Apparently “Tiger” Wang’s appearance on the Yankee rotation has gotten a lot of publicity in Taiwan (see this Taiwanese Sox blogger’s entry, if you read Chinese). It’s pronounced “Wong”, which hasn’t stopped a million bad Wang jokes… so someday soon we’ll probably see this news story:
Wang Fed Up, Changes Name
“Someone finally explained why people made jokes about my name. I’m changing my name to a nice American one. Like Johnson.”