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TheRover
10-22-2005, 12:53 PM
?

"Manufacturing"
pokerdirty
10-22-2005, 12:56 PM
"the"




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10-22-2005, 01:02 PM
"Joemorgan"
benfranklin
10-22-2005, 01:07 PM
I'd like to ban all college and professional players from saying "ya'know".

95% of them couldn't complete a sentence that way.
battschr
10-22-2005, 01:36 PM
Clutch.
New001
10-22-2005, 01:47 PM
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Clutch.

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pokerdirty
10-22-2005, 01:55 PM
i know some i wish one announcer in particular would say more...

"slamma lamma....DING DONG!"

this would make Joe Buck bearable if he did this like he did on the Bud commercial /images/graemlins/grin.gif
youtalkfunny
10-22-2005, 03:46 PM
"Courageous"
10-22-2005, 05:56 PM
"dominating"

they usually mean "dominant"
10-22-2005, 06:00 PM
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"dominating"

they usually mean "dominant"

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"that's right Bill, they're the dominating team in the NL this year."

why do they let them on the air when they're still reading see spot run?
KingCon
10-22-2005, 07:02 PM
Sasquatch
10-22-2005, 07:35 PM
"He Gawn", I'm a big white sox fan and the stupid announcer says that EVERY time that the opposing team strikes out.
JayLear
10-23-2005, 12:51 AM
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"He Gawn", I'm a big white sox fan and the stupid announcer says that EVERY time that the opposing team strikes out.

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That's two words.
andyfox
10-23-2005, 01:57 AM
"Quit," as in "There's no quit in the _______s."
pryor15
10-23-2005, 02:56 AM
"Moneyball"

it's rather obvious most of them haven't read the damn thing.
2+2 wannabe
10-23-2005, 06:34 AM
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Clutch.

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private joker
10-23-2005, 08:05 AM
"Velocity."

Ugh. This bothers me. Most of the time they just mean "speed." Velocity is a physics term that applies to speed plus direction. Announcers just say velocity instead of speed when referring to pitchers ("He has good velocity on his fastball!") because it makes them sound smarter. They're not.

Even if it's become "common usage" that velocity can now mean simple rapidity or speed of motion as opposed to the actual physics definition, it still sounds pretentious and lame.
sthief09
10-23-2005, 09:15 AM
TheYankeesWinTheeeeeYankeeesWiinnnnnn
sthief09
10-23-2005, 09:16 AM
they need to use the term velocity for pitchers such as Mark Wohlers and Rick Ankiel since we really don't know what direction the ball is going in
Pudge714
10-23-2005, 10:12 AM
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they need to use the term velocity for pitchers such as Mark Wohlers and Rick Ankiel since we really don't know what direction the ball is going in

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ZING!
Paluka
10-23-2005, 04:47 PM
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Clutch.

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Russ McGinley
10-23-2005, 06:07 PM
FOX.
zoobird
10-27-2005, 12:45 PM
"Jeter"
Perseus
10-27-2005, 01:19 PM
"Overpowering"
10-27-2005, 01:27 PM
"feelgood"......feelgood story of the year, etc
jesusarenque
10-27-2005, 02:06 PM
"Good afternoon, I'm Joe Morgan along with..."
coffeecrazy1
10-27-2005, 02:15 PM
"Curse"

Seriously...everybody has a slump...and no one ever mentioned the Houston curse until it was 3-1 in the Cardinals series...then, it was like, "Holy crap, these guys have never been to the World Series! We need to mention this as much as possible to make up for the fact that the Red Sox and Yankees get far too much attention."

Also...I love the Killer B's, but that bee sound they play when one of them approaches the plate to hit is the sound you hear as you descend into Hell.
Hornacek
10-27-2005, 02:35 PM
"yankees"
smb394
10-27-2005, 04:26 PM
110% (not really 1 word, but close enough)
Baseballer02
10-28-2005, 01:33 AM
Ramma-Lamma...DING DONG!

Edit: I got it wrong and it was already posted. [censored] me
TripleH68
10-28-2005, 01:58 AM
"walk-off homerun"
jason_t
10-28-2005, 02:02 AM
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"Velocity."

Ugh. This bothers me. Most of the time they just mean "speed." Velocity is a physics term that applies to speed plus direction. Announcers just say velocity instead of speed when referring to pitchers ("He has good velocity on his fastball!") because it makes them sound smarter. They're not.

Even if it's become "common usage" that velocity can now mean simple rapidity or speed of motion as opposed to the actual physics definition, it still sounds pretentious and lame.

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How much baseball do you know? A good fastball has a lot of movement on it and that's what they mean when they say "he has good velocity on his fastball."
jason_t
10-28-2005, 02:03 AM
"Small ball."
TheRover
10-28-2005, 02:11 AM
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"Small ball."

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Or they could apply it accurately, at least.
jason_t
10-28-2005, 02:14 AM
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"Small ball."

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Or they could apply it accurately, at least.

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Yeah that's my problem with them and this term.
Jack of Arcades
10-28-2005, 02:15 AM
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"Small ball."

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White Sox definition of Small Ball: hit the ball so far it looks really, really small.
TheRover
10-28-2005, 02:19 AM
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"Small ball."

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White Sox definition of Small Ball: hit the ball so far it looks really, really small.

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Exactly what I was referring to.
jason_t
10-28-2005, 02:50 AM
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"Small ball."

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White Sox definition of Small Ball: hit the ball so far it looks really, really small.

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Yeah, lol. It was so frustrating to hear during the ALCS that the White Sox were playing "small ball" against the Angels.
tolbiny
10-28-2005, 03:27 AM
words like great or perfect that the toss around every six seconds or so.