Grotewold wrote:

Wolfgang622 wrote:Also, does it ever strike anyone else as profoundly odd that there have been THREE players named Vukovich/Vuckovich in MLB history, that none of them were related, that all three had overlapping careers in time, and that two of them played for the Phillies? Has anyone ever met a Vukovich in actual, real life? Approximately 1 in every 227,273 people in America today have that last name. There have been just 19,680 MLB players TOTAL, in 150 years of the enterprise.

Someone who is good at odds come up with the expected odds that out of 19,680 people spread across 150 years, that three of them would be named Vukovich/Vuckovich, without any relation among them, and with them all playing in the same window of time (1970-1986). It boggles my mind.

you scare me a little

CalvinBall wrote:

gr wrote:Can someone recap whether this is important or not

Nah. Life is about family, friends, and purpose. Enjoy man.

Wolfgang622 wrote:Well, I had intended to work today, but I found this on YouTube and now there goes most of my day. One of SIX:



Minor complaint: some of these aren't really all that obscure. But some are. Only one way to find out!

Grotewold wrote:

Wolfgang622 wrote:Also, does it ever strike anyone else as profoundly odd that there have been THREE players named Vukovich/Vuckovich in MLB history, that none of them were related, that all three had overlapping careers in time, and that two of them played for the Phillies? Has anyone ever met a Vukovich in actual, real life? Approximately 1 in every 227,273 people in America today have that last name. There have been just 19,680 MLB players TOTAL, in 150 years of the enterprise.

Someone who is good at odds come up with the expected odds that out of 19,680 people spread across 150 years, that three of them would be named Vukovich/Vuckovich, without any relation among them, and with them all playing in the same window of time (1970-1986). It boggles my mind.

you scare me a little

mtcal wrote:there's no way franco had trade value for anything more than a middling rp or longshot prospect right?
oh wait, we could use those.

MoBettle wrote:Agreed to a deal with Knapp.

Bill McNeal wrote:And if you trade them a year or two ago, who is playing 2b and/or 3b? An FA making more money? Part of their value to the phillies was that they were providing the production they were at the salary they were making. I guess you could make the argument that you could have traded ceaser and played kingery at 2nd full time, but Kingery was a pretty big question mark coming into this season and for a team with post season aspirations, going with the more proven commodity in Caesar seems completely defensible.

Wolfgang622 wrote:

Grotewold wrote:

Wolfgang622 wrote:Also, does it ever strike anyone else as profoundly odd that there have been THREE players named Vukovich/Vuckovich in MLB history, that none of them were related, that all three had overlapping careers in time, and that two of them played for the Phillies? Has anyone ever met a Vukovich in actual, real life? Approximately 1 in every 227,273 people in America today have that last name. There have been just 19,680 MLB players TOTAL, in 150 years of the enterprise.

Someone who is good at odds come up with the expected odds that out of 19,680 people spread across 150 years, that three of them would be named Vukovich/Vuckovich, without any relation among them, and with them all playing in the same window of time (1970-1986). It boggles my mind.

you scare me a little

Just a little? I'm disappointed.

I suppose that I AM weird makes it that much more likely that I would find THIS weird.

The AI thing and the Marlon thing are pretty strange too, Gimpy and Bucky.

SwingOnThis wrote:
I would bet that modern day familial DNA testing would reveal that all three Vuke families were related. Anyone willing to follow around their family members and collect discarded coffee cups and cigarette butts?

CalvinBall wrote:We are almost certainly getting Didi

CalvinBall wrote:We are almost certainly getting Didi