The Red Sox have a rookie with a lot of potential. The future is bright. His name is Jackie Bradley. Just Jackie Bradley. He is universally referred to as Jackie Bradley, Jr.
Speaking as one whose full name includes the suffix Jr, can I please beg the baseball media to stop calling him Bradley, Jr and just call him Bradley?
Ken Griffey, Jr was called Griffey, Jr because his father, Ken Griffey, Sr, was also a major league baseball player. Cal Ripken, Jr was called Ripken, Jr because his father, Cal Ripken, Sr, was a major league baseball coach.
As far as I know, that is not the case for Jackie Bradley. His father, Jackie Bradley, Sr, is not on the Red Sox roster. Neither is he part of the Red Sox broadcast, nor does he work at Fenway Park in such a way as to be called by name by the general fandom. Because of this, there is no reason to have to add the Jr to the end of Jackie Bradley’s name in order to differentiate him from his father.
If his dad isn’t part of the conversation, you can lose the god damned Jr. Call the guy by his name, not by his suffix.
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This brings up something that’s been bothering me: Why is Harry Connick, Jr. called Harry Connick, Jr.? Is his father, obvously Harry Connick, Sr., a musician that I’ve never heard of? Sometimes on American Idol, Ryan Seacrest will sarcastically call him “Mr. Junior” but I don’t think that has anything to do with anything! But it bothers me that he’s a Junior when I’ve never heard of his father!!!! Same thing as your post about Mr. Bradley, really.
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I don’t want anyone calling me Junior unless I’m standing next to my father. Even the reason he’s Bob and I’m Rob is so no one gets confused.
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