Another cool baseball name debuts

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In the list of good player names in baseball (e.g., Prince Fielder, Coco Crisp, Angel Pagan, Shane Victorino . . .) tonight we can add that of a rookie pitcher making his major league debut, starting for the Philadelphia Phillies in San Diego against the Padres:

Antonio Bastardo.

Any bets on what his locker-room nickname is going to be?

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No, Cray, you've got it backwards. When I made my major league debut my nickname was bastardo. I think it's spanish for "teh awesome".
 

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The quarterback for the South Carolina Gamecock's name is Chris Smelly.

Who names these poor bastardos?
 

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I was always rather fond of Miroslav Satan.

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Since Haggis took mine, I'm just gonna toss up a link to Dave Frishberg's Van Lingle Mungo - the lyrics are comprised entirely of baseball players' names.

Ah yes.
 

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My two favourite footballers are Jermaine McSporran and Danny Invincible, and who better to coach them than Wolfgang Wolf, the manager of Wolfsburg?
 

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Boof Bonser legally changed his name from John Bonser to his nickname: link
 

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I'm gonna go with Levi Stubbs as my favorite singer.
 

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I've always wondered if Arthur Forney from Law and Order has a daughter, and what would happen if she married a man whose last name is Keats.