# W-t-f? Sports newscasters' jargon

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 23, 2006, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/w-t-f-sports-newscasters-jargon/341226 "2006-01-23T06:53:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/w-t-f-sports-newscasters-jargon/341226/21 "2006-01-24T18:32:47Z")

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> [@want2know](#):
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> ESPN’s _Sportscenter_  
> **Stuart Scott** – I really like his style, but it’s about time to retire “As cool as the other side of the pillow”…

He ripped this one off from Seattle Supersonics play-by-player Kevin Calabro, who has used that one for at least a decade now.

My favorite was an old Portland NW wrestling announcer who, upon a particularly hard slam, would shout “Felt that one in the crow’s nest!”.

My personal peeve is the after-game analyses that always lamely justify a score or a win by the player “having more heart” or “he wanted it more”. That’s what passes for expert analysis these days?

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/w-t-f-sports-newscasters-jargon/341226/22 "2006-01-24T19:14:58Z")

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> [@Marley23](#):
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> Berman’s nicknames are amusing sometimes. (They always make me wonder if I could do better.)

Is he the one who came up with “Bobby ‘Uneeda’ Ojeda”?

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**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/w-t-f-sports-newscasters-jargon/341226/23 "2006-01-24T22:39:49Z")

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I love when Jerry Remy refers to any player’s midsection as “the kitchen.” “Oof! Right in the kitchen!” I also credit Don Orsillo for bringing the phrase “all nuded up” into my vocabulary (referring to a naked dude running around the field).

I love those guys.

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**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/w-t-f-sports-newscasters-jargon/341226/24 "2006-01-24T22:44:44Z")

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The P{ittsburgh Penguins color guy is awesome (what’s his name:

“Scratch my back with a hacksaw!” (For when he has seen something amazing)

“He put that top shelf where grandma hides the cookies!”

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