Terms used in Sports that make You Cringe*** I have a few, the one that I find the most cringe worthy is "True Freshman". | Page 4 | The Boneyard

Terms used in Sports that make You Cringe*** I have a few, the one that I find the most cringe worthy is "True Freshman".

nwhoopfan said:
I don't remember hearing it at all previously, but this year during the WNBA playoffs Ryan Ruocco thought he was being really clever and used the phrase "insisted her way to the basket" over and over and over again. Got old really fast.
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Must have been describing Kelsey Plum.
 
I have been holding back to see if anyone else cringes uncontrollably when anyone lets loose with a bunch of ums often one after another. My number one cringe moment, Geno is very guilty of this, Ya Know. It comes out of his mouth countless numbers of times in most interviews. To be fair both of the above have become all too common in today's speech. I try to ignore both, just haven't learned to tune either out yet. :confused:
 
Physicality
Comportment (although that's disappeared from the vernacular)
"They just wanted the ball more"
 
i think that some of these terms become popular when introduced by well known broadcasters. dicky v is a fun and benign entertainer, and i believe he popularized that hokum 'principle of verticality' thing.
what principle? that u shouldn't be fouled when jumping straight up?

it has faded away, like the term 'carry' in on court pro ball, seemingly more used off court describing nba salaries - 'he's gonna need an armored truck to carry the loot away.'

in the ol timey shows, u may hear 'jumpin jehosephat!'
who is jehosephat, and why is he/she/they jumping?
i'd like to think that i invented this one, highly appropriate now when analyzing a managers decision to walk judge, bases loaded or otherwise - 'better safe than sushi.'
i do like the one 'great balls of fire!' appropo for soo many things, including that time i hit the restroom immediately after chopping up a bunch of jalapenos in the scullery.
 
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postlude: (jeez, talk aboot a loaded word...)


heard from the restroom after the jalapeno incident:
'uh, uh, uh great balls of fire, imma fried.'

and, it's cartoons and not 'anime' or whatever. we invented the dang stuff, and it's called cartoons regardless of what speed racer, or gigantor, sez.
 
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MooseJaw said:
I have been holding back to see if anyone else cringes uncontrollably when anyone lets loose with a bunch of ums often one after another. My number one cringe moment, Geno is very guilty of this, Ya Know. It comes out of his mouth countless numbers of times in most interviews. To be fair both of the above have become all too common in today's speech. I try to ignore both, just haven't learned to tune either out yet. :confused:
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'anyone lets loose with a bunch of ums often one after another.'
tru dat.
my 'cure' story happened back in early grammar school. our teach was a crafty old bird, and she concocted a scheme to fix me. she sent me out for a brief errand just before my turn to give an oral report, and told the class to whack their desks hard whenever i said 'umm.'
brilliant! i come back, start yakking, and quickly notice that my pals are slamming their desks as i spoke. instant results. to this day, it's gone.

operative word 'said' and not 'wrote.'
it has utility when writing. dramatic pause an all that.
 
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Except that's an actual thing in college football where redshirts are still common due to the physical nature of the game. People using it for other sports is quite stupid, though, yes. Using it in the proper context where a "true freshman" actually competes in football against older, more physical players, makes total sense.
 
Deadrody said:
Except that's an actual thing in college football where redshirts are still common due to the physical nature of the game. People using it for other sports is quite stupid, though, yes. Using it in the proper context where a "true freshman" actually competes in football against older, more physical players, makes total sense.
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Late is Amihere will be a “red shirt” junior this year despite bing a senior in terms of classes. She WAS redshirted her freshman year due to injury.Raven Johnson will be a “redshirt” freshman due to injury after one game.

Personally, I think it’s descriptive oh well
 
Mdoggie said:
Right! A freshman is a freshman. The only other type is a redshirt freshman. “True freshman” is unnecessary
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If the announcer just says "freshman", you really do not know if it's their 1st or 2nd year at the school and whether they might have had some college sports experience the previous season.

If they say "true freshman", then you know it's their 1st school at the school and that they have no college sports experience.
 
Has anyone mentioned the rock? I was listening to a college football game this afternoon, and the announcer called the football “the rock”. It was a warm afternoon, so I'm sure the ball didn’t feel especially igneous. Pigskin might sound dated, and who knows if they make them out of wombat hides these days. Would Belichick/Brady use squishy rocks, with 6% fewer rock molecules, and extra peanut butter?
 
'Nose' for something. Whether it is "he has a nose for the ball' or 'he has a nose for the big play', I just don't get it. Another nose related phrase is 'they can smell the upset'. It what world does that make sense.

Still, I thnk it is a lot of complaining over nothing. These guys get paid to talk for 2-3 hourse or 4 if it is a Red Sox-Yankees game, and you can't just keep saying the same thing over every time. That's why the first time that NESN showed an 'Inane Banter Warning' during an Orsillo-Remy broadcast I lost it.

I get more upset when guys like Calipari get praised up and down and they bring up his Final Four teams without mentioning the fact that a few were vacated and al the baggage that schools were strapped with when he'd leave them high and dry in the middle of the night.
 
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