What Happened to All the Nicknames? (An interactive contest!)
Not so long ago, White Sox players had a lot of nicknames. In fact, White Sox announcers had a lot of nicknames. This was of course, back when Sox TV broadcasting didn’t include “DJ” Darrin Jackson, but Tom “Wimpy” Paciorek. Or wait, wasn’t it “Duke”? Those were confusing days.
Ken “The Hawk” Harrelson remains however, and the much-hated broadcaster is admittedly responsible for some awesome nicknames in White Sox past. Now, I’m not too certain how many he actually is responsible for, but in his borderline senile and grumpy old phase, “Hawk” has resorted to lazily and simply calling players things like “Jimmy” instead of Jim, “Big Jon” instead of Jon, and so on.
It wasn’t so long ago when the White Sox boasted such classic nicknames as:
Jack “Blackjack” McDowell
Frank “The Big Hurt” Thomas
Tim “Rock” Raines
Lance “One-Dog” Johnson
“The Pope” Don Pall
Craig “The Little Hurt” Grebeck
“El Caballo” Carlos Lee
Carl “The Chauffer” Everett (see also: “The Truth”, “Jurassic”)
…and so on.
It has become a increasingly difficult situation to have a team without awesome nicknames. Thus I present to you:
That’s right, folks. We’re ready to hear you’re original nicknames for the Sox players…and if they’re good enough, we (and others on the internet!) might start possibly using them. Eitherway, it’ll be fun, and better than nicknames like “Paulie” instead of Paul. Whoever comes up with the best nickname(s) wins some beer, I promise. An example:
Jermaine “The Bus” Dye.
Other reasonable to bad nicknames we have come up with in the last year or so:
-Brian “B.A. Barracus” Anderson
-Cliff “The Untouchable” Politte (for his striking resemblence to Elliot Ness, although we might have made that up)
Anyways, enough of this. It’s your turn!