A Fun Little Name Game

I am a sucker for a good prompt. Monday, I popped in on social media and saw this from the most wonderful Linda Holmes: Slightly increase a band Men With One Small Hat Nine words, and I spent the rest of the night trying to come up with ways to slightly increase a band. The best I could come up with was The B-36s, which will speak to all the New Wave Aviation Enthusiasts out there, but probably nobody else. And so I kept thinking and thinking, and mentioned to our younger daughter Katie, who almost immediately said, “Ariana Venti,” which had the double effect of making me proud and also furious that she beat me at this dumb game. A few others that I saw that I loved: Riz: Linkin Memorial Snookertst: Red Hot Ghost Peppers Robert: The Rolling Boulders mfmindc: Frozenplay Celeste Ng: 10,001 Maniacs Jack: Electric Heavy Orchestra Doc: Green Week Riley: Paramost I started thinking then — can’t we do this in sports? Can’t we slightly increase a few sports figures? Well, we can try — let me try to put together 50 of them in rapid fire. Like 100 floors of fright, these will not all be winners: Johnny Sofa Willie Springs Medium-Sized Reese Joe California Swan Gossage Four Finger Brown Duffel Paige One Neck Williams Aaron Justice Mookie Parlays Patrick Mamansions Steph Vindaloo Jordan Runner Pete Murder-Armstrong Cy Grown Myles Attic James Chef Bo Veto James Cement Tris Amplifier Maya Most Maxi Miñoso Tim Pours Sprout Selig Ken Griffey Sr. Cold Papa Bell Flamey Anderson Prince Snider Senior Seau Generalissimo Faulk Floyd Big (also Larry Big) Warren Planet Howie Longer Whitey Lincoln Michael Oman Grant Butte Bill Oversoul Jo Jo Jo White Trevor Novella Dylan Desist Joe Sawbuck Chris Liquidation Mike Salmon Brandon Swamp Roast Allen Joe Warren Ambush Woods Nellie Skulk Glenn Atrium Mike Imperious I suspect 47 of these made you groan and perhaps consider canceling your subscription (and some will undoubtedly make you go “Who?”). That’s fair. But hopefully you got a chuckle out of two or three. Of course, the comments are open for your choices. BIG FAN releases in ONE WEEK! Woo hoo! You can preorder here.