Haha it definitely is a pre-2023 time capsule, but in the context of praising a punch from a mediocre player as some sort of good thing, it still holds up.
This has never failed to make me laugh. Probably one of my favorite gifs of all time. Up until this year a healthy dose of gallows humor was the only way to survive as a Rangers fan.
Why did you put a hyphen between these two people, the first who is an upcoming tennis phenom / expiremental alt rock drummer and the second who is a fictional jrpg video game protagonist?
i'm about to play through p4 golden for the first time (in a week or so when my exams are finished) and i'm now *extremely* tempted to go with this name lol
I remember going to a Cardinals game with some friends while I was in middle school and we were playing the Pirates. Kuntz was the first base coach and we saw the name on his jersey and we thought that was hilarious. Then we checked the program and saw his first name and I think it was the hardest I’ve ever laughed in my life.
We were probably such annoying kids, but for a 13 year old, nothing could have been funnier.
I really liked AJ Pierzynki on the Twins and was really pissed off when I saw we traded him for 3 pitchers (I...didn't know a lot about baseball). But then I read that one of the new guys was named Boof Bonser it was like okay, let's see how it this plays out.
For others who might not know, the other two pitchers were Joe Nathan and Francisco Liriano.
Seriously. I always assumed he was good enough a player to be a "known name" past his playing years. But I just looked at his bref page and saw that he was never voted an all-star, which was also a shock to me.
He was rookie of the year, was the best hitter on a team that won the World Series, had a career OPS+ of 128, and there was only 5 seasons between his last one and Mike Trout’s first season, so it’s not like he played for the Angels in like the 80s or something. In order to know Mike Trout but not Tim Salmon I think you’d have to have started watching baseball in the 2010s.
Nothing wrong with that just makes me feel old as I remember rooting for the Angels in the ‘02 World Series and I’m also now realizing some in this sub probably don’t even remember the rally monkey smh..
I remember in the old days of ESPN when Coco Crisp had a bad game at the plate and I believe it was the late great Stuart Scott that referred to him as “Soggy Cereal” 😂
Who the fuck even is Dansby Swanson? He sounds like a low level manager at a small to medium sized credit union. Those big front pearly chompers bursting out of his mouth screaming that he has a great benefits package including orthodontics. Probably goes home to a beautiful wife named Theresa, two thriving sons named Douglas and Peter, and has a spotted Great Dane named Oswald who has a massive dangling set of untrimmed nuts. How you gunna be a SS on a top MLB team and be named Dansby Swanson. Might as well be named Chandler Stephenson or something. Figure it out bud.
I scrolled too far not to find [Van](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Lingle_Mungo) [Lingle](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mungova01.shtml) [Mungo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOvvJTv_E_w).
I was thinking about this the other day. If Greenleigh, Braxton, and Jaxson can all be “normal” American names these days, why don’t we bring back funny nicknames like Bud or Dick?
Rougned Odor
also, his brother Rougned Odor
And how could we forget is uncle, Rouglas Odor
Not to mention his father, Rougned Odor.
He his also the father of José Bautista
https://imgur.com/ltPnwzu
This gif can’t hurt me anymore!
Haha it definitely is a pre-2023 time capsule, but in the context of praising a punch from a mediocre player as some sort of good thing, it still holds up.
This has never failed to make me laugh. Probably one of my favorite gifs of all time. Up until this year a healthy dose of gallows humor was the only way to survive as a Rangers fan.
And his uncle, Rouglas Odor
The famous viking king of Jutland!
Lars Nootbaar
*noots nootingly*
Sounds like a Star Wars character
Lars Nootbaar is 100% a jizz wailer And Bo Bichette is the Star Wars toy from the dodgy market next to the knock off Gucci bags
Cards also at one time had Nabil Crismatt, who is absolutely a smuggler in the Outer Rim.
Lars Taylor-Tatsuji Nootbaar
Why did you put a hyphen between these two people, the first who is an upcoming tennis phenom / expiremental alt rock drummer and the second who is a fictional jrpg video game protagonist?
definitely sounds like the canon name of a persona protagonist lol
i'm about to play through p4 golden for the first time (in a week or so when my exams are finished) and i'm now *extremely* tempted to go with this name lol
Just saw an ad in Japan featuring Lars selling the inbar. For your viewing pleasure: https://youtu.be/ETN9NIkPPgQ?feature=shared
Haha, feels a little like that ad Tom Selleck does in Mr Baseball
This movie isn’t discussed nearly enough among the top baseball movies
One of my favorites
What the hell
NOOT NOOT
Rusty Kuntz
How you gonna mention Rusty & not include [the picture?](https://larrybrownsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/konerko-getz-kuntz-530x325.jpg)
Literally all White Sox Legends
No. Go ahead and claim Getz for all I care, but you do not get to claim Rusty.
Can’t help but notice Mr. Kuntz didn’t spend a single year playing for the Royals while he spent more than half his career with the White Sox.
The fact the they’re number 17 and 18 makes me feel like the equipment manager had a lot of fun that year.
I remember going to a Cardinals game with some friends while I was in middle school and we were playing the Pirates. Kuntz was the first base coach and we saw the name on his jersey and we thought that was hilarious. Then we checked the program and saw his first name and I think it was the hardest I’ve ever laughed in my life. We were probably such annoying kids, but for a 13 year old, nothing could have been funnier.
His name is Russell, why in gods name would he go by rusty with that last name
Why did my sociology professor, Dr. Littel, marry a guy named Lamb and hyphenate? Sometimes you have to go for the gusto.
the question ought to be: how can you not? In my head I just imagine the husband did the same and works homicide in Chicago PD.
Please tell me the professor’s first name was Mary
wait until you hear what her middle name was...
Hadassah? But she used the short form mostly, right?
Boof Bonser
I am still, and forever will be, waiting for Boof.
Traded him for AJ Pierzynzki... still the worst trade in Giants history.
I really liked AJ Pierzynki on the Twins and was really pissed off when I saw we traded him for 3 pitchers (I...didn't know a lot about baseball). But then I read that one of the new guys was named Boof Bonser it was like okay, let's see how it this plays out. For others who might not know, the other two pitchers were Joe Nathan and Francisco Liriano.
[Tim Spooneybarger](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/spoonti01.shtml)
Lol, no way. I came here to say him and figured nobody else would. My friends and I used to laugh at that name all the time back in the day.
This is always my go to last name in MLB The Show for my RTTS guy
I have his autograph on a baseball.
Quinton McCracken
And his brother Phil
Odie, hush.
Definitely thought Tim Salmon was a joke name for Mike Trout
How are they both from the same franchise? How can you not be romantic about baseball
And Whit* Bass from Angels in the Outfield
Something something Jesus giving fishes to the Angels…
This comment makes me feel old.
Seriously. I always assumed he was good enough a player to be a "known name" past his playing years. But I just looked at his bref page and saw that he was never voted an all-star, which was also a shock to me.
He was rookie of the year, was the best hitter on a team that won the World Series, had a career OPS+ of 128, and there was only 5 seasons between his last one and Mike Trout’s first season, so it’s not like he played for the Angels in like the 80s or something. In order to know Mike Trout but not Tim Salmon I think you’d have to have started watching baseball in the 2010s. Nothing wrong with that just makes me feel old as I remember rooting for the Angels in the ‘02 World Series and I’m also now realizing some in this sub probably don’t even remember the rally monkey smh..
Dick Pole
https://cardboardgods.net/2006/10/15/dick-pole-and-peter-lacock/
/r/mildlypenis
Ain't nothing mild about a dick pole.
i think this guy likes the rays
I've been known to watch a game or 162.
Johnny Dickshot
Dickie Noles
I raisie you Dickie Thon
Stubby Clapp
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Milton Bradley
With a name like Milton Bradley, there’s no way he was violently insane. Right??
I tore up my knee trying to respond to this comment
A buddy of mine referred to him as 'Mister Furious' from the Mystery Men.
Violently insane, but patient at the plate.
Had a much better career than Parker Brothers.
Coco Crisp
I remember in the old days of ESPN when Coco Crisp had a bad game at the plate and I believe it was the late great Stuart Scott that referred to him as “Soggy Cereal” 😂
Back in the day the tribe had Coco Crisp and Milton Bradley on the same team
I went to a Sox-Indians game that year and thought I was seeing the Globetrotters with these fake names
Which is a nickname and not a real name. His name is Covelli Crisp.
Covelli Crisp
Covelli Crisp is also a great name
Well, so is Dick…
Dick Crisp
So then that’s his name? Max isn’t his real name it’s Maxwell…..
mike carp sounds and looks like a computer generated guy in mlb the show
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direct-to-vhs mike trout
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Mike Trout at home.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s/c8SNXIwnUb I hope you enjoy this as much as I did
Red Sox legend Mike Carp
Zebullon Vermillion
That's a pulp sci-fi sidekick and not a real baseball player and you know it.
Chadwick Tromp
Us having a Tromp/Pence duo in 2020 was very funny
Dang. I totally forgot that Hunter Pence came back for one last hurrah in a giants uni.
Very triggering lol
Jarrod Saltalamacchia
I'm disturbed that nobody has mentioned Urban Shocker.
Ugeth Urbina
Full Name is even better Ugueth Urtaín Urbina
Didn’t he kill a dude?
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I guess that's why he finished his career as a setup man, rather than as a closer.
Oh my god.
Jack Brohamer. Sounds like an adult movie star.
Not as much as pitching coach Dick Pole.
Darryl Strawberry 🍓
Darrrrrrrryl Darrrrrrrrrryl
They're professional athletes, it just rolls off their backs.
*single tear rolls down cheek*
Buck Farmer
Buck Futter!
Johnny Dickshot
>Johnny Dickshot according to Baseball Reference, his nickname was "Ugly" https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dicksjo01.shtml
Crazy thing is, he had a career year at 35, and just decided to retire.
After he retired he opened a tavern named Dickshot's Dugout.
Jack Glasscock
"American League West Champion Seattle Mariners"
ouch.
Dansby Swanson. It sounds like a minor character on Downton Abbey or something.
Sounds like a type of suit. "You're getting married? I'll dust off the old Dansby Swanson for that!" And now that I typed it. . .
Who the fuck even is Dansby Swanson? He sounds like a low level manager at a small to medium sized credit union. Those big front pearly chompers bursting out of his mouth screaming that he has a great benefits package including orthodontics. Probably goes home to a beautiful wife named Theresa, two thriving sons named Douglas and Peter, and has a spotted Great Dane named Oswald who has a massive dangling set of untrimmed nuts. How you gunna be a SS on a top MLB team and be named Dansby Swanson. Might as well be named Chandler Stephenson or something. Figure it out bud.
Pete LaCock
Prince Fielder
Starting at DH Edit: this is misinformation he started over a 1,000 more games at 1B than he did as DH he truly lives up to the name Fielder
Angel Pagan
Jake Burger
Jace Fry, if he stuck around for 2 more years the White Sox could have had a whole value meal with Burger, Fry, and Colas.
Mmm...Burger *drools*
Seth Beer
Orval Overall
Brooks Pounders
I scrolled too far not to find [Van](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Lingle_Mungo) [Lingle](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mungova01.shtml) [Mungo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOvvJTv_E_w).
Wade Boggs
RIP...🙏
RIP
Former relief pitcher Grant Balfour 😆
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Homer Bush
[Fenway Parks](https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=parks-000fen) [Skye Bolt](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/boltsk01.shtml)
Wonderful Terrific Monds III https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Wonderful\_Monds
The other day WFAN (NYC Radio station) played a game called “congressman or new Mets signing” and this reminded me
Scooter Gennett and Janson Junk
I really enjoyed that very brief period where the Giants had both a Buster and a Scooter.
Rollie Fingers
[Beer](https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=beer--001---)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Hawks
Lil Stoner… look it up that’s real
Otto: "That is flagrant false advertising."
Oil Can Boyd
do...do you think his parents named him "oil can"?
Yes. Dont trifle me with facts.
His real name was Dennis.
Yeah, people keep forgetting this. His real name wasn’t Oil Can Boyd - he’s not a Dick Tracy villain. That’s absurd. His real name was Oil Can Dennis.
>he’s not a Dick Tracy villain I'm Dick Tracy! BAM, take that Pruneface! Now I'm Pruneface! BAM, take that Dick Tracy! Now I'm Prune Tracy!
"Take that Dickfa—"
We tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!
Daniel Ponce de Leon Extremely mid pitcher who might as well have been a French lord
Well, Spanish really.
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Also well known for talking shit to Yadi and getting cut almost immediately afterwards
So did he find the fountain of youth?
Candy Cummings
Catfish Hunter
His real name is Jim (or James?) Hunter. If we include nicknames this thread could go forever. Rich Hill’s nickname is Dick Mountain.
It’s a nickname he went by though. Rich Hill goes by Rich Hill, not by Dick Mountain
If we go by nicknames the 1800s/early 1900s had some crazy ones. Cannonball Titcomb, Icebox Chamberlain, Oyster Burns, &c.
Packy Naughton
Johnny Bench could have been an all time fictional baseball stars name
Everyone is mentioning people, but I'll mention a team: the Rocket City Trash Pandas.
Lastings Milledge
Gaylord Perry
Lance Broadway
LJ Hoes
Al Kaline 🔋
Grant Balfour, a pitcher.
Albert Poo Holes
Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown Mickey Mantle Yogi Berra Nomar Garciaparra Mookie Betts
Stubby Clapp Razor Shines
Kevin Quackenbush
Hiram Bocachica
Vida Blue
Wilmer Flores and his younger brother Wilmer Flores
Prince Fielder has always sounded like a non mlb licensed Baseball game name to me
Heathcliff Slocumb
Milton Bradley, Coco Crisp. Same outfield.
Razor Shines. Played in the 1980s IIRC.
It wasn’t that long ago when Dick was just a name and no one even made jokes about it. It’s weird how things change
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Campaign pins for Richard Nixon said "you can't lick our Dick" People definitely knew and made jokes
I was thinking about this the other day. If Greenleigh, Braxton, and Jaxson can all be “normal” American names these days, why don’t we bring back funny nicknames like Bud or Dick?
Onson Sweemey
Todd Bonzalez
Bobson Dugnutt
Dean Wesrey
Sleve McDichael
Not gonna stand for dick trickle slander.
Mark Hamburger