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
Flamefox111 - March 27, 2010
This took me ten minutes
Jeff Sullivan - March 27, 2010
TOO MUCH TIME.
Kirk - March 27, 2010
I forgot to include Rick Helling in Japan
Jeff Sullivan - March 27, 2010
WTF is a Helling?
circa81 - March 27, 2010
He's getting at that, in Engrish, one would say Rick Herring.
Jeff is just a ball of humor.
qrsouther - March 27, 2010
Of course.
circa81 - March 28, 2010
Isn't that racial?
No, wait, it’s lingual
wandergeist - March 28, 2010
Wow.
Of those names, Carp is even the dullest.
Well, except Fish.
JonBBT - March 27, 2010
This is exactly why I love this website
bamfor - March 27, 2010
Fish
Jack Shiner
Andy Barb
Keith Darter
bereasonable - March 27, 2010
Christ, baseball, give some other kingdom a chance!
Jeff Sullivan - March 27, 2010
Fish aren't a kingdom. They're within animalia, under vertebrates.
Somewhere.
thehemogoblin - March 27, 2010
I know
Who says we have to stick to animals? There are lots of living things.
Jeff Sullivan - March 27, 2010
You mean Chordata.
If we’re being anal.
A Public Alias - March 27, 2010
Being anal is a bad thing when it comes to jokes
OlSalty - March 27, 2010
Aw shit.
Look what I did…
thehemogoblin - March 28, 2010
Linnaean taxonomy is old and bad, like Mike Sweeney.
Cladistics is the hot new Dustin Ackley of the hierarchical organization of life forms.
Vatinius - March 27, 2010
I just remember that Kids Playing Cards On Freeways Get Squished.
Two Rs and Two Ls - March 28, 2010
a big sunday morning shout out to the ribosomal RNA 16S subunit
Astrobiology - March 28, 2010
I see you're a biology buff.
qrsouther - March 27, 2010
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.
thehemogoblin - March 28, 2010
Yeah, that's what I was basing my assumption on.
qrsouther - March 28, 2010
Staphylococcus has become the frontrunner for my first born son
CKel - March 27, 2010
Jeff Sullivan, Professional Blogger
RunningFool - March 27, 2010
You know he's professional because he pitches advertisements for his sponsors between his baseball commentary, just like Rick Rizzs.
Decatur - March 28, 2010
Kevin Bass
I still don’t like him for hitting the ball that Griffey broke his wrist on in ’95
Scrupio - March 27, 2010
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)
Mariner John - March 27, 2010
Fun Fact! Marlon Byrd is named after both a fish and a bird
Except both are misspelled. His middle name is probably Dawg.
Nick S - March 27, 2010
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!
circa81 - March 27, 2010
what
Jeff Sullivan - March 27, 2010
Great minds think alike?
Dewey N - March 27, 2010
This is literally the weirdest I've felt in weeks
Jeff Sullivan - March 28, 2010
Well the thought is both retarded and brilliant so I can see how it could happen
Dewey N - March 28, 2010
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
Jeff Sullivan - March 28, 2010
Did you have fun?
Dewey N - March 28, 2010
Yes
Jeff Sullivan - March 28, 2010
Wanna talk about it?
Dewey N - March 28, 2010
Goodnight Fogel
Jeff Sullivan - March 28, 2010
Don't worry Jeff, I don't think it was LaRue.
I believe it was Stone he’s referring to.
LINK
JonBBT - March 28, 2010
In my defense, I'm baked a lot.
circa81 - March 28, 2010
Whew
Close, but different!
Jeff Sullivan - March 28, 2010
This too shall pass.
circa81 - March 27, 2010
Dude? Catfish Hunter.
batura - March 28, 2010
But a nickname, maybe that explains the ?.
Kermit. - March 28, 2010
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
katal - March 28, 2010
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?
wandergeist - March 28, 2010
With a ladder.
The Gomez thing is a long story.
katal - March 30, 2010
Jeff, As someone with Beaver as a last name, I appreciate your call for better representation of the animal kingdom.
InSpokane - March 28, 2010
Man, some tough days on the school ground for you, eh?
wandergeist - March 28, 2010
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.
InSpokane - March 29, 2010
Ah
So then you were getting it instead of getting kidded about it.
wandergeist - March 29, 2010
We had Justin Leone?
That counts, doesn’t it?
JY - March 29, 2010
Correct me if I'm wrong
but isn’t Suzuki a Japanese word for Sea Bass?
Sheesh you guys…sometimes I wonder about you.
John Edwards - March 28, 2010
#1 fish
John Edwards - March 28, 2010
It is.
But Suzuki as a surname means “bell tree” or something like that. The sea bass version uses a different character.
JY - March 28, 2010
Oh boy, here I go. Brace yourself...
Okay, I need to go clean myself in boiling vinegar. So sorry!!!
John Edwards - March 28, 2010
Good job on italicizing the genus name of the microbe!
My girlfriend says you can now be taken seriously by microbiologists around the world.
Interceptor - March 28, 2010
Entire teams named after fish
Florida Marlins
Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays
Seattle Steelheads (1946 Negro League)
Chicago Whales (1915 Federal League)
lemonverbena - March 29, 2010
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).
Paytheline - March 29, 2010
Same here.
That’s an interesting note historically.
JY - March 29, 2010
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.
Paytheline - March 29, 2010
Not. A. Fish.
seattlebruin - March 29, 2010
It seems like you're taking this personally
Dewey N - March 29, 2010
If they were killer whales, he'd be nasty about it.
JY - March 29, 2010
Somehow I knew sb would be the first to point this out
lemonverbena - March 29, 2010
Unless they were named after the Whale Shark?
Like the Chicago Bulls(Bull Shark) and Chicago Cubs(Cub Shark).
John Edwards - March 29, 2010
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