A few days ago, ESPN accidentally aired a chyron that called Giants pitcher Derek Holland “Derek Lastname.” Clearly not his name, and kind of embarrassing for the worldwide leader while airing a game. But it happens! And we all had a nice laugh.
Is that his real last name pic.twitter.com/Ux7cIML3w2
— 12up (@12upSport) June 5, 2018
Great times. Making fun of chyron mistakes is one of the main tenets of the sports internet and it had been a while since the last good one.
Amazingly, Holland is taking it one step further and wants to commit to the name mistake. At least for one weekend.
Derek Holland is trying to change his name on his uniform for nickname weekend to LASTNAME and that is the coolest thing I heard today.
— Henry Schulman (@hankschulman) June 7, 2018
Players Weekend allows players around the league to put whatever nickname they want on the back of their jersey, as long as the league approves it. While I can’t think of why the league would deny Holland this very good joke, but this is MLB we’re talking about here. Sometimes they hate fun.
This is the exact way to embrace someone’s mistake about your name. If MLB takes this from us it would be entirely unfair. Derek Lastname must ride again.