okay, weird A-gon stat, comments

by garth on May 25, 2007 11:36 PM PDT Comment 9 comments

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/splits?playerId=5405

They list 193 ABs for 07...and 189 as a left-handed batter? the big dog was batting righty? when?

also, i have to say, adrian needs a new nickname. I'm a complete hater of nicknames that are just variations on someone's name...A-gon, Kouz, etc. weak. no imagination. come on, where's the cool nicknames? are they just keeping them from us cuz adrian doesn't want us to know in the clubhouse his name is "Muffin" or something?

So, who thinks what? what's a good nickname for a current Pad? What about Mike Cameron? He deserves a nick, and Cammy is effin taken. No amount of nosecandy will erase the burned-in image in my head of Ken slowly falling backwards, completely under the control of gravity, and gunning a ball on a line across the diamond to beat his guy by a tenth of a step. but man! "M-Cam" would be the lamest nickname of all time.

One guy who SCREAMS for a nickname is Peavy. I call him the Bama Cannon when no one is listening. I don't even know if he's from alabama, but it got stuck in my head somewhere. I just checked, yes, he is. Now i trust the voices in my head more. Look out.

Robo-Khalil is pretty cool, but it still has his damn name in it.
I realize that this is not a super-researched diary, but hey, it's late. This is how i talk to my TV.

Where's our Spaceman? Shoeless? Catfish? Poopikins? Baseball nicknames that leap to mind are about as cool as a shampoo cocktail, which is not cool at all my friend.

By the way, "K-man" or "Kouz your daddy" are not good nicknames, but K-daddy might. Or might not.

Poll

Are baseball nicknames to boring and lame?

No, but your points intrigue me, and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.

5 votes

Maybe. Isn't Maddux called "Mad Dog" and Wells called "Boomer? Those are cool, jerk.

10 votes

Yes.

7 votes

No, they're fine you freak.

2 votes

24 votes | Poll has closed

This FanPost was written by a member of the Gaslamp Ball community and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Gaslamp Ball managers or SB Nation.

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wow

it wasn't til i submitted the diary that i realized how far afield i'd gone while watching the replay. i was at a high school music show watching my kid play the flute instead of watching the ball game tonight. those things are long, i'd rather hang out and listen to her play.

-- Ugh, kid, you just tweezed my wang!

by garth on May 25, 2007 11:38 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

your diary

has taken me on quite an adventure.

let me just focus on one topic...now that you have mentioned it, thanks for this, all this variations of names nicknames will really start to irk me now. thanks for that.

Mark Grant came up with a great one for Kouzmanoff, "Cleaner", cuz he looks like those dudes that clean up after "messes", you know mafia messes or something like that.

Now that's what I'm talking about, nicknames with originality.

I hereby propose from now on, we take on Mudcat's appointed nickname for Kouzmanoff and call him "Cleaner". Its fitting what he did last night, cleanup up the basepaths.

by bktabinga on May 26, 2007 7:25 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Kouzmanoff is already done, right?

He's the Crushin' Russian! I know he's not Russian, but that's the nickname he had coming up.

I guess there's nothing wrong with having more than one nickname. The trouble is that most of the classic nicknames "Splendid Splinter", "Yankee Clipper" were made up by creative sportswriters. Sportswriters nowadays would much rather be either super analytical or super "bloglike" than spend lots of time writing great prose. (No offense, Corey)

by Dex on May 26, 2007 8:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

khalil nickname

I call him the 2007 World Series MVP.

Last year I called him the 2006 WSMVP.

by pjbno4 on May 26, 2007 10:10 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Nicknames

We all tried to figure out nicknames a few weeks ago.

You like any of those?

by jbox on May 26, 2007 11:20 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Koozy

I always thought Kooz looked like The Transporter.

by jbox on May 26, 2007 11:26 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

he looks a lot

like my friend hanna's husband Everett. but that doesn't really help.

-- Ugh, kid, you just tweezed my wang!

by garth on May 26, 2007 12:11 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Re: Gonzalez

Show up as 193 AB as a Lefty to me

by osbug on May 26, 2007 1:01 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Rob Bowen

I've taken to calling him "Track" because anyone can run on him. Cruel and perhaps bad for morale, yes but he's earned it. I would call Josh Bard that but he's always been Shakespeare to me.

"Yeah, the guy in the four thousand dollar suit's gonna hold the elevator for the guy who doesn't make that in three months. Come on!"

by TheThirdGonzalez on May 28, 2007 9:25 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs