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Most stupid expression in baseball

charliej2356charliej2356 Posts: 316 ✭✭✭
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As I watch MLB games, I often hear the announcer/color-commentator analyzing a batter's swing after hitting a homer. They'll say "He just dropped the head (of the bat) on it and it went a long way." That expression seems ridiculous to me! After playing baseball all the way through high school, I hit a lot of home runs back in the day -- but I never "just dropped the head on it". Level swings can result in homers, but NOT just dropping the head of the bat through the hitting zone. What a stupid expression!!

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    "A squibber" down the line".

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    a frozen rope to the gap

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  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,533 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Can of corn.

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  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,067 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Batter blasts a Mantleesque homer, and as he watches it
    fly into orbit the genius calling the game states, "And he knew it"

  • LandrysFedoraLandrysFedora Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,116 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Dave99B said:
    Can of corn.

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    Fran Healy loved that phrase when he announced games.

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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,116 ✭✭✭✭✭

    One you don't hear much anymore:A "Texas Leaguer".

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  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,101 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Don't give him anything to hit, but don't walk him.

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    “Unwritten rule”

  • charliej2356charliej2356 Posts: 316 ✭✭✭

    Thanks for all the comments guys, but most of you missed my point: "Dropping the head on it" is WRONG, and would never result in a homer.

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    No pepper



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  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @charliej2356 said:
    Thanks for all the comments guys, but most of you missed my point: "Dropping the head on it" is WRONG, and would never result in a homer.

    ..
    I think you are looking for "inaccurate" baseball expressions. Your example is a good one.

    I can't think of any great examples. Maybe "hit the cover off the ball" as that is no longer possible, but obviously stems from a time when it was.

  • emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 4,577 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Every batter has a , what I call his or her handcuff spot. You know when someone tosses an object to you and due to a glitch in your ability in that exact spot what was required just can't happen.
    Simply, their weight, height, and the swing motion.
    Takes about 10 seconds.

  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jay0791 said:
    Willie Stargell

    You have a round bat and a round ball and yet they tell you to hit it square !!!

    How many different players has this quote been attributed to?

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,981 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Back to the box!"

    The pitcher's mound has not been a box for well over a century.

    @thisistheshow said:

    @charliej2356 said:
    Thanks for all the comments guys, but most of you missed my point: "Dropping the head on it" is WRONG, and would never result in a homer.

    ..
    I think you are looking for "inaccurate" baseball expressions. Your example is a good one.

    I can't think of any great examples. Maybe "hit the cover off the ball" as that is no longer possible, but obviously stems from a time when it was.

    Back in "olden times," the cheap skate owners tried to play the whole game with one ball. The thing would end up lopsided and black from tobacco juice. It must have been disgusting. In the late innings you were probably lucky if you could hit it out of the infield. It was probably a hunk of mush by then.

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  • 1948_Swell_Robinson1948_Swell_Robinson Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ghost Runner. The concept is dumb I know...but why do they call it a "Ghost Runner" when you can still see him?

    When we were kids playing a pick up game and didn't have enough players to fill the bases and still have a batter, you took the runner off base when his turn came up to bat and you had a 'ghost runner' in his spot and had to remember there was a runner there.

  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1948_Swell_Robinson said:
    Ghost Runner. The concept is dumb I know...but why do they call it a "Ghost Runner" when you can still see him?

    When we were kids playing a pick up game and didn't have enough players to fill the bases and still have a batter, you took the runner off base when his turn came up to bat and you had a 'ghost runner' in his spot and had to remember there was a runner there.

    ...
    I think I remember using that term this way as well. If not in baseball, at least when playing kickball. Not sure, it's been a long time.

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