Today I leared that my favorite baseball team, the New York Mets once played at Shay’s 84380 Radium.

Knowing the history of the Mets, I can assure you that they never played at a nuclear site, or anything like it. That failed translation was one of many I found when translating the mlbkorea.com page for The Mets from Korean to English for the 1-star Google Translate Fail assignment.

The team’s profile seemed sparse in Korean, but I was able to guess that the top information was the team name, the year founded (1962) and the number of World Series wins (2). The big blob of text was what I thought to be team history followed by the team’s nickname (Amazing Mets) and lastly the places where the team played, Citi Field (2009-present), Shea Stadium (1964-2009) and the Polo Grounds (1962-1964).

After translating it with the automatic translator built into Google Chrome, I discovered that my guesses were close, translation wise, although the Mets only played at the Polo Grounds from 1962-1963, and Citi Field and Shea Stadium are both misspelled, quite possibly due to them not being directly translatable.

I was curious about the missing paragraph and went back to the Korean page, and copy/pasted it into Google Translate. What I got was this:

Queens, New York, New York Mets (New York Mets), is a Major League Baseball team. The New York Yankees of the American League and National League Eastern District of New York franchise. 1962 Brooklyn Dodgers (Los Angeles Dodgers) and New York Giants (now San Francisco Giants) Footsteps – Move over, empty’ve replaced the National Football League’s New York team was founded. Called Subway Series New York Yankees in the World Series in 2000, it was stuck, assume. 1 wins, four losses, the Mets finished runner-up in the Earth’s Philadelphia Phillies and the rivalry is strong.

Which I think is supposed to say that

• The Mets are located in Queens, New York
• They play in the National League East while the New York Yankees play for the American League East.
• They were formed in 1962 after the Brooklyn Dodgers (now Los Angeles Dodgers) and the New York Giants (San Francisco Giants) left the city.
• They played the Yankees in the 2000 World Series which was dubbed the Subway Series and lost 4-1.
• Their rivals are the Philadelphia Phillies.

While I have seen worse translations, this one is rather bad. If I didn’t know Mets history, I doubt that I would have understood what the translated page was saying.