A Guide to Nicknames

Nicknames have started to become more prevalent in the writeups because of a belief that people thought they were funny and added a certain pizzazz to the writeups. One reader actually commented that he knew a writeup had been created by AI because of a lack of nicknames (that’s an A and an I for artificial intelligence, not an A and a lowercase l for Al). However, after one of our faithful readers commented that he had no idea what was happening in the game writeups anymore because he didn’t know who anyone was, I stopped using them.

Here is a guide to nicknames that have been used in recent writeups, if you would like to go back and cross reference to see who did what when and to whom.

Captain Underpants = Al (last name Stanfield, which is a brand of underwear turned into a name from a popular children’s book series)

Captain Kangaroo = Joey (a joey is a baby kangaroo, and Captain Kangaroo was an old children’s television show)

The Captain = Duran (because he wants to be called the Captain [also because it give us something to write with a K should he strike out again])

The Thane of Whitby = Brad (last name Macdougall and he is a big Shakespeare fan, and in Macbeth  er, I mean The Scottish play, everyone whose name begins with Mac is a thane of something)

Tank Engine = Jeff because his last name is Thomas and Thomas the Tank Engine was a popular TV show (just noticing a lot of references to kids’ TV shows).

Batting Practice = also Jeff, when he is pitching because, well, the other teams hit really well off him. Since he donned a pitching mask, he has also been referred to as Hannibal Lecter and Stanley Ipkis (the character who turns into the Mask in the Jim Carrey film)

Any reference to cereal = Mills because General Mills makes cereal brands

Dr. Seuss/ I am Sam - Sam - there have been some fun poems about Sam. Check them out Starting to contemplate new references to Son of Sam or Samwise Gamgee or Sam McGhee so if you see those, they are all still Sam

Marlborough Man - Brian

Can’t remember any others for now, but if I missed any you can ask and I’ll let you know. 

Also, there might not be a use of nicknames in the future for fear of confusion.