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March 30, 2005
How to talk Baseball . . .
Players, email Coach any saying you may know or say, so it can be added to the list.
2 Bagger or 3 Bagger - Double or Triple
Seeds? - What you say when you need sunflower seeds.
Baseball Hop - Term referring to the confident, enthusiastic, assertive moves a ball player makes on the field during transition
Its not the tools, its the carpenter - What you tell a player who blames his failures on the equipment
I love that sound - What is said when you hear the crack of the ball off of a wood bat
The plate is full, lets eat - The way a hitter feels when he is coming to bat with the bases loaded. Get a hit to clear the plate.
In the Zone - What a player is in when everything is going their way
Slide Piece - Slider
Bender - Curve
Slurve - Hard Curve
Hum Babe - Let's go now
Pull the draw string on that one - What you tell the pitcher when he is throwing a change-up
Lazer - Line drive
Who is the stewerdess on that flight - Referring to a long hit ball
Frozen Rope - a Lazer
Give Em' the Dark One - Confusion smoke screen as to which pitch is
actually coming
Shopping at the Gap - Look for a base hit in the gap
Two in the Treehouse, Let's Burn it Down - Two outs, let's get the third
Two in the wagon and we've got one draggin - Simply put we have 2 outs and the third out is next.
Throw him a chair - What the defense tells their pitcher refering to striking out the batter
Tie a rope to it, it will come down - Trying to help the pitcher get the ball down
Riding the Pine - Sitting the bench
We've got horns - The indication there are two outs
Can o' Corn - Easy catch
Campin' - Sitting under a fly ball
SWEET - "THE" describing word of all baseball describing words
Bomb - Home run
Blast - Bomb
Goin' yard - A Blast
P-Rod - Line drive
Granny - Grand slam
Waffled - Crushed the ball/made it flat
Nasty - Great pitch
Duece - Curve Ball
Buzz his tower - Going up and in
In your attic - Getting in your head
Scorched - Hit hard
Buh Bye - What we say when a home run is hit
Sizzled - Hit very hard
BooYah - Stuart Scott's home run call on Sports Center
Back, back, back, back - Berman's saying.
Seed - Ball hit so hard the ball resembles the size of a seed
Dancer - Knuckle ball
That pitch has some bite - Breaks sharply
Dialed in - When a hitter seems to hit every ball that he swings at with authority
Pearl - New, white baseball
Humchuck it - Throw it hard
Bull your neck - Get tough out there and bear down like a bull rushing towards the color red
Get a bucket, he's throwing up - What you yell when a pitcher can't get his ball down
Put a coat on that hanger - What you say to a Pitcher who leaves his curve ball belt high.
That's a pea - Hitting a ball so hard, it appears to be as big as a pea
We could hang 3 weeks of laundry on that line - What you yell when someone hits a vicious line drive
Players, email Coach any saying you may know or say, so it can be added to the list.
2 Bagger or 3 Bagger - Double or Triple
Seeds? - What you say when you need sunflower seeds.
Baseball Hop - Term referring to the confident, enthusiastic, assertive moves a ball player makes on the field during transition
Its not the tools, its the carpenter - What you tell a player who blames his failures on the equipment
I love that sound - What is said when you hear the crack of the ball off of a wood bat
The plate is full, lets eat - The way a hitter feels when he is coming to bat with the bases loaded. Get a hit to clear the plate.
In the Zone - What a player is in when everything is going their way
Slide Piece - Slider
Bender - Curve
Slurve - Hard Curve
Hum Babe - Let's go now
Pull the draw string on that one - What you tell the pitcher when he is throwing a change-up
Lazer - Line drive
Who is the stewerdess on that flight - Referring to a long hit ball
Frozen Rope - a Lazer
Give Em' the Dark One - Confusion smoke screen as to which pitch is
actually coming
Shopping at the Gap - Look for a base hit in the gap
Two in the Treehouse, Let's Burn it Down - Two outs, let's get the third
Two in the wagon and we've got one draggin - Simply put we have 2 outs and the third out is next.
Throw him a chair - What the defense tells their pitcher refering to striking out the batter
Tie a rope to it, it will come down - Trying to help the pitcher get the ball down
Riding the Pine - Sitting the bench
We've got horns - The indication there are two outs
Can o' Corn - Easy catch
Campin' - Sitting under a fly ball
SWEET - "THE" describing word of all baseball describing words
Bomb - Home run
Blast - Bomb
Goin' yard - A Blast
P-Rod - Line drive
Granny - Grand slam
Waffled - Crushed the ball/made it flat
Nasty - Great pitch
Duece - Curve Ball
Buzz his tower - Going up and in
In your attic - Getting in your head
Scorched - Hit hard
Buh Bye - What we say when a home run is hit
Sizzled - Hit very hard
BooYah - Stuart Scott's home run call on Sports Center
Back, back, back, back - Berman's saying.
Seed - Ball hit so hard the ball resembles the size of a seed
Dancer - Knuckle ball
That pitch has some bite - Breaks sharply
Dialed in - When a hitter seems to hit every ball that he swings at with authority
Pearl - New, white baseball
Humchuck it - Throw it hard
Bull your neck - Get tough out there and bear down like a bull rushing towards the color red
Get a bucket, he's throwing up - What you yell when a pitcher can't get his ball down
Put a coat on that hanger - What you say to a Pitcher who leaves his curve ball belt high.
That's a pea - Hitting a ball so hard, it appears to be as big as a pea
We could hang 3 weeks of laundry on that line - What you yell when someone hits a vicious line drive
