![]() ![]() That Mookie Betts’ stats, through his 20s, strikingly resemble Ken Griffey Jr.’s stats through his 20s, somehow seems secondary in the Mookie Betts experience. If “Riggins” once held the championship belt for sports-figure-inspired dog names, fictional or otherwise, Mookie firmly holds it now.). Which is all to say: Mookie is a wonderful name for a dog, an especially wonderful name for a dog whose most-famous baseball namesake himself plays with the most puppy-like abandon and backyard, Little League joy (my Little League coach from 20 years ago, who voluntarily spent his free time encouraging 12-year-olds to swing away and dive in the outfield grass, has a golden doodle named Mookie who often wears a Mookie Betts jersey-just to hammer home this point. Which, phonetically, in a vacuum without any baseball context, is a wonderful name for a dog: an inherently fun name to say out loud, two varying syllables ending with the uplifting EE sound, a word that requires your mouth to shift from more closed, pursed lips to the much more open, wider beginnings of a grin, a name that essentially requires you to begin smiling as you finish saying it-no matter how upset you are that your golden retriever puppy gifted your new rug a pile of Splatamir Putin. ![]() Among the most common names I’d see in Los Angeles shelters, after I moved cross country: Mookie. Among the most common names I’d see in Massachusetts shelters: Mookie. LIKE MOST THIRTY-SOMETHINGS WORKING AT HOME, ALONE, DURING THE PANDEMIC, I frequently found myself scanning dog adoption websites. ![]()
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