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ESPN's DUMBEST STAT EVER

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by BYH, Apr 16, 2007.

  1. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    Awesome! I can explain away my quick trigger by saying I have attention deficit disorder! Why didn't I think of that when I was 17 sooner?
     
  2. Chi City 81

    Chi City 81 Guest

    So does that make Ritalin your Viagra?
     
  3. Hammer Pants

    Hammer Pants Active Member

    It can potentially mess up a lot of things.
     
  4. Hammer Pants

    Hammer Pants Active Member

    Mixed together ... you're talking one focused hornball there.
     
  5. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    Oh baby this is so good I'm multitasking fucking you and tiling the kitchen floor ohh yeah how do you like that sorry I was talking to the linoleum ohh yeah baby now I'm talking to you this is so good ok let's go over here I need to redecorate the bedroom I like brown instead of beige no baby that's not about going ass to mouth though maybe in a few minutes yeah I can't believe I'm still fucking you either hold on let's go to the computer I'm gonna start that book I've been talking about for years done no baby I haven't come yet I'm talking about the book let's go over here I'm gonna call the publisher see if I can get it published sweet I got it published let's go read War and Peace together this is so hot man I'm getting so much done
     
  6. Chi City 81

    Chi City 81 Guest

    Was that pre-typed? That post came a little too quickly ... kinda like you, BYH.
     
  7. Hammer Pants

    Hammer Pants Active Member

    That would be a hell of a moment ... and also your last on earth, considering your heart would have popped somewhere during the fourth line.
     
  8. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    LAY OFF ME I'M MULTI-TASKING!!!!
     
  9. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    If you could do all that, BYH, your wife wouldn't need to have the "handyman" come over. And it has nothing to do with the redecoration part of your spiel.
     
  10. ondeadline

    ondeadline Well-Known Member

    The dumbest statistic from one of the dumbest phrases: "walk-off home run." If you never had heard that phrase, you wouldn't know what the hell it meant. But if somebody told you that a guy hit a "game-ending home run" there would be no doubt.
     
  11. markvid

    markvid Guest

    Well, if you fucked all of us, that'd still take 35 seconds...

    :)
     
  12. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    If you can't figure out what walk-off home run means, then "annoying sports phrases" are probably the least of your problems.

    Game-ending home run is fine, too, but walk-off home run is better than game-winning home run to describe a winning home run in the final at-bat. After all, you can hit the game-winning home run in the first inning.

    Since we're always looking for brevity, if I have a choice between seeing "Heywood Jablome hit a walk-off home run to beat the Red Sox," or "Heywood Jablome hit a game-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat the Red Sox," I'm taking 13 words as opposed to 20.

    I've always thought people's biggest problem with walk-off is that it was coined by ESPN. The "It's slang" argument (among others) is just a way of rationalizing the hatred for the term.
     
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