Comments on: Ryan Howard’s giant stick http://umpbump.com/press/2006/09/13/ryan-howards-giant-stick/ In-your-face baseball commentary Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:44:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: umpbump.com http://umpbump.com/press/2006/09/13/ryan-howards-giant-stick/comment-page-1/#comment-731 umpbump.com Sat, 07 Oct 2006 20:13:54 +0000 http://www.umpbump.com/press/?p=350#comment-731 [...] For all you newbies, we here at umpbump have hinted at such a Gibson / Garciaparra allusion. [...] [...] For all you newbies, we here at umpbump have hinted at such a Gibson / Garciaparra allusion. [...]

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]]> By: umpbump.com http://umpbump.com/press/2006/09/13/ryan-howards-giant-stick/comment-page-1/#comment-701 umpbump.com Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:39:34 +0000 http://www.umpbump.com/press/?p=350#comment-701 [...] Meanwhile, The One That Got Away is playing hurt and hit two walkoff homers in the space of a week to keep his team in contention. The first one? Completely crazy. The second? A grand slam! Almost as if to say, “So what if I can barely hobble around the bases? If I hit it out of the park, I can limp around as slowly and painfully as I want! Take that, haters!” Can’t walk? Hit a walkoff! [...] [...] Meanwhile, The One That Got Away is playing hurt and hit two walkoff homers in the space of a week to keep his team in contention. The first one? Completely crazy. The second? A grand slam! Almost as if to say, “So what if I can barely hobble around the bases? If I hit it out of the park, I can limp around as slowly and painfully as I want! Take that, haters!” Can’t walk? Hit a walkoff! [...]

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]]> By: Sarah Green http://umpbump.com/press/2006/09/13/ryan-howards-giant-stick/comment-page-1/#comment-670 Sarah Green Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:47:58 +0000 http://www.umpbump.com/press/?p=350#comment-670 Good ol' Nomie. Now you know why we loved him so! Good ol’ Nomie. Now you know why we loved him so!

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]]> By: Sarah Green http://umpbump.com/press/2006/09/13/ryan-howards-giant-stick/comment-page-1/#comment-51883 Sarah Green Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:55:43 +0000 http://www.umpbump.com/press/?p=350#comment-51883 Ward, I concur. A nickname, to mean anything, has to be organic. Uncontrived. Natural! Ah, and Big Papi---we anglos in Beantown didn't know what "papi" meant at first, but we quickly learned that in Ortiz's native Dominican, it is a cognomen of the highest respect. As for me, I will always regret not buying the "Who's Your Papi?" t-shirt I saw after the Sox won the ALCS in 2004 (a riposte, of course, to Pedro Martinez's infamous "the Yankees are my daddy" comment). But for my money, my favorite nickname in baseball is The Big Hurt. Who first called Frank Thomas that? I don't know. (I bet someone out there does, though, and I thank you in advance.) That has to be one of the best sports nicknames of all time. Any sports nickname that starts with "the" is just that much cooler. Ward, I concur. A nickname, to mean anything, has to be organic. Uncontrived. Natural!

Ah, and Big Papi—we anglos in Beantown didn’t know what “papi” meant at first, but we quickly learned that in Ortiz’s native Dominican, it is a cognomen of the highest respect. As for me, I will always regret not buying the “Who’s Your Papi?” t-shirt I saw after the Sox won the ALCS in 2004 (a riposte, of course, to Pedro Martinez’s infamous “the Yankees are my daddy” comment).

But for my money, my favorite nickname in baseball is The Big Hurt. Who first called Frank Thomas that? I don’t know. (I bet someone out there does, though, and I thank you in advance.) That has to be one of the best sports nicknames of all time. Any sports nickname that starts with “the” is just that much cooler.

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