A new, great baseball name

[Boy Howdy]

I try not to make fun of people because of their names. Oh sure, there's a crook in the music business named Anmol Bangar that we call Animal Banger, but when you steal from people you're asking for it.

Anyway, I'm absolutely 100% rooting for this kid, and will never crack jokes about his name, but you've got to love it:

http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090601&content_id=5088468&vkey=news_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi

[RShack]

Oh dear...

[Cokeman]

I thought the last name sounded pretty familiar...kinda hard to forget.

But we had our own Bastardo a few years ago...

Link

[PaulBako]

No name can Beat Chone Figgins. It's not a funny name, but so awesome.

And you can't forget Cereal Man, Coco Crisp. I eat him for breakfast.

[J.D.]

No name can Beat Chone Figgins. It's not a funny name, but so awesome.

And you can't forget Cereal Man, Coco Crisp. I eat him for breakfast.

I'm pretty sure that the discussion begins and ends at Milton Bradley.

If we expanded this to football, nothing comes close to Carlester Crumpler.

[BaltimoreTerp]

No name can Beat Chone Figgins. It's not a funny name, but so awesome.

And you can't forget Cereal Man, Coco Crisp. I eat him for breakfast.

You eat "hims" for breakfast?

My favorite is the one and only Russell Jay Kuntz, who either was a red-head or had absolutely evil parents.

Baseball-reference link above possibly NSFW :laughlol:

[beaner]

Razor Shines for Baseball..

Dick Butkus is the best name, sports or not, of all time.

[Scrat1]

Razor Shines for Baseball..

Dick Butkus is the best name, sports or not, of all time.

Dick Trickle is right up there.

[Mad Mark]

I'm still waiting for someone to change his name to Richard Cranium.

[BaltimoreTerp]

I'm still waiting for someone to change his name to Richard Cranium.

Rep for making me think for a minute

"What's so funny about Dick Cranium...OOOOOOOOOOOOH!" :laughlol:

[Boy Howdy]

I'm still waiting for someone to change his name to Richard Cranium.

Haha. When they were Mets teammates, Darryl Strawberry nicknamed Tim Teufel "Mr. Richard Head".

BTW, left-hander Antonio Bastardo hurled six innings of one-run, four-hit ball in his MLB debut to beat Jake Peavy and the Padres in San Diego last night. That Bastardo can pitch.

(IMO, of all the Dicks that played major league baseball, Dick Pole is in a class of his own. Johnny Dickshot deserves a mention, though)

[tennOsfan]

R.J. Reynolds had a cool name for a baseball player as well.

[lovetoaster]

I was always a fan of former Yankees, A's and Blue Jays infielder Mickey Klutts.

[MCL1021]

I always liked the name Henry Cotto....an outfielder who played for the M's in the late 80's, early 90's....don't know why but that name was always cool when I would hear it on TV.

[Why Not?]

Oh, those don't even scratch the surface.

Here is the 2009 Name of the Year bracket:

http://nameoftheyear.com/NOTY2009/NOTY_2009.pdf

I think Chuck Fugger can knock off Iris Macadangdang.

http://nameoftheyear.blogspot.com/2009/03/your-2009-name-of-year-ballot.html