The Grantland Dictionary: Baseball Edition

[GD]

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9591781/jonah-keri-baseball-grantland-dictionary

 

People here have always talked about starting a glossary and this is a great kind of version of that. Keri is awesome.

[sachmo55]

Beanball (n.) — tool used by overly sensitive/cowardly pitchers to police anything and everything. This includes but is not limited to: firing pitches at (defenseless) PED users/for getting snubbed at a party; teaching a rookie who has done nothing wrong some proper manners; slow trots around the bases; celebrating with teammates; smiling; and breathing. Some pitchers will drill a batter just for hitting a home run with no embellishment, because it's better to endanger an opponent's health and act like a ninny than it is to acknowledge that maybe you just suck.

 

I lol'd hard at this one

[Orgfiller]

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9591781/jonah-keri-baseball-grantland-dictionary

 

People here have always talked about starting a glossary and this is a great kind of version of that. Keri is awesome.

 

This is really awesome, thanks for posting the link.

[havok24]

Banjo Hitter (exp.) — a poor hitter. A derivative of this is Nichols' Law of Catcher Defense, which states that a catcher who can't hit will develop a positive defensive reputation, because why else would teams keep him around? Feel free to apply that principle to other positions, and to be equally skeptical about such claims.

 

Yep lol.

[Orgfiller]

Lava Pit (n.) — the location where anyone who slides into first base for any reason other than trying to avoid a tag must be sent, immediately, and with prejudice.

 

Lol