Listening in on a pitcher-catcher in game conversation

PITCHER KYLE DAVIES: Jesus these uniforms suck.

CATCHER MATT TREANOR: Just stop thinking about it. If we can win this game than we can give our fans the illusion that this is going to be a great year in Kansas City.

PITCHER KYLE DAVIES: Seriously… these are powder blue. We’re the damn Royals. They couldn’t find Royal Blue?

CATCHER MATT TREANOR: What are you, Tim Gunn? Just try not to make it too lopsided. We can’t rely on that Hawaiian kid every night.

PITCHER KYLE DAVIES: What his name?

CATCHER MATT TREANOR: Kila Ka’aihue.

PITCHER KYLE DAVIES: How do you pronounce that?

CATCHER MATT TREANOR: Kila Ka’aihue.

PITCHER KYLE DAVIES: So the apostrophe is silent?

CATCHER MATT TREANOR: Yup.

PITCHER: KYLE DAVIES: OK, let’s play ball.

Kila Ka’aihue is pronounced Kila Ka’aihue

The Royals won their first game of the season with a walk off shot by Kila Ka’aihue… which is easier to write than say.

Truth be told, I cut and pasted it, so if I spelled it wrong, blame Yahoo Sports.

But I had no idea how to pronounce it, so I went to Wikipedia.
This is what they had for the pronunciation:

That’s not helping me.
What’s the point of a pronunciation guide if you need to get ANOTHER guide to figure out the first guide?

I still don’t know. Maybe he’ll play long enough to figure it out. If I could figure out how to pronounce Mientkiewicz then how hard can Kila Ka’aihue be?

(Truth be told, I cut and pasted Mientkiewicz as well.)

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