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A new article has been posted on www.latechsports.com:
Louisiana Tech took No. 10 Arkansas to extra innings, but couldn't come away with a win as the Razorbacks' (38-11) won 5-4 after Andy Wilkins delivered a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the tenth Tuesday night at Dickey-Stephens Park in front of 9,426 fans.
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... ah it was a Tuesday game. We didn't care about winning this one.
Your panties still in a wad over that LSUS game?Originally Posted by DocMarvin362
We didn't? I guess I missed that quote in the article.
I was proud of my dogs. If the Hogs had been playing us in shreveport and we had pulled it out with an overtime single, we'd be proud. But that was a fine effort by a team who had completed a four-game sweep only two days earlier on its homefield.
No wonder we lost, the diamond dawgs were confused by the extra time, overtime, extra inning controversy!!!
Great effort by the Dawgs......we need a split in Austin and get rolling in the tourney!!!
Bite me!
Let's clarify a few things... in baseball you have Umpires not refs... runs not points, and extra innings not overtime... any other blatantly obvious ones I'm missing?
foul ball, not out of bounds.
Don't forget pretension instead of clarity.
Even my wife has learned this terminology but she still says it at times just to irritate me.
Several years ago, we were playing the warchickens and the warchicken fan behind us was commenting on all the "hits" they were getting against the TECH pitcher. My wife politely explained to her that ground ball outs and flyouts did not qualify as hits.
Another thing that irritates me is hearing someone always holler "balk" at every move by the pitcher to pick off a runner. I haven't heard it much at TECH games but at most parks there's at least one fan who screams it all the time.
What does this have to do with baseball terms?
Getting worked up over a casual fan calling an umpire a "ref" is pretension. You know, a claim that there is some great merit in using one word instead of another word that means exactly the same thing.
Accepting that "ref" is synonymous with umpire and could be used interchangeably would make talking about baseball easier (and "clearer") for a non-purist.
So I've given you another good baseball insider dichotomy.
Instead of saying "refs", you should opt for "umps".
Instead of saying "points", you should opt for "runs".
Instead of stressing clarity in communication, you should opt for pretension.
Don't take this the wrong way. I'm just kidding (kind of)#. I'm actually all for using the correct names for things and we've all got our little areas of expertise where we get annoyed by "incorrect" usage. Tradition is great. All that. And for the record, I say runs and umps and foul ball and extra innings and all the rest.
But I do think of all sports baseball has the worst tendency to take itself too seriously*. In the end you've got to remember that it's a bunch of people running around in pajamas playing a game.
# For one thing, I obviously wasn't too clear myself since you missed my point.I opted for what I thought was a witty reply over clearing stating my "rolls his eyes" response to this kind of bellyaching.
*Contender: Golf
OK well as long as you use it the right way I don't care.Getting worked up over a casual fan calling an umpire a "ref" is pretension. You know, a claim that there is some great merit in using one word instead of another word that means exactly the same thing.
Accepting that "ref" is synonymous with umpire and could be used interchangeably would make talking about baseball easier (and "clearer") for a non-purist.
So I've given you another good baseball insider dichotomy.
Instead of saying "refs", you should opt for "umps".
Instead of saying "points", you should opt for "runs".
Instead of stressing clarity in communication, you should opt for pretension.
Don't take this the wrong way. I'm just kidding (kind of)#. I'm actually all for using the correct names for things and we've all got our little areas of expertise where we get annoyed by "incorrect" usage. Tradition is great. All that. And for the record, I say runs and umps and foul ball and extra innings and all the rest.
But I do think of all sports baseball has the worst tendency to take itself too seriously*. In the end you've got to remember that it's a bunch of people running around in pajamas playing a game.
# For one thing, I obviously wasn't too clear myself since you missed my point.
*Contender: Golf
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