Brewer Nyjer Morgan, aka Tony Gumble, Tony Plush or T-Dot, is making baseball interesting again.

My conservative friend is constantly trying to get me to pay attention to the Brewers. With a character like Nyjer Morgan on the roster, I may pay more attention to the after game interviews.

jsonline: His all-out, fearless style of play already has endeared him to Milwaukee fans. So, too, has his fun-loving approach to the game and persona, one that includes a self-styled alter ego named "Tony Plush."

Q. You brought up Tony Plush. You also go by T-Dot. Explain the genesis of your alter ego, or "gentleman's name," as you call it, for the uninitiated.

A. Basically it was me and my crew. We called ourselves "The Rat Pack" back in the day back in San Jose (Calif.). Me and a few of my co-pilots, you could say, we basically were our own little crew. I was Tony Plush, we had my boy Frankie Sleaze, then there was my other boy, James dot Dean. We had fun with it, just a bunch of kids.