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Friday, July 14, 2006

Manual's Make-Your-Own-Baller-Name-Contest

Have you guys read MANual's mag for July? It has really interesting articles, like "PBA's 1985-1995 vs. 1996-2006 players: who will win." and this article which talks about how our player's monickers somehow deteriorated through the years, especially in the PBA scene.

Gone are the Julius "Dr. J" Erving (because he operates in the middle lane), Earl "the Pearl" Monroe, Dominique "the Human Highlight Reel" Wilkins, Larry "Basketball Jesus" Bird, Ervin "Magic" Johnson, and Michael "Air" Jordan. Even in the PBA, gone are the names like "Big J", "Fortune Cookie", "The Scholar", "Director", "Captain", "Flying A", "Point Laureate", "Tower of Power", "Triggerman", etc.

Instead, we have Bong "The Hawk" Hawkins (as pointed out by our very own Alvin Ang), Andy "the Eagle" Seigle (wtf), "Dynamite" Danny Seigle, Eric "Major Pain" Menk, Asi "The Rock" Taulava (this really sucks), Kalani "X-Factor" Ferreria (because of his stint in.. yep, Xerex the Movie), James "Boy Thunder" Yap, etc..

Monickers identify players. They stick with them. You identify players based on their monickers. You remember them. They become legends. But when you're named "The Hawk" or "the Eagle" or even "Mighty Mouse" because it rhymes with your name, or your height, that kinda sucks. Or just because you appeared on a movie or a show.

Which is why Manual launched this Make-Your-Own-Baller-Name-Contest. For details, well, buy the magazine. hehe. Basta it doesn't have to be pointed to a particular player. Think of a name. Just pour out your creative (err... not man) juice. I'll post the mechanics later. Maybe our blog could become famous because of this! haha.

Or maybe we could create one for each of us. haha. Like Eumir "Hindi na naeu-eumir" Gaspar. Or G "underhand-freethrow shot-na-hindi-pumapasok" Abrencillo. Alvin King "the King" Ang.

I personally like my monicker. Thanks Jeff S. :D

Goodluck to us! :D

Comments

nakalimutan mo ilagay si the ninja at si captain hook hahaha

di ba dati may starcraft monickers tayo sa team na dinagdagan ng lakas ng atomika?

alvin the hydralisk(kasi parang hydralisk yung posture? hehe peace!)
the zerglings(sila earl at jommel dahil maliit at makulit dumepensa)
overlord(si joepoy kasi malaki wahahha)

yun lang ata natatandaan ko. broodling lang ako hahah
 
Let me take this opportunity to criticize the PBA and Philippine basketball once again.

What I don't like about local ball is that everyone HAS to have a nickname when he gets famous. The even worse part of it is that those who come up with the nicknames completely suck. They don't have an inkling of creative juice in them (take "The Hawk" for example, as TheShikaka has pointed out once before) and have absolutely no street-cred to even be making up names in the first place (Quinito, I'm sorry to break it to you but you have absolutely no street cred. You're as nerdy a sports personality as they come).

You just gotta let these nicknames happen. They just get blurted out by someone and then stick. Wag pilitin, please. Obviously, a few forced nicknames actually come out cool and successful, but for the most part, that doesn't happen.
 
Bit: naman to KJ mode na naman. Hehe. The point of this article is not to force a name to someone. Basta maging creative lang. Kasi naman ang baduy nga naman ng Asi "The Rock" Taulava, or Eric "Major Pain" Menk. Baka kelangan natin ng egoy na commentator (wag yung Adamson guy na dating nagcourt-side reporter).

Baka kasalanan ni Quinito to. Or ni Barry Pascua. Or whoever. Remember Purefoods' Game 1 against Red Bull? He referred each other's benches as the.. "X-Men". WTF WTF WTF.

From now on bit, I bless thee "Security B" Santos. You guard the world against the improper use of nicknames and catch those not following w3c standards.
 
Medyo pilit din pre. Haha.

Pero panalo ang Carlo "Hotlegs" Ricohermoso. Walang kokontra. Yan talaga ang pagkakilala kay Carlo sa dorm.
 
I would like to dub me...

Jase "The Face" Marges,
dahil ang guwapo-guwapo ko.

O kung di kayo payag, let's make like Lordy "The Alaminos Assassin" Tugade and Kenneth "Captain Marbel" Duremdes and go for...

Jase "The Laguna Kahuna" Marges.

Kapow.
 
Jase: the "Laguna Hustler" sounds better. Err... for your hustle plays I mean.

or the "Laguna Afroman".

haha.

naalala ko lang, si JC Intal "Baby Rocket" pa rin ba sya hanggang ngayon? haha. So pag tumanda na sya "Super Lolo" na sya?

bahaha. Kelangan pa ba imemorize yan? Buhay natin talagang ganyaaaa-han. *cough*cough*

ay mali, pang 101.1 yes fm pala yung joke na yun.
 
*cough*cough*cough*
It hurts! It hurts, ya know?

(I hate to add to that but I couldn't resist)
 
bit,

you have been converted. wala na, jologs ka na.

***
anyway, any ideas with monickers? haha.
 
PUKAWLAMO!

haha panalo talaga yun. am stations are the best..not

hmm eumir "manhandler" gaspar

pwede na b yan?

at ang pinakasikat na monicker sa lahat(thanks to jericho - and bit, ito na'blurt out' lang din at hindi pinilit) GERALD "tiny" ABRENCILLO! oh yeah.
 
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