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0 Subject: Funny Name

Posted by: Slizz
- [21733916] Mon, Jan 28, 2008, 10:06

I don't post much, if at all, on the baseball forum, but I felt this was noteworthy:

Transaction of the Week: Noticed this in the paper the other day, under baseball transactions in something called the Golden Baseball League: CALGARY VIPERS -- Agreed to terms with OF Jorge Poo Tang.

Are there any other great names for baseball players...they always seem to have good ones.
1Great One
      Sustainer
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      Mon, Jan 28, 2008, 10:50
wasn't that guy on the Braves - Jung Bong ?
3wazaaap_guy
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      Mon, Jan 28, 2008, 10:59
Top 10 Dirtiest Names in Sports
4blue hen
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      Mon, Jan 28, 2008, 11:05
From WG's list:

10. De'Cody Fagg
9. Homer Bush
8. Albert Pujols
7. Irina Slutskaya
6. Ron Tugnutt
5. Assol Slivets
4. Dick Butkus
3. Johnny Dickshot
2. Dick Trickle
1. Chubby Cox
5Slizz
      ID: 21733916
      Mon, Jan 28, 2008, 14:01
what an awesome list of names!

love Johnny D!
6Great One
      Sustainer
      ID: 053272014
      Mon, Jan 28, 2008, 14:48
Where is Dick Pole from the Red Sox?!
7youngroman
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      Mon, Jan 28, 2008, 15:13
I like Robert Fick. Fick is the F-Word translated to German

I am also wondering where Rudy Gay is on that list.
8Toral
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      Mon, Jan 28, 2008, 15:22
In the category of just regular great names for baseball players (no innuendo), as of 1990, last discussion/poll I've seen, the best pure baseball name is:

Bombo Rivera
9blue hen
      ID: 16322314
      Mon, Jan 28, 2008, 19:53
Bob Walk?
11Kyle
      Donor
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      Tue, Jan 29, 2008, 23:15
Pete LaCock, what a name!
12C1-NRB
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      Wed, Jan 30, 2008, 00:20
Linda Cohen prefers Heathcliff Slocumb.
13angryCHAIR
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      Thu, Jan 31, 2008, 21:53
I taught a kid who spelled his name: Phuk

A sweet kid, but man I felt bad for him. I believe he was from Vietnam, but had recently moved to the USA.

14holt
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      Fri, Feb 01, 2008, 00:23
bombo rivera. haven't heard or thought of that name since, 1980? probably only know that name because of topps baseball cards.
15 matt
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      Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 18:36
how about Hippity Hop?

And Bombo Rivera is a classic
16Donkey Hunter
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      Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 21:06
As he strolls to the plate, the announcer says, "Now batting for the Atlanta Braves, No. 63, Wonderful Monds."
No, the announcer is not commenting on the batter's skill. He's talking about Wonderful Terrific Monds III.
"The reaction I get all the time is, `That's not really your name, is it?' " Monds said during a break at spring training in West Palm Beach, Fla.
The genesis of Monds's unique name goes back to a great-grandfather who had longed for a son and grew increasingly exasperated after 11 daughters.
Finally, Monds's great-grandmother delivered a boy, much to the relief of her husband.
"He was very enthused, very happy," Monds says. "He said, `Oh, this is wonderful! ...
17Donkey Hunter
      ID: 521392112
      Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 21:06
Also
18Weykool
      Leader
      ID: 41750315
      Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 21:24
I taught a kid who spelled his name: Phuk

In 1975 when vietnam fell our family took in a Vietnamese student who was a freshman in HS at the time.
His family thought he needed the emersion in english in order to catch up to other students.
He lived with us for his first year.
I suppose it worked as he graduated from UCLA in 1983.
His little brother (elementary age at the time) was named Fuk.....pronounced Fook.
Poor little kid.....we met up with the family some years later and they had not changed the name.
I dont know how he could handle it.
19blue hen
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      Thu, Feb 28, 2008, 10:17
I have a Wonderful Monds autograph, actually.
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