Comments | oldstancher: Hark! I hear a rant!

oldstancher

Hark! I hear a rant!

Apr 05, 2007 09:46

Dice-K is a ridiculous freaking nickname! It’s just how you properly pronounce the guy’s first name for crying out Pete’s sake! It’s his freaking name misspelled and with a hyphen thrown into the mix! Punctuation does not a clever nickname make ( Read more... )

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tonycaselli April 5 2007, 15:44:08 UTC

I'm clearly out of the loop: Who the hell is "Dice-K"?!

oldstancher April 5 2007, 16:21:37 UTC

Daisuke Matsuzaka is the new pitcher for the Red Sox. He was recently acquired from the Seibu Lions in Japan. He has at least six different pitches and is pretty dominating so there's been a lot of publicity regarding his move to MLB. He's making his regular season debut today against KC.

siani April 5 2007, 16:41:31 UTC

And in Japanese the 'su' sound is often shortened so 'suki' sounds like 'ski' and Daisuke sounds like, well, Dice-K. But Jes is right, that's a pretty lame reason for a nickname. Though I have seen "K1" (1 being 'ichi') for Keiichi more than once, so maybe the Japanese just like doing that sort of thig...

tonycaselli April 5 2007, 18:45:43 UTC

Ah, yes. I've heard of him, but I'd not heard that nickname. I concur, that's lame.

theatredivachu April 11 2007, 22:45:14 UTC

I-Rod, A-Rod....Jesus.
I forget what game it was, but one of the announcers called him something like "Eeevan" which was more of a bastardization of "Evan" as opposed to "Ivan".

Ok I'm done, and tired.

evanlawrence April 13 2007, 16:55:36 UTC

I feel your pain.