Whereas we’re dragging managers out of retirement, melting bridges, and basically lighting every part on fireplace, I would as nicely throw in recommendations for an industry-wide deletion of baseball phrases that have a tendency to tug us down as a species.
These embody however aren’t restricted to:
-“Ribbie“: It’s an RBI, it’s all the time been an RBI, and this isn’t an acronym you’ll be able to simply pronounce willy-nilly. There’s NASA after which there’s RBI and solely a kind of wants its letters all phonetically mashed collectively.
–Goose egg: It’s unhealthy sufficient to have a 0 in one thing with out bringing geese into it. It’s inelegant. It should die.
–Dinger: I shouldn’t have to clarify why it is a downside.
–“Not the outcome we have been hoping for”: After I first heard this in relation to a sports activities rating, I used to be impressed. It acknowledged the defeat with out sounding defeatist.
That was 5 years in the past. Now persons are utilizing it for every part from the homecoming recreation to nuclear accidents. It’s completed. We’re completed with it. If you would like a unique outcome, cease sucking.
-Oppo Taco: This doesn’t even make any sense. You may’t simply cram a baseball-adjunct phrase onto one other phrase that rhymes and make it a useful phrase of the sport. There may be zero daylight between “Oppo Taco” and “Baseline Canine.”
Lose it.
–Can of corn: I needed to lookup the place this silly expression for a pop fly originated and the main idea is that it got here from grocery retailer clerks utilizing sticks to push objects on a excessive shelf to drop in the direction of a ready buyer.
Initially, as a Twenty first-century petite girl, I demand to be seen. I’ve misplaced rely of the variety of cabinets I’ve needed to scale to seize the macaroni from the highest of the freezer. The place did the man with the stick go? Was it OSHA? I wager it was OSHA.
And secondly, corn from a can is disgusting and I don’t need lowdown phrases like that mixing with the likes of “bullpen,” “grand slam,” and “flutterball.”
Contact ’em all: See dinger
–“_____ is electrical”: Elly is electrical. Cease stealing Elly’s adjective. We don’t have a league filled with Ellys; there’s just one Elly and you’re simply going to have to search out your personal descriptors for everyone else.
Do the work.
Bump: It’s a mound, not a case of cystic zits or a pace hump. Respect the middle of the motion.
No-No: You’re solely saving one syllable by utilizing this as a substitute of “no hitter” and also you’re turning your self right into a babbling toddler within the meantime. Elevate, gents.
Grand Salami: A depraved and smelly perversion of one in all baseball’s most fun achievements. This treads upon the dignity of trolling the haters for the slammers and augmenting the furor and citywide embarrassment for the slam-ees. Such a feat deserves a far greater grade of lunch meat.
Throw Junk: It’s a miserable phrase for a miserable pitch.
And Whereas I’m at It:– Referring to at least one’s husband as “the hubs”
-Saying to any individual in any approach for any purpose “You bought this.”
You Can Keep:
-Bang-bang double play
-Geese on the pond
-Slam vary, which feels like a sophisticated statistical measurement however is known as a lifestyle in Cincinnati: “Not less than we stored them out of slam vary this inning.”
