Getting to know Chip; a lesson in baseball vernacular

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other way: Pillar to post. Chip's a walking early 20th century urban dictionary. He knows what all the cool kids were saying 100 years ago.

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Bookend homers is when a player hits a home run in the 1st & 9th innings. I don't really mind that one.

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Radbird wrote:
June 19 23, 4:35 pm
Today’s contributions:

From post to pillar: when an outfielder runs to catch a ball.

Something about turning your bat into sawdust, indicating a tense situation for a batter. He used it on Donnie. I think right before his game-tying blast.
"And you know Donovan is squeezing the sawdust out of the bat for a second chance"--referring to Donovan wanting to make up for not driving in a runner in a previous at-bat.

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Mrs Mortimer and I were half-watching a game the other day and she suddenly sat up and went "what the hell are pillows?"

I honestly don't mind it. I'd still rather just have stadium noise than commentary, and I'd rather have my ears chewed off than listen to Brad Thompson, but Caray is fine.

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Famous Mortimer wrote:
June 20 23, 9:00 am
Mrs Mortimer and I were half-watching a game the other day and she suddenly sat up and went "what the hell are pillows?"

I honestly don't mind it. I'd still rather just have stadium noise than commentary, and I'd rather have my ears chewed off than listen to Brad Thompson, but Caray is fine.
To which you should've replied, "your dirty pillows!" and given the old girl a motorboat.

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If they had given me a shot at the job, y'all wouldn't have had to listen to that nonsense.

#JustSayin
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MinorLeagueGuy wrote:
June 20 23, 2:33 pm
Famous Mortimer wrote:
June 20 23, 9:00 am
Mrs Mortimer and I were half-watching a game the other day and she suddenly sat up and went "what the hell are pillows?"

I honestly don't mind it. I'd still rather just have stadium noise than commentary, and I'd rather have my ears chewed off than listen to Brad Thompson, but Caray is fine.
To which you should've replied, "your dirty pillows!" and given the old girl a motorboat.
To copy vernacular from that other great sports poet, Jim Ross, it would have been a slobberknocker if I'd done that.

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Haven't you noticed suddenly I'm bright and breezy?

Because of all the beautiful and new things I'm learning about Chip?

Day by day.

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“Peek-a-boo sunshine between the powder-puff clouds overhead”

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Windy City Wacker

I hope the police get that creep

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