Yesterday, local time 17:33, weighing 3.74 kg, 53.34 centimeters in length. Boy has been named Qike - Edwards - Battier。
Zeke's name doesn't translate well in Chinese. Scroll to the bottom of the chron blog link. http://blogs.chron.com/stevecampbell/ .
Zeke's an odd name but it's their decision. Personally I'd have gone for Tributaries, Tributaries Battier. Now THAT right there is a natural-born MLB catcher/jazz pianist/Harlem Globetrotter. And of course you guys know why that name came to mind:
I was thinking how Qike would be pronounced... thought maybe it's like Kike... but that would be weird.
I have a friend whose sole passion in life it seems is to make racist jokes, and we all let it slide because...well, he's just sort of off to begin with, and he's harmless anyhow. I'm sure many of you guys can relate, among your friends there's always that one guy...anyways, back to the story, one of my friends got a Wii a while back and we had more fun making new Mii's than actually playing their games. So we go away and come back and this friend of ours is making Larry David from Curb Your Enthusiasm (not too hard actually, just choose the bald hair with glasses and a big nose haha) and then proceeds to name him "Kike". We all make him change it but he always comes back and re-enters it because he's like that. Mind you this is the same guy that basically played Grand Theft Auto for two years straight doing nothing in the story at all, just using a pre-made save file and going on killing sprees. Two years. So one of my other friends who went to school up in Columbia (I was at Tufts for a year, so I can relate) and of course was familiar with all the PC pressure up there comes down and is scrolling through our Mii's. He sees Larry and then says "Who's Kee-kay? .... Oh my god..." and I swear it was the funniest thing ever, all of us were dying. End of story.
Zeke? No Shane, you should have gone with Joe Battier. Vinny Battier. Bill Battier. Even Dennis Battier.
