The New Jimenez Nickname Contest
by GoRoxGo on Aug 23, 2009 4:10 PM MDT
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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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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.
"We made too many wrong mistakes." ~Yogi Berra
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JFK
It's the Chief.
Tracy’s been calling him that for awhile after a character in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
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 frightened inmate #2 on Aug 24, 2009 4:00 PM MDT up reply actions
I like calling Ubaldo how ESPN pronounces his last name
jim-ehn-es
if you're reading this, it means my undying support for your team will result in its failure.
Yep.
I’m good with U-ball.
"Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseballs around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball." -Pete Hamill
this works
and I like SDcat09 below with Ubaldo too
"We made too many wrong mistakes." ~Yogi Berra
"The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all." ~Lou Gehrig
JFK
I call him Ubaldo
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by Andrew Martin on Aug 23, 2009 7:51 PM MDT up reply actions
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
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
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
U-Ball is good, but....
I like Kmenez just cuz it’s short and sweet.
That's what my dad calls him
But he says it more like there’s a hyphen in it, as in U-K.
"Good teams win games, horse**** teams have meetings." - Ozzie Guillen
How about Bernard?
Or Samantha? Those seem like good nicknames. Eric?
"Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseballs around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball." -Pete Hamill
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.
Hair-B-There?
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Aug 24, 2009 9:02 AM MDT reply actions
Wasn't very serious
at least as a long-term nickname
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Aug 24, 2009 11:02 AM MDT up reply actions
Save that for a couple years
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Aug 24, 2009 11:02 AM MDT up reply actions
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
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