Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Write My Column (Take 1)

So, here's the challenge to Brilliant Readers: Come up with words that only seem to be in sports. The baseline spoword -- which you might have heard on the Poscast -- is "ensuing." This, of course, is always followed by the word "kickoff."

What I'm looking for here -- and yes, I'm asking you to do write my column for me this week -- are words that, on their own, are NOT specifically sports words. That is to say, I'm not interested in "bunt" or "interception" or even "shank." I'm more interested in words like Brilliant Reader Shabs suggestion of "stave," as in "stave off elimination."

I've actually got a lot of them, but I don't want to curb your creativity.
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214 comments:

  6. "Onslaught" and "barrage" come to mind.

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  8. scuffle.....I have never heard this anywhere but a baseball clubhouse.

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  10. Fracas, Donnybrook, brouhaha, and any other description for a hockey or baseball brawl.

    Plated to describe knocking in a run.

    Fanned for a K or missed one-timer.

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  12. I like when an announcer states that a pitcher is really "laboring" out there.

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  13. Flied is good. Also:

    Mound

    Trotted (always horses or home runs)

    Tagged (as in they "tagged" him for a lot of runs... when else have you heard that? I didn't tag the bagel store last week.)

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  15. bamboozle, hoodwink (spin bowling in cricket), outfox (pace bowling in cricket, Mourinho in soccer), attrition (tennis, Jahangir Khan in squash), winner (tennis), cheek (Ronaldinho in soccer)

    -Hiten
    @hitsamty

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  16. I never, ever hear someone describe someone else as being a "class guy" outside of the sporting world. It might even be limited to football. Frankly, it drives me crazy.

    Bonus question: Who has most often been called a "class guy"? My vote would be Dungy.

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  21. Aerial.

    Perhaps "awareness" - good court awareness, good plate awareness. I never get commended at work for my ten-key awareness.

    Ejection.

    Encroachment.

    Unevaded.

    Infraction.

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  22. amok. barn-burner. complexion. bedlam. _____ IQ. Shaq.

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  23. also ranged, cut, retaliation, unwritten...

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  24. Apparently "clank" is a real verb for something making a metallic sound, but I've never heard it in any context except basketball.

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  26. momentum. Used in science classes as well, I guess, but in everyday conversation I can't think of any regular usage outside of sports.

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  29. I haven't seen "southpaw" come up yet, so let's add that to the list.

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  31. crafty (as used here just last week)

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  32. Potent, stingy, possession, bobble (in two ways, in fact).

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  33. induce, schooled, matriculate, rhythm, avenge, diamond, bullpen

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  34. If a goaltender did well, he was "stellar."

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  35. Chip Caray uses the word "fisted" a lot.

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  36. iPad

    This isn't really true, just a friendly reminder to get to work on that review.

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  38. Leaguer (as in Texas or Big/minor)

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  40. Unabated.

    Indefinitely.

    Interim.

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  41. "Seeing eye", as in seeing eye base hit and flat-out.

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  42. Catlike is always used to describe a good fielding pitcher, but never a cat.

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  44. Former Phillies broadcaster HoFer Richie Ashburn used to say that the man on first looked "runnerish".

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  48. Lateral - as in a lateral pass

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  53. Rally
    Unanswered
    Over/underrated
    Makeable (should really be used in real life: "Spaghetti was a really makeable dinner tonight, but I overcooked the pasta")
    Specimen (outside of biology class)
    Enshrined

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  54. "Offsetting" from Scott J is the best so far. I'll add: Unanswered.

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  55. Scattered

    Shakes off

    Heats up

    Tools/toolsy

    Rings up

    Gap power/gap hitter/gap to gap

    Paint

    Cheese/cheddar

    Does "help his own cause" work?

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  58. Uncorked, as in a pitcher "uncorking" a wild pitch.

    Also, baseball seems to employ a strange past tense for the word "fly." Under no other circumstances would we say the word "flied" except to say that someone "flied out." Otherwise, we would say that a bird "flew" away.

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  60. "muffed" is a word that I've almost exclusively heard used to refer to the (failed) action of kickers

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  61. clinched

    btw, one of my pet peeves is the way it's often used. When a team is guaranteed to win their division or have home-field advantage before the season is over, that's an appropriate use of the term. When a team wins game 4 of a playoff series, it's not "clinching" the series, it's WINNING the series. When I read something like "the Giants clinched the World Series" I cringe....

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  62. Thumbs up for Nate's choices, especially unabated.

    Also:
    Elevate
    Escapabililty
    Cinderella

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  67. Grooved, as in the pitcher grooved one into his wheelhouse.

    Wheelhouse works too!

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  68. gird - no one girds themselves up for work or doing chores. NFL players, however, are constantly 'girding' themselves up for battle.

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  69. Almost 70 in and no "underway"?

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  70. pastime. Also: cagey, wily, gutty, thundering.

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  72. Almost nothing other than a golf green is described as "undulating."

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  73. As far as I'm aware, the only things in life that get "induced" are labor and double play ground balls.

    As someone else touched upon, only bottles of wine and wild pitches get "uncorked" in this world.

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  74. -Offside
    -Top drawer (as an adjective, describing a phenomenal goal)
    -Howler (a terrible goalie mistake)
    -The one word use of a body part half-assedly describe an injury. "He's out with a knee" (a knee what?)
    -Volley
    -Breakaway

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  78. Trickeration in football

    Verticality in basketball

    Baseball's probably the only place you'll hear "he's got a gun" and people don't scream and run away

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  79. Basketball: "Paint area". (Formerly "the paint", I don't know why analysts all call it the paint "area" now.)

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  81. Clutch (as an adjective, as opposed to a noun or verb)

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  82. - "pinch" as an adjective

    - reinvigorated (i.e. "I expect them to come out reinvigorated for the 2nd half")

    - "in the books" (i.e. "That's five innings in the books")

    - warm-up

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  83. Thriller
    Slate, slated
    Rout, routed
    Short-lived
    Capped
    Roughshod
    High-octane
    Trey
    Unanswered
    Double-teamed
    Scrappy

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  84. Mammoth.
    Towering.
    Cavernous.
    Lumbering.
    Blinding.

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  85. The best to you as you cover the Penn State gridders on their 2011 slate as the longtime mentor puts them through the mill in their chase for the Big 10 gonfalon.

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  86. "wily" as in a wily veteran
    "trials and tribulations" as in what Mets fans must go through on a yearly basis...BA-ZING!
    "gut check time"

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  87. Momentum (a good word rendered putrid by sportswriters and political analysts alike)

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  89. Some of these are from soccer and/or rugby:

    Stanza (as in half a match - always "the second stanza").
    Set-to (as in a fight).
    Marauding (run).
    Coruscating (volley).
    Rasping (volley).
    Pin-point (accuracy of anything, most often a pass).
    Bellringer (heavy tackle).
    The expression "get that inta yer" (compulsory expression issued immediately following a bellringer).

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  91. @Gregg, good call on "untracked". I have yet to figure out whether it's good or bad to be on the track. or off the track. or "un" the track.

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  92. spurtability (via Clark Kellog)

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  93. Slobberknocker. Has anyone ever heard that word used outside of American Football? It's also one of those odd words which makes me want to shower after hearing it but grin when I say it.

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  94. bricked

    (brick was mentioned earlier, but as a noun it's used outside of sports. as a verb, only in basketball)

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  96. Deals - as in pitches
    Dealing - pitching extremely well

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  98. "length" whenever modified by an adjective, e.g., "great length", "solid length," "upside length."

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  99. swished
    back stretch
    home stretch
    jockeying
    gimme
    holed

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  100. "Groomed" to be someone's replacement

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  101. I think my favorite by far is a Phillies euphemism that is used by almost all of their announcers.

    "he fisted the ball into the hole"

    there is only two ways to refer to "fisting" and thats the one that is socially decent.

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  102. Baseball writers seem to LOVE the word "torrid" when someone is hitting well. "Torrid offense."

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  106. Phenom. "Great dinner, Mom. You're a phenom."

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  110. I'm still trying to figure out when tall basketball players became "bigs" ...

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  111. Re-sign. I never sign things more than once.

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  112. Skyed.

    A baseball is hit way up in the sky.

    A basketball player jumps in an unusually high way.

    Joe skyed this last blog posting. Etc.

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  113. JOE'S SKY BLOG

    In fact because your posts are so CONSISTENTLY HIT IT OUT OF THE PARK GOOD, I think you ought to rename your blog, in utter humility (of course), Joe's Sky Blog!

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  114. "Differential" to refer to the DIFFERENCE between two easily calculable numbers.

    Only place I hear it outside the math department.

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  116. Flip side of "differential", I've seen the word "ratio" used to describe something that actually is a difference (or differential if you like).

    "The Packers' turnover ratio is +4".

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  121. I only ever hear "chippy" in the context of NBA *playoff* games. It rarely -- if ever -- surfaces during the regular season.

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  123. Also, Joe, I think you should post a corollary stipulating that words used only by Tim McCarver don't count. We're approaching the 1 year anniversary of his use of "gloaming" to describe the shadows creeping up behind home plate.

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  124. "crossed-up" seems to be something that only happens between pitchers and catchers
    and how about "hauls it in"

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  125. Although a lot of people use and abuse the word "literally", sports announcers seem to take special delight in throwing the word around and almost always misusing it. My all time favorite (I wish I could recall the announcer; I think it was a color commentator): "So-and-so literally exploded at the plate." I expected the grounds crew to rush out with buckets and mops, but it turns out he meant "figuratively" and that the batter was merely on a hot streak rather than blown to bits.

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  126. incontrovertible

    Can you read this word and not think of NFL replays being reviewed?

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  127. In and of themselves, neither "tremendous" nor "upside" are unique to sports, but have you noticed that, especially during talk of draft picks, one's upside is nearly always described as "tremendous"? Never "great" or "fantastic" or even "promising". Tremendous.

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  128. People use "ensuing" all the time! When I do a google search for "ensuing," I don't get a sports reference until page 4 - and that's about an "ensuing roster rush" in the NFL, which is arguably a business reference more than a sports reference.

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  129. Journeyman. Is that one word or two? Is it even a real word?

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  130. Letters & numbers, yes, journeyman is a real word. My father was a journeyman carpenter before he retired. Completed his apprenticeship, never became a master craftsman.

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  131. Weapons. In every football discussion.

    "That QB's gonna put up big numbers this year, he's got a lot of weapons on the field!"

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  132. In Canada a "crease" is in front of the net, not on pants.

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  133. Crush(ed)
    Dunk(ed)
    Comeback
    Dived (...for the ball. Unless we are talking about SCUBA)
    Lights out
    Momentum (swing of...)
    Convert (basket, third-down. Or religious in meaning)
    Capped (...off a drive/inning/half)
    Pylon (in the endzone... has anyone used this word outside of architecture? Ever?)
    Muffed (the ball, catch, punt)
    Relentless (energy, attack)

    Source: Any AP game recap

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  134. As a tribute to the late, great Paul Splittorff, "lofty".

    As in, that Royals reliever has a rather lofty ERA.

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  135. More a case of grammar usage, but only in sports do people use the present tense to refer to the past. "If Jeter gets to that ball in the ninth inning the Yankees win." Nobody would say "If Hitler doesn't invade Poland there's no World War II."

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  136. You can't go five minutes into a score summary without hearing the verb "edged", as in "The Yankees edged the Royals 3-2 in extras." Yet I rarely hear it outside of sports and lawn care.

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  137. Has anybody ever used "tool" as a synonym for "skill" anywhere other than baseball? There are no "five-tool" lawyers, lunch ladies or bus drivers (though, many would say the first group has its share of "tools" *bah-dum-chh).

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  139. Activate
    Rally
    Lace (as a verb, as in "a double")
    Slugfest

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  140. - "must-win", adj., often used incorrectly.
    - clanged
    - PSL
    - and more of a pronunciation thing, but defense, with the emphasis on the first syllable. In all other usages, the emphasis is on the second. (The Department of DE-fense?)

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  141. Mired
    Roughshod
    Uncorked
    Complexion

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  142. Upside!

    denopac: The present-tense-for-past-counterfactual thing crops up all the time. I blame Peter King, who I otherwise love reading, for popularizing it by saying things like "If I'm Ralph Wilson or Mike Brown, I'm on the phone w/the commish about Vick's claim that the league steered him to Philly. And I'm ticked." (Actual tweet.)

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  143. I always thought the phrase "showing bunt" was about as close to a sexual innuendo baseball could ever get.

    "Maybe if my date goes well later tonight she'll be showing bunt on the ride home."

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  144. skilled position

    Already mentioned but needs repeating: Schneid, 'getting off of the schneid' (if that's even spelled correctly, I'm not Irish...

    foulpole

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  145. GOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!

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  146. Blindside, as in blindside hit
    Plane,as in break the plane
    One-time/one-timed, from hockey
    Equalizer, ties the score
    Tagging, from third and heading home
    Power alley
    Slot, between the face-off circles

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  147. Literally. It's misued so often in sports it's almost another word now in sports, i.e. "He literally had steam coming out of his ears." It should have its own meaning when it's used for sports. def. adj. "really" or "fucking."

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  148. Oooh, I'm with pokerpeaker; "literally" drives me nuts when misused.

    My words: stick it (in gymnastics). I never "stick" my parallel parking efforts.

    Totally off-topic word: alacrity. Just a cool word. Should be used in sport, art, regular conversation . . .

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  149. "Enhancing".

    "Almost nothing other than a golf green is described as 'undulating.'"

    It gets used ridiculously often during cycling broadcasts. Double sports word!

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  150. Boner, as in Merkle's.

    Never heard that word used anywhere else.

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  151. Wheelhouse
    can of corn
    momentum
    burned (like a cornerback)
    tuck rule
    walk off
    pancaked
    Hat trick
    Fadeaway

    There are more but I have limited time.

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  152. Chippy is a great one. One can "miss a chippy," i.e. an easy lay-up. Things can "get a little chippy," i.e. throwing elbows in the paint. I've heard (mostly older folks) refer to a "dime-piece" as a chippy, but that usage is becoming rare.

    Gary from accounts receivable would just be personable, likeable, or have a good sense of humor. In sports, especially baseball, these traits become intangibles.

    The use of defense as a verb drives me crazy. There's already a perfectly good verb for that action: to defend. Merriam-Webster shows its first usage as 1950--I imagine by a football coach with a limited grasp of the English language.

    Others:
    - squib or squibber
    - bloop or blooper
    - choke up (baseball)
    - choke down (golf)

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  153. Workmanlike. It's a real word i never hear anywhere other than baseball games, and then only when paired with "effort."

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  154. Lackadaisical.

    In fact, nobody who isn't or has never coached has ever said lackadaisical, ever.

    In the extreme case, it becomes, of course, "laxadaisical."

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  155. Baseball movie word: Lollygag

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  156. "Nothing doing" - after most pitchouts where the runner doesn't attempt to steal.

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  157. basketball - "trey", "dunk", "its good!", "swish"
    baseball - "balk", "outta here", "goner", "getting the hook"
    football - "gridiron", "frozen tundra", "road grader"
    general - "barn burner"

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  158. Wow. Epic fail by the BRs. Almost everyone is suggesting 1) phrases, 2) words that are used in a different way in sports but are otherwise used all the time (someone suggested "tools" someone else suggested "motor") 3) sports-specific terms (someone even suggested "slug bunt" when Joe specifically used bunt as an example of a sports-specific word he was not interested in...someone else suggested "foulpole") or 4) just normal words that are used all the time (worst examples suggested: brick; advanced).

    That said, a few BRs have come up with some good ones. Crafty, unmolested and muffed are good ones. Uncorked and induced are great examples of words with one specific use other than sports and otherwise you don't hear them. I think ensuing sort of falls into this category. You only here ensuing before the word kickoff, but the phrase "chaos ensues" is the description of 99.8% of every sitcom plot ever.

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  159. I would like to second "toolsy" as mentioned by Pele. That word just does not exist outside of sports, and probably not even outside of baseball.

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  160. Bested
    Valiant
    Unassisted
    Flagrant
    Undisputed
    Reigning
    Coachable
    Detrimental

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  161. Waived
    Designated
    Venerable
    Untested
    Opportunistic
    Virtuoso
    Gassed
    Spotty

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  162. Fortuitous
    Swagger
    Listless
    Indisputable
    Erratic
    Iconic
    Blistering
    Blustery
    Unrivaled

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  163. Uncanny
    Sublime
    Robust
    Floundering
    Engineered
    Unrestricted

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  165. Entrenched
    Capitalize
    Decimated
    Raucous
    Frenzied
    Fervor

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  168. Sorry to be rude, but I nominate Dr. FeelNice for "person who least gets what Joe is talking about."

    @thingsthatareblankingstupid...if the word doesn't exist outside of sports then it's exactly the type of word Joe said he's NOT talking about.

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  169. Sorry to be rude, but I nominate Theangryyoungman as "person who is most like a troll"

    Why don't you give us creative examples of your own rather than wasting comments to throw rocks at others? I would guess that it is because you have none. I think Joe will be able to separate the wheat from the chaff just fine on his own.

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  170. @ alan averill: How about yeoman-like in lieu of workmanlike?

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  171. Actually Kazad, I think AYM is exactly right. Joe gives a writing assignment and most people blow it. Phrases dont count. If the word exists regularly outside of sports it doesnt count. How hard is that? Obviously its very hard for people to grasp. He trashed feelnice mostly because its clear he just sat there with a thesaurus for awhile and wasted everyones time by "overposting". I will throw in "towering" and "skyed" as my contribs even though they were mentioned already.

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  172. You mostly failed miserably Khazad btw.

    can of corn? fail. momentum? fail. burned? epic fail. tuck rule? epic fail. walk off? fail. hat trick? fail. fadeaway? decent. pancaked? solid. wheelhouse? very good.

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  174. "flirted"

    As in, "CJ Wilson flirted with perfection yesterday...."

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  175. At the risk of being excoriated, allow me to offer a word who's usage has changed in recent years. Prior to the addition of shootouts, NHL teams only 'skated' in tie games. as in Toronto and Boston skated to a 2-2 tie. Immediately bringing to mind the vision of Dorothy Hammill performing in pads. (OK, maybe Tonya Harding)

    Now team skate past teams they defeat.

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  176. Front offfice. Broadcaster. Standings.

    Bums.

    Perhaps-very-to-the-point choice: Cliche (especially when used to describe a word or words; but I think that outside of sports "cliche" is increasingly falling out of use in all its meanings).

    Joe, I hope your article will tell us what you think all this means. Perhaps if we do not allow the language we use for sports to carry over into non-toy-department-world language, it might mean that sports and its "lessons" are not as influential on our culture as one might have thought.

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  177. Based on the baseline word, ensuing, I stand by my lists (I can use the word outside of sports, for example: After that girl at the bar flirted with me all night, my girlfriend was mad on the ensuing ride home. The point is ensuing is almost always followed by kickoff.) But tell me how do you use the word listless unless it's followed by performance? When is something besides a crowd frenzied (can also apply to rock concert crowds, but still). The only time you hear entrenched, it's followed by "as a starter." Some of my examples are weaker than those, but I didn't realize I had to clear things with someone who took it upon themself to be the site's editor. And I hardly see how I wasted anyone's time. Now I remember why I usually stop reading at the end of the article by the professional writer, and leave the comments alone.

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  178. reliever (without another noun like 'stress' or 'pain' in front of it)

    divisional

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  179. come from behind
    going the other way (as in an opposite field hit)
    command (noun, as opposed to "aim". Ex. The pitcher has good command)

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  183. Matriculated

    By Brent Musberger on college football broadcasts to describe moving the ball down the field. Nobody uses it otherwise

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  184. @ Keane

    Yeah, totally. I hear yeoman-like sometimes, although they also say "a yeoman's effort," which is pretty much the same thing.

    Side point: I only know the word "Yeoman" because some hot chick on Star Trek was a yeoman. Apparently it's a real rank in the Coast Guard or something, but i'm still not sure how that relates to their effort level.

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  185. @ Dr FeelNice...first of all, of course you CAN use ensuing outside of sports. That's in fact one of the criteria for it to be a spoword. It's just that nobody ever does.

    And you suggested 41 words and the best you can come up with is an example that applies equally to concert crowds and entrenched. Politicians and political parties are described as being entrenched ALL THE TIME.

    One of the 41 words you suggested was iconic. You can't seriously think iconic fits Joe's definition of a spoword. All across popular culture things are described as iconic. The photo of the sailor kissing that chick on VJ Day is almost never mentioned without being described as iconic. Ditto for the photo of Marilyn Monroe with her skirt billowing up as she stands over an NYC subway grate.

    Anyway, I didn't really mean to pick on you. As my earlier post had noted, almost everybody is doing the same thing. Just a disappointing effort by the BRs. They're doing much better in the band names comments though.

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  186. @alan averill - I don't know about the Coasties, but Yeoman is a rating (job category) in the Navy. It's something akin to a clerk or a secretary. I'm sure that it was something different in ancient times, however. Otherwise, "yeoman's work" would not have the desired meaning.

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  187. dribbler (a two-sport nominee)

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  188. Bristol Ramos, Musberger intentionally borrowed "matriculated" from Hank Stram who blurted it out in one of the most famous quotes in football history during the Superbowl. There is no doubt he uses the word with a note of endearing sarcasm as the word was grossly misused by Stram in the famous quote. Matriculate means to go back to school or, attend a class or enroll in a course. In his his quote Stram says: "Lets matriculate the ball down the field boys". This clearly makes no sense at all and its obvious that Stram had no clue what the word meant. He just wanted to sound smart (NFL films miked him for the game)or just liked the sound of the word. Its impossible that Musberger doesnt know this, therefore he can only be using it as a tribute to Strams unique quirky character.

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  189. Gamer, overtime, all-pro, overtime, longshot, grooved, shortstop, quarterback (most sports positions for that matter), underdog, upset, homerun, flyout, groin, hamstring, hotbox, rope, blooper, lineup, bomb, dribbler, screamer, preseason, cleanup, slugger, windup, pickle, rundown, gapper, nubber, gork, uncorked, unleashed, pick-off, doubleheader, laced, tailgate, moonshot, lollygagging,loafing, dogging, blitz, comebacker, one-hopper,jammed, hand-cuffed, glove-work, stick-work, fireman, heater, flamethrower, bleeder, holdout, contraction, restructured,

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  190. Well you can rest easy, Dr. FeelNice. Daniel has taken over the title of "guy who least gets what Joe is talking about."

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  191. Balk, postgame, CAGEY, crafty, slurve, pregame, tally, knockout, foul, concession (a reach), CAROMED, scoreboard, gymnasium, stadium, pitch, turf, astroturf, unrestricted, balleehooed (or however u spell "the much Balleehooed prospect", maligned, slump, streak, dominance, dynasty, and no I am not using a thesaurus, rain-out, match-up, trophy, brushback, toed (as in toed the rubber), mismatch, rivalry, check-swing, cheerleader, jock, cellar-dweller, dugout,

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  193. "shy" when used in context of "he's one single shy of hitting for the cycle"

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  194. I double-checked my browser, and it still doesn't say TheAngryYoungMan.com, but you sure are trying to make people believe it. I am finished posting on this.

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  196. 20 years ago, I took a "Sports in America" class in college which every nerdy sports fan on campus signed up for, of course. I kept a tally of phrases that got said and re-said.

    I can't remember all of the turns for which I had to put a mark down on my notes, but I remember, "day in, day out" & " . . . but, hey . . ."

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  197. @ Dr FeelNice...Joe said "What I'm looking for here... are NOT specifically sports words. That is to say, I'm not interested in "bunt" or "interception" or even "shank"..."

    And so Joe says he's looking for words that are NOT specifically sports words, and Daniel suggests "pregame" and "shortstop" (among 100 other words that don't fit).

    Look, all of your distaste for me aside, if someone says, "I want to to suggest words that are NOT specific to sports" and in response someone says "shortstop" what do you think to yourself? Do you think that person answering shortstop understood what was being asked?

    I know you said you're done posting, but do you disagree that the only conclusion is that Daniel either 1) didn't even read Joe's post or 2) has no reading comprehension at all?

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  198. It is called free association. Notice how I avoided sentence structure, correct spelling, correct punctuation, and close attention to directions? You began by spewing your judgments at FeelGood. Once he defends himself you attempt to recruit him into your special club. What club? The one where members offer nothing meaningful and only attempt to correct, insult, or belittle others. Ok genius, once again I will ask for some of your own original examples. You are great at critiquing others. Give us a chance to return the favor.

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  199. Manufacture, rally, swipe, bobble, misjudge, shoestring, leapfrogged,

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  200. Tape-measure, yield, surrender, encroachment, drawn, nibbled, buffaloed, dispatch, dispense, ranging, shading, penetrate, lobbed, lofted, retooled, sacked, pummel,

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