Avatars, signatures and screen names

I’ve collected them since I was in high school and visited the United Dairy Farmers tent, (who makes the best ice cream) at the Ohio State Fair. That began my affection for cows.

The other part of my screen name is my birthday 2/20. That turned out to be a lucky day this year as Cub tickets went on sale and I was able to get tickets to my very first opening day!

I always took a liking to Cub utility players in the 70’s. Carmen Fanzone, Mick Kelleher, Vic Harris, Paul Popovich…..I could have chosen any of them.

Avatar is a pimped out version of the Topps CF card from the 70’s.

Cubbie…..i was given this nickname when I started watching Roller Derby due to always wearing a Cubs hat, shirt, jacket, etc and even checking scores oline with my cell phone while at a derby bout. It is not a nickname in the world of Derby, it is my “BW” name. BW stands for Board Whore, which is the name given to regulars on the www.txrd.com message board. this is not a joke, it is all true, in fact I won most appropriate BW name for the BW’s last season.

Tim, well that is my name.

It’s still the Mizzou football SI Cover, considering how they crashed and burned I should change it. I’ll have to find another good Mizzou pic to replace it with. As far as my handle, the nji is just random letters and the 232 is the room number I lived in last year.

It goes back to 1978, when the Chicks were affiliated with the Expos in the AA Southern League. They became a Royals farm club in 1984. The logo got changed some time in the early 1990’s. The team moved to Jackson, TN, in 1998 and became the West Tenn Diamond Jaxx.

Here’s a link to a 1986 SI cover with Bo Jackson in a Chicks warm-up jersey. The image takes up too much space for me to want to post it.

I am a 51 year old wild as heck sort of a guy. But damn, if getting older does not tame you some.

antonym of Soriano

n/t (and no avatar!)

My avatar and sig line are both Geo related.

I think. Half blind because I am. Legally blind in one eye and blind in the other. Put in there because I once made a blind joke on a forum and got chewed out by the PC police who had no sense of humor and thought I was being “mean” and once told I was joking about myself they promptly cried and whined until I left because it was insufferable.

My avatar is me. :-)

Name — as many of you know, I’ve spent a lot of time in Shanghai, China for work. I suppose that’s a bit dated, since that job ended unceremoniously last fall, but I still like the city of Shanghai.

The Badger is obvious when you see the avatar — I am an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin. The photo for the avatar is a cropped pic of me with Bucky after the Crazylegs run in 2004.

The sig line was something that a few discussions inspired, and this one clinched it . . . yes, I was bored enough to look.

I spent approximately five seconds coming up with my user name – the inspiration for which, I hope, is fairly obvious. Honestly, had I known I’d end up spending as much time here as I do, I would have taken more time and tried to come up with something a little less ridiculous. (Or maybe more ridiculous…not sure…)

And my avatar is the front of a t-shirt that my wife’s uncle found in a thrift store somewhere in Chicago. Because SBN’s “avatar box” cuts off the image, here’s the full version:

The shirt doesn’t fit me very well, but I’ve vowed to wear it to Wrigley the next time I go to a game.

So in that regard:

Dr. Roger Chillingsworth/Dr. Daniel Stabbingworth

My avatar is the Master Sword from The Legend of Zelda. It’s fitting because you figure Dr. Stabbingworth needs a stabbing device, and I love 8 bit games (especially the original Zelda).

is my middle name and I use it for most of my user names, emails etc. on the internet. I just like the way 369 looks.

My avatar is for my love of the Hawkeyes.

….because I often feel that I, like a two-hopper to the wall, AM Caught in the Vines! Not that I’ve ever tried all that hard to escape, mind you.

My avatar is Johnny Evers, the heart and soul of the Cub teams of his era (the significance of which escapes me just now….).

And like others, I rotate my sig line periodically; I usually wait until a see a Cub-related quote that makes me truly LOL (prior to this one, it was from Ted Lily, who said last fall, “Lou Pinella may be over 100, but he’s still got a lot of fire in him”).

Fun to see everyone’s back story like this!

Ryno = favorite playa

Ryno and I Know is a spin on Jimmy Buffett song “The Wino and I Know”

Avatar: Who doesn’t like a Billy Murray pic for their profile?

Sig: Buffett again

 I am actually not chubby myself, but I enjoy the comic “Get Fuzzy” by Darby Conley and am amused by the somewhat regular character “Chubby Hugs”, who hugs everyone he sees for no reason. The avatar is a picture of him in action. Was just looking for something different.

Sig line is obviously Len’s common HR call. Probably due for a change this season (my sig, not the call).

My name—I’m a pastor; my last name is Gunia.

My signature—I have none. I never bothered to collect any quirky quotes.

My avatar—is Torgo from “Manos: The Hands of Fate,” possibly the worst movie ever made. I was a fan of the old Comedy Central show, “Mystery Science Theater 3000” and their hilariously cruel treatment of “Manos” is my favorite episode.

Username: Aramis wears #16. He was the definition of Clutch during 2008 when I signed up.
Signature: I’ll probably change the top quote a few times over the season. The Charlie Root quote stays.
Avatar: That’s me at the beach in St. Petersburg, FL. As I was traveling, of course I wore the road cap. Predictably, I am holding a rum drink.

My username is a play on Batman with my name. My quote is a Lou quote. I don’t regular change the avatar or quote unless something really catches my eye.

Cubby is self-explanatory. The “TC” is for Traverse City, where I live.

The pic is from “Andy Boy” brand lettuce. My wife picked it out, after we noticed that not only does it have my name, the picture in the middle looks a lot like I did as a kid.

am not really Jody Davis. But he was my grandmother’s absolute favorite player once she rediscovered her love of baseball and became a Cubs fan after some probably much easier years spent as a Yankees fan before I was even born.

My avatar is the logo from my vinyl junkie blog, Record Robot.

common misconception is that I’m really a monkey jockey – like this:

but it’s gibbon because it sounds better and because the gibbon is really an ape and more closely related to humans than a monkey.

My avatar is Al Swearengen.

My signature is for the greatest radio station on the planet.

Name: A nickname I’ve had for a long time.

Avatar: Lifelong Badger fan, currently finishing up my victory lap here at UW. Proud member of the ever-growing BCB Badger Fan Club.

Sig: I really, really don’t like the guest 7th inning stretch conductor. I think you can figure out what I think should be done about it.

I’m waiting for DGU to explain why he has to have a 5 paragraph essay as his sig. It literally takes up the entire screen of my iPhone, very frustrating when trying to browse through threads. Speaking of iPhones, SB Nation needs to get mobile posting up and running sometime soon. The full version of the site is way too much to browse on a phone, but not being able to post on the mobile site is rough. Otherwise the set up of the mobile BCB is perfect for phone viewing.

I enjoy The Office.

Fla Chi Mesa = flachimesa

is from high school, when after greeting my friend matt as “matthew” he greeted me as “nathew” (my first name is nate).

and my avatar is me standing kitty-corner from the marquee after the 5/1/08 loss to the brewers.

basically means “food of the gods”. I thought it sounded neat and I was an english major in college, so there you have it. My avatar is a picture of Ryno’s flag on the RF foul pole. I was there the day his number was retired, and to this day is my favorite memory at Wrigley.

Also a little explanation of my thing about redheads.

The series of books the other site is for is the Trixie Belden series. Her stalwart special friend Jim, is a green eyed redhead.

So of course green eyed redhead Ryan Dempster is “Jim”. He’s baseball Jim.

Also related to the series her friend’s last name is Lynch. Her Dad never was given a first name in the books and back then Ed Lynch was the GM so we named him Ed in most everyone’s fanfic.

Ironically by the physical description of the man in the books he would look like Hendry.

And in my writing if I create a good guy I combine a Cubs and Bears name.

Bad guys combine Packers/Cardiinals.

.actually I once had an old brick detached garage probably built in the 30’s, that was ivy covered except around the window where I painted the window green with a 400 in the three panes to make it look like Wrigley as a joke. But we all thought it was cool so I kept it.

I used to take the TV out in the back yard and one day my father called inquiring what I was doing and my wife said, he is looking at his Ivy Walls.

It was a joke as I was supposed to be watching the toddlers play in the yard but was inattentive watching the game. When I dabbled with a Cubs website back in 1998-99 I called it Ivy Walls.

but for the few that don’t . On the old Cubs NG and in the early days of Al’s old blog ( And another thing AND BCB)
I was content to just be “Jessica’. However when those snarky people at Sports Nation took on BCB they STOLE MY NAME because THERE WAS A JESSICA on the Oakland A’s blog and the joined first. GRR. Forced to find a new ID I fell back on my fantasy team name " Doggie Stalker” which is in fact a double entendre . Now you MIGHT think I want to stalk a certain recently retired future Hall of famer who goes by the nickname “Doggie” but you would be wrong. I am actually too embarrassed to do that ( I would undoubtedly freeze up and mumble something totally unintelligible while he gave me his signature smirk) However I do really stalk 4 legged “doggies” , all day and all night. I can’t have on in my tiny NYC Apt ( and crazy schedule) so I go after them in all shapes & sizes ( Goldens, Labs, Terriers , Corgis, you name it I pet it and rub the tummy ). I even once tried to pet a Rottweiler chained to a fence, bad idea. I love DOGGIES both those with 4 legs and those that throw a mean change up.

in Little League. Being that the Cubs were “my team”, their Catcher at the time, Damon Berryhill, became one of my first ever favorite players. While #9 never amounted to much more than a serviceable backup (injuries didn’t help Damon at all), he’ll always have a special place in my heart.
My avatar, as of right now, is Marissa Miller in a Cubs jersey because, well, because Marissa Miller is wearing a Cubs jersey.
My sig line is one that I found on the interwebz when searching out quotes related to the Chicago Cubs.

The “Trey” comes from being the third person in my family with my name (yes, that means there are three William Chesterfield Potters in this world).

The 23 and 17 stem from growing up on Cubs games in the 80’s and 90’s. As does my signature – it sums up how I felt about playing baseball.

One of my other passions is music. Being a Dylan fan, and a Cubs fan, “Tangled Up In Blue” seemed to work.

As for my avatar, my Mom’s all-time favorite Cub is Maddux, and it reminds me of watching games with her in my youth. That, and I just reallly liked the picture of him with the killer stache.

Name is my…name. Sig is a badass quote from V for Vendetta and/or by Faust, and I take a picture in the Bartman seat every game I go to Wrigley. It helps ease the pain.

Mine comes from being a Dallas Cowboys and LA Lakers fan. I am used to championship-winning teams. They have spoiled me.

The AV is from a Superman annual of my youth, showing my geeklove for comic books.

DM = I live in Des Moines
Cub = enough said

AV = the ‘Alive’ stickman from Pearl Jam. I just think it is a cool picture and I love PJ almost as much as the Cubs. I don’t know how many times I have been drunk and stated that I would be getting a stickman tattoo…..one of these days I may actually follow through.

Sig = Used to have a Sinatra quote about how he felt bad for people who don’t drink. I am waiting for something else clever to pop into my head.

is a combination of my nickname “Goodie” which is a derivative of my Dutch last name, and the summer I was born. I frequently like to mention that when I was born, the Cubs were in first place, and hopefully will be when I die.

My sig lines vary as I often get bored seeing them appear next to my posts, but they usually reflect the wisdom or outright silliness of some of my favorite figures which I feel is applicable to this forum.

My avatar has varied as well, but is currently a photograph I took of the Ernie statue the last time I went to a game at Wrigley.

obc – ohio bobcat
2 – because i forgot my first two passwords for my original two screen names.

And the avatar is the tat i got at The Jade Dragon in Chicago.

I get called Mr. a lot because I’m a teacher. Just kind of went with cubsfan. Al and I are same age too, somewhat older that most here. Couldn’t find a good AV so I use a cubs hat. For the sig, Lou said that after his first season that it was only the beginning and I thought he was right. Laid a good foundation for winning. CTA was my favorite album and Chicago in the early days rocked like no band I had ever heard. I still listen to Chicago 1 and 2 quite a bit. That is when the band was really good!

 The avatar is because I think Peeps are cute. Tasty too, though I have to ration them carefully because I have to limit my sugar intake. (The sugar-free ones are good in their own way, but not the same.) The user name is too complicated to explain and has nothing to do with baseball or my name. My sig line is because I love “Pinky and The Brain.”

not even a good one, but some of the lines in the movie are classics. Uecker makes the movie. His rendition of Harry Doyle has to be one of the best performances by a non-actor in a minor role, in fact, that ought to be an Oscar catagory. I chose Willie Mays Hayes because he was the epitome of an Indian in the movie. A castoff with little talent, but a will to make it to the show. A tribute to all the has-beens and never-was’s. If you haven’t seen the movie, rent it sometime. It has a silly feel-god ending, but the trip getting there is well worth it.

when I created my name. Downtown Journal to be exact.

My sig line comes from an Onion headline in regards to Prince Fielder being a fatty who has trouble running around the bases.

My avatar is the school I go to, University of St. Thomas, but I change it sometimes.

Parrot = Parrothead
In = In
CT = Connecticut

If the Phone doesnt rink its me, A Buffett classic

Avatar in the Cubs dugout with my now 15 year old who is hoping to go to college in Chicago.

Apple does not fall far from the tree

My screen name is is ULID from my alma mater, Illinois State University. I left there in 05 but kept using it for stuff.

My image is a sammy sosa rookie picture from the Sox I’ve grown quite fond of. Whenever I’m having a bad day, I’ll look at it and laugh and feel better.

Chitownhawkeye because I’m an Iowa Hawkeye fan (and Iowa native) who moved here. This makes a little more sense if you realize that I joined the SB Iowa blog first, then found this one.
My avatar is Mr. Yuk, the poison control symbol. About 10 years ago I did RAGBRAI (a bike ride across Iowa) with some friends and we choose to call ourselves Team Mr. Yuk, mainly because I thought it would be funny and I could get a ton of the stickers to put on everything. I’ve adopted the symbol and used it ever since.
No signature line, but I really need to add something.

I loved the ‘77 Cubs and their cast of characters, and Manny Trillo had some solid years from ’75-’78. It was so cool the way he would scoop up a grounder at second, look at it like he was making sure the commissioner had signed it, and then use that snappy wrist flip to wing it over to first where Bill Buckner and his voluminous mustache were waiting. I could have just as easily chosen Jerry Morales or Jose Cardenal or Rick Rueschel or Bruce Sutter—what an awesome team! (Too bad they never won a thing—if only the seasons stopped in June…)

My sig line refers to Jack Brickhouse’s favorite saying when going into the bottom of the 9th at Wrigley with a tie game. The man could really call a game!

SCREEN NAME
TkGo: The rally cry my adoring fans scream when I run marathons. Originally adopted for my Boston Marathon trip last year.
UWGB: I’m a proud graduate of UW-Green Bay.

AVATAR
That’s me running

QUOTE
That’s from the Kevin Borseth rant that made ESPN a lot last year and made him a caricature of his true self. He was the Women’s basketball at UWGB and left for Michigan after his last UWGB team won a tourney game and was gave UCONN a run for its money until UCONN realized they were UCONN. Anyways, he said frustrated a lot, which works for about every sports team i cheer for.

Chan is part of my name, but I don’t want to state it for obvious reasons (think Friends though), and 25 was my favorite number cause Lee was my first favorite Cub.

the movie SuperTroopers, kind of taken it as my own b/c of well you know….84, 98, 03, 07, last year. my username is my initials and the number I graduated from hs.

a set of books I like and one of my favorite albums from my favorite band. I’ve used this name for going on at least 20 years now since the days of bulletin boards and 2400 baud modems.

Almost all my tag lines are Groucho Marx quotes. I may sometimes use a sports related one, but rarely.

Well I use to have Cubswyn a while ago on the old blog. I didn’t have the internet for a while, so when I came back I couldn’t remember my password. Instead of going through that process, I just added on an extra n.

Cubswyn because someone else on here has Cubswin.

My avatar is a picture of my favorite Cubs ad in recent memory. “Play like there’s no tomorrow.”

My sig line is a tribute to my favorite line ever posted on BCB. True BCB’ers know what I’m talking about, I’ll leave it at that.

hopkinson is my last name and 91 is the number i have worn playing hockey for about the last fifteen years. my avatar is my one of my two dogs, a black lab named maggie.

My name is obvious, though I realize it dates me. I remember being given my older brother’s Cubs hat when I was five years old (in 1957) because he was a White Sox fan, and wanted one of their hats (he is a blasphemer). Since I now had a Cubs hat, I distinctly remember deciding at that point that I would be a Cubs fan. I grew up with Jack Brickhouse, and have frequently said that I heard his voice growing up more than I heard my father’s (sad but true).

My avatar is my wife and I at last year’s Cubs/Rockies game here in Denver (the one they won 7-6, when Aram hit a homer in the 9th to take the lead, Kerry Wood blew the save, and The Riot got the game winning hit in the 10th, with Marmol getting the save – it was the Cubs’ 10,000th win). My wife is actually cheering for the Rockies at the point the picture was taken (she grew up here in the Rocky Mountain west and just doesn’t know any better).

My signature line is from a cool Cubs tee shirt I still have that was sold back in 1985. That tee shirt spoke for many of us that year, and it still speaks for me. I’ll never give up on the Cubs.

Needless to say, I am one of those idiots – hence my user name “ballhawk”. I can be usually be found at the corner of Waveland and Kenmore waiting to catch baseballs hit out of Wrigley either during batting practice or games. Of course this year I’ll be over on Sheffield more than usual, thanks to Lou’s quest for left-handedness.

Stop by and say hi if you get to Wrigley before the gates open – there’s usually a few regulars hanging around so just ask for Ken. And if you thought Soriano has some problems playing his position, you should see me playing deep left field… ;-)

Yes, self-deprecating humor can come in quite handy when one stands outside a ballpark for hours at a time, wearing a glove and not getting any action…

My avatar is the Standing Bear – it’s my favorite of all the Cub logos. Not too cuddly cute nor too ferocious. It kinda has a blue-collar workmanlike look to it – just give me a bat and let me do my job.

As for my signature… well, I’m from Cleveland, a big Indians fan, and loved the movie Major League. When I first moved here, the Cubs pitching wasn’t the greatest, but they had several sluggers who could reach Waveland Ave. on a regular basis so like Lou Brown said in the movie… “My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team…”

of Missouri.
The quote is just, well, a little of Sir William at his best and a whole lot of what is done here.

pretty obvious here, Life long Cub fan, 6 year Devil Rays/Rays fan (I’m from st pete), and before last year you couldn’t call being a Ray’s fan anything less than a bad addiction, my avatar is of one of my birds after game 5 pt 1 of the world series being called due to weather, the only time I’ve seen this particular bird mad (she is throwing food out of her bowl in this picture and did that and screamed for hours that night, still the only time since).

Great topic btw, I’ve enjoyed reading others explanations. And the quote is just a semi-reference to a t-shirt Troy Percival wore last year that said—- Kaz/Shields/Garza-Glavine/ Avery/Smoltz with a rosterbation twist.

I’ve been called Big John my entire life, based on the oldie but goodie Jimmie Dean song. People that are old enough to know that song also call me Big Bad John lol

The AZ at the end refers to the location on this great, big, blue marble where I reside. I was born and raised in Blue Island, IL and moved to Chandler, AZ in 2000.

The avatar is the Cubs logo that was the patch on the shoulder of their unis from 1962-78.

My sig is one of the stock lines that Jack Brickhouse used to rattle off during the Cubs games back in the day.

If so, you might have an idea. But if you call me on it, I’ll deny it to no end.

I like beer, I like the Cubs,I thought it was a natural. It is also my license plate. My avatar is actually a picture of a picture hanging in the locker room hallway in the Fitch park clubhouse.

it used to be mraprilcub, but I lost the password or something, so I’ve been Ihatethecards for a couple of years now.

It’s a street in Chicago where my wife allows me to live.

A favorite player from the ’84 team: not the most talented, but he always gave it all he had.

Named after the Spurrier offense that has yet to show up, Cock n Fire was the name of my first blog. So when I moved over to SBN, I kept the name. My avatar is from the Garnet and Black Attack logo, the first site I ran at SBN and where I’m still a contributor. The sig is my current site.

but “Sparky” is my nickname – both because my last name is Sparks and I’m an electrical engineer

39762 is the zip code where I recently spent 4 great years at Mississippi State University

and the avatar is my wife and I on our honeymoon last year in the bleachers for the 9-run comeback against Colorado. I offered to leave after the 5th – we were down 9-1 and we had been rained on all day – I knew she was miserable but she said we should stay for a couple more innings. Needless to say, we didn’t leave early and we hung around afterwards for a while, too. I also stole a piece of ivy that day.

Great day. :)

I don’t LOOK drewish…

I change avatars and sig lines constantly just because I can.

Mine is kinda obvious…I love the Cubs and I live in Oklahoma City.

My avatar is me and my wife on our honeymoon and first trip to Wrigley.

Quote is self explanatory as well.

Screenname is taken from an Office quote by Dwight yelling, “We must never acquiesce!” I think “acquiesce” is the greatest sounding, greatest spelled English word ever but it alone as an SN is like commanding someone to bow down. Hence the “never.”

Avatar is Gareth from The Office. Sensing a pattern? A girl I was once madly in love with printed it out with the words “Your future?” and gave it to me as an inside joke. So it’s got a bit of meaning to it.

Signature was a line the Irish singer Glen Hansard said when accepted an Oscar for best song. The lowercase and asterisk make it a wee artsier though, admittedly, a bit pretentious.

I’m from Carolina, to be specific the Northern version.
The avatar is me looking GOOD.

The sig is just a saying I like.
my old one was " not everyone is a waste of good skin"

frustrated fan need not apply. One hundred and one years and counting.

my avatar is from Albuquerque when I interned for The Albuquerque isotopes on the grounds crew last year. iam back in chi know

Not really, but when I was a youthful youth, I played in a band which tried really hard to sound like we had our blues chops. My real name sounded way too, um white, I guess. It’s just a rather Teutonic sounding name, so I started calling myself the Hoodoo Man when we played out. My sig is a line from “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” by one of my favorite bands, Wilco. And my picture I just added a couple of minutes ago so that I would have something to write about and it’s a picture of Wilco performing live. I like the greenish lighting.

given to me by a fraternity brother due to my thin head. Kudos to him, because it’s dead-on. See for yourself on my avatar, I’m the one in the middle.

My name is Steven (most call me Steve) and I live in Albuquerque, NM.
Avatar is a pic with me and my favorite old-time Cub Fergie Jenkins.

Sig line: something I heard once in a bar room.

is Bemidji (MN) State’s logo.

Nickname is Moose, my nickname, which I use as a rado name as well (I’m the sports director of a statio here in Bemidji, MN), and have been using the #97 since early in college, when I got a jersey with that # on it, since that was to be my graduation year. While I did finish college in 1997, I didn’t finish at the same college I started at (and I’ve never gone to BSU)…

Moose

Sig is my favorite Cub, 1962 ROTY, Kenny Hubbs. It’s been a few years, but it was fashonable to “claim” a player, and put him in your sig. I just never changed…

Moose

JB are my initials(and what quite a few call me) and 23 is a just a great all time number for Chicago players, especially Ryno

As far as the avatar, just a cool shot of Harry doing a pre game interview with Ryno. A classic memory from my youth…

Mike Oxbyg – It’s a rather childish immatuer name that I used during college for various things. Hint: Say the words slowly together kind of like the Bart Simpson phone pranks.

The picture is from my sons first game last September which will forever be called the “Geo Game”.

The quote is a great Homer line that I have always loved and wish more people would understand.

Thought I’d make this my first post. Hope I’m doin’ it right…….“G”

I’ve used this screen name in various forums I’m a member of………..ya, ya I know I ended my sentence with a preposition…..so sue me…..“chuckles” Has no meaning except I liked the name and it’s a little different like me……“G”

Have no signature or avatar yet………give me time I may come up with something.

I’m a software guy by trade, so years ago when I was looking for a handle on IRC I came up with “ChipSet” – kind of a cross between a preppy persona ("Chip") and a computer reference (as in, the silicon chip set under the hood). Mostly I use my real name on forums and the like but for some reason I’ve gone with ChipSet here and on tripadvisor. I haven’t done IRC probably for 10 years.

My avatar is just a clip from a photo I took the first time I had dugout box seats, in May of 2005. The game had some rain delays and we were there practically ’til midnight. So I have this unusual shot of the scoreboard clock reading 11:45, but in the dark of night.

I live in Vegas and am a die hard cub fan. The avatar is my wife and I in the hallowed grounds of Wrigley.

and about 10 years ago had four articles in one issue of a magazine. The editor asked me to come up with a pseudonym because he didn’t want it to look like the mag was favoring one writer. As a lifelong Cubs fan it was easy to come up with Clark Addison.

I write primarily for dive magazines, and there doesn’t seem to be many baseball fans among them because nobody ever called me out on it.

The avatar is a great white shark photo that I shot at Guadalupe Island.

shouldn’t be shot or eaten, just viewed and appreciated.

and just how I see myself as part of them .. say what you will but I like the term Cubs Nation, even if I’m not as fecklessly hateful as some here can be about using the term and thinking it sounds like a take off from the Red Sox .. I’m just one of the many, a cog in the collective, a voice among voices ..

And my Avatar gets more and more personal the older I get ..

Needless to say, my signature looks pretty good each spring too ..

And I drink alot.

I’m late to the party—as usual. My avatar stems from my chosen career—I am active duty Air Force and love our symbol. Plus, what’s life in a free market society without a little shameless advertising. My screenname is something I came up with while I was stationed in Alaska about 10 years ago and have used ever since. As for my signature, doesn’t everybody love the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy—best quote ever from the “trilogy.”

When I finally transferred down as a Junior to Purdue Univ in W. Lafayette, by best friend who went with me defected and joined a fraternity. I was not too happy about it since I would rather have stuck a stick in my eye at the time, but regardless his eventual fraternity brothers are among the best friends I have to this day.

Anyway, there was this one dude who was absolutely hillarious but also absolutely a drunk (even more than us) who would drink a case of Busch Light and then try to call me by my last name. He never could pronounce it, or come even close, so out came some wild variation that sounded like “derv”.

From that day forward – I was known as derv. Bastard.

KC= My initials standing for Kari C
OK= well i’m an okie, I’ve live in Tulsa most of my life, minus 5 years i recently spent in Norman attending OU.
The picture is me in front of the bean on my most recent trip to Chicago this past october.

My name says enuff. My avatar is a pic of me and Elvis.

The name is to combat references such as “Long suffering Cubs fan.” I strongly dislike those labels, I don’t do things that make me suffer. The avatar is a picture of me MANY years ago. The signature is a favorite quote about the game and against societies thirst for fast paced mindless entertainment.

Racked my brain for all of a minute and come up with this subtle scrappy play on words. In addition, as a graduate of SIUC, I have run into police in riot gear a few times. I am not really a Theriot fan so it is sort of ironic.

My sig line has been a few things over the last year or so…the latest I picked up in a business meeting. I find it to be very truthful in all aspects of life.

The avatar is a shirtless Harry Caray. I am not sure where the picture was taken…it was his pre-cub days. His head is cut off in the Avatar and I never took the time to see if I could fix that…

Mine is pretty simple…augie is short for Augustana College, my alma mater, and 90 is the year I graduated.

Someday I’ll add a sig and an avatar…just need to find a good pic to use!

screen name: I’ve been “Zeke” since I was a little kid. WAY back before Isiah Thomas, OR “Zeke the Wonder Dog”- I or II…

avatar: Tram the Man. As a Cubs and Tigers fan, what could be more perfect? Plus it shows the perspective of the absolutely best seats I’ve ever had at Wrigley. That photo was NOT taken with a telephoto lens.

signature: MSU Grad. Spartan fan. Bleed green. Also, I signed up for Cubs season tickets a few years ago and like to track the folly that is pursuit of those tickets. I’ll be long dead before I ever move up to the front of the line. And my kids couldn’t care less about keeping my place in line, “post-dad”. So when I go, that’s all she wrote.

ctcoff, my first and middle initial, plus the first part of my last name and hence, my nickname, + 99. 1999 is the year I graduated college and moved to Florida, which at the time, was kind of the before and after point in my life, like B.C. or A.D. Since I have lived in Chicago since 2004, the whole ‘99 thing is now kind of a moot point. In short, I’ll be the first to admit that my screen name is a bit boring and outdated. I’ve thought about changing it for a while now, but I can’t come up with anything good.

My signature is a tribute to Steve Stone, and his now infamous calling out of the ’04 team at the end of the season. One of my all-time favorite radio moments ever.

Hello all. I have loved reading BCB for the past year or so and decided now is the time for my first post. My screen name is a nick name I’ve had since 2nd grade. My last name ends in muehl.

My signature (i hope it works) is a great line from The Natural.

Avatar is my nephew and me in Wrigley Field North in 2006. Nice to meet you all. I can’t wait for baseball season to start!!!!!

But Squeaky is a nickname and the avatar was a senior picture, and I just thought it was cool.

I have a name that is hard to pronounce – “DGU” is a shortened form of my name.

My avatar is my favorite Cub.

My sig-line from last season is being retired after this post. It came mid-season last year after I grew tired of a reoccuring argument that some were making along the lines of “If you disagree with ____ who has ____ years of baseball experience, you’re saying you know more than ____, which is arrogant/stupid/evil.”

Mine is my name. I was trying to think of a catchy name when I was inspired by Al.

My sig is from a song by the British folk/rock group Oysterband called, appropriately, All That Way for This. I adopted it after the AZ playoff debacle and never took it down.

radio station that contributed to my monicker….haven’t been for a while now.

Demond “Bob” Sanders.

My signature is almost always a rap lyric that I love, usually from Lil’ Wayne. The current one was chosen because it’s a shoutout to Peyton Manning (Lil Wayne’s fellow New Orleans native) in a song I love.

The screen name is a dumb little play off my last name, given to me by a football coach I hated. I didn’t mind the nickname, (my name is spectacularly generic so I’ve been given tons of nicknames) so it stuck for a good while.