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NEW YORK — Dodgers team photographer Jon SooHoo snapped this picture of a meeting among Julio Urias, Yasmani Grandal and Dodgers pitching coach Rick Honeycutt this afternoon. You can’t see it very well because of the shoulder compress he’s wearing, but Urias is wearing a t-shirt that says “CULICHI POWER” on the front and back.
Urias is from Culiacan, the capital city of Sinaloa, a province in northern Mexico where baseball is particularly popular. Four natives of Culiacan have reached the major leagues: Oliver Perez, Arturo Lopez, Arnold Leon and Victor Alvarez. Urias will become the fifth today.
“Natives of Culiacan” is a clunky phrase, so there ought to be a catchy nickname. Culichi fills that void. I found a few of these t-shirts lying around the internet.
With just the proper amount of hype and performance, it could become a popular seller well beyond Culiacan.