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* Anaheim Angels -
* Arizona Diamondbacks - D-Backs, Snakes
* Atlanta Braves -
* Baltimore Orioles - O's
* Boston Red Sox - BoSox
* Chicago Cubs - Cubbies
* Chicago White Sox - ChiSox
* Cincinnati Reds
* Cleveland Indians - Tribe
* Colorado Rockies
* Detroit Tigers
* Florida Marlins - The Fish
* Houston Astros - 'Stros
* Kansas City Royals
* Los Angeles Dodgers
* Milwaukee Brewers
* Minnesota Twins
* Montreal Expos
* New York Mets
* New York Yankees - Yanks
* Oakland Athletics - A's
* Philadelphia Phillies - Phils
* Pittsburgh Pirates - Bucs
* San Diego Padres - Friars
* San Francisco Giants
* Seattle Mariners
* St. Louis Cardinals - Birds
* Tampa Bay Devil Rays - D-Rays (sorry Maura)
* Texas Rangers
* Toronto Blue Jays

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Giants -- GMen
White Sox -- Palehose
Reds -- Redlegs, Big Red Machine
Twins -- Twinkies
Brewers -- Brewcrew

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, 12 August 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Angels -- Halos
Braves -- Bravos
Red Sox -- Carmines
Cubs -- North-siders
White Sox -- South-siders
Marlins -- the Fighting Fish
Yankees -- the Great Satan
Devil Rays -- Sweet Lou's Devil Rays

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Thursday, 12 August 2004 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

More formal names?

Expos = Expositions
Mets = Metropolitans
Reds = Red Stockings

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

what the f...
you have the a's the o's & the 'stros but no j's¿ tisk.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

also we forgot 'Spos!

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

you just made that up.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

no he didn't!

mariners - m's

― John (jdahlem), Thursday, 12 August 2004 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Cardinals - Redbirds, Cards, Thee Fuckers

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Yankees- Bronx Bombers

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

ya - 'sops be for real.

yankees - the evol empire

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Brewers - Harvey's Wallbangers

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

oh god "harvey's wallbangers"
now it's The Brew Crew and/or The Crew, Uecker always calls 'em The Crew which I spell The Crue with an umlaut how do we make umlauts around here besides typing it all on Word and pasting it in argh

SD: The Pods

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

ü = alt + 129 onna keypad

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

or option "u" + "u" on a mac = ü

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Cleveland Indians = the Wâhoos

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

NYY - Pinstripe(r)s

― metfigga (metfigga), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

* Colorado Rockies - Pebbles (during the scab-spring training of 95)
* Los Angeles Dodgers - Dem Bums, Superbas
* San Francisco Giants - Gothams (way back when), gnats, jints, Los Gigantes

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

As a kid, I always called the Giants the "G.I. Ants." But maybe that was just me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 12 August 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

during the 40s, the phillies were unofficially renamed the robins and the blue jays.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 13 August 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

For a long time in, I guess, the early '80s or so, current Padres announcer Ted Leitner would refer to the Dodgers as "the Crybabies" every day on his San Diego channel 8 news spot. Then, he had to stop.

Also: Padres = Pads! (pronounced "pods")

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Toronto BlueJays - BJ's

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 14 August 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Padres - the Dads.

― briania (briania), Monday, 16 August 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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