Watching some baseball the other day I was introduced to a term that I hadn’t heard in all my years of watching the sport.
A runner stole second and smarmy chip caray said,
“well, dave, they’re going to call Defensive Indifference on that one”
I guess instead of awarding the stolen base.
Anyway, Defensive Indifference conjures up images of the whole team standing around whistling, looking at the sky, shrugging when the guy steals second and then saying “I don’t care. So what?”
I’ve also always loved Encroachment. That’s just a great word.
The term is used in cricket (where it is legal to hit the batsman in the head). It is mainly used by West Indians, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it came from there for baseball as well.
American Football: "Unnecessary Roughness". I still don’t get that. If roughness is unnecessary, why are they wearing pads?
Hockey: A guy plants his elbow halfway through his opponent’s skull and he gets a penalty for "Roughing". Roughing? The guy is bleeding from his ears and the best you can come up with is rough? It should be a penalty for "Assault and Battery".
(An ineligible A player bats, muffs, or catches a forward pass while in or behind the neutral zone prior to the pass being touched by B, 5 yards and loss of down.)
It’s rare to see, but it’s great to hear an official call it.
In football, it is illegal to jump and pish off of the back of one of your teammates to get higher to block a field goal. It’s really rare that it ever gets called, and I have no idea what the official penalty is, and I don’t think the refs do either cause they always call it something different, which is funny as hell.
So far I have seen the refs give the call as
“Running and Jumping” -gave me visions of my mom out reffing a game ‘if you don’t stop all that running and jumping we’re going home’.
“Illegally aiding a jumper”- sounds like something involving funneled money and a suicide.
“jumping with assistance”- a new feel-good government program.
Rugby - Try
-appears to be the wrong tense to me, they have already succeeded(hate spelling that word).
Tennis - Love
-find it interesting because, quite honestly, I don’t know where it came from
Golf - worm burner
- duck hook
-just neat is all.
This was gonna be mine. I always get images of the ref standing in the center of the field, doing the sign language they use to convey which penalty was called, pointing at his crotch and then rubbing his index fingers as if to say, “no, no, no.”
What I think is fun is watching a baseball game on TV and hearing the announcer say something along the lines of, “That pitch goes high and away. The batter now has 3 balls on him.”