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Posted By: Bryan Long

Although most of you could care less about this I decided to post it anyway, because most of my friends are on this site - kinda sad huh

Just found out the wife and I are expecting our second child. Looks like my boy Gavin will have a brother or sister. Any idea of a great baseball name? I am hoping for a boy, you never know Trying to get my own baseball team

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Posted By: David Goff

Dale Bryan Murphy

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Posted By: Jon Canfield

Pickles (as in Pickles Dilhoefer)
Moose (as in Myron Moose Grimshaw)

-or-

on a serious note:

Ty (I always thought it was a cool / retro name, although I wouldn't want to be named Tyrus - only Ty)

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Posted By: JK

Congrats Bryan.

Its not a baseball name, but I would suggest Tiki.

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Posted By: Mark T

if you are hoping for a boy, you will get a girl but thats ok.

How about Anson....for a boy

Mark

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Posted By: bigfish387t

I would suggest Big Pappi. Ty could be a cool name too.

Congrats

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Posted By: Bill Stone

Congrats!! My favorite all time player --Richard Dale Long

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Posted By: leon

Congrats Bryan...though this could hamper the card budget......

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Posted By: Bryan Long

It has already hampered the card budget - just check out the BST - not all of it will go to cards - the rest will take care of new baby products that will have to be bought if it turns out to be a girl. Decorating another room for a girl will take a pretty large hit on the family budget - another reason why I am hoping for a boy.

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Posted By: andy becker

congrats bryan,

good luck to you and your wife.

we have two daughters so my wife wouldn't let me (i really did want to, even though they are girls), but i do like tyrus as a first or middle name.

best,
andy

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Posted By: barrysloate

Honus Long.

Best of luck to you both!

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Posted By: Bryan Long

I don't think the wife will go for Honus I have been trying to some time to name our child Boston Lee Long, but she is not going for that either. Not that I am a Boston fan, but I do think that it is a cool name.

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Posted By: barrysloate

No, wives don't have a sense of humor about things like that

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Posted By: JimB

Bryan,
Congrats. That is great news. My dad half suggested that we name our son, who is five weeks old, Honus. We didn't go for it.
JimB

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Posted By: Jim VB

If I remember correctly, Brad Johnson, now of the Cowboys, named his son Maximus. He jokingly said that his wife must have still been sedated after the delivery, because she agreed to "Maximus Johnson."

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Posted By: Matt Goebel

You have to go with "Bingo"

Congrats!

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Posted By: T206Collector

...our second son Mathewson. And now the whole family calls him Matty. Pretty cool... though occasionally I call him Matt.

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Posted By: Richard

You could name your son after me. I think he would have a cool nickname

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Posted By: Ken W.

Babe

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Posted By: Ed McCollum

those were the names of a former supervisors two sons. His wife never figured out what that was all about. He wanted to name the first son Tommie, but she figured out where that might lead...(you have to be a Husker football fan to get that one.)

Congratulations.

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Posted By: Larry

Louis Gehrig Long

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Posted By: anthony

my suggestions and comments.

1. i would stay away from GO, SO, REALLY, or VERY...
2. i'd consider Richard, but you know what that translates into
3. i personally tried for nolan, ty, and rod but got Joseph Ryan, that was the best i could get
4. maybe RUBE, seems like a popular name these days...not!
5. Derek Long sounds cool, but i hate the yankees...
and finally...
6. whatever you name him/her make it a good one, cause they are stuck with it

when in doubt, keep it!

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Posted By: Jason L

True enough, women don't have much of a sense of humor about these things, and I don't know why. I mean, my wife really got sour when I suggested Darth for the name of our second son. And it just got worse when I said that it was better than Anakin. sheeesh. I told her it didn't mean that he would be the ACTUAL Lord of the Sith!!!

There is always the ever-popular Mookie.
Hard to go wrong with the best hitter and the best pitcher: Tyrus or Cyrus

Good luck with whatever you choose, and congrats again.

About the only solid advice I can give you is to not combine two of them in the same proposal:

I said Mookie Darth Leinberger and I was sleeping on the couch.

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Posted By: Joe D.

congratulations to you and the misses!


As far as names, why not go for:

1) Honus - (I like it Jim, why not?!?)
2) Tyrus
3) Tris
4) Matty
5) Jackson, or Joe (and don't buy him shoes)

I would stay away from:

1) Merkle
2) Yogi
3) Napoleon

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Posted By: barrysloate

I would definitely stay away from Pee Wee. Not a good name for the schoolyard.

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Posted By: Larry

Long is a common last name, but won't work well with Richard or Peter. Also, I used to work with a fellow named Richard Large and he actually did answer to the name Dick. Everytime they paged his name and we had new employees, they would giggle like a bunch of schoolgirls. Also anyone could page over the system and we would have anonymous immature employees paging Mike Hunt and Craven Moorehead all day long.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Amanda Hugginkiss?

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Posted By: Bill Stone

Good point --ok if George would agree how about SEVEN --work work well with either a boy or girl. Ok I am done !

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Posted By: barrysloate

George also liked Soda!

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Posted By: leon

You could name him "Sue"....but then again I like Johnny Cash music.....

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Posted By: Bob

Robert Kennedy Long since I know Torii Hunter Long won't be one of your top choices
Congrats Bryan, best wishes to the better half.
tbob
P.S. Twins are officially eliminated after last night.

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Posted By: J Levine

Serious baseball names...

Christopher (Christy)
Lefty
Dale
George Herman
Joshua (a little bias here)

Not so serious but real names...

Moose
Rusty Kuntz
Wockenfuss
Ichabod
CoCo
Jesus

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Posted By: John H.

Congratulations!

I would suggest Theodore Samuel in honor of a real hero (even though his birth certificate actually read Teddy Samuel). I also like the sound of Tyrus Raymond but he was one bad mutha.

John

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Posted By: Bryan Long

Some really good ideas - some not so good I do like Mathewson, but that one has been taken by a member already Plus, I don't think the wife would go for it. We like Ty, but the wife doesn't want a 1 syallable name - she is kinda strange - but I married her anyway. To be honest I kinda like Tris or Tristen maybe. I'll work on it. Thanks for kind words everyone.

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Posted By: David B

Congrats to you and your wife. After reading some eailier posts I must have an extra cool wife. Of our three kids I got to pick out all the names except the oldests first. My children are Ocean Sol, Linus Orion and Abbey Moon. I can say that I gave my wife the sun, moon, and stars. (Sol is Spanish for sun). I really liked the suggestion Anson for a boy. Wishing you and yours a happy healthy child.
David B

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Posted By: peter chao

Congrats Bryan...this is not O/T at all...always glad to hear about growing families.

Peter C.

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Posted By: Dave Hornish

I've gotta go with "Piano Legs" here....

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Posted By: George H. Counter

Dick Long?

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Posted By: barry arnold

Congratulations,Bryan!!
Great news!
How about Hunky--for Hunky Shaw?!

best,

barry

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Posted By: Gene Palmer

If it's a girl you could name her Dee Long

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Posted By: Ed Ivey

Walter is a good name.

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

Congrats Bryan !!

Herman Long, most errors in a season and the last player with 100 errors in a season, yet recognized as a good fielding shortstop.
Finished 8th in 1936 HOF ballot behind Anson, Ewing, Keeler, Young, Delahanty, McGraw and Radbourn