Announcing/writing pet peeve

What if you go back in time to the point of the sensational diving catch, but Smith sees you knocking Tigers shortstop Jim Johnson to the ground. The sudden realization that time travel is in fact very possible makes him stop in his tracks after rounding first base, and he is thrown out by an alert left fielder unfazed by the time machine parked in front of him.

Do you rule this a base hit? To me, you can't score an error on a play in which a reasonable defensive effort would have been made, had it not been stopped by a time traveler. Just a personal preference.

 

What if a Romulan ship comes back in time and zaps Jim Johnson just before he fields the ball because Nero had Smith on his fantasy team and would have won the championship if Smith had that one more hit? Smith gets his hit, and the game ends because the SS has been killed on the field by Romulans and everyone freaks out and runs away. Smith is a perfect 4-for-4.

 

Someone should say, "Smith and Johnson came first and second, irrespectively."

For fun.

 

Another unrelated peeve:

From PFT today: Cowboys’ DeCamillis Is A Trooper

Guy ain't pulling people over for doing 70 in a 55. He's a trouper. Look it up.

 

This one applies to broadcasters, but it drives me absolutely insane when there's a foul late in a basketball game, committed by the team that is leading, and the broadcaster says, "Oh, no, they fouled him and now he has a chance to score with no time running off the clock."

Um. So?

If he dribbles down the floor with 20 seconds left and drives to the rim and scores, he scored two points. And there are still 20 seconds left.

If he dribbles into the lane and gets hammered with 20 seconds left, and makes two free throws, he scored two points. And there are still 20 seconds left.

It's not like when you get fouled, you just get to go to the line and jack up as many free throws as you want with no time running off the clock.

Granted, there are situations when this kind of thing makes sense, like if you foul a guy 40 feet from the hoop with 32 seconds left on the shot clock, or something. But it's usually said when a guy takes the ball to the rim and gets fouled on the shot. It makes no sense. No time runs off the clock on ANY act of scoring (OK, a tenth of a second or two), if you're referring to the literal act of the ball going through the hoop.

 

That's a good one, too.

These things are passed down from generation to generation, and nobody questions them.

 

Tuffy Rhodes is on pace to hit 486 home runs this season.

And I'm on pace to live forever.

 

The three most useless words in that sentence!

 

Actually, not only is "perfect" uselsss, it's probably wrong unless he got fouir hits on four pitches. If he swung and misssed twice each at bat, he sure wasn't perfect.


And from the pitcher's side, I hate it when guys right "the only mistake he made was a hanging curve that Smith hit for a three-run homer."
What! How did those two guuys get on base? And he might have made 15 mistake pitches that didn't get hit.

 

"And after three innings, there is no score."

Yes, you idiot, there IS a score: 0-0. There's a difference between "no score" and "there's been no scoring."

I swear one day I'm going to hear this and it's going to cause me to yank the damn radio out of the console and toss it out on the interstate so a couple of semis can have their way with it.