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.
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Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Mon, Jan 28, 2008, 10:50
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
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Slizz
ID: 21733916 Mon, Jan 28, 2008, 14:01
what an awesome list of names!
love Johnny D!
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Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Mon, Jan 28, 2008, 14:48
Where is Dick Pole from the Red Sox?!
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youngroman
ID: 3751268 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.
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Toral
ID: 575542418 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:
Donkey Hunter
ID: 521392112 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! ...
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Donkey Hunter
ID: 521392112 Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 21:06
Also
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Weykool 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.
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blue hen
ID: 16322314 Thu, Feb 28, 2008, 10:17
I have a Wonderful Monds autograph, actually.
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