The New Jimenez Nickname Contest

by GoRoxGo on Aug 23, 2009 4:10 PM MDT Comment 42 comments

Everyone wants Jimenez, who has arrived among the elite of major league power pitchers, to get a nickname. Fox is using "K-Baldo" today which is lame, IMO. Do you have a better one? I do. Read it after the jump, and then chime in with your own. I think mine will stick, but I'm all ears.....

My new nickname is "The Big Uball". Get it? Instead of The Big Unit, another great power pitcher, we make a similar nickname that plays off his first name, and has "ball" in it. As in baseball. I think it's pretty good.

If you have one better, have at it.

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"K-Baldo"?

Seriously? Big Uball is good, though I think that “U-Ball” will probably end up sticking no matter what.

I suppose he could be the new “Franchise” :) .

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by oo_nrb on Aug 23, 2009 4:21 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Sorry

Both of those are lame. U-Bal is fine with me.

by GoldenNugget on Aug 23, 2009 4:27 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

If I'm not mistaken

jim Tracy said this game was the Freak (Timmy) vs. the Cheek (Ubaldo). I don’t know if this is correct or if I like it but it might be worth considering.

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by jrockies on Aug 23, 2009 4:33 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

It's the Chief.

Tracy’s been calling him that for awhile after a character in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

by holly96 on Aug 24, 2009 2:23 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

oohh, if Jim Tracy and Ubalda Jimenez could play a game of “would you please stop calling me chief,” that would be awesome.

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by frightenedinmate#2 on Aug 24, 2009 4:00 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

I like calling Ubaldo how ESPN pronounces his last name

jim-ehn-es

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by fantasyfencing on Aug 23, 2009 4:41 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Yep.

I’m good with U-ball.

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by Bryce on Aug 23, 2009 5:26 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

The Lincecum Stopper

"We're only gonna score 17 points? Hah hah" - some clown.

by ES46NE10 on Aug 23, 2009 5:37 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Ace of the Colorado Rockies.

by realmenwearpurple on Aug 23, 2009 7:29 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

this works

and I like SDcat09 below with Ubaldo too

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by jrockies on Aug 23, 2009 10:20 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ubaldo...

just Ubaldo….
(like Madonna or Nene)

by SDcat09 on Aug 23, 2009 7:44 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

I call him Ubaldo

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by Andrew Martin on Aug 23, 2009 7:51 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's not like anyone else uses it...in the MLB

and I think he is achieving a status that permits the first name usage alone..

just a thought

by SDcat09 on Aug 23, 2009 7:53 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Nene isn't his given name. It's his nickname.

His name is Maybyner

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by Andrew T. Fisher on Aug 24, 2009 9:02 AM MDT up reply actions 1 recs

That was his birth name until 2003

He legally changed it to Nene Hilario in 2003 :) And he goes by Nene…per himself and well everyone else..
http://www.nba.com/nuggets/news/nene_namechange_030806.html

by SDcat09 on Aug 24, 2009 10:25 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh yeah I know

Difference is Ubaldo and Madonna were their given first names :)

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by Andrew T. Fisher on Aug 24, 2009 11:01 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

U-Ball is good, but....

I like Kmenez just cuz it’s short and sweet.

by Husker4Rockies on Aug 23, 2009 7:46 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

That's interesting....

by SDcat09 on Aug 23, 2009 7:49 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

U-strike-out.. said to opposing hitters...

not so much…never mind..lol

by SDcat09 on Aug 23, 2009 7:55 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

UK?

by SDcat09 on Aug 23, 2009 7:57 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

That's what my dad calls him

But he says it more like there’s a hyphen in it, as in U-K.

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by free7694 on Aug 23, 2009 9:21 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

How about K-Ball?

by Doublezebra on Aug 23, 2009 8:31 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

How about Bernard?

Or Samantha? Those seem like good nicknames. Eric?

by Bryce on Aug 23, 2009 9:15 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Mt. Ubaldo

Or Mt. Jimenez or Mt. Baldo or Mt. Uball or something along those lines. He’s tall like a mountain. The mound is nothing but a small mountain. Our team is named after a mountain range, for crying out loud.

by kiraly41 on Aug 23, 2009 9:19 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

What about Baldy?

Or Baldo?

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by free7694 on Aug 23, 2009 9:26 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

I call him Ubaldo Jimenez, or Ubaldom or Jimenez

Then again, people find me boring. :P

by bballrox4717 on Aug 23, 2009 10:57 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Ubaldo**

by bballrox4717 on Aug 23, 2009 10:57 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

THE JAGUAR FROM NAGUA

Admittedly this works better in an accent where you don’t pronounce the “r”.

by biondino on Aug 24, 2009 6:52 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Hair-B-There?

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by Andrew T. Fisher on Aug 24, 2009 9:02 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

ha thats funny...but nah

by SDcat09 on Aug 24, 2009 10:26 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wasn't very serious

at least as a long-term nickname

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by Andrew T. Fisher on Aug 24, 2009 11:02 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was thinking Rogaine...

by dds_dave on Aug 24, 2009 6:17 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Future Yankee?

sorry

by Redhawk on Aug 24, 2009 9:08 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Save that for a couple years

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by Andrew T. Fisher on Aug 24, 2009 11:02 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

The Beast

by SDcat09 on Aug 24, 2009 10:28 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

I like it

“Workhorse” or simply “stud” come to mind as well. Boring, perhaps, but there’s no doubt it’s the truth.

by avsfan4ever33 on Aug 24, 2009 7:59 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Uhauldo

Carrying the team to the postseason!

Gladly sharing a name with Dexter Fowler!

by ShadowPenguin on Aug 24, 2009 11:24 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

LOL!!! Ding ding ding..

love it

by SDcat09 on Aug 24, 2009 11:49 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Murdertrain

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by Resolution on Aug 24, 2009 9:23 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs