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baseball edition broheems! my favorite is doug "you've got to carry that" weight.

i'm a sucker for abbey road.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Off-topic: Is there a drinking game re: Berman & his shout-outs to various 70s rock groops?

if not i think this would be the perfect time to invent one. ground rules anyone?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Semi-off-topic: It's too bad Berman didn't come up with Gil "Ga" Meche.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Some of my faves:

Bert "Be Home" Blyleven
Jose "Blame It On" Rijo

― boldbury (boldbury), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link

joe "actual retail" price was another fave.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 17:44 (nineteen years ago) link

The one that really started it all:

Julio "Won't You Take Me on a Sea" Cruz

― earlnash, Tuesday, 4 May 2004 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Jason "Tonight, Let It Be" Lowenstein

― boldbury (boldbury), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Ross "I Never Promised You a" Baumgarten

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

wow! i've actually purged most bermanisms from my memory. can he go away now?

― j.q. higgins, Tuesday, 4 May 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

What's next, listing every godawful verse of "Talkin' Baseball"?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

if there's a god in heaven yes!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link

berman needs to die.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 11:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Blame Leeeee, he got me started. These are some that I came up with that may or may not have already been used. I claiming the first one as all mine, though.

Brandon "Baby Got" Backe
Octavio "Don't Ask" Dotel
Brad "Luby" Lidge
Jason "Shady" Lane
Morgan "Tip Of The" Ensberg

― boldbury (boldbury), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Brandon "Regents of the University of California v." Backe

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 6 May 2004 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Placido "Inter"Polanco

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Tim "Take a Ride on the" Redding

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Did Berman write this headline from the ESPN MLB page:

Bierbrodt slathers Mariners in Texas mustard

― boldbury (boldbury), Thursday, 24 June 2004 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't know, but have vinnie "the incredible" chulk running through my head and it's driving me bananas!

― j.q. higgins, Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Last night Jon Miller coined a Bermanism: Dodgers Outfielder Jason "The Big" Grabowski.

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Friday, 25 June 2004 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

There’s a player called Nick Altrock

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link

two months pass...

Nick "Alt"rock (1876-1965)

― felicity, Saturday, 12 October 2019 00:41 (four years ago) link

during the LCS? c'mon

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 October 2019 00:44 (four years ago) link

Howie Kendrick "Lamar"
Daniel Ponce de "Kings of" Leon

― felicity, Saturday, 12 October 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link

felicity!

do better tho

― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 October 2019 05:50 (four years ago) link

Matty "No" Nokes

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 12 October 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link

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