#also the (public-facing) database interface does not use IPA but that makes sense i guess...the public doesn't know IPA

[coquelicoq]

I stumbled across this Reddit post today shortly after seeing your post. Apparently the MLB website has pronunciation guides for all the names, with audio clips of the baseball players themselves saying it. College basketball (which is what I think you're watching?) probably doesn't, but maybe all the professional sports do?

@gillianthecat FASCINATING. RELEVANT. MY HERO.

every year i wonder how the commentators keep track of how to pronounce everybody's names. there's hundreds of them. do they all know IPA or some other phonetic notation system? do they memorize them, even though some of them they can't have heard many times before the tournament? and how do they find out the pronunciation in the first place? do they have boots on the ground asking the players to record themselves saying their own names and then upload it to a database? important questions.