Fun with baseball names

[Bellhorn04]

Mo Cheeks is a great name for a proctologist...

 

There's some pornographic potential there, too, of course.

[notin]

There's some pornographic potential there, too, of course.

 

Same can be said for Trey Ball...

[Thunder]

There's some pornographic potential there, too, of course.

 

My real last name is Cox. Middle school wasn't always fun

[mvp 78]

My real last name is Cox. Middle school wasn't always fun

 

Thunder Cox? Woof.

[notin]

Thunder Cox? Woof.

 

Now THAT is a name with pornographic potential...

[Thunder]

now that is a name with pornographic potential...

 

lol

[Kimmi]

The Os announcers had a good time pointing out that Josh Osich's name is a tongue twister.

 

Try saying it 3 times fast. LOL

 

Speaking of the Os announcers, Gary Thorne is not broadcasting games this season. It has been so much more tolerable listening to Os games on the MASN feed this year.

[Bellhorn04]

The Os announcers had a good time pointing out that Josh Osich's name is a tongue twister.

 

Try saying it 3 times fast. LOL

 

Also, it sounds like a drunk guy trying to say "ostrich".

[Bellhorn04]

How about names that you get mixed up? Here's a pair for me:

 

Tanner Roark

Tanner Houck

[notin]

The Rays added an infielder to their player pool named Ford Proctor, in the "Name That Sounds Way Too Much Like A Make and Model of Car" category...

[notin]

How about names that you get mixed up? Here's a pair for me:

 

Tanner Roark

Tanner Houck

 

 

No. 1 on my list is my repeated calling the Sox new 1b Brian Dalbec, since I keep confusing him with The Belleville Basher, Brian Daubach...

[Thunder]

Not a baseball name, but I'm watching college football today, and UNC has a DB named Storm Duck. That's legendary. If only he played for Oregon

[notin]

Not a baseball name, but I'm watching college football today, and UNC has a DB named Storm Duck. That's legendary. If only he played for Oregon

 

The greatest football name ever is Barkevious Mingo....

[Thunder]

The greatest football name ever is Barkevious Mingo....

 

That's debatable. There was a DB for Oregon last year (not sure if he graduated or not) named Brady Breeze. I wonder if his family named him after two of the three greatest QBs of my generation on purpose.

 

The QB for Indiana, who I got to watch in person, as we played them in Bloomington last year, is named Peyton Ramsey, with a brother named Montana. Not very subtle.

[notin]

That's debatable. There was a DB for Oregon last year (not sure if he graduated or not) named Brady Breeze. I wonder if his family named him after two of the three greatest QBs of my generation on purpose.

 

I’m going to say they did not.

 

Brady Breeze was likely born (and named) in 1997 or 1998. At that time, Tom Brady was still at University of Michigan, battling either Brian Griese or Drew Henson for the starting QB job.

Edited September 13, 2020 by notin

[Kimmi]

No. 1 on my list is my repeated calling the Sox new 1b Brian Dalbec, since I keep confusing him with The Belleville Basher, Brian Daubach...

 

Not baseball names, but last year I had the following students:

 

Amiyah - Pronounced with a long i (A-my-a)

 

Amiyah - Pronounced with a long e (A-me-a)

 

Miya - Pronounced with a long i (My-a)

 

Miya - Pronounced with a long e (Me-a)

 

Nia - Pronounced with a long i (Nigh-a)

 

Mia - Pronounced with a long e (Me-a)

 

And just for good measure, I also had 2 Jeremiahs. LOL

 

I am really good with being able to learn my students names, but remembering those pronunciations took me a while.

[notin]

The Brewers DFA's a RHP named Trey Supak today, in the "Name That Sounds Like a WWE Wrestling Move" category...

[moonslav59]

Not baseball names, but last year I had the following students:

 

Amiyah - Pronounced with a long i (A-my-a)

 

Amiyah - Pronounced with a long e (A-me-a)

 

Miya - Pronounced with a long i (My-a)

 

Miya - Pronounced with a long e (Me-a)

 

Nia - Pronounced with a long i (Nigh-a)

 

Mia - Pronounced with a long e (Me-a)

 

And just for good measure, I also had 2 Jeremiahs. LOL

 

I am really good with being able to learn my students names, but remembering those pronunciations took me a while.

 

I had a...

 

Naylea- pronounced Nigh- lay- ah

 

Ngoc- prounced Nyung (soft on the 'g" )

 

Nwamordi (pretty much sounds like it's spelled)

 

Phuc -like Fa- oo (like in book) and soft c like a p) see link

 

Xinyu

 

Semere

 

Suheyla

 

Wareesha

 

Chiquinquira

 

Yaphet

 

Moez

 

Tooba (two of them)

 

Bushra

 

Muzzammil

 

Trucvy

 

Walid

 

Romaisa (pronounced Row-May-shah)

 

Nahida

 

Munachi (you should see his last name!)

 

Siti

 

Elif

 

Iqraa

 

Ummehani

 

Muskan

 

Yavuz

 

Divya

 

Webei

Shin-Wei

Jun-Jie

 

and my fave....

 

Chukwubuzo

[notin]

You taught Yaphet Kotto?!?!

[moonslav59]

You taught Yaphet Kotto?!?!

 

Jr.

 

(LOL)

[Kimmi]

OMG Moon.

 

What ever happened to good old Tom?

[moonslav59]

OMG Moon.

 

What ever happened to good old Tom?

 

My district brags about being the most diverse in the nation, and my school is the most diverse in the district. I think, at last count, we have 41 different languages spoken at my school. (about 1500 students)

[Bellhorn04]

Players you wouldn't want to invite to a party:

 

Ryan Dull

Justin Grimm

Justin Bour

 

 

(Somehow forgot one of the all-time bad names):

 

J. J. Putz

[Bellhorn04]

Per MLB Trade Rumors: NC Dinos to post Sung-Bum Na.

[notin]

Per MLB Trade Rumors: NC Dinos to post Sung-Bum Na.

 

He belongs on the body parts list, along with the player whose name I know has to mean something truly obscene in German - Paul Assenmacher...

[mvp 78]

https://twitter.com/FranzkeLA/status/1338303994456838145

[notin]

https://twitter.com/FranzkeLA/status/1338303994456838145

 

Or we could bring back the Cleveland Naps. Because no moniker intimidates more than one that is reminiscient of the afternoon activities of an infant.

 

And also the Naps, had the man I consider to be the Worst Player in MLB History, a fellow by the name of Johnny Gochnauer.

 

Gochnauer played for 2+ years for the Naps as their starting shortstop, presumably by default. In two plus years, he played 264 games and finished with a career OPS of .498 (45 OPS+). He also set the single season and presumably unbreakable record in 1903 by committing 98 errors (of his 146 career total).

 

So he could not hit and he could not field. He did steal 18 bases in his career, but in an era where stealing was rather common. (His career high total of 10 SB in 1903 was 8th among Naps' starters, ahead of only the catcher Fred Abbot, who stole 8 bases in 67 fewer games.) So it sounds like running was also not his forte.

 

The most amazing thing about Gochnauer was that he actually started for two full seasons...

[Thunder]

Or we could bring back the Cleveland Naps. Because no moniker intimidates more than one that is reminiscient of the afternoon activities of an infant.

 

And also the Naps, had the man I consider to be the Worst Player in MLB History, a fellow by the name of Johnny Gochnauer.

 

Gochnauer played for 2+ years for the Naps as their starting shortstop, presumably by default. In two plus years, he played 264 games and finished with a career OPS of .498 (45 OPS+). He also set the single season and presumably unbreakable record in 1903 by committing 98 errors (of his 146 career total).

 

So he could not hit and he could not field. He did steal 18 bases in his career, but in an era where stealing was rather common. (His career high total of 10 SB in 1903 was 8th among Naps' starters, ahead of only the catcher Fred Abbot, who stole 8 bases in 67 fewer games.) So it sounds like running was also not his forte.

 

The most amazing thing about Gochnauer was that he actually started for two full seasons...

 

You can't talk about Naps without bringing up the Hall of Famer Nap Lajoie. He literally played for the Naps while also having the name Nap

[Bellhorn04]

Or we could bring back the Cleveland Naps. Because no moniker intimidates more than one that is reminiscient of the afternoon activities of an infant.

 

And also the Naps, had the man I consider to be the Worst Player in MLB History, a fellow by the name of Johnny Gochnauer.

 

Gochnauer played for 2+ years for the Naps as their starting shortstop, presumably by default. In two plus years, he played 264 games and finished with a career OPS of .498 (45 OPS+). He also set the single season and presumably unbreakable record in 1903 by committing 98 errors (of his 146 career total).

 

So he could not hit and he could not field. He did steal 18 bases in his career, but in an era where stealing was rather common. (His career high total of 10 SB in 1903 was 8th among Naps' starters, ahead of only the catcher Fred Abbot, who stole 8 bases in 67 fewer games.) So it sounds like running was also not his forte.

 

The most amazing thing about Gochnauer was that he actually started for two full seasons...

 

His career bWAR was -0.3.

 

Not sure he was actually worse than Panda was for us.

[notin]

His career bWAR was -0.3.

 

Not sure he was actually worse than Panda was for us.

 

But I would also think that WAR and especially the defensive component of it had to be calculated differently back then, due to the inability to review every defensive play against the standardized grids...