It is fitting to steal this concept from a man named "Sinker," no?
― Andy K, Saturday, 23 June 2007 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link
"dish"
"base knock"
― Andy K, Saturday, 23 June 2007 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link
"walk off"
― Andy K, Saturday, 23 June 2007 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link
"Outing" applies on this thread, too.
― Andy K, Saturday, 23 June 2007 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link
"northpaw"
― Dimension 5ive, Saturday, 23 June 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link
j/k, really I meant "savvy"
― Dimension 5ive, Saturday, 23 June 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link
"little things," of course
― mattbot, Saturday, 23 June 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh man, Astros pbp guy Brett Dolan uses "pillow" instead of "base" sometimes and I shudder every time.
― boldbury, Saturday, 23 June 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link
"slow cheese" "ribbies" "dingers"
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 23 June 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes, anything involving cheese.
"Electric stuff" (however it could be said that St. Louis Cardinal Mike Maroth has "acoustic stuff)
― Andy K, Saturday, 23 June 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm guessing minor league announcers would be a gold mine of stuff, you'd hear "Great googlely moogely, he smashed that ball" or something.
Other good ones I've heard:
On a 3-2 pitch: "Well, enough of this shilly shally, time for the payoff"
During shots of anxious managers: "He's pacing like an expectant father"
"He tomahawked that ball"
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 23 June 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
"filthy"
― jergïns, Saturday, 23 June 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link
"he put some mustard on that"
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 23 June 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link
BANJO PITCHER
― David R., Saturday, 23 June 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link
He was throwing some slow cheese while playing pepper, so the batter really put some mustard on it when he hit it.
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 23 June 2007 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link
...aaaand, he puts the squeeze on it for the out.
― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 24 June 2007 03:37 (seventeen years ago) link
"he got all of THAT one"
― Dimension 5ive, Sunday, 24 June 2007 04:10 (seventeen years ago) link
"tim mccarver in just a moment"
― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 June 2007 04:54 (seventeen years ago) link
"caught it RIGHT in the breadbasket!"
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 24 June 2007 06:26 (seventeen years ago) link
WINNER!
90% of all home run euphemisms
"he can (fill in the blank) with one swing of the bat"
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 24 June 2007 10:10 (seventeen years ago) link
"Scuffling" "Right in his wheelhouse"
― craven, Monday, 25 June 2007 01:44 (seventeen years ago) link
"An A-Bomb for A-Rod!"
but really, d5 otm with northpaw (I swear I just heard that for the first time the other day)
― G00blar, Monday, 25 June 2007 03:06 (seventeen years ago) link
"crooked numbers"
― Andy K, Monday, 25 June 2007 03:42 (seventeen years ago) link
"picket fence"
― boldbury, Monday, 25 June 2007 04:17 (seventeen years ago) link
"a-rod"/"k-rod"/"f-rod"/etc
― mookieproof, Monday, 25 June 2007 04:21 (seventeen years ago) link
i presume you mean not just the rod family, but any consonant hyphen first syllable of last name combo?
(i.e. j-roll, b-rob)
― j.q higgins, Monday, 25 June 2007 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link
The recent ESPN proliferation of "on the bump" (for on the mound) is VERY annoying.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
SPEAKING OF ESPN: "Fill thine horn with oil and go."
― Andy K, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
The hell is that?
& I'll admit, I haven't had the pleasure of hearing "northpaw" used yet.
― David R., Monday, 25 June 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah, me neither. slow cheese is a new one to me, too.
― j.q higgins, Monday, 25 June 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Steve Berthiaume, possibly a reader of the Bible. The other night, he said it three times within the span of one segment. It's what he often says when someone hits a home run.
― Andy K, Monday, 25 June 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
"He wasn't/isn't a world beater..."
― Andy K, Monday, 25 June 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link
"Fastball right down Broadway"
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link
"SCATTERED (x) hits through (x) innings"
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 02:23 (seventeen years ago) link
"NO-NO," so fuckin' stupid
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
I still hate "slurve"
and honestly "stray-rod" wasn't THAT funny media, get over it
― Will M., Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link
i like "no-no". always brings doc ellis to mind.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Referring to a player as a "piece."
― Andy K, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Referring to a slider as a "slide-piece."
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Referring to a player as a "piece."-- Andy K, Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:36 AM (34 minutes ago)
-- Andy K, Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:36 AM (34 minutes ago)
I do this quite a bit. Usually followed by "...of shit" (eg, Neifi, Armando, etc.)
― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link
"IT IS WHAT IT IS"
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link
We could just cut & paste a Yankee radio broadcast, & it would be chock-full of SHUT THE FUCK UP sort of things.
― David R., Tuesday, 26 June 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
<i>"SCATTERED (x) hits through (x) innings"</i>
This phrase approaches funny as the number of innings decreases, though. E.g.: "Weaver scattered seven hits over one-third of an inning in an 8-3 loss to the Royals."
― mattbot, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link
That's when "clustered" becomes useful, though no one -- that I know of -- has thought to use it.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link
"frozen rope"
― earlnash, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link
maybe it's just hockey but i am tired of hearing "highly coveted" re: draft picks and/or players.
also i hate (and this one must be baseball specific): Halfties. Which may be made up (I found it when doing an urbandictionary search for frozen rope)
― Will M., Wednesday, 27 June 2007 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link
"can o' corn"
― boldbury, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link
"ball one as he balloons the fastball upstairs"
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 02:20 (seventeen years ago) link
calling bases "sacks", ie, "ground ball to the second sacker"
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 7 July 2007 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link
hanging offspeed pitch = "that was like a rising soap bubble"
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 21 July 2007 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link
El Duque's 50-60 MPH curve/offspeeder = "the bugs bunny curve" or "the dipsy doodle"
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 19 August 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
batter coming up with the bases loaded = "he's coming to the plate with the ducks on the pond"
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 8 September 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_baseball_jargon
― mattbot, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_baseball_jargon_%28P%29#pick_me_up
pick me up Often said by a hitter who has just made an out, to the next hitter, usually with ducks on the pond. In effect the player is saying, "Please succeed where I have failed (so I don't get blamed for failing to knock in the runner)."
Often said by a hitter who has just made an out, to the next hitter, usually with ducks on the pond. In effect the player is saying, "Please succeed where I have failed (so I don't get blamed for failing to knock in the runner)."
― mattbot, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link
There's a sudden dull pain in the back of my head.
― Andy K, Friday, 14 September 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link
hard hit single: "that ball had some serious english on it"
― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
barely related Uecker quote: "The bases are loaded, like I wish I was"
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
hmmm, "english" would mean to me that it had a serious curve to it. like in pool when you strike the cue on one side of the vertical axis to give it some spin?
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
actually the ball in question did have some spin on it.
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 25 April 2008 03:30 (sixteen years ago) link
There are some Two-way words, like it’s okay for Curt Gowdy to say ‘Roberto Clemente has two balls on him.’ But he can’t say, ‘I think he hurt his balls on that play Tony, don’t you? He’s holding them. He must have hurt them by God.’
RIP
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 23 June 2008 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
TILT
― Andy K, Saturday, 11 April 2009 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Scouting lingo : "(type of pitch) sits at (speed of pitch)"
― Andy K, Saturday, 11 April 2009 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
"Speed guy" (why not "base stealer"?), often heard on Baseball Tonight and on MLB Network.
Not sure how that caught on.
― Andy K, Thursday, 9 September 2010 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
first-to-third speed often > base stealing
anything but "difference-maker"
Pretty sure I heard aaron Boone use both "points on the board" and "both sides of the ball" last night. Wrong sport, dipshit.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 September 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
"professional hitter" (aka "marginal veteran")
― Andy K, Friday, 10 September 2010 12:28 (fourteen years ago) link
GAHHHH
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 September 2010 12:39 (fourteen years ago) link
"unanswered runs" and its variations always bugs me.
― bnw, Friday, 10 September 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
― Andy K, Sunday, June 24, 2007 10:42 PM (4 years ago)
ugh ugh ugh, hate this one -- esp when it comes out of Chip Caray's mouth.
― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
"toe the slab"
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 01:13 (thirteen years ago) link
gary thorne just referred to a 'great piece of hit-and-run' after his color guy (bordick?) used 'great piece of hitting' twice in an inning
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
"oppo"
― shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat (zachlyon), Thursday, 16 May 2013 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
on the occasion of e5 losing a bat into the crowd:
"that helicoptered right into that guys dome"
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
Campaign
― Andy K, Saturday, 25 May 2013 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
"And it's a three-RBI homer."
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 25 May 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
Calling base hits "safeties." Shut up, Chip Caray, every rain delay is your grandfather pissing down on your head.
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Sunday, 11 August 2013 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
ron darling "totally different facing roark whos a paint masterson"
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 1 August 2015 01:05 (nine years ago) link
can't believe you're questioning a yale product like that
just be happy you weren't told about the time he started against frank viola and the johnnies
― mookieproof, Saturday, 1 August 2015 01:19 (nine years ago) link
calling players on rosters 'pieces'
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 23:13 (eight years ago) link
"cheese at the knees"
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 22 May 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link
"nibble"
― Andy K, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 02:25 (eight years ago) link
― mookieproof, Wednesday, November 11, 2015 6:13 PM (two years ago)
also 'arms' and 'bats' for pitchers/ hitters
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 July 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
Can we at least sort out the pitchers from the catchers
― F# A# (∞), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
The Philly Inquirer's 1921 use of "moist deliverymen" to describe spitball pitchers just sent a shudder through my entire body pic.twitter.com/uW63UYW62v— Emma Baccellieri (@emmabaccellieri) March 12, 2019
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:39 AM (eleven years ago)
otm
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
Montas not missing many bats early on.— Martín Gallegos (@MartinJGallegos) May 22, 2019
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
"elite"
(already complained about that one on the phrases-that-annoy thread)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
"I'm Ted Fucking Williams--I'm a fucking elite hitter."
It just doesn't work.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
elite as an adjective? as a noun it's unavoidable and p useful in my profession (vidya games. it's what you call specialized badguys who aren't bosses but aren't nobodys)
― deus ex majima (Will M.), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
As an adjective, meaning great, or one of the best. It just somehow seems pretentious to me.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 18:47 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/UOdfGUg.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 22:38 (five years ago) link
stop saying 'moved' instead of 'traded'
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
We've had three "professional hitters" in the last three minutes.— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) October 2, 2019
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 00:53 (five years ago) link
Matt Stairs tribute
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 00:55 (five years ago) link
Is the subtext that the remaining hitters are amateur hour bush leagers?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 00:58 (five years ago) link
actually i think the subtext is that they’re not very good at anything else
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 01:06 (five years ago) link
'part ways'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 January 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
I keep seeing 'cosine' used to mean 'I also agree with this', but it has to be 'cosign', no?
― Nudeln und Klopapier Gore (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:40 (four years ago) link
I assume it's a joke?
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
^ cosine
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
it's for when you only agree tangentially
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
discus
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 3 April 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
the existence of 'live batting practice' and 'live hitters' implies . . .
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
"frozen pizza" = referring to motionless batters who are called out on strikes
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 01:16 (two years ago) link
Pretty sure I heard aaron Boone use (. . .) "both sides of the ball" last night. Wrong sport, dipshit.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, September 9, 2010 11:14 AM (thirteen years ago)
this battle is being lost but utterly otm
― mookieproof, Monday, 23 October 2023 04:58 (one year ago) link