Pics for the UMDB

[stevejrogers]

Bruce Bochy

Hmmmmmm...someday I'll show the Mets! I'll be a BIG LEAGUE MANAGER! And I'll use my big cranium to be the best Manager in my team's history!

[metirish]

it seems yancy can't get through to some.....

[stevejrogers]

metirish wrote: it seems yancy can't get through to some.....

Heh, I thought I was trying my darndest to clean some of those photos up, but I guess to no avail, oh well, keep plugging away...

Posted that Bochy shot as Yance was posting, but I still love that pic and had to use that caption

[Valadius]

Here's Kenny Rogers again.

[Valadius]

Here's a playing-days Willie Randolph.

[Guest cooby]

I think Yancy ought to commission Zvon to draw all the guys in blue hats that he is missing.

[Valadius]

Also, Endy Chavez's middle name is DeJesus, not William, according to ESPN.com and Wikipedia.

[metirish]

Mets.com has it as William.

[Valadius]

Huh. Strange.

[Valadius]

Oh wait a minute, go to the bottom of his profile on Mets.com, it says "Endy DeJesus Chavez graduated from Liceo Batalia Carabobo High School in Valencia, VZ". So I'm guessing DeJesus is right, and William is just a mistake.

[MFS62]

I'm still not sure without seeing his birth certificate. It is very common on Spanish speaking countries to use the mother's maiden name as part of the person's second-to-last name.

Unlike where women today use a hyphen when they add their married name to their maiden name, the Latinos do not hyphenate them. Someone unfamilliar with that custom could easily mistake the mother's name as a middle name. So, William may be his true middle name.

Later

[Valadius]

Actually, MFS, as I understand it, it's the opposite. The mother's maiden name is actually tacked on at the end in Spanish-speaking countries.

From Wikipedia article on "Family name":

However, nowadays in Spain and in many countries of Hispanic culture (former Spanish colonies, e.g. Mexico, Honduras, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Venezuela), most people have two surnames, although in some situations only the first is used. The first surname is the paternal one, inherited from the father's paternal surname. The second surname is the maternal one, inherited from the mother's paternal surname. (As an example, Mexican boxer Marco Antonio Barrera's full name is Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia, though Barrera is the only one used in general conversation.)

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

cooby wrote: I think Yancy ought to commission Zvon to draw all the guys in blue hats that he is missing.

Nah. If I wanted drawings I could do them myself.

[MFS62]

Thanks, Val. So, it still becomes a surname, not a middle name.

Later

[Guest cooby]

Yancy, do you draw?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Not too often any more, but I used to draw (and paint) a lot.

I'll probably start up again after my kids are a little older.

[Guest cooby]

That's what I used to say...

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I know. I probably should have said "maybe" and "after I retire."

[Valadius]

Here's a bunch of full names to fill in some blanks, Yancy:

Pedro Juan Feliciano
Guillermo Reynoso Mota
Roberto Manuel Hernandez
Alain Soler
Oliver Michael Perez
Marlon Ordell Anderson
Felix Santo Heredia

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

From where are you getting these?

[Valadius]

From mlb.com.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Some of the names are a little blurry.

[Valadius]

You crack me up Yancy!

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I can't get to the UMDB tonight. Can anybody else get there? I'm trying to determine if the problem is on my end.

Thanks!

[Valadius]

I can't get there either.

[metirish]

Me neither...

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Well, I guess it's not on my end.

Thanks for checking.

[Zvon]

Yea- it wont load.

I wouldnt draw Mets in blue hats.
Id photoshop em.
Yance made it clear he's not interested in that a long time ago.

Yance, you should give Val a medal or something, at least for his efforts.
Rogers too.

[seawolf17]

A world without the UMDB is a world that I don't want to live in.

[Zvon]

seawolf17 wrote: A world without the UMDB is a world that I don't want to live in.

I second that emotion.