Announcing/writing pet peeve

But when it's played, a Game 3 where a team misses a chance to go up 3-0 can certainly be pivotal. I understand your point about looking at the series as a whole, but there are certain moments in a game or a series where you know the tide is turning. If the Lakers go on a 10-0 run in the middle of the third quarter to stretch their lead to 18 points, I don't think you have to wait until the end of the game to say that that was a pivotal moment.

 

I'm amused at the disgust of the use of non-literal explosiveness. Tough crowd.

Are you OK with calling someone a burner, when there's no tangible amount of heat created by a player's speed?

What about a slumping shooter going cold, when his poor performance has no actual impact on his body temperature?

 

"Untracked."

Because, you know, being on some damn "track" is what is causing all the trouble.

 

Quarterback position, running back position, safety position, defensive end position, linebacker position, cornerback position, wide receiver position.

THEY'RE ALL POSITIONS! I swear it straight from coaches' press conferences to every broadcaster like a virus ...

"Defensive side of the football" is another redundancy that I hear.

 

Approximately 85% of Hubie Brown's analysis is in the second person. ("You're Kevin Garnett. You see that lane, and you think, easy dunk! But no, Howard comes over. So now you're wondering, okay, what do I do now?")

 

Here, here! Oh man, I hate untracked...

 

Thanks for checking in, Bill Simmons

 

Do we really see it that often to be bothered by it? Tuffy Rhodes in 1994 not withstanding?

 

Isn't it "Hear! Hear!"

 

I always thought it should be "on track." I mean, if you're on a train and it gets "untracked," then aren't you off the tracks and careening into the woods somewhere? That's not a good spot to be in.

 

Untracked is correct. There's an alarming amount of research on it here:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002148.html

It's much the same way people now like to "squash" rumors much like a bug in the kitchen, when they really seek to merely "quash" them.

 

untracked is frakkin' wrong at every level. I don't care 'bout no stinkin' research