Stupid and/or annoying statements in sports

Fixed.

 

"Ba-bee!"

"Grand slam home run" (what, as opposed to a grand slam triple?)

"Kiss that one goodbye .... yes!!"

Anyone writing or calling it a mound in softball (it's a pitching circle)

"Yankees win"

AP Alert: Barry Bonds __________

 

I actually got into an argument with one of our old-timers about "grand slam home run." He insisted you had to use the term that way and I insisted grand slam was good enough. Although in softball I once hit a grand slam double ...

 

Is this another how we hate ESPN thread?

 

Upside

"Manages the game" or "game manager"

any time "good game" and shooting below 45 or 40 percent from the floor are used together

 

the local sports anchor has a new favorite line...

"It's like Maxwell coffee, good to the last drop"

With gusto, everyone.

 

Gritty. Gutsy. Blue collar. Lunch pail. David Eckstein.

 

Didn't one of the national broadcasters use "Dial 9 for long distance" to describe a three-pointer during the playoffs? Do people still dial 9 for long distance?

 

I thought it was dial 8.

 

I hate the phrase "back-to-back-to-back." I can deal with two, but I've always been a believer that using the word three times should refer to four occurrences of an event - almost like (back-to-back)-to-back.

But alas, using it however many times more than twice doesn't make any sense regardless, for three uses would create a triangle, thus not actually back-to-back...and that's just confusing.

 

how did you do that?

 

"That's a good golf shot."

though that's been so ridiculed, you don't hear it as much as you did 10 years ago.