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[QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 4971052, member: 181"]
Based on [USER=5228]@JonnyRI[/USER] 's follow-up, "In 2011, I got my then-new wife hooked on UConn basketball" would eliminate the ambiguities and preserve the metaphor of getting somebody hooked on something.

Labeling oneself a "grammar Nazi" is a capitulation to a type of aggressive anti-intellectualism that seeks to harshly degrade people who value accurate expression and recognize that proper ordering of well-chosen words makes things easier for all parties, so long as the punctuation is supportive. I'm confident that you meant it as a gentler entry to correcting someone, but I think that in doing so with that term you're doing too much heavy-lifting for the folks who are not so considerate.

At that point, you really only have to be concerned with the tedious few who use 3 densely-worded paragraphs to express simple thoughts that would better serve a wider audience if they were conveyed in shorter sentences, and fewer of them.

I can't help on that score.
At least not here.
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First name of men's bb coach