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Bada Bing · #1 10-10-2007, 08:00 AM

Batting Third, Charlie Wattsizname

Yankees road aliases include Bruce Lee, Austin Powers, Davey Crockett

OCTOBER 5--When the New York Yankees check into hotels on the road, stars like Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez register under phony names so not to be bothered by groupies, autograph seekers, and assorted lunatics. For instance, when the Bronx Bombers played the Seattle Mariners in late-2005, the club stayed at the swanky Fairmont Olympic Hotel, where many players checked in using their phony handles, according to a $47,905.85 invoice sent to the club (a copy of the bill can be found below). In a story this week in The Village Voice, reporter Neil deMause matched aliases with some actual Yankees by comparing the invoice with a separate key that he examined while sifting through documents submitted by the team to New York City's Department of Parks & Recreation, which oversees the club's Yankee Stadium lease. Here's a Who's Who from the 2005 squad: Johnny Drama (Jeter); Simon Phoenix (Mike Mussina); Bruce Almighty (Don Mattingly); Ricky Ricardo (Jorge Posada); Joe Saturday (Hideki Matsui); Sam Adams (Randy Johnson); Richard Long (Bernie Williams); Turd Ferguson (Jaret Wright); and Austin Powers (Ruben Sierra). We're not sure why outfielder Matt Lawton used the "Eleven Fifty" alias, but Luis Sojo apparently went by "Harry Pelotas" because the fake surname translates to "balls" in Spanish. As for the true identities of Johnny Blaze, Ray Charles, Davey Crockett, Jack Daniels, Payne N. Deneck, Fyfe, Bo Jackson, Bruce Lee, Leon, Ghost Ryder, Charlie Wattsizname, and Randy White, well, that's a mystery. But we're pretty sure that "Joe Russo" is manager Joe Torre and that "Alex Emanuel" is Alex Rodriguez, who appears to use his actual middle name as his phony surname.

Link to yankees invoice

Personally, my baseball alias would be Harry Wood, but that's just me.

Panama Girl · #2 10-10-2007, 12:48 PM

Hu's on first, Watts' on second, Aidono's on third

Kid Lester · #3 10-10-2007, 01:15 PM

Some of my baseball hotel aliases, if I was a pro ball player:

Stan Dinline

Wade Yurtern

Hu Sneckst

Rusty · #4 07-14-2008, 09:59 AM

Posted on July 13th, 2008 in The Daily Stab - gossip so good it hurts

Beer - $5
Madonna Pictures - $10
Look on your face when A-Rod sees you making fun of him - Priceless

Here are some pics that were taken in Toronto during the third inning of this Saturdays (July 12, 2008) New York Yankees game vs the Toronto Blue Jays.
Looks like the guys in the crowd were having fun teasing Alex Rodriguez on all the Madonna drama that’s been going on lately, that is until he actually turned around and looked them in the eye!

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