Cool Nicknames

[Ry-Guy]

Jason Giambi - The Giambino
Keith Foulke - The Incredible Foulke
Ken Griffey Jr, - The Kid or Junior
Sammy Sosa - Sammy "Say it ain't Sosa" or Slammin' Sammy
Jeff Bagwell - Bag Pipes
Jose Mesa - was Senior Smoke, now just Joe Table
Adam Dunn - teammates call him the Big Donkey
Sean Casey - The Mayor
Jeff Conine - Conine the Barbarian

If Austin Kearns changes his # to 47 he'll be A.K.47

[LBJackal]

Actually Coco is his nickname. His real name is Covelli. And Milton Bradley is Game Boy.

[Jack-In-A-Box]

I dont know if this follows the same line of thinking, but the King of nickname making is Chris Berman. He comes up with some great ones.

Some that i can think of off the top of my head..

Albert Winnie the Pujols
Al Bud Leiter
Jim My Thome Aches
Scott Rockin Rolen

[matmat]

Hakuna Tejada Aahhahahaha never heard him called that. That's hilarious!!!

Others are:
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Sidney Ponson - Sir Shrek
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that's friggin hilarious. It fits so nicely. .. . .

have any of you seen some of the yeti sports pages (whacking penguins and all that?) well... if Johnny Damon were albino he'd look just like one of 'em yetis...

[eftda]

Guardado = Everyday Eddie

thats my fav

[Guest]

E Durazo = Ruby Du
Bobby Abreu = Babs
Alfonzo = Fonzie

Andy.....you never knew Brian Giles = The Blue Gorilla?? That's one of my favourites, he's definitely a beast.

[kaz]

Mariano Rivera - Mo

[AcidRock23]

For some reason, whenever nicknames come up, the first thing that pops into my head is 'The Splendid Splinter'...

[jumpman8288]

George Herman Ruth

The Babe
The Bambino
The Great Bambino
The Sultan of Swat
The Colossus of Clout

Others

Joe D.- Joltin' Joe, The Clipper
Phil Rizzuto- Scooter
Mickey Mantle- The Mick, The Commerce Comet, The Switcher
Don Mattingly- Donnie Baseball

[matmat]

catfish

mad hungarian? (is that right?)

whitey

the big bully sausage (randall simon)