Professional Baseball Players Named After Fish
Carp (Mike, etc)
Trout (Steve, etc)
Bass (Brian, etc)
Salmon (Tim, etc)
Zander (Edmund, etc)
Catfish?
Marlin (Stuart, etc)
Fish (Robert, etc)
Bream (Sid, etc)
Dorado (Reyes)
Garibaldi (Art, etc)
Guppy (Chester)
Haddock (George, etc)
Herring (Art, etc)
Pike (Jess, etc)
Sturgeon (Bobby, etc)
Talk about your over-representation of names. So many fish. Birds, too. Relative to the number of different living organisms on the planet, there really aren't that many kinds of fish or birds, so these are two clear cases of an over-represented minority. I won't feel better about this until I see a Timothy Labrador or Staphylococcus Jones, but even those would be only a start.
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I forgot to include Rick Helling in Japan
by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 27, 2010 7:14 PM PDT reply actions 18 recs
He's getting at that, in Engrish, one would say Rick Herring.
Jeff is just a ball of humor.
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I have a Ropert is God™ complex.
Christ, baseball, give some other kingdom a chance!
by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 27, 2010 7:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Fish aren't a kingdom. They're within animalia, under vertebrates.
Somewhere.
I'd sleep at the Internet, but I've found servers don't make for good pillows.
by thehemogoblin on Mar 27, 2010 7:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I know
Who says we have to stick to animals? There are lots of living things.
by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 27, 2010 7:48 PM PDT up reply actions
You mean Chordata.
If we’re being anal.
by A Public Alias on Mar 27, 2010 8:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Aw shit.
Look what I did…
I'd sleep at the Internet, but I've found servers don't make for good pillows.
by thehemogoblin on Mar 28, 2010 1:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Linnaean taxonomy is old and bad, like Mike Sweeney.
Cladistics is the hot new Dustin Ackley of the hierarchical organization of life forms.
I just remember that Kids Playing Cards On Freeways Get Squished.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Mar 28, 2010 3:24 AM PDT up reply actions
Not at all. I slept through most of it in high school and have avoided most of it through college.
On a tangential note, a misunderstanding in biology class is where I got my internet handle from.
I'd sleep at the Internet, but I've found servers don't make for good pillows.
by thehemogoblin on Mar 28, 2010 1:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, that's what I was basing my assumption on.
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I have a Ropert is God™ complex.
Kevin Bass
I still don’t like him for hitting the ball that Griffey broke his wrist on in ’95
There have been more Fishers than Hunters in the history of baseball at least.
Until Robbie Entomologist or Steve Vietnamese enters the league at least fish are in more danger than the other families (or whatever the proper word is. I’m not a taxonomist)
Fun Fact! Marlon Byrd is named after both a fish and a bird
Except both are misspelled. His middle name is probably Dawg.
by Nick S on Mar 27, 2010 10:37 PM PDT reply actions 10 recs
I'm having trouble producing a link, but Larry LaRue actually did this same topic on his TNT blog.
He’s up to TWO scoops now!
This is literally the weirdest I've felt in weeks
by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 28, 2010 12:03 AM PDT up reply actions
I went on a hike this afternoon for writing inspiration and this is what came to me
The hike took like 12 times longer than the post did
by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 28, 2010 12:20 AM PDT up reply actions
I like this idea.
You have inspired me to create a list of Major League Baseball players that are also things one might step on (animals excluded (that would be cruel)):
Damian Moss
Shawn Hill
Jason Bay
Simon Pond
Matt Stairs
Carlos Gomez
Felix Pie
David Bell
David Bush
John Buck
Kevin Cash
Ryan Church
Bill Hall
Corey Hart
Kevin Mench
Ben Sheets
Scot Shields
Huston Street
Brandon Webb
by katal on Mar 28, 2010 8:04 AM PDT reply actions 6 recs
How do you step *on* a church?
Is it really small? Or are you like Paul Bunyan big?
I’m a little confused about Gomez, too, but maybe I’m missing some Spanish pun or something?
by wandergeist on Mar 28, 2010 11:22 PM PDT up reply actions
With a ladder.
The Gomez thing is a long story.
Jeff, As someone with Beaver as a last name, I appreciate your call for better representation of the animal kingdom.
Fuck the Angels
Man, some tough days on the school ground for you, eh?
by wandergeist on Mar 28, 2010 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Ah
So then you were getting it instead of getting kidded about it.
by wandergeist on Mar 29, 2010 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions
We had Justin Leone?
That counts, doesn’t it?
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://www.marinersminors.com/
Correct me if I'm wrong
but isn’t Suzuki a Japanese word for Sea Bass?
Sheesh you guys…sometimes I wonder about you.
It is.
But Suzuki as a surname means “bell tree” or something like that. The sea bass version uses a different character.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://www.marinersminors.com/
Oh boy, here I go. Brace yourself...

Okay, I need to go clean myself in boiling vinegar. So sorry!!!
by John Edwards on Mar 28, 2010 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Good job on italicizing the genus name of the microbe!
My girlfriend says you can now be taken seriously by microbiologists around the world.
Entire teams named after fish
Florida Marlins
Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays
Seattle Steelheads (1946 Negro League)
Chicago Whales (1915 Federal League)
Until this moment . . .
I never knew that Seattle had a Negro League team. Even more surprising, the Seattle Steelies were actually the Harlem Globetrotters playing summer baseball. Really (or anyway a website says really: http://www.nlbpa.com/seattle_steelheads.html).
Same here.
That’s an interesting note historically.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://www.marinersminors.com/
Now I got the bug . . .
This is a great story about the Steelies/Globetrotters on a barnstorming tour with the Hawaiian All Stars, in which tour Jesse Owens spikes a Hawaiian out of the series.
If they were killer whales, he'd be nasty about it.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://www.marinersminors.com/
by JY on Mar 29, 2010 1:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Unless they were named after the Whale Shark?
Like the Chicago Bulls(Bull Shark) and Chicago Cubs(Cub Shark).
by John Edwards on Mar 29, 2010 5:02 PM PDT up reply actions

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