Your FOH handle

[ChanceSchmerr]

On 2/17/2025 at 2:48 PM, riderpride said:

Where's @ChanceSchmerr for an explanation. Love this one

Cheers!

Welp!

Long ago, in my nearly-forgotten younger days, as a math-minded Baseball fan, I enjoyed whatifsports.com's Simleagues Baseball. Think of it as Fantasy Baseball - except using historical player seasons from 1885-present. You could make your dream team and play them in a league against those of others, and there was a live play widget that let you play your season's games live against your opponent (instead of the website's algorithm simulating your team's games). The Live play was what really got me hooked. I enjoyed the play and banter.  

It was a lot of fun. I was in a few leagues, won several championships in my progressive leagues. Good Times.

Now the handle - For each of your Simleague teams, whatifsports would computer generate a short roster of "rookie" players for you to use, if a member(s) of your regular lineup got tired and needed to rest up. The rookie players had stats based on historical inexperienced players, but the computer would come up with randomized player names for them. They were never meant to be starters, but like all rookies - some were great, some were lousy.  Luck of draw.

The computer generated names were pretty random-sounding ballplayer names. Nick Snider. William Nardi. Rick Sabo. Glenn Woods. etc. etc. etc.

BUT ONE YEAR. I got a catcher with the best damn random name ever. Chance Schmerr.  What kind of ridiculous shyte name is that?!??! The name would have been good enough to go on - but the dude raked too! Best hitting rookie I'd seen in a long time.

I was sold. And it's been my alter-ego ever since.

[Samysam]

Smysam for Sam I am.

[ImTripN2]

IMTRIPN was the license plate on my old VW Bus.

 

 

[KCCubano]

3 hours ago, ChanceSchmerr said:

Welp!

Long ago, in my nearly-forgotten younger days, as a math-minded Baseball fan, I enjoyed whatifsports.com's Simleagues Baseball. Think of it as Fantasy Baseball - except using historical player seasons from 1885-present. You could make your dream team and play them in a league against those of others, and there was a live play widget that let you play your season's games live against your opponent (instead of the website's algorithm simulating your team's games). The Live play was what really got me hooked. I enjoyed the play and banter.  

It was a lot of fun. I was in a few leagues, won several championships in my progressive leagues. Good Times.

Now the handle - For each of your Simleague teams, whatifsports would computer generate a short roster of "rookie" players for you to use, if a member(s) of your regular lineup got tired and needed to rest up. The rookie players had stats based on historical inexperienced players, but the computer would come up with randomized player names for them. They were never meant to be starters, but like all rookies - some were great, some were lousy.  Luck of draw.

The computer generated names were pretty random-sounding ballplayer names. Nick Snider. William Nardi. Rick Sabo. Glenn Woods. etc. etc. etc.

BUT ONE YEAR. I got a catcher with the best damn random name ever. Chance Schmerr.  What kind of ridiculous shyte name is that?!??! The name would have been good enough to go on - but the dude raked too! Best hitting rookie I'd seen in a long time.

I was sold. And it's been my alter-ego ever since.

Great stuff Chris!

[riderpride]

3 hours ago, ChanceSchmerr said:

Welp!

Long ago, in my nearly-forgotten younger days, as a math-minded Baseball fan, I enjoyed whatifsports.com's Simleagues Baseball. Think of it as Fantasy Baseball - except using historical player seasons from 1885-present. You could make your dream team and play them in a league against those of others, and there was a live play widget that let you play your season's games live against your opponent (instead of the website's algorithm simulating your team's games). The Live play was what really got me hooked. I enjoyed the play and banter.  

It was a lot of fun. I was in a few leagues, won several championships in my progressive leagues. Good Times.

Now the handle - For each of your Simleague teams, whatifsports would computer generate a short roster of "rookie" players for you to use, if a member(s) of your regular lineup got tired and needed to rest up. The rookie players had stats based on historical inexperienced players, but the computer would come up with randomized player names for them. They were never meant to be starters, but like all rookies - some were great, some were lousy.  Luck of draw.

The computer generated names were pretty random-sounding ballplayer names. Nick Snider. William Nardi. Rick Sabo. Glenn Woods. etc. etc. etc.

BUT ONE YEAR. I got a catcher with the best damn random name ever. Chance Schmerr.  What kind of ridiculous shyte name is that?!??! The name would have been good enough to go on - but the dude raked too! Best hitting rookie I'd seen in a long time.

I was sold. And it's been my alter-ego ever since.

!

Long ago, in my nearly-forgotten younger days, as a math-minded Baseball fan, I enjoyed whatifsports.com's Simleagues Baseball.  Think of it as Fantasy Baseball - except using historical player seasons from 1885-present. You could make your dream team and play them in a league against those of others, and there was a live play widget that let you play your season's games live against your opponent (instead of the website's algorithm simulating your team's games). The Live play was what really got me hooked. I enjoyed the play and banter.  

It was a lot of fun. I was in a few leagues, won several championships in my progressive leagues. Good Times.

Now the handle - For each of your Simleague teams, whatifsports would computer generate a short roster of "rookie" players for you to use, if a member(s) of your regular lineup got tired and needed to rest up. The rookie players had stats based on historical inexperienced players, but the computer would come up with randomized player names for them. They were never meant to be starters, but like all rookies - some were great, some were lousy.  Luck of draw.

The computer generated names were pretty random-sounding ballplayer names. Nick Snider. William Nardi. Rick Sabo. Glenn Woods. etc. etc. etc.

BUT ONE YEAR. I got a catcher with the best damn random name ever. Chance Schmerr.  What kind of ridiculous shyte name is that?!??!
The name would have been good enough to go on - but the dude raked too! Best hitting rookie I'd seen in a long time.

I was sold. And it's been my alter-ego ever since.

NICE!

That story always reminds me of this:

Cheers!

[hrs1]

Great thread!

Hunter S Thompson fan - just a riff on his initials.

[CaptainQuintero]

  Regional Commander of the Northern Quintero Forces, steadfast defender against the relentless onslaught of the Piedra Alliance. Veteran of the Favoritos Ambush of 2012, where I led a disciplined three-week fighting withdrawal against overwhelming odds. Decorated with the Order of Brevas for exceptional valor and decisive leadership in the suppression of the Vegeros Uprising of 2013, quelling the Vegeros Empire’s brief resurgence with tactical precision and unwavering resolve

For Agustin!

 

 

 

(Quintero Panetela was the first CC that I "got" cigars with, early on it has been cheaper but hand rolled NC, the various bargain bin CCs etc, I still have a fond spit for those sweet, fresh cut hay and milky Panetelas)

 

[Cigar Surgeon]

I started out a long, long time ago as Avrus which was a handle from Everquest.

Then back at the dawn of Reddit /r/cigars there was a guy who got all upset when I told him his fake Cohibas were fake, after he asked whether they were fake or not.

I told him to relax it wasn't like we were performing cigar surgery and someone's life was at stake.

That became Cigar Surgeon.

[Boss Hog]

Pig farmer. And I run the shit.

[TwoK]

My golfing nickname where I smoke the most of my cigars (from a lifetime of nicknames I do like this one the best)!

 

[BlueRidgeFly]

Some good backstories here! Mine is because I live on the Blue Ridge in VA, and I fish. Wish it was more interesting 😀

[targa88]

Purchased many years ago  = became my call sign

[clovis]

When I enrolled in college to live in the dorms I had a "potluck"  (randomly assigned) roommate. We ended up being very good friends. Domino's Pizza would deliver to our dorm. When ordering, we for some reason used the name Clovis. It's sort of been a handle type name ever since. 

[Lamboinee]

I imagined what my last name would be if it belonged to a famous Italian magician. The Great Lamboinee. 

[unaslob]

Ha. Takes me back to early to mid 90’s. The internet was just a bunch of dialup BBS’s and IRC. (Quite similar to what we do now on forums with now being more real time.) A strapping teen with a weird sense of humor, I came up with my handle for all BBS’s and IRC chat rooms as unaslob, after the unabomber-who was infamous at the time. Unaslob stuck as everywhere I went, I made a mess, still do sometimes. Silly I know, but I have a thing for the history of it. I used the same email address from the early 90’s until the domain finally shut down.

[BigGuns]

A play on my last name. Started out as Mo Guns, had a number of other iterations including Machine Guns, Tommy Guns, etc…but the one that was most used and stuck was Big Guns.

[riderpride]

1 hour ago, BigGuns said:

A play on my last name. Started out as Mo Guns, had a number of other iterations including Machine Guns, Tommy Guns, etc…but the one that was most used and stuck was Big Guns.

I was hoping for a Married With Children reference due to Al's love of Bigguns magazine. 

Cheers!

[Jimmy2x]

I'm gonna go get the papers...get the papers.

[Miner]

It's what I do for a living 🙂

[Ford2112]

Great stories guys. Keep 'em comin'!

[Kaptain Karl]

My late best friend Brent would always call me Kaptain Karl when we fished on my boat together. Mostly in a pirate voice haha. Probably put 500+ hours fishing together in the years before his death. After he passed I changed all of my handles to Kaptain Karl in honor of him. 

[westg]

18 hours ago, Jimmy2x said:

I'm gonna go get the papers...get the papers.

Classic 😂

[smokeyjoe01]

Mine's from a temporary lack of imagination, with 01 on the end because someone else lacked imagination before me, where are you now smokeyjoe?!

[one sock]

On 2/17/2025 at 7:33 AM, shortsmokes said:

Pretty self explanatory here: 4-5 inches, 42-46 ring gage is where it's at for me. 

Is this one of those times when a cigar is not just a cigar? 😃 My grandson was born, just about the time I started hanging out at Fuente’s cigar family forum. He would often pull off one of his socks and walk around with one sock.

[josie67]

Josie is the name of my 1967 mustang convertible.