Why I'm really rooting for Steve Martin to get to the bigs

Why am I really, really, really hoping that RHP Steve Martin makes it to the major leagues in an Astros uniform one day?

Is it because of the name? All those "wild and crazy guy" jokes and arrows through the head? Well, maybe a little.

Is it because he was picked in the 37th round of the 2011 draft and I always root for the underdog? Yeah, kind of.

Is it because he had a fantastic July for the Greeneville Astros with a 1.38 ERA? And a very respectable .189 BA against? Doesn't hurt.

Is it because he went to Texas A&M? Any roots in Texas are definitely a plus.

But none of that is really, really the reason that I really, really want Steve Martin to go all the way. The real reason is that I want the Houston Astros to have the first player born in Swaziland playing for them. As far as I can tell, no one born in Swaziland has ever played in the MLB. According to Baseball Almanac, the closest country alphabetically is Switzerland and the closest country geographically appears to be Saudi Arabia (although there are 38 listed as unknown and one poor fellow who appears to have been born in the Atlantic Ocean).

Now I don't know the circumstances behind Steve Martin's birth in Mbabne, Swaziland. Heck, I don't even know how to pronounce Mbabne and I had to look on "the google" to see where Swaziland was. And it appears that he probably grew up in Brenham. But none of that matters. The fact remains that he was, indeed, born in Swaziland and that's enough for me.