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Posted By: Mark Steinberg

Sometimes the phonetic pronunciation can also apply to a player's status. Such was the case with Tom Niedenfuer, who gave up lots of big home runs.

A day after serving up back-to-back walk-off homers to Jack Clark and Ozzie Smith, a radio talk show caller asked how to properly pronounce his name.

The disgruntled Dodger commentator spontaneously answered "Need-in-fewer... as in, we need him in fewer games". I always thought that was a funny reply.