OOTP11 Player Name Thread - Page 2

Syt · 04-18-2010, 10:25 AM

I once had a superstar pitcher called Mark Sanford.

Currently only a few weird or famous names in my game:
RF Bryan Adams of the Boston Irish
CF James Brown of the Louisville Lightning
RF Wilbur Bocksopp of the Baltimore Beefeaters
3B Joe Jackson of the Detroit Diggers
LF Ryan Ryan of the Washington Wonders
SP Bill Hill of the Pittsburgh Red Caps
SP Ted Williams of the Boston Irish
SS Johnny Carson of the Providence Crickets
CL Robbie Williams of the Memphis Athletics

English_Ray · 04-18-2010, 10:58 AM

My new league has thrown up a few good names, but this one just caught my eye - Bob Nice. Nickname? "The Beast".

Made me chuckle anyway.

EDIT: Also, its a good job that Franklin Pierce Adams never had to write about my league - just had a game with 6 double plays in, scored: Mitchum-Keever-Schmidinger, Marker-Mitchum-Schmidinger, Marker-Mitchum-Schmidinger, Keever-Mitchum-Schmidinger, Keever-Mitchum-Schmidinger; Wiseman-Keith-Schonenberger. Not quite as poetic as Tinker-Evers-Chance...

RMc · 04-18-2010, 11:10 AM

I once had a Robert Roberts and a Richard Richards on the same team.

Still waiting for Heywood Jablomi...

Antonin · 04-18-2010, 11:50 AM

I have a CF named George Harrison.

bwhansen · 04-18-2010, 12:55 PM

I had a pitcher named Jess Alba in one of my OOTPX leagues.

budsticky · 04-18-2010, 01:37 PM

The first overall pick in my fictional league inaugural draft was named Rich Rich.

Afino · 04-18-2010, 10:20 PM

Okay, okay, this is OOTP10, but still.

For fans of The Office.....

Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration!

RamMan12 · 04-19-2010, 11:04 AM

In my Eastern League, I had Cliff Lee and Brian McCann.

iggyhood · 04-19-2010, 11:44 AM

Luc Besson (film director) showed up playing in my French Fictional League

RamMan12 · 04-19-2010, 11:46 AM

I totally forgot about Bob Barker, a catcher in my Eastern League.

MrEndshiftresign · 04-19-2010, 08:06 PM

One of the fictional owners in one of my historical games had almost the same name as my former boss. And he wasn't a pleasant owner at that! Talk about creepy coincidences...

Another owner was named Bill Bell, but it's mostly funny in my case because "bilbil" is Tagalog for body fat. And I got a lot of that in my tummy.

Any Simpsons names crop up so far? I manually named one of my owners "C. Montgomery Burns" and made him especially stingy and impatient. Too bad he died after one season, aged 81 (Monty Burns' original age in the Simpsons). I wonder what would've happened had I set his age to 104, as that's Monty Burns' age in later Simpsons seasons...

bubba22plus · 04-19-2010, 08:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chomps

I have the following characters in my Taiwanese League:

Fu Kung -- a MR on the First-Securities Crooks. His hometown is Kangshan, Taiwan.

Wing-tat Wang -- a MR on the Uni-President Lions and hails from Fengyuan, Taiwan.

Am i the only one who laughed at this?

MrEndshiftresign · 04-20-2010, 08:14 AM

This just in. My game just generated a fictional player named Ron Paul.

jarmenia · 04-20-2010, 09:11 AM

I just traded for a left fielder named Billy O'Reily...

Kane182 · 04-20-2010, 01:05 PM

I saw a Dick Cockburn once.

MrEndshiftresign · 04-20-2010, 06:25 PM

Am running a regular 2010 MLB game and I'm in my third year of play. This recent draft's interesting...

We've got Puerto Rican catcher Cesar Cedeno, Canadian shortstop Marcel Dion (no -ne at the end, though) and another Canadian, center fielder Jimi Lefebvre, who sounds like a cross between the former manager of (nearly) the same name and one of my favorite guitarists of all time...and also a starting pitcher named Bill Shoemaker.

And while he's not named after a former athlete this draft's got a starting pitcher named Tom Morrow. And a middle reliever named Alfredo Newman. What, me worry? And finally, there's one player here who shares a name with a former co-worker of mine, but his name's fairly common anyway.

Okay, back to the draft...and hoping next year produces someone on the level of Dick Cockburn and the ever-so-famous Haywood Jablowme!

EDIT - Am currently drafting. Tom Morrow went 13th, Cesar Cedeno was picked in the second round...GM probably thought he's related to the real thing. And further examining the pool, I saw a center fielder named Adam Adams.

MrEndshiftresign · 04-21-2010, 03:32 AM

2014 draft in aforementioned league isn't too exciting, but we've got a Bobby Hatfield (late Righteous Brothers co-vocalist) and Mike Stiffler in the draft...I'm on God mode so the latter player automatically gets nicknamed "Stiffmeister".

MrEndshiftresign · 04-21-2010, 07:15 AM

My 2017 draft features catchers Joe Bro and Juan (Johnny?) Bravo.

To divert from the celebrity/athlete/weird names we've encountered, is it really normal to have the AI creating fictional players with incomplete last names? Previously I encountered a "Duane McD" and in this draft I've got a "Donald B"...talk about players from Witness Protection High...

Daern · 04-21-2010, 07:18 AM

Bryan O'Brien was the third best catcher in my league's history.

MrEndshiftresign · 04-21-2010, 09:47 AM

One of my historical league owners is named Donald McDonald.

04-18-2010, 10:25 AM	#21
Syt Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Vienna, Austria Posts: 123	I once had a superstar pitcher called Mark Sanford. Currently only a few weird or famous names in my game: RF Bryan Adams of the Boston Irish CF James Brown of the Louisville Lightning RF Wilbur Bocksopp of the Baltimore Beefeaters 3B Joe Jackson of the Detroit Diggers LF Ryan Ryan of the Washington Wonders SP Bill Hill of the Pittsburgh Red Caps SP Ted Williams of the Boston Irish SS Johnny Carson of the Providence Crickets CL Robbie Williams of the Memphis Athletics __________________ *One strikeout is a tragedy, a million strikeouts are statistic.* - "Stallin' Joe" Dshugashvili, Manager of the Moscow Red Stars 1922-53

04-18-2010, 10:58 AM	#22
English_Ray All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: A big city near Basingstoke... Posts: 718	My new league has thrown up a few good names, but this one just caught my eye - Bob Nice. Nickname? "The Beast". Made me chuckle anyway. EDIT: Also, its a good job that Franklin Pierce Adams never had to write about my league - just had a game with 6 double plays in, scored: Mitchum-Keever-Schmidinger, Marker-Mitchum-Schmidinger, Marker-Mitchum-Schmidinger, Keever-Mitchum-Schmidinger, Keever-Mitchum-Schmidinger; Wiseman-Keith-Schonenberger. Not quite as poetic as Tinker-Evers-Chance... Last edited by English_Ray; 04-18-2010 at 12:19 PM.

04-18-2010, 11:10 AM	#23
RMc All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,718	I once had a Robert Roberts and a Richard Richards on the same team. Still waiting for Heywood Jablomi... __________________ "We're all behind our baseball team..."

04-18-2010, 11:50 AM	#24
Antonin Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 2,557	I have a CF named George Harrison. __________________ "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" - Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols), San Francisco, 14 January 1978

04-18-2010, 10:20 PM	#27
Afino Hall Of Famer Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 3,827	Okay, okay, this is OOTP10, but still. For fans of The Office..... Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration! __________________ GUBA: Moscow Enforcers

04-18-2010, 12:55 PM	#25
bwhansen Minors (Double A) Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Location Location Posts: 113	I had a pitcher named Jess Alba in one of my OOTPX leagues.

04-18-2010, 01:37 PM	#26
budsticky Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 18	The first overall pick in my fictional league inaugural draft was named Rich Rich.

04-19-2010, 11:04 AM	#28
RamMan12 Major Leagues Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Maine Posts: 482	In my Eastern League, I had Cliff Lee and Brian McCann.

04-19-2010, 11:44 AM	#29
iggyhood Minors (Single A) Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Northumberland, England Posts: 87	Luc Besson (film director) showed up playing in my French Fictional League

04-19-2010, 11:46 AM	#30
RamMan12 Major Leagues Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Maine Posts: 482	I totally forgot about Bob Barker, a catcher in my Eastern League.

04-19-2010, 08:06 PM	#31
MrEndshiftresign Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Cavite, Philippines Posts: 173	One of the fictional owners in one of my historical games had almost the same name as my former boss. And he wasn't a pleasant owner at that! Talk about creepy coincidences... Another owner was named Bill Bell, but it's mostly funny in my case because "bilbil" is Tagalog for body fat. And I got a lot of that in my tummy. Any Simpsons names crop up so far? I manually named one of my owners "C. Montgomery Burns" and made him especially stingy and impatient. Too bad he died after one season, aged 81 (Monty Burns' original age in the Simpsons). I wonder what would've happened had I set his age to 104, as that's Monty Burns' age in later Simpsons seasons...

04-20-2010, 08:14 AM	#33
MrEndshiftresign Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Cavite, Philippines Posts: 173	This just in. My game just generated a fictional player named Ron Paul. __________________ "Damnation! Fine then, Get me current players, LIVING players. Scour the American League, the National League, the Negro League..." - C. Montgomery Burns

04-20-2010, 09:11 AM	#34
jarmenia Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Tampa, FL USA Posts: 4,503	I just traded for a left fielder named Billy O'Reily... __________________ When is good enough, good enough?

04-20-2010, 01:05 PM	#35
Kane182 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Quincy, MA Posts: 230	I saw a Dick Cockburn once. __________________ Trade in your old video games/movies...Ask me how it works! Manager of the following SimCentral Teams: SCMLB - San Francisco Giants RSL - Detroit Diamonds ULB - Boston Colonials

04-20-2010, 06:25 PM	#36
MrEndshiftresign Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Cavite, Philippines Posts: 173	Am running a regular 2010 MLB game and I'm in my third year of play. This recent draft's interesting... We've got Puerto Rican catcher Cesar Cedeno, Canadian shortstop Marcel Dion (no -ne at the end, though) and another Canadian, center fielder Jimi Lefebvre, who sounds like a cross between the former manager of (nearly) the same name and one of my favorite guitarists of all time...and also a starting pitcher named Bill Shoemaker. And while he's not named after a former athlete this draft's got a starting pitcher named Tom Morrow. And a middle reliever named Alfredo Newman. What, me worry? And finally, there's one player here who shares a name with a former co-worker of mine, but his name's fairly common anyway. Okay, back to the draft...and hoping next year produces someone on the level of Dick Cockburn and the ever-so-famous Haywood Jablowme! EDIT - Am currently drafting. Tom Morrow went 13th, Cesar Cedeno was picked in the second round...GM probably thought he's related to the real thing. And further examining the pool, I saw a center fielder named Adam Adams. __________________ "Damnation! Fine then, Get me current players, LIVING players. Scour the American League, the National League, the Negro League..." - C. Montgomery Burns Last edited by MrEndshiftresign; 04-20-2010 at 06:48 PM.

04-21-2010, 03:32 AM	#37
MrEndshiftresign Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Cavite, Philippines Posts: 173	2014 draft in aforementioned league isn't too exciting, but we've got a Bobby Hatfield (late Righteous Brothers co-vocalist) and Mike Stiffler in the draft...I'm on God mode so the latter player automatically gets nicknamed "Stiffmeister". __________________ "Damnation! Fine then, Get me current players, LIVING players. Scour the American League, the National League, the Negro League..." - C. Montgomery Burns

04-21-2010, 07:15 AM	#38
MrEndshiftresign Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Cavite, Philippines Posts: 173	My 2017 draft features catchers Joe Bro and Juan (Johnny?) Bravo. To divert from the celebrity/athlete/weird names we've encountered, is it really normal to have the AI creating fictional players with incomplete last names? Previously I encountered a "Duane McD" and in this draft I've got a "Donald B"...talk about players from Witness Protection High... __________________ "Damnation! Fine then, Get me current players, LIVING players. Scour the American League, the National League, the Negro League..." - C. Montgomery Burns Last edited by MrEndshiftresign; 04-21-2010 at 07:17 AM.

04-21-2010, 07:18 AM	#39
Daern Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 148	Bryan O'Brien was the third best catcher in my league's history. __________________ UNDERGROUND BASEBALL LEAGUE: (Havana Rovers) 2009: 99-63 (Pennant Winners) 2010: 87-75 (Division Winners) 2011: 92-70 (Division Winners) 2012: 104-58 (Pennant Winners) 2013: 69-93 (4th Place) 2014: 108-54 (Pennant Winners) 2015: 115-47 (Pennant Winners) 2016: 95-67 (Pennant Winners) 2017: 94-68 (CHAMPIONS) 2018: 104-58 (Pennant Winners) 2019: 119-43 (Pennant Winners) 2020: 121-41 (CHAMPIONS) 2021: 86-76 (Wild Card) 2022: Who knows?

04-21-2010, 09:47 AM	#40
MrEndshiftresign Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Cavite, Philippines Posts: 173	One of my historical league owners is named Donald McDonald. __________________ "Damnation! Fine then, Get me current players, LIVING players. Scour the American League, the National League, the Negro League..." - C. Montgomery Burns