Mpls is short for Minneapolis (the metro area where I live) and Tom is my name. I did get a kick out of a person at a tournament who said, "hey, it's mipples tom". The avatar is of Mark "The Bird" Fidrych of the Detroit Tigers who used to talk to the baseball and smooth the mound out between innings...a true character.
Raiderman used to call me "Marino" because he thought I looked like Dan Marino.
My wife calls me "Stallion" but that's a whole different thread (or is that Weirdwolf that she calls that).
