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1. CW hits the pinata for the candy Posted: April 28, 2008 at 01:06 AM (#2760884)I wonder if he got teased in school any?
Can we get Urban Shocker back in baseball?
Razor Shines was the White Sox third base coach just last year.
Anyway, I feel less of a desperate need for pitching prospects now that Gavin Eaton has returned from sub-mediocrity to mediocrity.
He's been a minor league manager for a while - he was at Charlotte the last couple of years.
-- MWE
it was more of a long van...
10. Felix Pie
9. Coco Crisp
8. R.A. Dickey
7. Chris Bootcheck
6. Callix Crabbe
5. Jimmy Gobble
4. Boof Bonser
3. Kevin Slowey
2. Kosuke Fukudome/Kazuo Fukumori
1. Dan Uggla
Some honorable mentions: David Riske, Chone Figgins, Edinson Volquez, Josh Fogg, Tom Gorzelanny, Yusmeiro Petit, Brian Bocock, Ubaldo Jimenez, Ryan Garko, Alberto Callaspo, Yorvit Torrealba, Yorman Bazardo, Yuniesky Betancourt, Yunel Escobar, Angel Pagan, Geovany Soto, Vladimir Guerrero, Wilson Betemit, Duaner Sanchez, Merkin Valdez, Melky Cabrera, Zack Greinke
These players of today just don't have what it takes to compete against the likes of Dick Pole and Pete LaCock.
More like the parents of the players of today. They're not cruel enough anymore.
This year he's 2-0 with a 1.17 ERA in 5 starts at Clearwater, with 47 K's, 10 walks, and 20 hits in 30.2 innings. And Razor Shines already wants him promoted.
One might say he's a pitching prospect.
Soon to become more famous than welterweight boxer Elvin Bastardo? We can only hope.
Certainly hope the Phillies fans who have created fan groups like the Wolf Pack have something special ready for Bastardo.
"Los Padres no Casados de Bastardo"
It would be similar to 2001, when I tittered every time I heard about this new slugger named "Poo Holes."
Astros fans of the late 70's and early 80's had already been there and done that.
Well, not so much the "slugger" part....
Just have Bert Blyleven call all his games.
Where I come from, if your name can be easily converted to "Tony The Bastard", you get left alone.
I'm thinking the ells in his name don't sound like English ells. Or am I out of the loop here?
Lenny DiNardo...now <u>that's</u> funny.
They all pronounced it poo-yol or puh-yol.
Is it different for non-spanish spanish speakers?
Well, Joaquin Andujar was Wa-keen An-du-har. Guad-a-la-hara is how the city in Mexico pronounced. Is the "middle of the word J" pronounced differently by a Spaniard than a New Worlder?
Do you say Miguel "teh-yada"?
Is it different for non-spanish spanish speakers?
Spanish pronunciation would be "POO-hols" (more or less--the j is pronounced like a "harsh" H; sort of like hocking a loogy). If the name has an origin other than Spanish, i.e. Basque, Catalan or Gallego (which it might; I have no idea), it might be pronounced differently, but that's the Spanish phonetics given the spelling of Pujols.
Another one is "z" which many places in spain is pronounced with a "th" sound.
Tremendous.
To clarify: the "j" is pronounced pretty much the same everywhere in the Spanish speaking world as far as I know, but Spain has many different *languages* (not just dialects) spoken (such as those I listed). If Pujols originates in one of those languages, the J might well be pronounced differently in the original tongue; I don't know anything about those other languages, other than that they exist and more or less where they're spoken (Gallego in the NW part of Spain, Basque in the north central area, Catalan in Catalonia (northeastern area, including Barcelona).
You're correct that the "z" (and also the soft "c") varies in different places (pronounced like a "th" in some regions, but like an "s" in most).
I thought that was kind of interesting that in Pan's Labyrinth, they went with the lisping pronunciations.
Not sure what part(s) of Spain that's set in, but the lisp is used in both Madrid and Barcelona.
Although set in Franco-era Spain (not Madrid or Barcelona, BTW), the director is Mexican, so that's why I thought it was interesting.
According to my Spanish ex-girlfriend, the lisping (th) replaces the s-sound c, and is characteristic of Castillan Spanish, which explains why it's common in Madrid. FWIW, Latinos in America could identify her immediately as Spanish from that alone.
Also, no love for Stubby Clapp in this thread?!?
I don't speak very well, but can understand people from Spain much better than I can people from Latin America.
In any event, if there is a dialect that pronounces Pujols "Poo-yole" or "Poo-yoles", it wouldn't surprise me.
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