Round Two of Dugout Screennames

Ah, the complicated inner life of a blogger. See, sometimes it's hard to tell if your post is going to hit the mark or sail way, way wide to the humiliating sound of crickets. My Dugout post was one that kept me worried for a while, but there has been enough positive feedback that I feel that the entire endeavor has been a success, rather than a brutal failure that alienated my readers. As such, the great experiment continues! with round two of the 07 Irish's screen names. Many of these were suggested by the readers in the past comments, so I've used footnotes to give credit where it's due. It's a big roster, so you can probably expect three or four more of these over this long, brutal offseason (the coaching staff will be quite interesting, and I'm quite looking forward to it).

As a sidenote, will the commentator "Hulk" please shoot me an e-mail at houserockbuilt@gmail.com? Your contributions were, to put it lightly, completely inspired (particularly your Junior Jabbie screen name), and to reward your creativity I'm going to send you a free copy of The University of Notre Dame: Fighting Irish Collector's DVD Set as a humble thanks for your tireless efforts.

And off we go to round two:

Chris Stewart	HouseOfStewart	Travis Thomas	DoubtingThomas
Maurice Crum Jr.	Crum_and_Punishment	Raeshon McNeil	raeshon_raeshoff
Junior Jabbie	senior_uppercutty	Darrin Walls	Termites_Darrin_da_Walls
Ray Herring	Herring_of_Grievances	Leo Ferrine	FerrineHeit_451
Ambrose Wooden	AmbroseB4Amhoes	Bartley Webb	Wild_Wild_Bartley
Emeka Nwankwo	EmekaLekkaHi	Aaron Nagel	Nagel_and_Shmear

Credit where credit is due: Irish Oustider (Chris Stewart), Hulk (Raeson McNeil, Junior Jabbie, Darrin Walls, Bartley Webb), Jay from BGS (Emeka Nwankwo), Anonymous Poster (Aaron Nagel).

You're All So Ripe for Parody

If you've never visited The Dugout, you've probably noticed a vast emptiness in your life. It's a hilarious website that posts fictional Instant Messenger conversations between baseball players, but the true genius of the entire site is the fake "screennames" they come up with for the players. Some are obvious (Ian Snell is "OohThatSnell"), while some require a bit more thinking (Ken Griffey, Jr. is "Elijah_Prince", for Samuel L. Jackson's injury-prone character in "Unbreakable"), but all of them are quite hilarious.

This year's Blue Gold game served as an inspiration for the House Rock Built, as well as several drunken companions (namely Irish Outsider) trying to come up with maximally-humorous screen names for this year's team. Some were funny, some weren't, but the entire exercise left us quite entertained for the duration of the rather boring game. For your enjoyment, I've put together the greatest hits of that drunken afternoon. Any other suggestions? Leave them in the comments. It might be a good idea to remember these, as there's a pretty good chance I'll refer to these players almost exclusively by these names throughout the rest of the season.

James Aldridge	AldridgeThatEndsDridge	Joe Brockington	Brock_The_Casbah
Evan Sharpley	a_scanner_sharpley	George West	George_By_Georgewest
Konrad Reuland	der_Konradssar	D.J. Hord	HordHaveMercy
Dan Wenger	Wenger_Chunger	David Grimes	GrimesWithOrange
Asaph Schwapp	Wife_Schwapping	Will Yeatman	Cannibals_Yeatman
Luke Schmidt	SchmidtHappens	Jimmy Clausen	JC_Superstar