We said we weren’t going to post anymore today, but this just fell into our mailbox from Howard Sinker and we couldn’t resist. It seems that Carsten Charles Sabathia, better previously known as C.C. Sabathia, is eschewing the traditional punctuation set forth by rock maven C.C. DeVille (pictured) and will simply go by just “CC” now that he has been traded to Milwaukee. But wait, it gets better. Or should we say, worse. Because this sort of name changing thing with the Brewers has a history. And it doesn’t end well. From the AP (bold, as usual, is all ours):

Write an e-mail and cc it all around baseball: New Milwaukee Brewers pitcher CC Sabathia no longer wants periods after the initials he uses for his first name. From here on out, Carsten Charles Sabathia is just “CC” Sabathia — not “C.C.”

After holding a news conference Monday to announce they’d made a trade to acquire the reigning AL Cy Young award winner from Cleveland, a member of the Brewers public relations staff advised media members that Sabathia prefers to have his initials written without periods. “Oh, really?” Brewers general manager Doug Melvin said. It was not immediately known why Sabathia wanted it that way. He was to talk to reporters later in the day.

The Brewers sent four prospects to Cleveland for Sabathia. The big lefty, as it turned out, became a player to be renamed later. Melvin noted that the Brewers now have two players who don’t use first names — Sabathia and shortstop J.J. Hardy — and wondered if it might start a trend. Hardy, by the way, apparently is keeping his periods in place.

Sabathia isn’t the first pitcher to request a name change upon joining the Brewers. When the pitcher known as Jeremi Gonzalez for most of his career was traded to Milwaukee in 2006, he made it known through the team that the proper spelling of his first name was Geremi. Gonzalez was killed by a lightning strike in his native Venezuela in May.

It’s probably just a coincidence. But just to be safe, CC should probably stop using a copper glove and aluminum cap.

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