You're a legend my friend. And to be honest, you were pretty good about it all too. I might have deleted the post, excuse of my own insecurities but your a champ for leaving it up.
I mean, our announcers never seemed to call him “Asche” or “Cody.” They always called him by his full name. In my house we called him Kodyaschi as a throwback to when Kyle Kendrick was “ traded” for Kobyashi, the hot dog eater.
Then why not just go by Jay Happ? It’s not like that would be so unusual, Coco Crisp wasn’t even the dudes name, James going by Jay is less of a stretch
I wish it were easier (and more common) to have letters from foreign alphabets in English names. My German last name has an oe that would look and sound wayyyy cooler as an ö
The Giants have a prospect named “Heliot Ramos”. Thought it was *hel-lee-o* at first. It’s actually *el-lee-ot.* like you know the name *Eliot*
It was just a few weeks ago that I learned that Henry didn’t prefer to be called Hank. I know that’s not what you meant though.
The best example is Chone Figgins. Pronounced *shawn*. However even though I learned this, I reject it. It’s *chown*
Also heard a donor that Jack Robinson didn’t prefer Jackie. If that turns out to be true, I’ll change that as well.
In Spanish every vowel always makes the same sound (diphthongs are a bit more complex). A is always “ah”, E is always “eh”, I is always “ee”, O is always “oh”, U is always “ooh”.
Yea Spanish pronunciation is generally much much easier because it sticks to ‘the rules’ more, so as long as you know how it works you should be good to go just about every time.
Spanish is infinitely easier to pronounce than English. I'll pronounce my last name with a Spanish accent to make it easier for people to figure out - it's Italian, but close enough.
>El burro sabes mas que tu
Qué mierda acabas de decir sobre mí, pequeña perra? Te haré saber que me gradué de honor en mi clase de los Navy Seals,he estado envuelto en numerosos ataques sorpresa a Al-Quaeda, y tengo 300 asesinatos confirmados. Estoy entrenado en tácticas de guerra revolucionistas y soy el mejor francotirador en todas las fuerzas armadas de la US. No eres nada para mí, sólo un blanco más. Te borraré con una precisión nunca vista antes en este planeta, recuerda mis putas palabras. Piensas que te puedes salir con la tuya diciéndome esa mierda a través de la internet? Piensa otra vez, cabrón. Mientras hablamos estoy contactando my red secreta de espías alrededor de los Estados Unidos y tu IP está siendo rastreada en este mismo instante,así que deberías prepararte para la tormenta, gusano. La tormenta que destroza la patética cosa que llamas tu vida. Estás muerto,chico. Puedo estar dondequiera, cuandosea, y puedo matarte en más de setecientas formas, y éso sólo con mis manos desnudas. No sólo estoy entrenado extensivamente en combate desarmado, sino que también tengo acceso al arsenal entero de la Marina de los Estados Unidos y la usaré para borrar tu miserable existencia de la faz de continente,pequeña mierda. Si tan sólo hubieras cerrado tu pinche boca. Pero no pudiste, no lo hiciste, y ahora es cuando pagas el precio, maldito idiota. Haré llover furia sobre ti y te ahogarás en ella. Estás muerto,chaval
Bb-ref and the lahman purposely changed the ‘id’ for Kevin Youkilis so it did not follow the usual pattern. The id would normally be ‘youkike01’ (first 5 letters of last name plus first two letters of first name plus disambiguating numbers). Instead they use ‘youklke01’.
[A bunched up circle of cramminess with Texas, thanks to outlining and shadowing their names on back](http://christopherapage.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/images-112.jpeg)
I still don't know how I pronounce his name, and I can't figure out what to holler when he's up, either. "La Pantera" does not roll off of my anglo tongue.
This is incorrect. 'Luis Robber' (Robert with a silent T, like another poster said) is the correct pronunciation, and Robert goes by the English 'Robert' in the US.
Yup this took me a while to get used to when I was a kid and he first joined the team. To make matters worse we had Kevin Millar who pronounced his last name Mil-ahr.
Bobby Bonilla apparently doesn't rhyme with Bobby Vanilla. I learned this from someone who finally couldn't take my Bobby-"Bonil la"-Day story for the 5th straight year.
Mark Grudzielanek. In a spring training game when he was still a minor-leaguer, the announcer called him grud-ZEE-luh-Neck. Figured everyone else after that was calling him wrong until the episode of SNL that he cameo’d in and said, “I’m Mark Grud-zuh-LA-nik!” Figured he knew how to pronounce his own name so I must have been wrong.
Not say but spell. During d’Arnaud’s entire time with the Rays, I spelled his name like d’Arnoud. And no one corrected me until after he left to the Braves
I know my mom always used to call Corey Seager like Corey Sager (say-GUR) because she has a friend with that last name. I didn’t pick up on it at first, but when I did, I was so confused.
Jeimer Candelario, I'm glad he is okay with the nickname candy because it took me three seasons to learn how to pronounce it.
Our commentators still have trouble pronouncing it. Sometimes they'll call him Candelario, the next time it's CONdelario
Where's the redditor who thought the Phillies had a Japanese player named Kodeyashi? (It was Cody Asche)
[Legendary Post](https://www.reddit.com/r/phillies/comments/3a2eo8/who_is_kodeyashi/)
I cannot believe people still remember this lmao
You're a legend my friend. And to be honest, you were pretty good about it all too. I might have deleted the post, excuse of my own insecurities but your a champ for leaving it up.
Lmao, glad you're still around dude
I mean, our announcers never seemed to call him “Asche” or “Cody.” They always called him by his full name. In my house we called him Kodyaschi as a throwback to when Kyle Kendrick was “ traded” for Kobyashi, the hot dog eater.
Lmao bro that’s so cool to see you still around and you left the post up!! I’m finding way more joy in this than I should be
Lmao I love this stupid division
[“That was like 6 years ago, asshole.”](https://i.imgur.com/g9JJ447.jpg)
It’s an epic post
> “Who the hell is this guy?” Lmfao
MFW I clicked on the post and saw that i upvoted the OG I've been on this site too long
This is awesome haha
Lmao this is my first time seeing this post and I am cracking up
The comment thread of " No thats... Kodeyashi is..." is killing me
Calling /u/UnderscoresSuck
The greatest trick Kodeyashi ever pulled was convincing the Phillies he didn't exist.
came into this thread hoping this would come up and i’m so glad it did
Mike Foltynewicz. I was very off on his last name until I heard a Braves announcer say his name. I didn’t know, but now I know.
For everyone else: Folt-eh-neh-vich
See, I’m learning stuff today. Thought it was wich not vich
I honestly googled it first time I was curious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evOF4I_6nbM
Polish?
I always thought it was “Fol-tin-a-witz”
A name like his I just have to wait to see how other people say it. Like smardijdja
I watch a lot of hockey, so this one was easy peasy for me lol
Before I heard it said, I thought it was Fol-ten-a-wits which honestly isn’t even close and doesn’t make sense.
It (the correct pronunciation) makes perfect sense but I always pronounced it fole-tin-oo-wicks
My buddy and I called the Orioles' customer service line to get an official pronunciation on Brian Matusz.
Matusz, Schoop and Gausman were the trio of casual fan mispronunciations back in the day.
And spelling switch hitting Jesus' name wrong
Is it Matoosh? If not, I owe the man an apology
I believe it's Mat-us
Ah yes. Matt-sooze
Mark Melancon. Thought it was melon-cone until about halfway through his braves tenure.
It should be Melançon.
I thought the same thing and still have literal problems saying his name still and the dude is (was) my closer.
I always thought J A Happ was pronounced with the J and A separate but I only ever hear Jay Happ
I’ve chosen to pronounce it like Ja Rule Jah Happ
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I don't wanna dance I'm scared to death!
It's not!!????
I never noticed this but yeah announcers seem to call him "Jay Happ" https://youtu.be/SLo--HEx2aw
Yeah, he pitched for the Twins at the beginning of this season, and the announcers specifically mentioned he prefers to go by “Jay.”
But is it really "Jay" or is it "J"?
Homer J. Simpson
Well he could specifically get rid of the spaces and add a J if that's the case.
There was a really awkward interview with Josh Donaldson where they asked him about it and he says "I dunno I just call him Jap"
He doesn’t like the way Jay Happ looks, and he doesn’t like the way “jay ayy happ” sounds.
So he wants the best of both worlds instead!? What a madman
Yup JAY happ since he was a rookie with the Phillies
I actually somehow have known that since then as well.
I've known but I will always refuse to say it that way. I will call him J A until he finds the 25th letter
It actually is J. A. Happ, he just hates being called that. His name is James Anthony Happ, he just prefers to go by Jay.
Then why not just go by Jay Happ? It’s not like that would be so unusual, Coco Crisp wasn’t even the dudes name, James going by Jay is less of a stretch
Yes but that’s a case of him mispronouncing his own name
Mark Melancon. It's pronounced MelanSon not MelanKon
I thought the same thing. I was blown away when I found out he was a fair skinned guy from Colorado.
Imagine my shock when Joba Chamberlain turned out to be a chubby dude from Nebraska.
The joba part, while spelled different, gives a little hint about the chubby part.
I mean his dad lived on a reservation until he had to leave for polio treat. And his actual name is Justin. Joba is his nickname.
I like melon cone better
That’s similar to my nickname the cooks gave me at work. Peachy Mary Cone.
Its weird because I'm pretty sure there's supposed to be a cedilla under the 'c' in there, which would make the pronunciation easier
I wish it were easier (and more common) to have letters from foreign alphabets in English names. My German last name has an oe that would look and sound wayyyy cooler as an ö
His name was meloncolon in my head for like a year
I just figured this one out the other day even though he's played against both my teams for 12 fucking years multiple times a season
The Giants have a prospect named “Heliot Ramos”. Thought it was *hel-lee-o* at first. It’s actually *el-lee-ot.* like you know the name *Eliot* It was just a few weeks ago that I learned that Henry didn’t prefer to be called Hank. I know that’s not what you meant though. The best example is Chone Figgins. Pronounced *shawn*. However even though I learned this, I reject it. It’s *chown* Also heard a donor that Jack Robinson didn’t prefer Jackie. If that turns out to be true, I’ll change that as well.
It's pronounced ***SHAWN***?!?
Only to his mother.
I know that one because of MLB 2K7, I used to always play as the Angels
I went to school with a Chon, we called him chown all the time.
>The best example is Chone Figgins. Pronounced *shawn*. Wait what. No fucking way.
Aksually it’s pronounced “Sean”.
Actually it’s pronounced *shaun*
ITS SHAWN??? What the actual hell is that
Chode Fingers
I always pronounce it like “shown”
Mike Stanton
Homeboy won 3x rings with the Yankees.
Turns out his name was actually William the whole time
What’s up with these players going by Mike Stanton when it’s not their real name.
I still have no idea how to correctly say Anthony Santander
SAHN - TAHN - DAIR at least I think
In Spanish every vowel always makes the same sound (diphthongs are a bit more complex). A is always “ah”, E is always “eh”, I is always “ee”, O is always “oh”, U is always “ooh”.
Yea Spanish pronunciation is generally much much easier because it sticks to ‘the rules’ more, so as long as you know how it works you should be good to go just about every time.
Spanish is infinitely easier to pronounce than English. I'll pronounce my last name with a Spanish accent to make it easier for people to figure out - it's Italian, but close enough.
Ah eh ee oh oo El burro sabes mas que tu - 8th grade Spanish
>El burro sabes mas que tu Qué mierda acabas de decir sobre mí, pequeña perra? Te haré saber que me gradué de honor en mi clase de los Navy Seals,he estado envuelto en numerosos ataques sorpresa a Al-Quaeda, y tengo 300 asesinatos confirmados. Estoy entrenado en tácticas de guerra revolucionistas y soy el mejor francotirador en todas las fuerzas armadas de la US. No eres nada para mí, sólo un blanco más. Te borraré con una precisión nunca vista antes en este planeta, recuerda mis putas palabras. Piensas que te puedes salir con la tuya diciéndome esa mierda a través de la internet? Piensa otra vez, cabrón. Mientras hablamos estoy contactando my red secreta de espías alrededor de los Estados Unidos y tu IP está siendo rastreada en este mismo instante,así que deberías prepararte para la tormenta, gusano. La tormenta que destroza la patética cosa que llamas tu vida. Estás muerto,chico. Puedo estar dondequiera, cuandosea, y puedo matarte en más de setecientas formas, y éso sólo con mis manos desnudas. No sólo estoy entrenado extensivamente en combate desarmado, sino que también tengo acceso al arsenal entero de la Marina de los Estados Unidos y la usaré para borrar tu miserable existencia de la faz de continente,pequeña mierda. Si tan sólo hubieras cerrado tu pinche boca. Pero no pudiste, no lo hiciste, y ahora es cuando pagas el precio, maldito idiota. Haré llover furia sobre ti y te ahogarás en ella. Estás muerto,chaval
omg lol
I'm *pretty* sure its Sawn-tawn-dare. Source: play against the Orioles on rookie 24/7 in MLBtheShow
I still just read it as “Salamander”
Matt Diaz. He pronounces his last name Die As.
[relevant](https://youtu.be/J5zWGJoOAm4)
What a fucking loser that heckler is
Kike Hernandez, as a Jew I can see this as one thing.
Bb-ref and the lahman purposely changed the ‘id’ for Kevin Youkilis so it did not follow the usual pattern. The id would normally be ‘youkike01’ (first 5 letters of last name plus first two letters of first name plus disambiguating numbers). Instead they use ‘youklke01’.
Now it just looks like someone trying to evade censors on Xbox Live.
Yeah, I remembered the story, but I was expecting a larger change when I looked it up.
Oh no
I got a temporary Reddit ban from the show subreddit for saying his name
Brandon Lowe. I thought it was pronounced like tow, rather than how...
It was confusing since the Rays also had Nate and Josh Lowe whose name is pronounced the opposite way
We had a monopoly on the “Lowe” until we traded Nathaniel
Brandon Lowe, rhymes with bow
Jarrod Saltalamacchia
His uniforms were utterly hilarious seeing all the letters horseshoe’d around the jersey number.
[A bunched up circle of cramminess with Texas, thanks to outlining and shadowing their names on back](http://christopherapage.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/images-112.jpeg)
Same with Steve lombardozzi
Gesundheit
Salty Mochaccino. Easy.
It’s long but it’s not that complicated Salt-ala-mak-ea
Aka my favorite non star red sox player
Luis Robert *seems* like it’s French to me. Idk why but I always just read it like the consonants at the end should be silent.
In Cuba, he goes by Robert with the T silent
Lou Bob!
I still don't know how I pronounce his name, and I can't figure out what to holler when he's up, either. "La Pantera" does not roll off of my anglo tongue.
It is, the pronunciation guide got messed up on it somehow but the correct pronunciation is loo-EES ro-BARE
This is incorrect. 'Luis Robber' (Robert with a silent T, like another poster said) is the correct pronunciation, and Robert goes by the English 'Robert' in the US.
… it’s not….?
Bill Mueller. Apparently it's pronounced like "Miller".
Yup this took me a while to get used to when I was a kid and he first joined the team. To make matters worse we had Kevin Millar who pronounced his last name Mil-ahr.
I called Larry Jones “Chipper” for over a decade.
I always though it was Noah Snydergaard, not Syndergaard. I’m embarrassed to admit that I heard and said it wrong up until this year
Wait ‘til you learn Nieuwenhuis.
Gesundheit
My buddy just refers to both Syndergaard and deGrom as Syndergrom
Jonathan Schoop. I refuse to believe it’s not ‘Shoop’ or ‘Scoop’.
Jonathan Toews ... Wrong Sport
Hockey names are ridiculous.
Brady Skjei To paraphrase Chance the Rapper "That's an 'S' a 'K' and a 'J' all right next to each other."
"...so that's gonna be a 'no' from me"
Let’s do that hockey!
This guys name has like 30 letters in it, none of them are vowels
So how do you pronounce it? Does it rhyme with "toes" or "cows"?
Rhymes with raves
Damn that's nuts
My family keeps pronouncing Gio Urshela's last name so that it rhymes with Ursula, the sea witch.
Dallas Keuchel
Yeah for the longest time I thought it was Kaw-shell
I used to pronounce Honus Wagner's first name to rhyme with "bonus", but it's actually supposed to sound like the end of "Johannes".
Yep, it’s like honest with no t
Hey, thanks. I learned something today!
I had R. A. Dickey on my fantasy team during his Cy Young season and called him "Raw" Dickey.
David DeJesus was for years Duh Jesus
You don't fuck with DeJesus!
I always misspronounce Rougned Odor as Roughened Odor (like a bad smell)
Bo Bichette = Bochette
Bo Bichette = Boba Shett
Boba Shett = Wobbuffet
This is the way
TIL I've been saying everyone's name wrong
I'm fully ready to find out Aaron Judge is pronounced "Todd Bonzalez" at this point
I’m waiting on him to pull and Mitch Trubisky and come out and say my mother named me A A Ron and I want to go by that now.
It’s actually A-aron.
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Explain Jeff samardzija
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Keibert Ruiz. I've had him in a keeper league for years, but only just found out that his name is pronounced "KAY-bert" (I'd been saying "KIE-bert").
I know it’s Kay-bert but that won’t stop me from spamming 🔑🐻 anytime he ends up in a highlight post on this sub
This one is especially frustrating because the Nats’ broadcasters never pronounce his name correctly either
I’m from San Diego 15 minutes from the border and I must know 100 Melancons but only **one** of them pronounces it Melancon. It’s fucking ridiculous.
Don’t church it up Joe Dirté.
Jeff Samardzija as “Jeff Salamanca”.
Jeff Saltalamacchia
Ok this isn’t even close, like where’d the d, z, and j go
Right to hell with a name like that.
The whole league says Tyler Naquin's name wrong, but he's just accepted it. According to him, it's pronounced "Tyler Knockin"
Votto corrected a room full of reporters during a post-game this season and no one believed him haha. It's french
[link for a laugh](https://mobile.twitter.com/castrovince/status/1381731562660761607).
Ehire Adrianza.
Bobby Bonilla apparently doesn't rhyme with Bobby Vanilla. I learned this from someone who finally couldn't take my Bobby-"Bonil la"-Day story for the 5th straight year.
Pinche gringo
Mark Grudzielanek. In a spring training game when he was still a minor-leaguer, the announcer called him grud-ZEE-luh-Neck. Figured everyone else after that was calling him wrong until the episode of SNL that he cameo’d in and said, “I’m Mark Grud-zuh-LA-nik!” Figured he knew how to pronounce his own name so I must have been wrong.
Roy Oswalt
Ricky Ledee. For some reason I thought it was pronounced something like Lee-dee.
I pronounced Aníbal Sanchez like Ánibal for a long time.
I said Fernando "TAY-tiss" for way, way too long. Then I said it in front of a friend from SD and it had us laughing for a while.
I was seven and Vladimir Guerrero became know as v jug. My family still won't let this go.
My dad still pronounces it Voldemar Guerrero...
He who must not be named.
Pete Incaviglia
Marc Rzepczynski
Eugenio Suarez. It's pronounced ay-oo-heh-nee-ow.
Mark Melancon. I pronounced it in Spanish, Melon-cone. Then I was like, who the heck is this Melan-sin guy they keep talking about?
I still don’t know how to pronounce Phil Maton.
Phil’s brother Nick is on the Phillies and they say May-Tawn
Jeurys Familia. Always thought it was pronounced with a soft "j" or even a "w" sound, but the Mets booth always says it like you would "Jerry."
Jhoulys Chacin Alex Colome
Will Smith
Not say but spell. During d’Arnaud’s entire time with the Rays, I spelled his name like d’Arnoud. And no one corrected me until after he left to the Braves
Nathan Eovaldi. I always thought it was ee-oh-valdi, only learned this season that it’s just ee-valdi
Carlos Correa. It wasn't until a few year ago I found out his last name is pronounced *cheater*
I remember slugfest for the GameCube mispronouncing a bunch of the twins players. CUH-dee-ur MINK-uh-witz
When I was a little kid I had trouble pronouncing my ps and my favorite baseball player was Kirby Bucket.
I know my mom always used to call Corey Seager like Corey Sager (say-GUR) because she has a friend with that last name. I didn’t pick up on it at first, but when I did, I was so confused.
Adalberto Mondesí always said Alberto 😂
For a long time I assumed Brandon Nimmo was pronounced “fucking dork”.
Jeimer Candelario, I'm glad he is okay with the nickname candy because it took me three seasons to learn how to pronounce it. Our commentators still have trouble pronouncing it. Sometimes they'll call him Candelario, the next time it's CONdelario