Talk:Jason Varitek

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To-do list for Jason Varitek:	edit · history · watch · refresh
Things to do: Extend MLB career section finish 2002-2003 section 2004 and world series FA, the captain, 2005, 2006 mention switching numbers correct or remove LLWS nickname line up pics in awards section better

Contents 1 Good Article nomination has failed 2 Mariners 3 Nickname 4 Team Captains 5 Cape League 6 'Tek vs. V-Tek

[edit] Good Article nomination has failed

The Good article nomination for Jason Varitek has failed, for the following reason:

The lead section needs to summarise the article's content - it's too brief at the moment. Section headings take sentence capitalisation (see WP:MOS). 'Trivia' sections are bad: if a fact is trivial, suck it, omit it, but if it's significant, it shouldn't be isolated in a trivia section. And a lengthy list of awards is not really encyclopaedic - you should mention the most notable in the text but no need to list them all. Worldtraveller 17:43, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mariners

He was indeed in the M's farm system, but according to his stats on MLB.com, he never played a game in the majors as a Mariner.

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/stats/historical/player_locator_results.jsp?c_id=mlb&playerLocator=varitek —The preceding unsigned comment was added by IceDrake523 (talk • contribs) IceDrake523 21:43, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

According to three other sites ([1], [2], and [3]), Varitek has never played with Seattle. Nick81aku 00:57, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nickname

I'm not sure if 'Quadzilla' can really be considered a nickname for Varitek; while it was made up during a prominent episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, it doesn't seem to have caught on. A Google search of 'quadzilla varitek' only has about 100 hits, with most being commentary about or references to the Queer Eye episode. Unless someone else objects, I think it should probably be deleted, or maybe moved to a later part of the article as a passing reference, not in the opening section. Vter4life 00:40, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Team Captains

Derek Lowe was not named captain of the LA Dodgers -- that was a prank by his teammates. http://www.uniwatchblog.com/?cat=75 72.192.22.209 05:32, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cape League

Cape Cod League is not Professional Ball... it is NCAA sanctioned Summer League and admission to all games is free with a donation asked. That info should be moved to the HS and College section 75.67.45.110 04:51, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 'Tek vs. V-Tek

I don't think "V-Tek" is a popular or well-known nickname of Jason Varitek, surely not as popular and well-known as "'Tek."

Doing a Google search of "'tek varitek" will produce 52,000+ results, compared to the 2,000+ results for "v-tek varitek.

--5T3RL1N9 15:28, 29 October 2007 (UTC)