'Wang' or 'Wong' let's call the whole thing off
Even the most casual Yankee fan will know that the last name of the Yankees injured ace Chien-Ming Wang rhymes with "wrong."
Then why do some of his teammates like Jason Giambi and Mike Mussina pronounce it as it rhymes with "hang"? This is particularly strange with Mussina since he's widely considered one of the smartest players in the game, graduating from Stanford in 3 1/2 years and obsessively doing crossword puzzles etc.
Well, the answer is in John Feinstein's great new book, "Living on the Black," which chronicles the 2007 seasons of Mussina and Tom Glavine. Mussina said he says pronounces the name incorrectly on purpose just to see if people "correct him."
"I know how to say his name," Mussina said.
— Pete Catapano
