"call the ball" - what does this mean?

Road whoring. AKA, per Wiki, Torino nightlife.

If I can hijack this away from herrings for a bit, here’s air traffic control having a bit of fun with a nearby aircraft carrier at Philadelphia International Airport.

That’s a reference to an actual herring of unusual colour, not an early use of the idiom.

He didn’t say!

I definitely heard a “woosh!” I’m just not sure if I just got Wooshed or Antibob got Wooshed.

A Quantum Woosh.

Given the various red herring origins of red herring it would properly be called a Recursive Whoosh. Hopefully someone has put in an exit counter or we’re going to be stuck here for a very long time…