I'm a sports writer looking to learn some good sports jargon / slang. What are some good lines?
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Hung out to dry = When a runner makes a break for the next base and is caught in a rundown.\n\nWent yard = A player hitting a home run.\n\nTexas leaguer = looping shallow fly that falls in between the infielder and outfielder.\n\nHot corner = 3rd base position because of the screaming liners and grounders hit in his direction.
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http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor4.shtml
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sure!  most sports writers are pretty clueless...assuming atrain313131 is a sports writer =]
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What are the phrases?
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I started a company mixed softball team (I hope softball counts as baseball because where I come from its a big deal)\n\nWe were a small company of only 10 employees but we brought in some had some good young talent and I fancied myself a decent if older player.\n\nWell, when we arrived for our first game, we were in for a shock even before it started! The other team had full uniforms and matching bat bags and equipment bags.  They had team-colour batting helmets and every kind of equipment that you can imagine.   \n\nMy boss wasn't into company sport and didn't give us any money so we self-funded it.  It was just for fun anyway.  Right?  We thought that we had gone all out to get custom T-shirts and matching generic navy-blue sweatpants.  We were the laughing stock of the whole league.  \n\nIf I never hear another comment about pajamas in my whole life I will be happy.\n\nAnyway, the game's played on the diamond not on the fashion runway right?  Well we found out that we didn't just LOOK out of place.  I was playing left field and I just watched ball after ball sail over my head well beyond the home run fence.\n\nThe final score.  32-0.  The next week was a little better at 24-4.  At least we scored a few runs.  The whole season went that way.  We were the bad news bears and then some but we didn't quit we kept on going in our crappy uniforms and all.\n\nWe did improve a bit as we did have some good athletes but never before has the saying 'out of your league' been so appropriate.  \n\nAnyway in the last game of the season in the bottom of the last inning, the score was 7-2 against us.  I had played hardball many years before and I fancied myself a very good hitter.  I was the player manager and I had put myself in the number four clean-up spot.  \n\nThere was just one hitter and then we were back to the top of the order.  The first guy got out but then the\nnext three guys got on base so there I was bases loaded and stepping up to the plate.  \n\nI'll never forget that one sweet swing.  It was like all time had stopped and the universe was still and just waiting for me to finish my swing.  I hit the ball further than I had ever in my whole life.  It was my only home run of the season but it was probably just as far or further than the dozens of home-runs that routinely sailed over my head on defence.\n\nA grand slam in that situation was the most gratifying feeling in the world, now could we win the game?\n\nIt was now 7-6 against with one out and nobody on base.  I went back to coaching first base as I normally did after hitting.\n\nThe next batter got a single.  The next batter drove a hot ground ball to second.  The second baseman bobbled it a bit and didn't have time for the double play so he tossed it to first instead.  It was a close play at first but the Umpire called him out.\n\nI was standing at first and I could see that he was safe but what could I do, the ump had made his call.  My player who was standing at second could also see that the batter was safe at first so when the ump called him out, he complained bitterly.  He didn't say anything directly offensive but he obviously didn't accept the call.\n\nYou see we were on the verge of winning our first game after a very very dissapointing season and we were all very excited.  I think we would have won too if it wasn't for the Umpire's response. \n\nHe stuck to his guns.  He called the player at first out and he called the player at second out as well for arguing.  Thats the way the game ended.  A blown call and an ejection.  \n\nI would have liked to win the game but I'll still never forget that swing.  It was a single highly concentrated moment of glory within a larger context of great frustration.  Who says that baseball isn't like real life?
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Hey, Hey\nHey hey are you ready?(clap, clap)\nAre you ready?(clap,clap)\nTo play(clap)\nSay go team(clap)\nGo team(clap)\nPanthers all the way!\n\njust replace the panthers with the rangers\n\ne-mail me at soccer_diva1102@yahoo.com  now if you want more
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Proper English, and slang...
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please name the sport for which u want the information.
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Jay Marrioti (spelling?) from The Sun Times. Basically Marrioti was saying things about Ozzie's handling of the rookie that came up and Ozzie said some stuff about him. \n\nHe's also from AROUND THE HORN
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Espn has a good one and Fado's Irish pub has a fun one too. I am also searching for more. And as for the other responses I can only assume they are some sad fans of a "sport" that involves talking a lot of steroids to hit a little ball with a stick...boys in world of men.
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It is a slang term used by commentators which refers to a jump shot outside the three point line.
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rugby(another terms used in rugby is screen also...\n)
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my high school team's pre-game chant goes a little something like this...\n\nLeader: What time is it?\nEveryone: Game time!\nLeader: What time is it?\nEveryone: Game time!\nLeader: What time is it?\nEveryone: Show time!\n\nThen everyone yells the team name and runs out.\n\nAbout the captain issue - some teams wear little cloth bands across their shoulder on their jersey.  They usually stand for different things, but in your case you could use it to distinguish the captains from the rest of the team.
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I like many of the new rule changes. I absolutely love 4-on-4 during overtime. It opens the game up more. One rule I would like to see though is that a player's namemust have a minimum of 3 vowels, just so I can know how to pronounce it.
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The stuff in the bracket was not in the original quote or source that they are writing about, but the writer of the story had to add it in to make sense to the reader.\n\nExample:\n\nThe coach said, "The [New York] team played very poorly".\n\nIf the writer just put "The team played very poorly", that would be what the coach actually said, but the reader wouldn't know what team he was talking about.
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I dug up a pretty decent list of internet slang terms though Goggle. Enjoy!
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(m)\n\nbaseball\nfootball\nbasketball