Your Guide to C-Speak

Here's a comprehensive list of terms and names I'll be using throughout the seasons. I'll constantly be updating with different sports versions.

Baseball:

• The Enchanter: Tim Lincecum. Young Giants rookie pitcher with a blazing heater, and nasty curve, and a wicked split/change-up.
  
• Cainer: Matt Cain. Young Giants pitcher with the stuff capable of a shutout or no-hitter. Unfortunately this season, the Giants offense sadistically seem to refuse to give him run support. He got 2 or fewer runs in the last 13 of 19 games.
• BLB: Barry Lamar Bonds. No explanation necessary.
• Matty Mo: Matt Morris. The veteran of the Giants starting rotation. Started off fantastically, but somehow petered off over the course of the season. He's the most valuable trade bait.
• Dirty Sanchez: Young lefty relief pitcher. Has some nasty sliders and breaking balls in his arsenal to strike guys out. If you see how his pitches cut across the plate, you'll mos. def. think "dirty".
• "Sid-DOWN!" or "Eat it": My spin-off of Mike Krukow's famous "Grab some pine, meat" catchphrase. "Eat it" is also used when a player openly defies general knowledge.

Basketball

• Boom Dizzle or BD: Baron Davis. Leader of the Golden State Warriors.
• Dubs: Shortened form of W, which is short for Warriors.
• Jax: Stephen Jackson. The hothead of the team, but a crucial hothead.
  
• TMNT: Al Harrington. He looks like a Ninja Turtle.
• Il Tiratore: Italian for "The Sharpshooter", "The Sniper", or "The Gunman". My nickname for the young Italian rookie who shot the lights out of Summer League, Marco Belinelli.