Sparky, Dimples, and Wahoo Sam

Baseball Nicknames

Remember when baseball players had fun nicknames and didn't get paid a zillion dollars a game just to show up? Names like Jabbo, Catfish, Dizzy, and Boog are seldom heard anymore. I think baseball players should go back to a simpler time when could yell at each other "Hey Wahoo Sam, get your head in the game you putz!"

Baseball Traditions

Spitting and scratching. Why? Because it's fun and it's a baseball thing. I've tried both and it's not all it's cracked up to be. Of course, I didn't have the standard issue male baseball player extra equipment on so perhaps that's why the itching experiment failed. Or maybe it's because I did the experiment in the back yard and the neighborhood ruffians made fun of me so then I had to yell at them and then they called me....

Local Baseball

The award-winning Rochester Honkers baseball games are a blast. Baseball outdoors where it was meant to be played, wooden bats, enthusiastic bat people (they have girls now too) and the joy of participating singing and dancing to the YMCA, belting out "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" and watching the participants publicly humiliate themselves in the dizzy bat spin.


SLIDER

The highlight of every Honker baseball game is seeing the ever-popular Honker mascot -- SLIDER! SLIDER must be a very patient person because if all those little rugrats kept yanking at my costume and screaming at me I would be tempted to break the silence and yell at the kids or accidentally swat one of them. Gently of course.

Hurry, Hurry, Hurry!

The Boys of Summer still have a few games left this season. Grab some friends, some family and come on down to Mayo Field. If you don't have family or friends come alone and then make up a story to strangers in the bleachers "oh, can I please sit with you until my best friends arrive?" Then later on a trip back fro the concession stand you can say "Oh, darn, they called and can't make it" Ha. Works every time - or so I've heard.

Nicknames

Today I encourage you to make up a nickname for yourself then comment on this blog using your new nickname! Sorry, "Old Lady Snyder" is already taken.