Shakespeare said What's in a name?

[hotcross]

watching the St.Louis Cardinals right now, realized they have a batter named Fowler and a pitcher named Wacha.

This must be a mistake by team management. No matter how good they might think a player is, you simply cannot succeed in baseball by signing guys with bad baseball names....Brings bad karma and an element of bad luck.

What examples of this can you think of, either bad names, or those players who have a good name befitting of the sport they play?

[grease lightnin]

"Thou hast in thy skull no more brain than I have in mine elbows."

[hotcross]

[grease lightnin]

Great song.


I will play along.


I am gonna go with Rusty Kuntz


Great baseball name

[Chi_archie]

walk a

[bababoyee]

Gaylord Perry

Great baseball name

[hotcross]

LOL
you both gave names that are innuendos in general

How bout a player's name from any sport

Boomer Esiason for example, a good name for a quarterback

[RudyRuetigger]

saloon

[hotcross]

Saloon is fine, does not offend me

I woulda started thread there if I thought it was the appropriate place for it

This was actually an in-game thread from last night, and you might have noticed the Cardinals did not win

I'm raising a philosophical issue

[pavyracer]

Quinton McCracken

That's a good baseball name.

[jimmycage]

Spencer kieboom, catcher, washington nats cant have a much better baseball name...

[LT Profits]

Pitcher Homer Bailey

[LT Profits]

Pitcher Homer Bailey

or Bob Walk

[hotcross]

LT smellin' what I was cooking

[Snowball]

Yogi Berra
Bucky Dent
Mookie Wilson (was Mookie Betts named after?)
Johnny Bench
Willie Stargell
Dave Winfield

[MaltedHopsFrenzy]

Metta Worldpeace - - even though he started and was involved in probably the worst brawl in the history of the NBA.....

[hotcross]

Hops would get points for that contribution, if you were a SBR Pro....but good call seriously

Snowwy you are all over the place with your list,
there's really only 2 names that fit, Johnny "Bench" and Dave "Win-Field"

What's in a name = referring to how the player's name relates to the sport, not just because it's a funny or odd name

[Al Masters]

There was a defenseman for the
Buffalo Sabres awhile back named
Larry Playfair

Baseball guys

Prince Fielder
Homer Bush