As you may have heard, Jimmy Rollins held his 3rd annual BaseBowl charity event last Thursday at Lucky Strike lanes in Center City.  His yearly bowl-a-thon allows fans to sort-of interact with the Phillies and bid on various memorbilia with the proceeds going to the Arthritis Foundation of Eastern Pennsylvania.  An incredibly nice gesture from Young James.

HOWEVER, each participant is also given their very own bowling shirt, complete with a Rollins-decided nickname.  Most of these choices were questionable to say the least.  For example, Ryan Howard (pictured) was given the moniker ‘UPS’; not for his fondness of delivering runners home, but rather because they’ve been calling him Big Brown in the clubhouse.  Call me crazy, but I’m going to assume if Bill Conlin happened to call him that on DNL, he’d be suspended for life.

Other not-so-clever nicknames include Chase ‘The Model’ Utley, Jamie ‘Dyno’ Moyer, So ‘Asian Magic’ Taguchi (which mightaswell have been ‘Waiver Wire’) and the grammatically incorrect JC ‘Lo Roca’ Romero.  Poor Kyle Kendrick is so bland, his shirt was left blank.

After the jump, watch the explanation for the nicknames in video form…

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