Weekend Open Thread

But we've all heard the classic baseball nicknames, "Shoeless Joe", "Mr October", "Sea Bass" anyone?...

No offence but I think that "Oogie" is a stretch (No Joe!) and "Hammer" is to obvious.

We can be more creative.

I think you guys can do better then me but here's mine..

Miguel "Chavez" Cabrera (he looks just like him)

Dontrelle "Iron Worker" Willis.

Who's with me!

Here's espns page 2 Honorable Mention:

"Nails" (Lenny Dykstra), "Iron Horse" (Lou Gehrig), "The Ryan Express" (Nolan Ryan), "The Mad Hungarian" (Al Hrabosky), "The Human Rain Delay" (Mike Hargrove), "Death to Flying Things" (Bob Ferguson), "El Guapo" (Rich Garces), "Dr. Strangeglove" (Dick Stewart), "Crime Dog" (Fred McGriff), "The Bird" (Mark Fidrych), "Space Man" (Bill Lee), "Wild Thing" (Mitch Williams), "The Big Unit" (Randy Johnson), "The Big Hurt" (Frank Thomas), "Yogi" (Lawrence Berra), "The Rocket" (Roger Clemens)

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/baseball/nicknames/010612.html