I dunno – I was thinking about “Iggy Slop” myself.

I appreciate the ingenuity, Steve. I don’t know if you followed the nickname brainstorm session over at Bronx Banter the other day… over there we basically agreed on ManCaveItch (MCI) as our moniker. In the meantime we also came up with a nickname for the Yankees’ Japanese addition: K Quest. This is based on his SI interview when his answer to the question “what is your motto?” was undoubtedly mistranslated as “Quest.”

Or you could just call him Doug M. or Minky like everyone else does. Would probably be a lot less confusing.

Though I would like to be there when an unsuspecting Yankee fan reads that name during the season and says, “Who the f–k is Rico Bergman?”