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My new Matt Harvey nickname? Pooka!



It seems everyone from Dwight Gooden to the good editors at Sports Illustrated are trying to give Matt Harvey a nickname, and as great as "The Dark Knight Of Gotham" sounds, it hardly rolls off the tongue. I had jokingly started calling Harvey "Pooka" to a couple of friends, a name that references the Jimmy Stewart movie in which his best friend is an invisible 6'3" rabbit named Harvey. Anyhow, the "Harvey" character isn't a rabbit, but a Pooka (or "Puca"), an mythological - and mischievous - Irish goblin that is both revered and feared by those that encounter them. I imagine most people would think it is a terrible nickname, but it can't be any worse than "The Real Deal" or whatever Doc was trying to peddle forth on twitter.

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