If he was a real pitcher he’d have changed the H to a K

Silent letters fear him

The mind of a professional baseball player truly is a wonder

Edit: shockingly not a HS draftee, but he went community college > for-profit university, so not too far off

Waiting for the Jomboy post

LETTER

REMOVED

Pitchers really are the drummers of a baseball team. 

huh so someone can decide they want a different name and people can respect that?

cool cool cool, hopefully everyone remembers this and applies it everyone

Thanks for asking, Zac(h)! Zachary is the English version of the Biblical Hebrew name Zechariah. The ch sound in that name is the letter chaf, a uvular fricative (like “Bach,” not like “much”). So that’s what the extra h is doing in there.

This is a Mets story if I’ve ever seen one.

i will continue calling him Zatch

Should have taken the T in his last name. Zatch Hornton sounds like a Fighting Baseball for SNES name.

Fuck it. Why no? Giancarlo started using a whole different name and we all accepted it eventually.

Zacary

He’s a visionary

Is his full name Zachary? I tried checking the article but that website is trash. 

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Dropped the H picked up the W

My brother briefly spelled his name Xaq

As a Mets fan and a “Zach” this feels too targeted…

Professional athletes really are something…

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It comes from Zachary you moron

Imagine all the hours saved in his life not having to write that last letter.

Hokay

I demand he drop every letter from his name that doesn’t have a clear, defined function.

I wont stand for this ridiculous H erasure. Zac has no honor, probably isnt honest, and is trying to cause chaos. Zac doesnt deserve to be the heir to a great name which rhymes with stuff. I’m exhausted now, but Zac’s essentially a ghost to me. I’m getting in my vehicle and leaving.

• HUNTER HURST HELMSLEY

Do you mind if I still call
You Zach though

It’s pronounced “Zatch”

I will not stand for this

Latin players: “A scout got my name wrong when I was 13 and I’ve been too afraid to correct it; we have different naming conventions in my country”.

ZT: “why extra letter when few letter do trick?”

👍

“Zac, it’s short for Zach” is one of the funnier ways to give yourself a nickname.

Sounds like something a southpaw would say

sounds like something from the onion 

This post was made for me, you know how many seconds I’ve save cumulatively through my life by just not writing the extra unnecessary letter? Zach & Zack’s fear me for I have mastered time

Zaq

Honestly thought this was an onion article.

Cool W-hip… Zac-h

Oh Zach

If you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything

What the H?

mets won the ike davis trade

Like how Zach Britton became Zack Britton

Drop the h. Just Zac. It’s cleaner

And the 3 people who needed to know this can finally sleep tonight.

They didnt need to list his position, I’d have known this guy was a pitcher just from the quote.

Earth shattering news

Zac with no H cuz H’s are EW!

His new name should be, “The pitcher formerly known as Zach.”

See I’ve been saying this about Jon vs. John for decades. RISE UP, JONS!

If I had a nickel for every time a left handed pitcher for a New York team named Zach changed the spelling of their name in the middle of their professional career, I would have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice. (Zack Britton was the other one)

Matthew checking in here, I’ve never understood my second ‘T.’

This is some proper offseason shit

Reminds me of that time CC Sabathia changed his name from C.C.

Someone wrote an article about that?

“Say your name with the ‘K’..” “Nick!” “Now say it without the ‘K’..” “Nic!”

You do you, fam.

You can just do that?

I have a silent H in my first and last name and by god I know it’s tougH but I’m keeping them!

OK, Zack.

Does he like fried cicken though?

Zac? OK, bud. Not weird at all.

My middle name is Zac and I always loved being unique and knew that I was better than those with names like Zach or Zack…losers

Change it to Sack in honor of wedding crashers

Is his full name Zachary or Zachariah by chance?

i still think the funniest name change story is the NFL player robbie anderson. he legally changed his name to chosen anderson, then realized he can’t have his first name on the back of his jersey, so he played a year as chosen anderson, then the next season legally changed his name again to robbie chosen lol

How about another c? Zacc

Should’ve thrown the curveball and went with Zaq

AMEN BROTHER

Lmaoooo goober

If he starts pitching like this year’s Zac Gallen, he might want to put the h back.

“H’s suck.” - Jon, probably.

Fighting is in his blood, I mean, his goo

I would have changed it to Zacc

Uhhhh, good for him then!

Hard hitting journalism

Real shit. The only other acceptable way to spell it is Zack

his H got VAC’d

Zac Thornton if he was the one who found the English language:

“I don now wy silen letters ar everywer”

Why use lot letter when few do trick

hmm.. never thought of dropping the silent letter in my name. he has a point

This decision seems literally unremarkable

It’s pretty typical of Reddit to claim someone doing a thing based on personal preference must make them stupid.

If he’s always preferred Zac, who gives a shit? That’s not a sign of intelligence or lack of, just because he’s an athlete. There are tons of people who have changed the spelling of their name for whatever reason, and why they choose to do so is their business.

I’ll always support someone asserting their preferred name

Well, that’s probably because you focused on Baseball instead of english… or any other class for that matter I’m sure. 

Did he ever ask his parents?

Your parents named you Zach you disrespectful jerk!

Aren’t both just short for Zachery? Go by what you want kid, don’t need an announcement.

Just another bit of proof Baseball pitchers are meatheads

Professional athletes’ brains are something else. It’s not like I expect them to study etymology, but some baseline intellectual curiosity should not be a big ask.

The spelling Zachary derives from the Hebrew name Zechariah, where ‘ch’ represents the ‘khaf’ sound.

Wonder if he knows he has a Jewish name?