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Might be better if we confined said discussion here, folks (speaking from experience  )
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I'd like to start with a salute to Mr. Cal Ripken, Jr. and his Farewell Tour ...a class act all the way through! And a special thanks for keeping baseball alive, when so many of us were ready to give up on the game! I'll never forget your trot around the stadium when you broke Lou Gehrig's consecutive games record..2,131! 
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So, to buck the usual trend, maybe we can move from digression to language, instead of vice-versa. There are several important aspects of baseball language: first baseball terms that have entered the common parlance (hit a home run, on deck, touch all bases, ...ad infinitum), second fascinatingly random and colorful baseball euphemisms (a "can of corn" is an easy catch, a "southpaw" is a left-hander, the thousands of alternate names for home runs), and finally the respect for the power of a single word -- no-hitter. For those who don't know the tradition, when a pitcher is approaching the rare feat of not surrendering a single base hit to the opposing team, no self-respecting announcer on TV or radio will utter that word, preferring constructions like "The Yankees remain hitless," or "the Red Sox have all 6 hits in the game," or "the pitcher has yet to give up a base hit," and the last one is pushing it. Additionally, no one in the dugout will talk to the pitcher after the 6th inning or so, or even sit near him.
I suspect there are several yarts in here, but maybe we can indulge ourselves in travelling over previously covered ground in the spirit of the endless cycle that is baseball (We'll get 'em next year, right?)
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Flatlander wrote: no one in the dugout will talk to the pitcher after the 6th inning or so, or even sit near him.
So when you are succeeding, you become isolated. When you are failing, you become isolated. Long live mediocrity and the jovial company of the masses!
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>Long live mediocrity
the great thing about baseball, at least from the batter's perspective, is that a good hitter fails almost 70% of the time.
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Saw this in the sports pages yesterday and recalled the old "phrases from baseball" thread: Former major leaguer and now coach Glenn Johnson, currently in Iran with other American baseball mentors to help them put together a baseball program and team for possible future Olympic competion, remarked that "not only were the nuances of the game lost on the (Iranian) players, but my colorful baseball jargon as well...when I'd say something like 'He couldn't hit a bull in the butt with a bass fiddle' they'd look at me strange and finally say, "What coach?" The phrase meaning a pitcher who couldn't throw accurately, of course.
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WON cites: 'He couldn't hit a bull in the butt with a bass fiddle'Speaking of colorful language, those among us who love baseball *and good writing should check out this site http://www.efqreview.com/You don't get the entire magazine, but several of the articles, short stories and poems are available on-line.
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Its rare that baseball interest me (well, its interesting in October, when the Yankies take on yet an other team for the world series..) but there is a good article in today's times about the "crack of baseball bat" http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/26/science/26STAD.html (the ny times site requires cookies and a registration.. and othe details..but the article is interesting even to non baseball fans like my self.. )
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in Baseball when the Yankies take on yet an other team for the world seriesWould someone like to explain the meaning of world in this context? Rod
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Would someone like to explain the meaning of world in this context?
It sounds better. That's the only reason, as far as I can tell.
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