Bucky Fox is an internet columnist. He wishes many of the Anaheim Angels – one of the most cosmopolitan teams in the league – would learn to speak English.

I’m tired of Angel players who don’t speak English. At least not with a mike in from of them.

This Kendry Morales ignoring our language for Spanish the way Vlad does is outrageous. This is an American team with American fans paying them American millions.

Learn to speak to us without a Jose Mota dictionary, for crying out loud.

Follow hockey’s lead. Guy Lafleur and Mario Lemieux were two French Canadians who entered the NHL knowing hardly any English. The Habs and Penguins made sure they learned it. Simple marketing. They knew their fan base spoke English, so get with the program, guys.

The Angels should do the same. So should every team in baseball, which has crashing attendance as it is.

Fans want players they can relate to. It sure would help if they could understand them.

Bucky’s request – which will gain no traction, but might get him punched out/laughed at in the locker room if he voices his opinion to the players – comes on the heels of last year’s news that the LPGA was going to make some of its foreign golfers learn English. Of course, the LPGA claimed it was necessary so that the elite players could easily mingle with much-coveted sponsors (and fans and the media, too).

Sorry, Bucky, but the big-market teams in baseball aren’t going to exert the same pressure on its players. Don’t need to. Might it make sense for the players to speak some English from a marketing/endorsement angle? Sure. Except that for whatever reason, baseball players make considerably less from endorsements than basketball players, football players and golfers. So is it really even worth it?

Easy solution: Why not take up Spanish, Bucky?

If you’d like to contact Bucky directly with your thoughts, his website is pretty helpful.