Hey Countertop!!! 

[Riverbrian]

 

"Cuppa" Joe Mauer

 

Batting... Average Joe

[USAFChief]

Uncanny resemblance. 

 

Wow. So not true.

 

I have fingers.

[Nine of twelve]

My favorite nickname ever in baseball: Eyechart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Gwosdz

[ashbury]

I'm good with that. 

 

Who wouldn't want the nickname "Countertop"

 

Hey Countertop!!! 

Exactly!

 

It has the merit of getting the attention of one and only one person when shouted into a crowd.

[Riverbrian]

 

Exactly!

 

It has the merit of getting the attention of one and only one person when shouted into a crowd.

 

It'll be at its most interesting at a crowded convenience store. Zach will acknowledge while everyone else will wonder why the person doesn't keep going and name everything else he sees. "Counter top, magazine rack, refrigerator full of rock star. real old looking hot dogs". 

 

(True Story) We had a cat named "Rope" and the cat got outside one day. My wife went out and yelled "Rope" and yelled that at intervals trying to call the cat back.

 

I don't know how many "Rope" calls it took but eventually our neighbor brought some rope over. (True Story) 

 

[USAFChief]

 

Exactly!

 

It has the merit of getting the attention of one and only one person when shouted into a crowd.

 

You sure about that?

 

[ashbury]

It'll be at its most interesting at a crowded convenience store. Zach will acknowledge while everyone else will wonder why the person doesn't keep going and name everything else he sees. "Counter top, magazine rack, refrigerator full of rock star. real old looking hot dogs". 

 

(True Story) We had a cat named "Rope" and the cat got outside one day. My wife went out and yelled "Rope" and yelled that at intervals trying to call the cat back.

 

I don't know how many "Rope" calls it took but eventually our neighbor brought some rope over. (True Story) 

You left out the best part of your story: your dad named his next cats "Beer" and "Whiskey".

[Riverbrian]

 

You left out the best part of your story: your dad named his next cats "Beer" and "Whiskey".

[Brandon]

Eggs is good.

 

I also like "Whiff" because of the Easy Odor of his last name.

Also goes with how lots of people eat their eggs over easy.....odorizzi....sound about the same....

[Brandon]

Zach the legomaniac

Mad Max

Hindeburg

Hughe waist of money or I had my Phil

Jose Barrier to base

Logan "Wolverine" Morrison

Sing us the song of the Sano Man....

Sniffer...for Santana from smell em...

Fernandomania

Bushwhack ...Busenitz or deesenutz

V for Pressly since he was a rule V steal and has a vendetta to show it

The Walking dead for Grossman as he walks alot and plays the OF like a walker....

 

Thats all i got some are duds others are just others...

[IndianaTwin]

Welcome to the team, "Sir," which is short for "Sir Lance-a-Lynn."

[IndianaTwin]

 

How about Viva Las Vargas? 

 

"Viva Las Vargas" indeed!

[Pardon My Dinger]

Odorizzi = RZA

[Squirrel]

Odorizzi = RZA

It’s like you shortened his name to an airport code.

[Craig Arko]

Getting ready for game threads? Sound like a long trip to Surdyks.

[Pardon My Dinger]

It’s like you shortened his name to an airport code.

I guess you just don’t know anything about music...