Fun with baseball names

[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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV_n4aDs6qo

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...03994456838145

[notin]

https://twitter.com/FranzkeLA/status...03994456838145

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...