12:38:00 PM|||Deanna|||I guess that if I really am Seattle's wannabe Bat-Girl, one of these days I was going to have to make a requisite "Nicknames" post.
Nicknames that I semi-regularly use around here:
Bobby Madritsch - "Bowflex"
Greg Dobbs - "Dobby the Bench Elf"
Dan Wilson - "Danny Boy"
Pat Borders - "Uncle Rico"
J.J.Putz - "John Jacob Jingleheimer Putz"
Jarrod Washburn - "J-Rod the Washburninator", Blue Eyes
Chase Utley - "Chasey-at-the-Bat"
Pat Burrell - "Pattycakes" (sometimes "Pattycakes Strikeout", if I'm pissed off at him).
Left field at CBP: Burrellville, Pattstown
Ryan Howard - "Cerrano"
Ron Villone - "Ronnie the Bear"
Randy Johnson - "Big Ugly"
Chris Snelling - "Doyle" (from USSM)
Orlando Hernandez - "El Dookie" (also from USSM)
Miguel Tejada - Mister-Swings-At-Everything (from Moneyball)
"Alphabet Soup" - refers to a lot of guys with long last names, but particularly Justin Duchscherer and Dougie Mientkiewicz
Mark Grudzielanek - "Grudzilla" (from the back of his Topps 2005 baseball card)
Joe Crede - "Shoeless Joe from Jefferson, MO" (sorta like Joe Hardy in Damn Yankees), "Speedy Crede"
Albert Pujols - "Pujols At The Bat"
Shunsuke Watanabe - "Sub" Marine
Hiroyuki Kobayashi - "The Other Kobayashi"|||112785000146554239|||The Nicknames Post