Comments on: Billy Butler improves from “portly” to “lumbering” overnight http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Thu, 23 May 2013 12:28:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: wendell7 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297885 Wed, 09 May 2012 17:24:17 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297885 Buxom

]]> By: mgv38 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297841 Wed, 09 May 2012 16:48:12 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297841 Reubenesque.

MMMM, Reuben . . . .

]]> By: mgv38 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297838 Wed, 09 May 2012 16:46:59 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297838 Country Buffet,

]]> By: sportsdrenched.com http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297789 Wed, 09 May 2012 16:00:45 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297789 As a big man myself I would have gone with:

The clydesdalesque designated hitter’s three-run shot in the eighth inning Tuesday night boosted the Kansas City Royals a 6-4 victory over the Red Sox …

]]> By: nightman13 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297786 Wed, 09 May 2012 15:58:23 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297786 What about Kirby Puckett?

]]> By: nightman13 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297785 Wed, 09 May 2012 15:55:06 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297785 What do you mean Church?

Current nicknames are awesome, you just take a first initial and a syllable from the last name and then pound it into the ground 156,487 times until it sticks. Or the even more creative first initial combined with the last initial.

What’s not to love?

Can we start a nickname revolution?

]]> By: ksbuff http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297782 Wed, 09 May 2012 15:48:19 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297782 Nothing about Quintero being refereed to as “plodding?” It’s like the writer was a grumpy Red Sox fan that decided to take some jabs at the winning team.

Funny, funny stuff! (*no sarcasm intended)

]]> By: sportsdrenched.com http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297779 Wed, 09 May 2012 15:44:11 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297779 I thumbsed down only because there is no possible way a Red Sox fan knows what a “historical atrocity” is when refering to a baseball team.

]]> By: sportsdrenched.com http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297776 Wed, 09 May 2012 15:41:40 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297776 And piggy backing off Country Breakfast we have started calling Jonathon Broxton “Country Kitchen”

]]> By: heyblueyoustink http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297738 Wed, 09 May 2012 15:06:54 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297738 Big humongous?

]]> By: leerosenthall http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297736 Wed, 09 May 2012 15:01:58 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297736 If Billy Butler is portly and/or lumbering, what does that make Prince Fielder, zaftig?

]]> By: crashdavis99 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297735 Wed, 09 May 2012 15:01:55 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297735 Wording was changed after Butler threatened to “eat” the writer.

]]> By: churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297730 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:49:35 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297730 That’s awesome, sounds like an old school nickname which are far better than most of the current ones.

]]> By: nategearhart http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297721 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:42:09 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297721 Butler signed off on it too, and the tshirts are awesome.

]]> By: l0yalr0yal http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297716 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:38:37 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297716 I see what you did there. and I like it.

]]> By: WhenMattStairsIsKing http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297714 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:38:25 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297714 Thick and rotund.

]]> By: l0yalr0yal http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297713 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:37:45 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297713 You bet your perpetually outraged congregation it is. It stemmed from this beat writer out of St. Joseph, MO on twitter. We started bouncing it around like a beach ball at a nickelback concert. Three days later, which was during a span last year in which he went yard in three or four straight games, ESPN used it on air. Also, in MLB 12 The Show on PS3, if you create your own character, Country Breakfast is one of the nicknames you can use.

]]> By: tmohr http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297712 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:37:40 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297712 Plus-sized.

]]> By: hushbrother http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297711 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:34:48 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297711 How about “corpulent?”

“Kansas City’s corpulent DH Billy Butler gave the Royals the lead with a 3-run homer in the eighth. Butler, not a shy eater, connected off Boston’s Matt Albers.”

]]> By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297710 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:34:26 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297710 Possibly “Waffle House”?

]]> By: churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297697 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:11:05 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297697 Please God tell me his nickname really is Country Breakfast?

]]> By: rooney24 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297695 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:07:07 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297695 In regard to the comment that a portly guy can still be sneaky fast, a former acquaintance came up with a more positive spin. Instead of “pretty quick for a big guy”, it is “you’re pretty big for a quick guy”. It puts the emphasis on calling you a quick guy rather than a big guy. Feel free to use it on anyone you know (or yourself) that is big for a quick guy.

]]> By: heyblueyoustink http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297687 Wed, 09 May 2012 13:51:36 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297687 Pleasantly plump perhaps

]]> By: number42is1 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297657 Wed, 09 May 2012 13:19:08 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297657 This!

]]> By: professorperry http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297654 Wed, 09 May 2012 13:09:54 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297654 Big-boned.

]]> By: nategearhart http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297653 Wed, 09 May 2012 13:09:52 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297653 COUNTRY BREAKFAST!

]]> By: aceshigh11 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297652 Wed, 09 May 2012 13:09:44 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297652 In a related story:

The Red Sox devolved from “merely shitty” to “historical atrocity” overnight as well.

]]> By: l0yalr0yal http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297649 Wed, 09 May 2012 13:04:16 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297649 I don’t know, man. If one can be portly and sneaky-fast at the same time, that’s definitely not Country Breakfast. He couldn’t sneak up on anyone in a machine shop during an earthquake, and he’s certainly not fast. Defensively he is sub-par, and lumber is really the only thing he brings to the team.

On another note, I would like to commend you on selecting such a fine picture. It’s been going around lately that he has been making an O-face this year (Oh, Oh, you guys know what I’m talking about, Oh). This picture definitely does justice to the aforementioned rumors.

]]> By: Gobias Industries http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/09/billy-butler-improves-from-portly-to-lumbering-overnight/comment-page-1/#comment-297644 Wed, 09 May 2012 12:58:46 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145737#comment-297644 Can I throw a third option into the mix? Husky.

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