Nicknames for Alex Avila?
Looking up and down the Tigers roster, you fnd many of the the players have a nickname Miguel Cabrera-Miggy, Cabby, Justin Verlander-JV, Victor Martinez- V-Mart, Jose Valverde-Papa Grande, etc. With the all-star season Alex Avila is having, I think it's time he gets a nickname as well.
Any suggestions?
A-Squared
Sometimes a simple idea works the best. A2 really works around Southeast Michigan. I think it could catch on!
Plus I'm pretty sure it'd piss off Sparty...
Dibs
Or Ace-Deuce
Not to be that guy but please mark OT
It really does.
Most people on this board don't know who Alex Avila is and wouldn't know they are going to be clicking on a Tigers-centric thread without "OT". It is very important for some people to never click on anything other than UM-centric threads and when they get railroaded like this, man, their whole day is gone.
Seeing as how this is a Michigan blog, doesn't it make sense that people would come here for "UM-centric threads?"
to "Alex" myself.
Viva Avila
I was at a game and after a good play by a Tiger they always put a cheesy little message on the electronic ring/sign thing. I swear one for Avila was "Living Avila Loca" or something like that.
Most of those don't even count as nicknames, they're just lazy constructs. V-Mart, really? Alex Rodriguez will be calling to get his nickname back just as soon as he's done calling the 5,000 other athletes that people have attached it to. The only other time it was clever was with Kenyon Martin.
Also, it's a pretty solid rule that just about everything suggested in a "hey let's nickname this guy" thread is either stupid or astoundingly stupid and never catches on. AAB's idea being an exception.
that Edwin Encarnacion is the one exception.
"E5" is maybe the greatest nickname in sports.
The Italian Stallion?
Down under?
These "nicknames" are pretty lame as it is. The only even slightly creative one is Papa Grande, and that's just "Big Daddy" in Spanish.
Big Potato in Spanish
Papa Grande actually translates for Valverde to "Big Potato" because he looks just like one.
Papá Grande. Big Daddy.
there's no accent in Valverde's nickname, which makes it big potato.
Maybe there is an accent in his name but since most white people cant pronounce it correctly so instead of big daddy you're now calling him big potato.
turns out his nickname was supposed to be big daddy and the teammate doing the naming was just really bad at spanish
yeah, big potato... anyways you can always call him "papasote", "papote" etc.... it sounds nasty though...
Who expected this kind of start outa' this guy? I thought he was pretty good last year, but the batting average and clutch hitting caught me by surprise! How cool!
Pokey.
He is a dead ringer for Jack Parkman. My brother and I have been calling him Parkman since opening day.
"Jack Parkman: I'm the only winner on this team. The rest of 'em, they're losers. Either by choice, or by birth.
"
Don't stand on the tracks when the train is coming through.
'your biggest gun just got traded to Chicago. Matter of fact, your only gun. Au revoir.'
'What do you call that garbage?'
'I call it the eliminator. I've got another pitch. you hit it, i'll let you name it'
/crushes homerun
'I'll call it the masturbator'
Because he looks like Tyrol from Battlestar Galactica...could also go with Cylon, killing would-be stealers with lasers
Miggy, or Cabby puts the Tigers up in the bottom of the 8th with a 2 run single with 2 out: 3-2. Awesome.
Edit: Now V-Mart with a single: 4-2.
Edit: Now Jhonny Power with a single: 5-2. All with two outs. Team has heart.
Inge with 2 run RBI single.
wow, the dbacks are choking
Roberts with an error. 8-2 Tigers. 8 straight runners reach with 2 outs.
Brennan Bosche a.k.a "B.B. Swing" is by far the best nickname on the Tigers.
My friends and I have called Boesch "Roy Hobbs" since his ridiculous coming out in the first half of last year's season.
B.B. Gun
A-train
"Pudge 2.0"
Unfrozen Caveman Catcher
Firstly, I love The Big Tilde for Magglio as a nickname, and I think that Agent P is absolutely brilliant for Ryan Perry (because he may or may not be a platypus.)
As for Avila, well, since he went to Alabama, what about the Alabama Slammer? Failing that, Lt. Commander Hunter, the character Denzel Washington played in Crimson Tide.
Simple but effective.
The best Tiger nickname IMO is Maggs nickname of Singlio cuz hes always getting singles. Im a huge Maggs fan but it cracks me up.
I refuse to call Victor Martinez as V Mart...thats just lame to me. Sometimes I call Cabrera Miggy but I usually just call him Cabrera.
Singlio is by far the funniest. Papa Grande is a pretty cool nickname though.