UMDB's All-Time Top 20 lookups anaylsis

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Edgy DC wrote: And if you really want to have fun, list the names of Asian-born players parenthetically in the characters of their native lands: Takashi Kashiwada: 柏田 貴史 Satoru Komiyama: 小宮山 悟 Kazuo Matsui: 松井 稼頭央 Hideo Nomo: 野茂 英雄 Tsuyoshi Shinjo: 新庄 剛志 Shingo Takatsu: 高津 臣吾 Masato Yoshii: 吉井 理人

Nahhh.

[Elster88]

Don't forget Ishii!
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[seawolf17]

Didn't know Edgy spoke Japanese, did you? He amazes us every single day.

[seawolf17]

Elster88 wrote: Don't forget Ishii!

No, we can forget Ishii.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Good job, brother.

You'll also fine accented �'s in guys named Andr�s.

[Elster88]

seawolf17 wrote: Didn't know Edgy spoke Japanese, did you? He amazes us every single day.

Typing in Japanese may be even more impressive.

[seawolf17]

Not if you have one of these.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Not that it matters, as Yancy has drawn a cultural/digital line in the sand, but Kazuhisa Ishii is 石井 一久.

I always have trouble drawing that next-to-last character.

This stuff is fascingating

石 is a focusing eye with a brow over it

井 is a strike zone.

一 is a pitch in rapid motion.

久 is an opposing batter walking to first.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Fixed the Jos�s too. There were 58 of them, and only three already had the accent.

And I even fixed the middle names of Richard Hidaldo, Alex Escobar, and Al Pedrique.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Edgy DC wrote: Not that it matters, as Yancy has drawn a cultural/digital line in the sand, but Kazuhisa Ishii is 石井 一久. I always have trouble drawing that next-to-last character. This stuff is fascingating 石 is a focusing eye with a brow over it 井 is a strike zone. 一 is a pitch in rapid motion. 久 is an opposing batter walking to first.

All I'm seeing are little boxes.

[Willets Point]

Edgy DC wrote: Not that it matters, as Yancy has drawn a cultural/digital line in the sand, but Kazuhisa Ishii is 石井 一久. I always have trouble drawing that next-to-last character. This stuff is fascingating 石 is a focusing eye with a brow over it 井 is a strike zone. 一 is a pitch in rapid motion. 久 is an opposing batter walking to first.

Post of the day. Or post du jour in keeping with the multicultural aspects of this thread.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Really? Did you see the characters in my other Sino-English posts?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Nope, just boxes. Maybe I don't have the necessary fonts on my PC?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Other accented spanish names I discovered (including some I never heard applied to a ballplayer, but who knows) here:

�LVARO
BARTOLOM�
C�SAR
CONCEPCI�N
CRISTI�N
EST�BAN
GERM�N
H�CTOR
JER�NIMO
JES�S
JULI�N
MAR�A (Some players may have it as a middle name, though that's more of a Euorpean and Brazilian thing.)
MART�N
MOIS�S
NICOL�S
P�O
PL�CIDO
RAM�N
R�GULO
ROLD�N
RUB�N
SALOM�N
TE�DULO
TE�FILO
TOM�S
TRIST�N
VALENT�N
VENCESL�S
ZACAR�AS

[Guest Edgy DC]

Willie Monta�ez has got to have a tilde.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Pete Falcone's been number one. What's going on there?

[Valadius]

We have movement in the Top 20 as Jerry Koosman edges Willie Mays for 18th.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Huge month for Jeff Reardon. He may even be the yearly leader based on his one big day on December 27.

Anyway, some new and improved UMDB features for 2006:

New: Ballpark Stats for players.

Improved: Player Stats vs. Opponents