I was in high school when I joined the site 11 or 12 years ago now. Wow.
Bulldog=High School Mascot
19=Long been my favorite number. Tom Pagnozzi. Funny thing is I actually only wore #19 for two years in high school. 22 and 23 on varsity as a freshmen and sophomore (I think lol) and finally got 19 as a junior when we got new uniforms and got to choose what numbers to order. More consistent was my football number. 57 (19x3). lol
My daughter's name is Jac, and the Incredibles was one of the first movies she watched. I stole the name from the baby for my online persona (replacing one of which I was less fond based on my baseball-playing son's name), which oddly (to me anyway) seems to be almost universally available online. If you see jacjacatk anywhere else as a username, pretty decent chance that's also me.
Branson???????
keewart = maiden name spelled backwards
My dad used it as a marketing ploy on posters in HS and college to run for president of his class. He also put it on a car license plate once....which was pretty cool looking at it in a review mirror.
fenwaysouth posted:Grew up and went to college in the Northeast. I've had a Red Sox habit/problem my whole life. I've lived in the South for almost 30 years, and I love it here. My wife and kids love it as well.
I actually came up with the screen name before the Red Sox opened Jet Blue Park at Fenway South in 2012. Copy cats. ;-)
OMG I always thought that you lived in the northeast! A sox fan in the south, I have never come across.
I had another name when I first came here and changed it to Tiger Paw Mom when son committed to Clemson. When he was drafted everyone said change it to redbird. But I shortened it to TPM. Since then he has been a Tiger twice again, Detroit, then back to being a Clemson tiger to finish school.
baseballmom posted:hshuler posted:First initial + last name
I can't tell you how many times I mis-read your name...thought it was HS Hurler, as in dad of a pitcher & that you had mis-spelled it...oops!
Hilarious!
I'm from PA living in NJ...
I've been waiting all this time to explain my screen name...the weight has finally been lifted off my shoulders!
When signing up, I couldn't think of a name to use. I'm actually Pig Daddy on a couple of other message boards. For some reason, I decided that I needed a different login name for this board. I don't know why I did because I have had a hard time remembering this username, PlayWithEffort. Fortunately, you can log in with your email address. Some users abbreviate it to PWE -- which is easier to type out when answering posts.
Since I introduced another username, I'll guess I'll explain that one too. Pig Daddy is a play on the phrase "Big Daddy" with a twist. I'm also a Razorback fan (alum) and when I joined the other Razorback board, my son was only two years old. Just a young piglet at the time. So I used Pig Daddy.
RootHog66: How 'bout them Hogs!
I'm considering changing my screen name to "The Artist Formerly Known as hshuler."
hshuler posted:I'm considering changing my screen name to "The Artist Formerly Known as hshuler."
OR....you could become our first screen name poster that uses a symbol for a name.
Son is a LHP(PO) now. Played a lot of 1st base when he wasn't on the bump in youth & HS ball. Pick offs on the mound and scoop dog at first. Just liked "Picked Off" better.
Profile picture is him at 18 months. If you look closely, he has a cast on his right arm. Maybe that's why he's a LHP.
early days of Little League, son and his friends came up with vegetable nicknames for each other... his hair was always a big ball of curls... a few of the old friends still call him that.
I didn't really put that much thought into it... thought I'd just drop in anonymously and briefly for a little bit of advice. Didn't really have any interest in participating on a blog or forum. Who knew.
Picked Off, I can't believe you did that to your kid just so he would throw lefty.
Fun thread!
It's my name on my birth certificate. I have no good reason to use anything else and doing so seems to be as unique as using anything else.
There are some who call me TIM.
I need no explanation as I am the greatest flamethrower of all time.
I read Jim Bouton's Ball Four at a very impressionable age and what I remember, aside from the drinking and womanizing, is the advice all the pitchers gave each other in their pregame meetings: Smokeminside!
Note: I tried to do that myself as a mediocre Div 3 pitcher but have to confess to very limited success, not only when I tried to smokeminside, but also the womanizing and the drinking.
My all-time favorite movie is Blade Runner. My favorite character in the movie is Roy BATTY (played by Rutger Hauer). I was born in 1967. Batty67.
Nothing terribly exciting or imaginative in this one. I'm a Firefighter in Fairfax County, VA.
smokeminside posted:I read Jim Bouton's Ball Four at a very impressionable age and what I remember, aside from the drinking and womanizing, is the advice all the pitchers gave each other in their pregame meetings: Smokeminside!
Note: I tried to do that myself as a mediocre Div 3 pitcher but have to confess to very limited success, not only when I tried to smokeminside, but also the womanizing and the drinking.
I think of this paraphrased quote from the book (through 30 years of fog, smoke and cobwebs) every time running for pitchers comes up. One year, Jim got in shape during spring training. And he pitched really well to start the season. "Hey, maybe I CAN run the ball across the plate!".
smokeminside posted:I read Jim Bouton's Ball Four at a very impressionable age and what I remember, aside from the drinking and womanizing, is the advice all the pitchers gave each other in their pregame meetings: Smokeminside!
Note: I tried to do that myself as a mediocre Div 3 pitcher but have to confess to very limited success, not only when I tried to smokeminside, but also the womanizing and the drinking.
And to think I thought it came from....your wife wouldn't let you smoke on the lanai?
lol
Swampboy posted:"I'd like to invite members to explain their screen names if they can do so without revealing any personal information they don't want public."
For a long time I lurked here on HSBW. Then finally summoned up the grit to join. There was a thread on overly-involved and bothersome parents. Reread that thread with a lot of self-diagnosis. Swore to self that I wasn't the guy profiled throughout the thread because I had spent so much time way down the outfield fence. Hence I proclaimed self, self-righteously, NotThatGuy.
I like watching a game deciding who can play, I think winning matters and way to many players are selfish
I get tired of launch angles, velo's both pitching and hitting, it is not that they don't matter just that they are overdone
I like and believe in the bunt in certain situations...
I have complete confidence that hitters would be more productive if they stopped striking out so damn much,
I like hitters who use the whole field
I think if a hitter gets hit by pitch in the batters box he deserves first base
I think a double header on the 4th of July is about a perfect way to spend the holiday....
I grew up playing ball in the 70's and 80's, the players today have more talent for sure but it doesn't mean the game was better.
Old School seemed appropriate.
and just for the record, I think swing with no forward movement is as stupid as a pitch with no stride... LOL I think I am done now!
CaCO3 = Calcium Carbonate.
It is the main component in sea-shells...I really like sea shells. I came to find out later that it is also the main ingredient in antacids, which seemed appropriate as well considering how much crud I tend to stir up.
hshuler posted:First initial + last name
You were a good quarterback, Heath.
high school baseball 101 = our team's full of beginners.
I have twins sons, both pitchers, a lefty and a righty of course. FYI - RHP decided to "hang up his cleats" this year after getting released. He made it to AA and is now looking for a coaching position somewhere while finishing his degree at NC State. LHP is still at it. He suffered a season-ending leg injury in April of last year while in Single-A and was released in December. Now he's trying to get back in by playing Indy ball in the Can-Am league.
hsbaseball101 posted:hshuler posted:First initial + last name
You were a good quarterback, Heath.
Lol. That's always been my first tho it too.
Teaching Elder posted:hsbaseball101 posted:hshuler posted:First initial + last name
You were a good quarterback, Heath.
Lol. That's always been my first tho it too.
Guys, he's not Heath Shuler.
CaCO3Girl posted:Teaching Elder posted:hsbaseball101 posted:hshuler posted:First initial + last name
You were a good quarterback, Heath.
Lol. That's always been my first tho it too.
Guys, he's not Heath Shuler.
Lol!
I am a Texan
Mine is easy. Every golfer wants to do this -- never make double bogey!
TPM posted:CaCO3Girl posted:Teaching Elder posted:hsbaseball101 posted:hshuler posted:First initial + last name
You were a good quarterback, Heath.
Lol. That's always been my first tho it too.
Guys, he's not Heath Shuler.
Lol!
Let's just say that I've gotten more than one PM asking if, or saying that I thought you were, the former UT quarterback/now politician.
hshuler posted:TPM posted:CaCO3Girl posted:Teaching Elder posted:hsbaseball101 posted:hshuler posted:First initial + last name
You were a good quarterback, Heath.
Lol. That's always been my first tho it too.
Guys, he's not Heath Shuler.
Lol!
Let's just say that I've gotten more than one PM asking if, or saying that I thought you were, the former UT quarterback/now politician.
... and can you confirm or deny, or do you not recall.
Go44dad posted:...I'm waiting on Mr. Bumstead's reply.
Most of you are probably familiar with the comic strip Blondie. The lead male character is Dagwood Bumstead. He and I share a few similarities:
- My wife bears more than a passing resemblance to Blondie. I could pass for Dagwood in a pinch.
- When I still had all my hair, I had natural cowlicks at the crown on both sides, similar to Dagwood. Until I started buzzing my hair short 10-12 years ago, I had to use copious amounts of styling products just to keep from looking like I had two antennae.
- Dagwood is often depicted taking a nap. I'm narcoleptic. (No fooling. Runs in my family. World's stupidest disease.)
- Once upon a time, I could eat quite extreme amounts of food without gaining appreciable weight, like Dagwood and his sandwiches. Alas, time has robbed me of that superpower.
- I have been know to run late from time to time.
- Years ago when I first used it as a screen name (I think it was about 2003?), my boss at the time actually had snow-white hair and glasses, just like Mr. Dithers in the comic strip. And we got along about as well.
- About a year ago, we adopted a pit bull/lab mix from the local humane society. Every day when I come home she comes charging through the house and jumps on me until I pick her up and carry her like a baby. And she follows me around pretty much the entire time I'm home. In the comic strip, Daisy frequently knocks Dagwood down when he comes through the door. And she is often depicted at Dagwood's feet or following him around.
When I first had to come up with a screen name for a different message board, "DagwoodBumstead" was already taken. So I just shortened it to MrBumstead. I've used it ever since.
I used to keep my "real" identity a secret. When I was really active on the high school message boards, I would actually hear people (including coaches) talking about what I had posted (and me) while I'm standing right next to them, having no idea it was me. Eventually folks started piecing it together, and now it's not uncommon for someone to address me as "Bum."
Bum; you get my vote for best screen name, brother.
That's fantastic!
Mine is pretty self explanatory I think 
From Ohio and son was a '15 grad. I got on this site to research recruiting info for him so I just went with the 2015
old_school posted:I like watching a game deciding who can play, I think winning matters and way to many players are selfish
I get tired of launch angles, velo's both pitching and hitting, it is not that they don't matter just that they are overdone
I like and believe in the bunt in certain situations...
I have complete confidence that hitters would be more productive if they stopped striking out so damn much,
I like hitters who use the whole field
I think if a hitter gets hit by pitch in the batters box he deserves first base
I think a double header on the 4th of July is about a perfect way to spend the holiday....
I grew up playing ball in the 70's and 80's, the players today have more talent for sure but it doesn't mean the game was better.
Old School seemed appropriate.
and just for the record, I think swing with no forward movement is as stupid as a pitch with no stride... LOL I think I am done now!
You must like Crash Davis!
"Well, I believe in the soul... ... the small of a woman's back... the hangin' curveball... high fiber... good scotch... that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent overrated crap... I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a Constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. Goodnight." (slightly edited for a family audience)
Part II...
Back when I was trying to remain anonymous on the message boards, I used screen nicknames for all of my family members so that I didn't have to refer to them by name.
Obviously, the wife was Blondie. But my 2016 (eldest son) had the most distinctive of the kids' screen nicknames.
He was born about two weeks after the 1998 Matthew Broderick Godzilla movie. When I mentioned that he was 23-1/2 inches long at birth to one of my co-workers at the time, he said WTTE: "Good Lord! Your wife gave birth to Kidzilla!" Since he continued to be larger than average while growing up, we continued to call him that occasionally around the house. And when I needed a screen name for him, that's what I used.
Fast forward several years to when the locals started figuring out that I was Bumstead: coaches, teammates and even teammates' parents made the connection of who Kidzilla was in my posts, so a lot of them started calling him Kidzilla. He embraced it, and it stuck. In fact, on both of his custom gloves, instead of having his name stitched on the thumb he had them stitch "Zilla."
Fortunately, the name still fits. Here are a couple of screen grabs with him and his teammates from a video stream of their conference tournament.
(He redshirted because of TJ, so he's the one in street clothes in the middle.)
Mr. Bumstead, thanks for sharing! Cool stuff.
