Stupid and/or annoying statements in sports

[Trey Beamon]

Or how about when Marv Albert goes "Oh! *insert name here* with the facial!"
I don't find it annoying, I just think its really funny. :D

I always liked how he said "Patrick Ewing." Not sure why.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

The media is biased against girls sports.

 

[Double J]

Or how about when Marv Albert goes "Oh! *insert name here* with the facial!"
I don't find it annoying, I just think its really funny. :D

"Marv, are you a sexual deviant?"

"YESSSSS!!!"

 

[Write-brained]

I watched a bit of the draft on the NFL network and there was one asshole (Mayock) who kept saying the prospects would be "clean off the field" - about every ****ing pick - and I still have no idea what the **** it means.

 

[Songbird]

Or how about when Marv Albert goes "Oh! *insert name here* with the facial!"
I don't find it annoying, I just think its really funny. :D

"Marv, are you a sexual deviant?"

"YESSSSS!!!" <chomp!>

Fixed.

 

[HandsomeHarley]

"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 __________

 

[TwoGloves]

"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 ...

 

[Second Thoughts]

Is this another how we hate ESPN thread?

 

[93Devil]

Upside

"Manages the game" or "game manager"

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

 

[bydesign77]

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

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

With gusto, everyone.

 

[cake in the rain]

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

 

[Write-brained]

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?

 

[da man]

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.

 

[Eagleboy]

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.

 

[friend of a friend]

"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 ...

how did you do that?

 

[Stupid]

"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.

 

[Mayfly]

"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 ...

how did you do that?

Probably had a couple errors along with it.

 

[Double J]

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.

Do you mean from hotel rooms or what? Never heard of dialing anything but 1 or 0 for long distance.

 

[Write-brained]

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.

Exactly. ;)

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

I watched the Brewers-Mets game last night on T.V. last night. After J.J. Hardy's homer, SNY announcer Gary Cohen said, "A fastball out over the middle of the plate, just how he likes it."

I know Cohen's a very good announcer, but what batter doesn't like fastballs over the middle of the plate?

It got me thinking. What are the other statements, declarations and phrases that the esteemed SportsJournalists.commers think are stupid or annoying or ridiculous?

From non-SportsJournalists.commers?

I got this one guy who has a hell of a catalog to choose from.