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Hello and welcome to episode 1594 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from

Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the

Ringer joined by Samilor of ESPN. Hello Sam. How many baseball players

middle names do you know? Very few I think. There's you know the the ones that

tend to be said all at once for whatever reason like Michael Jack Schmidt and

one that you just brought up off air to see if I knew it which I do. Derek Geter's middle name

which I think I know as Sanderson just because that would come up on Yankees broadcast all the time

for some reason but off the top of my head I really don't think I could name many. I'd have to

sit and think about it for a while but probably like a dozen less than a dozen. I gave myself 10

minutes to try to name as many as I could and excluding people who I'm not counting it if you

go by your middle name. If you go by your middle name I need to know your first and your middle name.

George Herman Ruth. George Herman Ruth classic classic example I knew his and I'm not counting it

if you go by if you go by both names for some I don't know like if it's like your initials or

something I could count that but I don't think it came up anyway I came up with a dozen exactly

a dozen. As you said I knew 12 and you know I didn't know I mean obviously there's a lot more than

than 12 players have played huge superstars people who is biographies I've read I didn't know

their names you know Chris Chris Young's the Chris Young's and in the Adam Eton's and the

various major leaders who we have actually had multiple players of the exact same name you still

never bothered to learn their their middle names we talked the other day about the grammar or

that I guess maybe the parts of speech that first and last names are whether the first name is

the noun in the last name is the adjective or vice versa and the middle name doesn't really do

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