Per rotoworld, Albert has again stressed his displeasure with the nickname "el hombre".  And we don't want to make Albert mad (or do we?).  So lets use this thread to discuss the new officially unoffical nickname at veb.  

We should probably eliminate any and all variations of the man including el hombre, mang, etc.  

"the machine" is an obvious candidate.  i have no idea how that translates to spanish.  

anything relating to destruction of brad lidge should deserve serious consideration as well.  lets just be sure to get out in front of the dispatch on this one so we can dictate the new nickname.

well, this is just a brainstorming thread.  i may add a poll once we get some frontrunners.

I was sitting in the Denver Airport last night watching the game on gameday.  When Ankiel was hit by a pitch and Yadi came up I turned to the guy next to me and called the shot.  Of course, I can't say it was anymore than a hunch but it worked out. 

My question for the statheads out there is this:

Are home run rates in ABs when the previous batter was HBP any higher than the home run rate across all at bats?  Is this even a statistically valid question?  Logically it might follow that after hitting a batter the pitcher might just try to get a couple over the plate or he could just continue to miss spots. 

I tried to look at baseball reference to see if i could run this query but I have no idea what I'm doing.