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Giants' Pablo Sandoval has hilarious nickname for Mike Yastrzemski

Mike Yastrzemski has one of the most famous last names in baseball, but that doesn't make it easy to spell or say.

The Giants outfielder is the grandson of Boston Red Sox legend and Baseball Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski, so his last name has been said and written a lot over the last half-century. Giants relief pitcher infielder Pablo Sandoval wasn't the first (and won't be the last) person to struggle pronouncing Yastrzemski, but the man with one of baseball's best nicknames ("Kung Fu Panda") turned his troubles into another great moniker: "Glass of Whiskey."

"[It] actually came up because he was fumbling his words trying to say my last name, and he kind of stumbled upon 'glass of whiskey,' " Yastrzemski recalled in a "Wine Wednesday" interview with Amy Gutierrez on Instagram Live.