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As soon as I saw this thread, I knew someone would get in cricket terms, and lo and behold, Rhuby rose to the bait. Well, that's OK by me, since cricket has more wierd expressions then baseball. After all, we have nothing to compare with the likes of "silly mid-on, googly," etc. So Shanks, Rhuby, Max, and the rest of you chaps, let us poor benighted USrs have it.Nah, we cricket freaks have our fun on the fly and we don't need to horn in on your game. Baseball isn't a popular game in Zild, but we understand it (if not the abiding US fascination with it). And, of course, the Black Sox, our national softball team, won the world champs ... in the US, too. Go for it. 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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The way the Yanks lost to the Red Sox tonight reminded me all-too-painfully of a phrase from baseball: "clutch hitter."
And also of some in-game terms like "passed ball," "up the middle," and "blown save." Well, Mariano's got to lose once or twice a year, you know...so it might as well be on Friday The 13th.
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I will refrain from mentioning the recent no hitter but content myself with noting the Pitcher in that recent game became one of just three who have pitched a no hitter in two leagues. RED SOX! RED SOX! RAH! RAH! RAH!Now, in general, about baseball: it was drawn to my attention by a psychaitrist chum who happens to be of Irish descent (rara avis) that the game of baseball is very  erotic Consider the shapes of bat and ball, and then all the double entendre ways in which the jargon has been co-opted to describe, ahem, courtship. Now, to dodge the Gutter Police, let's consider golf. OOOpps, they are lurking behind the trees in the rough!WHY, oh why, did I bring this up? {groan} I can't stop myself! HELP!wow
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By the way, wow, I didn't know how to work the Mark-Up before.........so, today, in 'celebration' of last night's game, let me put Bill Buckner 'n' Bucky Dent in blazing NY BLUE just for you! And, speaking of baseball eroticism, how about "hugging the bases"? Or, "hug the base," "hug the bag'?
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Notice how I cleverly substituted erotic for sexual?
Gets us all off the hook!
Ahhh, the choice of the right word!
wow
The posts went w-i-d-e again after BelM's post .. or is it just me?!
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Hello, wow....Pedro who?
Continuing with baseball erotica...if you accuse a pitcher of wetting his fingers so he can throw a spitball you say "he's going to his mouth." And everybody knows you can't go to your mouth on the mound! Can I get away with that one, wow?
And, when we express affection as we grow older, can it then be said we are "hugging the bag"?
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Can I get away with that ...
I subscribe to Mark Twain's words about the acceptability of puns, jokes, etc.:
"as long as the humor exceeds the vulgarity."
wow
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at the old West Side Park in Chicago there was a mental hospital in back of left
field.This reminds me of the mental hospital where the movie version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was filmed. It is in Salem, Oregon, and is situated well off the street in front of it, having a very large lawn area between the street and the building. So, it is appropriate here in Oregon to say that the mental hospital is a good bit off Center (street). 
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Consider the shapes of bat and ball, and then all the double entendre ways in which the jargon has been co-opted to
describe, ahem, courtship.
Well, at least you didn't choose basketball! What would the Irish shrink think of a slam dunk followed by a fast break?
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I subscribe to Mark Twain's words...Thanks, wow...Twain never fails! And, by the way, reports of his death are no longer greatly exaggerated!
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