10 MLB nicknames we NEED to see during Players’ Weekend
By John Buhler
4. Mike Trout: Gone Fishing
In the land of redundancy that is Angel Stadium home of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim exists the most boring superstar sports having seen since Tim Duncan. Mike Trout is amazing on that baseball diamond playing for a bad team, as well as crushing it in random Subway commercials.
However, the dude needs a nickname like Jeffrey Lebowski did back 1991. His last name is a fish, he’s really good at baseball, this shouldn’t be that hard. Trout needs a nickname like he needs a new PR department and probably a new baseball time, but whatever. The dude’s hurt from busting his digit trying to steal a white bag of something good (i.e., second base) down in South Beach against them Fish.
In short, Trout has Gone Fishing for the rest of the Angels’ miserable 2017 MLB season. No, not all of it, but most of it, basically the games that will matter to keep them even remotely close to that crazy good rocket ship down in Houston.
Trout should be back in Angels uniform by late August. Yes, he’ll miss his first All-Star Game and probably not win an AL MVP this year, but at least all the Angelinos in Los Angeles can by a Mike Trout Gone Fishing jersey as an ever-present remember of the delightful 2016 campaign for the Angels.