Washington Nationals: Top 5 Dusty Baker Quotes For April 2017
By Ricky Keeler
Opening Day – Adam Lind’s New Name
Dusty called Adam Lind Jeremy Lin in his postgame presser. Lindsanity.
— Jorge Castillo (@jorgecastillo) April 3, 2017
Normally, you have one chance to make a good first impression. But, it’s not uncommon for Baker to mix up someone’s name. If you go back to last year, Baker even messed up Bryce Harper’s name when he called him Royce Harper.
However, if you go back to that time, it was just a mistake and Baker even talked about it with 106.7 The Fan before the 2016 season and what nickname Harper calls him.
"I know the guy’s name. I don’t know why I called him ‘Royce.’ Most of us have nicknames, plus I call some of them ‘Junior,’ I call some of them ‘Dude.’ They know who I’m talking to. And so Bryce, he called me ‘Rusty.”"
If you live in New York like I do, there’s only one Linsantiy. But, Lind’s pinch-hit home run in the bottom of the seventh gave the Nats a lead on Opening Day that they never looked back on.
With the raucous atmosphere at Nats Park that day, it would be quite easy to forget someone’s name. Despite mixing up his name, Lind has been great for the Nats as a pinch-hitter and a backup first baseman. He is hitting .345 with two home runs and nine RBI’s in 18 games wearing a curly W uniform.
It’s tough to get mad at Baker for mixing up names. Lind may not have the hype that Linsanity did when Lin was playing basketball in New York, but he has proven that Mike Rizzo made a good choice with that signing.