Mike Minor is White?
by Frederick0220 on Sep 10, 2009 4:45 PM EDT
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So, I'm reading Baseball America's Prospect Hot Sheet today, like I (and I'm sure most of you) do every Friday, and as I'm scrolling down looking at each player's writeup, I see that Braves pitching prospect Mike Minor is #10. Then I look at his picture -- Mike Minor is a white guy?!?
Like really, really white...
Ever since the Braves drafted him, I had just assumed Mike Minor was black. Why did I do that? Was it just because his name was Mike?? Did I just figure that Ike is always a black man's name because of Mike Vick??? Does this make me a racist????
Has anybody else ever found themselves in a similar situation with a player -- thinking he was one race, when he actually turned out to be another?!?
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Khalil Greene
Blew my mind.
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by Dewey Finn on Sep 10, 2009 4:49 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Yes, Mikie Minor is lily white
Not sure where you got the race thing from though. The only other MLBer named Minor I can think of was Ryan, who was also white (although who there might have been a greater expectation of being black, since he was an All-American college basketball player).
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by Brickhaus on Sep 10, 2009 4:53 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Damon "Big Tiny" Minor
MiLB all-star that never panned out with the Giants. Also white.
by TimLaser and MattyC on Sep 10, 2009 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That actually might be it
Although this thread is a parody of the Ike Davis thread, I really did used to think Mike Minor was black.
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by Frederick0220 on Sep 10, 2009 6:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yawn
We get one of these posts every few weeks. Baseball players are just like everyone else, you can’t figure out what they look like by their name. Get over it.
by jelder09 on Sep 10, 2009 5:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I was shocked when I found out Sandra Lee wasn't Korean
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by Brickhaus on Sep 10, 2009 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Brett Favre...
is white? I would have never known.
by joegonzo on Sep 10, 2009 6:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
D'Brickashaw Ferguson is black?
wtf?
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by Frederick0220 on Sep 10, 2009 6:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Overheard by a friend of mine, a waiter, serving a table of sorority girls
“You mean Solomon Goldstein is Jewish?”
by gogotabata on Sep 10, 2009 6:12 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Granderson
When he was drafted, I thought he was white, despite the first name Curtis, but I think that was because of a video supposedly of him that was of a white guy. hmm
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by The Congo Hammer on Sep 10, 2009 7:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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by StickRat on Sep 10, 2009 7:26 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
It was a parody of the Ike Davis thread, dawg
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by Frederick0220 on Sep 10, 2009 7:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ian Snell
Always thought he was White even when he was already pitching with the Pirates until I traded for him a few years back in a dynasty league and realized he was black.
by Summa Slugga on Sep 10, 2009 8:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I think I went from white to latino to black to latino to black again with Snell
He is part Puerto Rican, isn’t he?
by Daniel Berlyn on Sep 11, 2009 9:22 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Reggie Cleveland
It was on Bill Simmons podcast where the “Reggie Cleveland All-Stars” were created. Reggie Cleveland, perhaps the blackest sounding name in history, was in fact white. Thus, Bill Simmons and others began the list of All-Stars who had names that sounded like they were of another race. Others include:
Mack Brown
Howie Kendrick
Lew Ford
Marcus Giles
Moonlight Graham (old-timers’ edition)
Khalil Greene
Jackie Earle Haley
Nate Funk
Micah Owings
Leroy Kaman – Chris Kaman’s father
Jamal Abu-Shamala
Enos Slaughter (old-timers’ edition)
Darius Songaila
Jarrod Washburn
Ty Wigginton
Reggie Willits
Clancy Pendergast
Jevan Snead
Grady Sizemore
Daryl Morey
Grady Little
Patrick O’Bryant
Rulon Jones
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by King Billy Royal on Sep 10, 2009 8:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Except "Mike Minor" doesn't sound like a black guy
Are there any black college pitchability lefties? I can’t even fathom why you’d think that.
by aCone419 on Sep 10, 2009 8:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm calling for another team
The Jose Mesa All-Stars. Names that are amusing when translated into English. So far, we’ve got Jose Mesa, Antonio Bastardo, and eminently hateable beat writer Dan LeBatard. I’m sure I’m forgetting a few…
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by drjayphd on Sep 10, 2009 11:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
How 'bout soccer player Giovanni Dos Santos
I always thought Johnny Two Saints would be a pretty awesome name.
by DiegoAsFan on Sep 10, 2009 11:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Carl Black Mouth
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by PaulThomas on Sep 12, 2009 6:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Henry Blanco
Hank White
Or is Kendry perhaps the one who needs to sit?
by BBFan1 on Sep 11, 2009 5:00 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Segundo Mercado
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by Brickhaus on Sep 11, 2009 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Pete Happy
3b, Phillies
The Giants need to sign Harry Doyle.
by jrose643 on Sep 11, 2009 6:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
In the same vein
Lucky Foot… or maybe Happy Foot, Orioles OF extraordinaire.
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by drjayphd on Sep 12, 2009 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Mathieu LeBlanc-Poirier
Matt the White Pear.
Actually, that name is awesome even if you don’t translate it.
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
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by PaulThomas on Sep 12, 2009 6:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
miroslav satan
(hockey player)
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by jeeves on Sep 12, 2009 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Darius Songaila?
He’s Lithuanian… His name sounds Lithuanian.
How has no one mentioned Freddie Freeman?
by rglass44 on Sep 11, 2009 1:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
What about pronunciations?
I had no clue that “Thole” was pronounced “Toll-ey”
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by hero66 on Sep 10, 2009 10:18 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Scandinavian, I think
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
by PaulThomas on Sep 12, 2009 6:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Cha Seung Baek is Korean? WTF???!!
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by lenscrafters on Sep 11, 2009 12:18 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Really?
What about Chicken Fwied Pok?
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by Frederick0220 on Sep 11, 2009 1:46 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i'm not PC at all
but that was painfully unfunny
by kamikaze80 on Sep 11, 2009 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
haha
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by Frederick0220 on Sep 11, 2009 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
How about....
two active players with the same(uncommon) name; one black , one white?
if you’ll notice baseballcube was so thrown off by this they’ve credited the white Ryan Royster with having played in the minors and NCAA concurrently in 2007.
http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/R/Ryan-Royster.shtml
http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/R/Ryan-Royster-2.shtml
by portablestsanzas on Sep 11, 2009 3:55 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
in addition...
both of these guys have uncommonly awful middle names: Rexford and Whitney.
by portablestsanzas on Sep 11, 2009 3:57 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bobby Jones and Bobby Jones agree
Ack.
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by drjayphd on Sep 12, 2009 5:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nice
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by Frederick0220 on Sep 11, 2009 7:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
How about
Coco Crisp? I always thought he was a breakfast cereal, then I saw him play baseball. Boy that was a shocker.
by abebopmana on Sep 12, 2009 11:18 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Michael Bourn...
Before I saw him, I just imagined Matt Damon.
I thought Garrett Atkins was black for a while.
by Lt Melmo on Sep 13, 2009 7:14 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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