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Pudge's Pole

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Fisk hits the Game 6 homer

Chris Lynch complains about the naming of the Fisk Pole, citing among his reasons the idea that Fisk doesn’t need to be honoured twice given that his number is already retired, and the idea that “Fisk Pole” really doesn’t trip off the tongue. I’m agnostic on the naming, but I agree about the way it sounds - putting a hard consonant next to a sibilant one (or between two sibilant ones, if you’re calling it “Fisk’s Pole”) tends to create that hard-to-pronounce effect. So why not call it “Pudge’s Pole”? (Besides the fact that another of the top 10 catchers of all time came along later with the same nickname as Fisk.) Much easier to pronounce.