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Originally Posted by sfaustin3
I just discovered your dynasty today - it rocks! Hope you keep it up.
A few questions came up as I was reading so bear with me:
Whatever happened to Albert Pujols?
Does Cleveland really have a guy named "Poison" Saliva? Don't let him spit on you!
You must have your own way of pronouncing the players names, so I'm wondering if you say Nees-lee, Nice-lee, or Nizz-lee (perhaps Ku-nizz-lee) for Knisley?
And for Rowley Dickson, does his first name rhyme with Holly, Holy, or Cow-lee?
Anyway, great stuff. Go Mumbles!
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Hi, thanks for the kind words! Good stuff about Saliva! Almost all of the nicknames have been created by the game except the Detroit outfield and Tom "The Flying Canadian" Dionne (real original!) of Tampa Bay. I'll see how Saliva has been doing when I check in on Pujols for you tonight. I do know Pujols is one of the 20 Hall of Famers that have been inducted in the 15 years of the league (like all players active at the start of the savegame his pre-2006 stats are "grandfathered" into his career totals).
Things are going slowly with work & real life but once I get through this All Star break the pace will pick back up. I just have Houston, Milwaukee & the NL West left to do hopefully I'll get it done tonight.
As for pronunciations, I think of Knisley with the "K" silent and call him "Niss-lee." You know how players sometimes change the pronunciation of their names and request to be called something else? I was thinking about doing a story about him wanting to be called "kuh-niss-lay" but he's nearly in his mid thirties already so I figured that would be a little too silly. For Dickson I personally go with a pronunciation that rhymes with "Cow-lee" for his first name but some broadcasters do call him "row-lee."
