A-MEK-a O-ka-for

Crash Course · 07-12-2004, 10:48 AM

Fear not, still a baseball thread..........sorta

I love saying Emeka Okafor. I love it so much that I wish he was a baseball player so that I can say it more often.

Is there a player from another sport that you wish played baseball because you think his name is so cool and you like saying it?

Ytown Tribe fan · 07-12-2004, 12:21 PM

Anna Kournikova. Well, okay -- not so much for the name...

hopbitters · 07-12-2004, 01:05 PM

Primo Carnera.

Crash Course · 07-12-2004, 01:09 PM

Wasn't that the guy from the movie THE FAN?

Crash Course · 07-12-2004, 01:10 PM

Oppps, that was Juan Primo!

mainsr · 07-12-2004, 01:22 PM

I always got a kick out of saying Manute Bol. My mom's favorite was Fair Hooker.

Don't even THINK of saying it, Crash...

Crash Course · 07-12-2004, 02:24 PM

can I type it?

hopbitters · 07-12-2004, 03:52 PM

Primo Carnera was an Italian boxer...a very large Italian boxer. I believe he still holds the record for being the heaviest champion. He beat Jack Sharkey for the belt in '31. I think he lost it to Max Baer in '33 or '34.

mgoettsche · 07-12-2004, 06:18 PM

Italian soccer names are always great.

Pierluigi Giancarlo.

Ytown Tribe fan · 07-13-2004, 08:02 PM

Is NASCAR a sport? If so, I nominate Dick Trickle.

But the winner has to be ... (drum roll please) ...
from the WNBA ... Ivana Mandic!

Crash Course · 07-14-2004, 12:02 AM

It's too bad that Dan Patrick has beaten Dick Trickle to death.

Craig S. · 07-14-2004, 08:14 AM

From the NHL, I enjoy Nikolai Khabibulin, Jordan Tootoo, Bates Battaglia and Maxim Afinogenov.

Crash Course · 07-14-2004, 10:26 AM

I can't even pronounce most of those........

mgoettsche · 07-16-2004, 12:00 AM

Here's one I just came across:

Villalobos

huskerdru · 07-16-2004, 04:35 PM

Miroslav Satan and Darius "I've got a bad case of" Kasparaitis

07-12-2004, 10:48 AM	#1
Crash Course NetShrine Creator & Curator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: NetShrine WHQ Posts: 10,070	A-MEK-a O-ka-for Fear not, still a baseball thread..........sorta I love saying Emeka Okafor. I love it so much that I wish he was a baseball player so that I can say it more often. Is there a player from another sport that you wish played baseball because you think his name is so cool and you like saying it? __________________ Steve, Forum Admin Hit Grass, Win Salad Man, this is baseball. You gotta stop thinking. Just have fun. - Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez, in The Sandlot I've been going to games since August 8, 1973....and on August 22, 2004, finally, a foul ball came my way. I had to reach for it, and it deflected off the tip of my right index finger. Shoot, if I was only 4 inches taller! Have you read The Baseball Same Game?

07-12-2004, 01:05 PM	#3
hopbitters Inducted Into The NetShrine Assembly of Fame Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: downstate AZ Posts: 656	Primo Carnera. __________________ all bleeding eventually stops

07-12-2004, 01:09 PM	#4
Crash Course NetShrine Creator & Curator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: NetShrine WHQ Posts: 10,070	Wasn't that the guy from the movie THE FAN? __________________ Steve, Forum Admin Hit Grass, Win Salad Man, this is baseball. You gotta stop thinking. Just have fun. - Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez, in The Sandlot I've been going to games since August 8, 1973....and on August 22, 2004, finally, a foul ball came my way. I had to reach for it, and it deflected off the tip of my right index finger. Shoot, if I was only 4 inches taller! Have you read The Baseball Same Game?

07-12-2004, 01:10 PM	#5
Crash Course NetShrine Creator & Curator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: NetShrine WHQ Posts: 10,070	Oppps, that was Juan Primo! __________________ Steve, Forum Admin Hit Grass, Win Salad Man, this is baseball. You gotta stop thinking. Just have fun. - Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez, in The Sandlot I've been going to games since August 8, 1973....and on August 22, 2004, finally, a foul ball came my way. I had to reach for it, and it deflected off the tip of my right index finger. Shoot, if I was only 4 inches taller! Have you read The Baseball Same Game?

07-12-2004, 01:22 PM	#6
mainsr NetShrine All-Century Team Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Saratoga Springs, NY Posts: 1,557	I always got a kick out of saying Manute Bol. My mom's favorite was Fair Hooker. Don't even THINK of saying it, Crash... __________________ "Let's let bye-byes be bye-byes." --The Greatest Leadoff Hitter of All Time

07-12-2004, 12:21 PM	#2
Ytown Tribe fan Guest Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Scrappers territory Posts: 2,515	Anna Kournikova. Well, okay -- not so much for the name...

07-12-2004, 02:24 PM	#7
Crash Course NetShrine Creator & Curator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: NetShrine WHQ Posts: 10,070	can I type it? __________________ Steve, Forum Admin Hit Grass, Win Salad Man, this is baseball. You gotta stop thinking. Just have fun. - Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez, in The Sandlot I've been going to games since August 8, 1973....and on August 22, 2004, finally, a foul ball came my way. I had to reach for it, and it deflected off the tip of my right index finger. Shoot, if I was only 4 inches taller! Have you read The Baseball Same Game?

07-12-2004, 03:52 PM	#8
hopbitters Inducted Into The NetShrine Assembly of Fame Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: downstate AZ Posts: 656	Primo Carnera was an Italian boxer...a very large Italian boxer. I believe he still holds the record for being the heaviest champion. He beat Jack Sharkey for the belt in '31. I think he lost it to Max Baer in '33 or '34. __________________ all bleeding eventually stops

07-12-2004, 06:18 PM	#9
mgoettsche All-NetShrine Team Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 375	Italian soccer names are always great. Pierluigi Giancarlo.

07-13-2004, 08:02 PM	#10
Ytown Tribe fan Guest Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Scrappers territory Posts: 2,515	Is NASCAR a sport? If so, I nominate Dick Trickle. But the winner has to be ... (drum roll please) ... from the WNBA ... Ivana Mandic! Last edited by Ytown Tribe fan : 07-13-2004 at 08:05 PM.

07-14-2004, 12:02 AM	#11
Crash Course NetShrine Creator & Curator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: NetShrine WHQ Posts: 10,070	It's too bad that Dan Patrick has beaten Dick Trickle to death. __________________ Steve, Forum Admin Hit Grass, Win Salad Man, this is baseball. You gotta stop thinking. Just have fun. - Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez, in The Sandlot I've been going to games since August 8, 1973....and on August 22, 2004, finally, a foul ball came my way. I had to reach for it, and it deflected off the tip of my right index finger. Shoot, if I was only 4 inches taller! Have you read The Baseball Same Game?

07-14-2004, 08:14 AM	#12
Craig S. Guest Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 6,330	From the NHL, I enjoy Nikolai Khabibulin, Jordan Tootoo, Bates Battaglia and Maxim Afinogenov.

07-14-2004, 10:26 AM	#13
Crash Course NetShrine Creator & Curator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: NetShrine WHQ Posts: 10,070	I can't even pronounce most of those........ __________________ Steve, Forum Admin Hit Grass, Win Salad Man, this is baseball. You gotta stop thinking. Just have fun. - Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez, in The Sandlot I've been going to games since August 8, 1973....and on August 22, 2004, finally, a foul ball came my way. I had to reach for it, and it deflected off the tip of my right index finger. Shoot, if I was only 4 inches taller! Have you read The Baseball Same Game?

07-16-2004, 12:00 AM	#14
mgoettsche All-NetShrine Team Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 375	Here's one I just came across: Villalobos

07-16-2004, 04:35 PM	#15
huskerdru Inducted Into The NetShrine Assembly of Fame Join Date: May 2003 Location: Motown (or just north of it) Posts: 540	Miroslav Satan and Darius "I've got a bad case of" Kasparaitis __________________ "Computers are stupid; they can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso

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