Professional Baseball Players Named After Fish

by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 27, 2010 7:12 PM PDT in Miscellaneous

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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Wow

You have too much time on your hands

by Flamefox111 on Mar 27, 2010 7:14 PM PDT reply actions

He's getting at that, in Engrish, one would say Rick Herring.

Jeff is just a ball of humor.

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by qrsouther on Mar 27, 2010 11:39 PM PDT up reply actions

Of course.

by circa81 on Mar 28, 2010 2:00 AM PDT up reply actions

Isn't that racial?

No, wait, it’s lingual

by wandergeist on Mar 28, 2010 8:59 AM PDT up reply actions

Wow.

Of those names, Carp is even the dullest.

Well, except Fish.

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by JonBBT on Mar 27, 2010 7:19 PM PDT reply actions

This is exactly why I love this website

by bamfor on Mar 27, 2010 7:38 PM PDT reply actions

Fish

Jack Shiner
Andy Barb
Keith Darter

by bereasonable on Mar 27, 2010 7:43 PM PDT reply actions

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

Being anal is a bad thing when it comes to jokes

by OlSalty on Mar 27, 2010 8:36 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

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.

by Vatinius on Mar 27, 2010 9:43 PM PDT up reply actions

I just remember that Kids Playing Cards On Freeways Get Squished.

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by Two Rs and Two Ls on Mar 28, 2010 3:24 AM PDT up reply actions

a big sunday morning shout out to the ribosomal RNA 16S subunit

by Astrobiology on Mar 28, 2010 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions

I see you're a biology buff.

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by qrsouther on Mar 27, 2010 11:41 PM 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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by qrsouther on Mar 28, 2010 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions

Staphylococcus has become the frontrunner for my first born son

by CKel on Mar 27, 2010 8:10 PM PDT reply actions

Jeff Sullivan, Professional Blogger

by RunningFool on Mar 27, 2010 8:22 PM PDT reply actions

You know he's professional because he pitches advertisements for his sponsors between his baseball commentary, just like Rick Rizzs.

by Decatur on Mar 28, 2010 4:42 AM PDT up reply actions

Kevin Bass

I still don’t like him for hitting the ball that Griffey broke his wrist on in ’95

by Scrupio on Mar 27, 2010 9:31 PM PDT reply actions

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)

by Mariner John on Mar 27, 2010 9:39 PM PDT reply actions

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!

by circa81 on Mar 27, 2010 10:40 PM PDT reply actions

what

by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 27, 2010 10:44 PM PDT up reply actions

Great minds think alike?

by Dewey N on Mar 27, 2010 11:45 PM PDT up reply actions

This is literally the weirdest I've felt in weeks

by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 28, 2010 12:03 AM PDT up reply actions

Well the thought is both retarded and brilliant so I can see how it could happen

by Dewey N on Mar 28, 2010 12:07 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

Did you have fun?

by Dewey N on Mar 28, 2010 12:26 AM PDT up reply actions

Yes

by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 28, 2010 12:44 AM PDT up reply actions

Wanna talk about it?

by Dewey N on Mar 28, 2010 12:48 AM PDT up reply actions

Goodnight Fogel

by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 28, 2010 12:51 AM PDT up reply actions 9 recs

Don't worry Jeff, I don't think it was LaRue.

I believe it was Stone he’s referring to.

LINK

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by JonBBT on Mar 28, 2010 2:33 AM PDT up reply actions

In my defense, I'm baked a lot.

by circa81 on Mar 28, 2010 9:38 AM PDT up reply actions

Whew

Close, but different!

by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 28, 2010 9:41 AM PDT up reply actions

This too shall pass.

by circa81 on Mar 27, 2010 11:11 PM PDT reply actions

Dude? Catfish Hunter.

by batura on Mar 28, 2010 3:14 AM PDT reply actions

But a nickname, maybe that explains the ?.

by Kermit. on Mar 28, 2010 11:29 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.

by katal on Mar 30, 2010 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions

Jeff, As someone with Beaver as a last name, I appreciate your call for better representation of the animal kingdom.

Fuck the Angels

by InSpokane on Mar 28, 2010 9:54 AM PDT reply actions

Man, some tough days on the school ground for you, eh?

by wandergeist on Mar 28, 2010 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions

Middle school was little rough, but by the time I was a sophomore in High school I was nearly six feet tall, 205 lbs and started as middle linebacker.

Fuck the Angels

by InSpokane on Mar 29, 2010 10:05 AM 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?

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by JY on Mar 29, 2010 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions

Correct me if I'm wrong

but isn’t Suzuki a Japanese word for Sea Bass?

Sheesh you guys…sometimes I wonder about you.

by John Edwards on Mar 28, 2010 11:43 AM PDT reply actions

#1 fish

by John Edwards on Mar 28, 2010 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions

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/

by JY on Mar 28, 2010 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions

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.

by Interceptor on Mar 28, 2010 1:01 PM PDT reply actions

Entire teams named after fish

Florida Marlins
Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays
Seattle Steelheads (1946 Negro League)
Chicago Whales (1915 Federal League)

by lemonverbena on Mar 29, 2010 11:11 AM PDT reply actions

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).

by Paytheline on Mar 29, 2010 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions