Have people always used "scuffling" as a synonym for "struggling" in baseball or other sports? I swear I never heard this until the last couple years.
Yeah, pretty common IMO. The Reds are struggling this year. The Cubs were scuffling during their 10 game losing streak. I think there has to be an implication of expected success and then temporary bad results.
Edit- I nerded out and looked up a 2011 article about the Cardinals thinking it was used to described the team. Stark uses "scuffled" to describe Carpenter's outing halfway through the article. Thought I'd share.
Have people always used "scuffling" as a synonym for "struggling" in baseball or other sports? I swear I never heard this until the last couple years.
According to the Baseball dictionary; it was a pet word of Tony LaRussa, documented during his years in Oakland. It was also used by Dennis Eckersley. And, Cap Anson's 1871 contract with the Forest City Base Ball Club of Rockford, Ill. stipulated that he "abstain from profane language, scuffling and light conduct."
That last one makes more sense to me, vs struggling as a player.
Apparently it's sort of an accepted definition in the regular dictionary. Seems to primarily relate to struggling in a fight, whereas I think I've always heard it as another word for fighting. i.e. "they scuffled" or "he was in a scuffle".
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Have people always used "scuffling" as a synonym for "struggling" in baseball or other sports? I swear I never heard this until the last couple years.
According to the Baseball dictionary; it was a pet word of Tony LaRussa, documented during his years in Oakland. It was also used by Dennis Eckersley. And, Cap Anson's 1871 contract with the Forest City Base Ball Club of Rockford, Ill. stipulated that he "abstain from profane language, scuffling and light conduct."
That last one makes more sense to me, vs struggling as a player.
