First name of draftee or randomly generated password?

Art Deco · 09-02-2020, 05:36 PM

You be the judge:

Snagged this guy in the late rounds of the 2024 amateur draft.

Westheim · 09-02-2020, 05:40 PM

I think it's a puzzle and if you decode it his name is actually something really pedestrian.

Like, Dave.

Art Deco · 09-02-2020, 05:44 PM

I made sure to tell my scouts: you can give me anyone you want to draft but his name must have at least one upper case letter, lower case letter, number and symbol.

Art Deco · 09-02-2020, 08:02 PM

Update:

I pity the clerk at Walgreens who has to enter his prescription

Westheim · 09-03-2020, 09:49 AM

Bad jokes aside, I am pretty sure there's a special character there that's borked somehow. And I know in the past I had some problems with a Spanish character, the lower-case N with the wavy bit on top (and his actual given name is Inaki).

Nope, I have NO idea what the letter is actually called. Mi Espanol es no bueno.

CBeisbol · 09-03-2020, 10:26 AM

Ñ

If the game can't handle "ñ" that's a problem

BBGiovanni · 09-03-2020, 12:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Westheim

Bad jokes aside, I am pretty sure there's a special character there that's borked somehow. And I know in the past I had some problems with a Spanish character, the lower-case N with the wavy bit on top (and his actual given name is Inaki).

Nope, I have NO idea what the letter is actually called. Mi Espanol es no bueno.

It's pronounced "EN-yeh".

Like you and your umlauts should be complaining!

I'm guessing that's a glottal stop? A'taki? Maybe an African name, I don't think the Pacific Islander stops go between vowels and consonants.

A hui hou!

BBGiovanni · 09-03-2020, 12:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Art Deco

Update:

I pity the clerk at Walgreens who has to enter his prescription

He'll have a bright future as a NY Times crossword clue though! Una Merkel ain't got nothin' on good ol'A+-taki!

CBeisbol · 09-03-2020, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by BBGiovanni

He'll have a bright future as a NY Times crossword clue though! Una Merkel ain't got nothin' on good ol'A+-taki!

That's what I thought it was at first, as well

But it's worse

IA|?|A+-taki

BBGiovanni · 09-03-2020, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by CBeisbol

That's what I thought it was at first, as well

But it's worse

IA|?|A+-taki

Ah, I misread. Glottal stops ftw! Aloha, Ia'a'taki!

CBeisbol · 09-03-2020, 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Art Deco

You be the judge:

Snagged this guy in the late rounds of the 2024 amateur draft.

This should probably be reported in Bug Reports forum.

Curious where the player is from

Añaki is, apparently, Quechua word meaning "bacteria"

Iñaki is a Basque name

Pronkytonk · 09-04-2020, 04:21 PM

Shouldn't his last Name be Musk with a first Name like this?

rudel.dietrich · 09-04-2020, 04:29 PM

When your first name is a CAPTCHA

BBGiovanni · 09-05-2020, 11:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CBeisbol

This should probably be reported in Bug Reports forum.

Curious where the player is from

Añaki is, apparently, Quechua word meaning "bacteria"

Iñaki is a Basque name

I am so making a player named Añaki Iñaki in my next fictional league!

Art Deco · 09-25-2020, 01:41 PM

From my 2025 amateur draft:

"I'm not a number, I'm a person."

"No, you are a number."

Also amusing is that Miami changed its name to the Roughnecks the season before last, but their GCL team is still called the Marlins.

Bub13 · 09-26-2020, 08:09 AM

Front offices talk about "building the perfect baseball player," and now it looks like one escaped from the lab, is all.

BBGiovanni · 09-26-2020, 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Art Deco

Also amusing is that Miami changed its name to the Roughnecks the season before last, but their GCL team is still called the Marlins.

Seems entirely on-brand for Miami "major league" baseball!

tejdog1 · 09-30-2020, 03:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Art Deco

You be the judge:

Snagged this guy in the late rounds of the 2024 amateur draft.

Cryomaniac · 10-04-2020, 05:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Westheim

Bad jokes aside, I am pretty sure there's a special character there that's borked somehow. And I know in the past I had some problems with a Spanish character, the lower-case N with the wavy bit on top (and his actual given name is Inaki).

Nope, I have NO idea what the letter is actually called. Mi Espanol es no bueno.

The wavy bit is called a tilde. It exists as a separate character '~'.

In words it's pronounced broadly like the the "ni" in "onion".

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09-03-2020, 09:49 AM	#5
Westheim Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 13,240	Bad jokes aside, I am pretty sure there's a special character there that's borked somehow. And I know in the past I had some problems with a Spanish character, the lower-case N with the wavy bit on top (and his actual given name is Inaki). Nope, I have NO idea what the letter is actually called. Mi Espanol es no bueno. __________________ Portland Raccoons, 90 years of excell-.... of baseball: Furballs here! 1983 * 1989 * 1991 * 1992 * 1993 * 1995 * 1996 * 2010 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2026 * 2028 * 2035 * 2037 * 2044 * 2045 * 2046 * 2047 * 2048 * 2051 * 2054 * 2055 * 2061 1 OSANAI : 2 POWELL : 7 NOMURA \| RAMOS : 8 REECE : 10 BROWN : 15 HALL : 27 FERNANDEZ : 28 CASAS : 31 CARMONA : 32 WEST : 39 TONER : 46 SAITO Resident Mets Cynic - The Mets from 1962 onwards, here. Last edited by Westheim; 09-03-2020 at 09:51 AM.

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09-02-2020, 05:44 PM	#3
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 7,237	I made sure to tell my scouts: you can give me anyone you want to draft but his name must have at least one upper case letter, lower case letter, number and symbol.

09-02-2020, 08:02 PM	#4
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 7,237	Update: I pity the clerk at Walgreens who has to enter his prescription

09-03-2020, 10:26 AM	#6
CBeisbol Banned Join Date: Aug 2019 Location: Ban land in 3...2... Posts: 2,943	Ñ If the game can't handle "ñ" that's a problem

09-04-2020, 04:21 PM	#12
Pronkytonk Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Germany Posts: 168	Shouldn't his last Name be Musk with a first Name like this?

09-04-2020, 04:29 PM	#13
rudel.dietrich Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Zürich, Switzerland Posts: 8,608	When your first name is a CAPTCHA

09-25-2020, 01:41 PM	#15
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 7,237	From my 2025 amateur draft: "I'm not a number, I'm a person." "No, you are a number." Also amusing is that Miami changed its name to the Roughnecks the season before last, but their GCL team is still called the Marlins.