OT: Sports terms you can't stand/are tired of.

[UCLJ0211]

“He’s coming off the bench to give (insert player’s name) a blow.” ‘Nuff said...

 

[Sphinx]

"Aggression" for "aggressiveness." Aggression is what Russia is doing in Ukraine.

 

[Sphinx]

"Academics" as used by scholarship athletes when comparing to "Athletics." Academics = the accumulated wisdom of 5000 years of human civilization. Athletics = playing with a ball. The two should never be compared as equivalents.

 

[ctchamps]

"Academics" as used by scholarship athletes when comparing to "Athletics." Academics = the accumulated wisdom of 5000 years of human civilization. Athletics = playing with a ball. The two should never be compared as equivalents.

Given the state of the world there is no equivalency. Athletics > Academics

Given the state of the Boneyard Athletics >>> Academics

 

[Jaker]

Anything Dickie V says

 

[Huskygamble19]

This is strictly from Dave O'Brien. There is a pop up to right field.

 

[8893]

“Off the schneid“

 

[FatHank]

1. Hero ball.
2. Most anything Bill Walton says when he flaps his gums.

 

[RichZ]

In almost every singe MCBB game, an announcer will inform us that we have "an experienced officiating crew" working the game. EVERY GAME. Hell, that just means that they're in a job that you have to like kill someone in a drunken rage or be convicted of rigging games to get fired from. Longevity has nothing to do with competence in their world. Or in most other jobs, either, as per the Peter Principal.

 

[methodology]

1. Hero ball.
2. Most anything Bill Walton says when he flaps his gums.

You can't speak by flapping your gums. The tongue is the workhorse

And Bill Walton is a God. It's should be a law every American citizen should have to listen to one game announced by Bill Walton yearly.

 

[FatHank]

You can't speak by flapping your gums. The tongue is the workhorse

And Bill Walton is a God. It's should be a law every American citizen should have to listen to one game announced by Bill Walton yearly.

I'd rather be in jail.

 

[Bezzz]

Some of these terms I think the opposite--I really like them, especially the baseball terms which has 120 years of slangese. Love "can of corn", and especially "around the horn". How about "suicide squeeze",beanball, frozen rope, grand salami.

 

[jdb50]

You can't speak by flapping your gums. The tongue is the workhorse

And Bill Walton is a God. It's should be a law every American citizen should have to listen to one game announced by Bill Walton yearly.

Imagine what Walton would have to say about Coach Dan's sideline antics. I hope we get to hear it this year. As for the thread "he's a downhill runner".

 

[Calhoun's Court]

The Next Level

 

[RichZ]

It's should be a law every American citizen should have to listen to one game announced by Bill Walton yearly.

The suicide rate would go up by untold multitudes.

 

[Scoe]

A bright future, whenever a freshman or rookie is playing.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

1. Hero ball.
2. Most anything Bill Walton says when he flaps his gums.

Yoooooooooo. Only ever heard/read hero ball here but I <^#^£~|}^ hate that stupid goshdarn stupid term

 

[BlueMAB]

"Act like you've been there before"

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

ESPN

 

[FatHank]

Yoooooooooo. Only ever heard/read hero ball here but I <^#^£~|}^ hate that stupid goshdarn stupid term

It is the worst! Nothing personal to anyone here who uses it, but, dang, I would almost rather listen to Walton than read prose with that term. And that is saying something with my affinity for throwing foam bricks at the tv when he's on and I have to watch!!!

 

[Steelerone]

Whoever invented the term "sabermetrics" should go into a computer freeze.

This local Pittsburgh ad is for you.

That's really funny Storrsroars. Growing up in the "Burgh" we were inundated.

 

[Steelerone]

Anything with "Baby" should be against federal law.

 

[August_West]

Whoever invented the term "sabermetrics" should go into a computer freeze.

That's really funny Storrsroars. Growing up in the "Burgh" we were inundated.

post/handle

 

[methodology]

Whoever invented the term "sabermetrics" should go into a computer freeze.

The term is derived from the acronym SABR, which stands for the Society for American Baseball Research

I can't stand when people attack words/ terms just because they don't understand them

 

[the Q]

“Launch angle,” too.

I selfishly love launch angle because I was mocked for being all about it in 2004/2005 (Not here, in real life).

now that it’s finally hit mainstream I have some form of vindication over a decade in the making.

 

[willie99]

He has the "presence of mind"......

To do his job? Seriously?

 

[XLCenterFan]

Getting "out-athletic'd"

 

[XLCenterFan]

"Great basketball IQ"

 

[YukonJake206]

anything John Sterling says on a Yankee broadcast

 

[Hamms30]

outphysicaled ... I want to throw up every time I hear it.