Fun with baseball names

[notin]

Children should be able to legally re-name themselves as early as possible, seriously. Pro golfer Jason Day and his wife just had their third child, a son, and named him Arrow.

 

There is that annoying trend of wanting your child to have a unique name. Want your son to have a name no one else his age has? Well, try naming him Mike. Or David. Or James. Those names are readily available now...

[Northern Star]

I think a couple of parents sued for the right to name their kid #.

 

They lost.

[Northern Star]

I've seen a few cases of the first name My Heaven. Way to make it all about you, mom.

 

And that's not a name, that's a description.

[notin]

A lot of these people don’t play baseball or have names as funny as Brock Dyckxhoorn...

[notin]

The Athletics added a player named Skye Bolt to their 40 man roster today...

[harmony]

I knew a girl named Anita Humphrey.

 

I worked with a guy not named Harold Butts, but literally (birth certificate) Harry Butts.

When I was an Iowa high schooler in the early 1970s we had a girls basketball star named Fonda Dicks:

 

https://sites.google.com/site/iahsaasports/iowa-high-schools/current-high-schools/moravia/moravia-girls-basketball

[Bellhorn04]

When I was an Iowa high schooler in the early 1970s we had a girls basketball star named Fonda Dicks:

 

https://sites.google.com/site/iahsaasports/iowa-high-schools/current-high-schools/moravia/moravia-girls-basketball

 

It's pretty hard to top that one!

[Kimmi]

When I was an Iowa high schooler in the early 1970s we had a girls basketball star named Fonda Dicks:

 

https://sites.google.com/site/iahsaasports/iowa-high-schools/current-high-schools/moravia/moravia-girls-basketball

 

You really have to wonder what is going on in the minds of the parents. I imagine this girl dealt with a lot of teasing and joking while growing up.

[Northern Star]

You really have to wonder what is going on in the minds of the parents. I imagine this girl dealt with a lot of teasing and joking while growing up.

 

A woman's been in the news this week because she named her daughter Abcde.

[Kimmi]

A woman's been in the news this week because she named her daughter Abcde.

 

Yeah, I saw that.

 

SMH

[notin]

A woman's been in the news this week because she named her daughter Abcde.

 

To be fair, that’s actually short for Abcdefghij. It’s a traditional first name in the Klmnopqrstuvwxyz family...

[Northern Star]

To be fair, that’s actually short for Abcdefghij. It’s a traditional first name in the Klmnopqrstuvwxyz family...

 

 

...

[Northern Star]

I'm pretty sure two awful parents attempted to name their kid ********, claiming it was pronounced differently than the usual way. Sigh.

 

Edit: I don't think these parents were Guardians or aware of the Indian name. I think they were just trying to be smartasses.

Edited December 4, 2018 by Northern Star

[Bellhorn04]

It's kind of surprising that one of Manny Machado's nicknames isn't Machete.

[notin]

I'm pretty sure two awful parents attempted to name their kid ********, claiming it was pronounced differently than the usual way. Sigh.

 

It’s actually a fairly common Indian (as in India) name, and it’s pronounced “shi THEED”.

 

I’m not joking...

[Northern Star]

It’s actually a fairly common Indian (as in India) name, and it’s pronounced “shi THEED”.

 

I’m not joking...

 

Wow. Now I think of it, I remember seeing someone's name once and it was spelled Shitie.

 

Reminds me of the Austrian village called f***ing. The residents are bemused at the English/American tourists they get. Particularly the ones who take a photo while engaging in the act next to one of the village road signs.

[Northern Star]

It's kind of surprising that one of Manny Machado's nicknames isn't Machete.

 

Or Douchebag.

[notin]

The Diamondbacks signed a 27yo minor league shortstop named Jason Leblebijian, who immediately made me think of this thread... Edited January 24, 2019 by notin

[Bellhorn04]

Jagger Stone Rusconi (appearing in some spring games for the Sox)

[notin]

Jagger Stone Rusconi (appearing in some spring games for the Sox)

 

 

I still like Brock Dyckshoorn the best...

[notin]

The Blue Hays have a reliever named Jacob Waguespack, who immediately deserves mention on this list...

[Bellhorn04]

Here's a great science-fiction pairing:

 

Eloy Jimenez

Al Morlock

 

I typed in Morlock on B-R not really expecting to get a match, but I was pleasantly surprised.

 

(The Time Machine, if you had to ask...)

[Northern Star]

Here's a great science-fiction pairing:

 

Eloy Jimenez

Al Morlock

 

I typed in Morlock on B-R not really expecting to get a match, but I was pleasantly surprised.

 

(The Time Machine, if you had to ask...)

 

Being picky, it should be Eloi.

[Bellhorn04]

Being picky, it should be Eloi.

 

Spelling differences are fine, as long as the phonetics work.

[notin]

Being picky, it should be Eloi.

 

 

Mr. and Mrs. Jimenez clearly dropped the ball...

[notin]

If we can do great pairings, how about Al Laurel and JJ Hardy?

[Bellhorn04]

Jim Abbott and John Costello

[Bellhorn04]

Russell Martin and Colby Lewis

[notin]

Hawkeye Wayne and BJ Surhoff.

 

For all you M*A*S*H fans.

 

Apparently Hawkeye Hamilton Wayne is the real name of a former Mariners’ farmhand and not a nickname...

[Bellhorn04]

Jim Burton and Ron Taylor