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Old 08-25-2018, 05:09 AM
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Default Hilareous MLB Nicknames

ESPN lists a top 10 player nicknames & the top one for Brad Boxberger, made me laugh out loud:

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2...kend-nicknames


Chris Berman had a whole bunch of nicknames he endowed.

My favorite was Bert 'Be Home' Blyleven'



Here are a few others that I find very funny:

'The Human Rain Delay' - Mike Hargrove

current speed-up rules wouldn't allow for that.


'Yard Dart' - Juan Cruz

so labeled by John Smoltz while Cruz was an impossibly thin teammate.
If you are too young to remember what yard darts were, google it....
You will be amazed that such a 'toy' was ever allowed.


...and finally, Jeffrey Leonard, who had a good, not great 14-year career...

Jeff had three nicknames - HacMan because he swung at so many first pitches ; One Flap Down for the way he kept his right arm by his side on home run trots.

Jeffrey is a father and a grandfather and he and his wife established the 'One Flap Down Foundation' for cancer treatment. He seems to be a good man - enjoying his retirement (he's my age - 62).

However, Jeffrey's third nickname, which made me laugh the hardest, was given for the many sour-puss expressions (though there are plenty of photos of him smiling).

May I present Mr. Jeffrey Leonard:

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'Ole Penitentiary Face'
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I love cool home run trots. One flap down, Encarnacion's parrot, any others?

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The best Berman nicknames IMO are Oddibe Young Again MacDowell and Greg Math Maddux.
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My personal favorite


His can doesn't look oily in that picture.
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Default Ole Penitentiary Face

I’m a newbie on the forum. One of the welcoming comments I received was that “I’d have a lot of fun here.” Very true. This thread is a laugh-out-loud example. Ole Penitentiary Face - hilarious!
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I definitely laughed the first time I heard Grant "Full Count" Balfour.
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I didn't realize this existed:

The BIG Nickname List:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/f...icknames.shtml
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Don't think it was an official nickname, but as mean-spirited Yankee fans when I was a kid, me and my Dad used to always call Mark Clear "Mark Clear The Bases", when he pitched for the Red Sox.
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How about the reverse? We Mets fans would harmoniously call out "Larrrr-rrreeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!" en masse to 'Chipper' Jones when he came up to the plate at Shea Stadium. But then he freakin' named his son Shea!! What an outrage!! Well played, Larry, well played.
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