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The sports phrase I loathe the most from announcers is "walk-off" in baseball.

No one walks off, for one thing, and we didn't need a way to say the inning ended with one out.

I pay my coworkers $5 if they remove it from a headline.

'Beebs mashes winning homer'

works just fine.

Ritterskoop wrote:The sports phrase I loathe the most from announcers is "walk-off" in baseball.

No one walks off, for one thing, and we didn't need a way to say the inning ended with one out.

I pay my coworkers $5 if they remove it from a headline.

'Beebs mashes winning homer'

works just fine.

Beebs mashes Homer, Homer sues.

Beebs52 wrote:

Ritterskoop wrote:The sports phrase I loathe the most from announcers is "walk-off" in baseball.

No one walks off, for one thing, and we didn't need a way to say the inning ended with one out.

I pay my coworkers $5 if they remove it from a headline.

'Beebs mashes winning homer'

works just fine.

Beebs mashes Homer, Homer sues.

D'OH!!!!

SpacemanSpiff wrote:

Beebs52 wrote:

Ritterskoop wrote:The sports phrase I loathe the most from announcers is "walk-off" in baseball.

No one walks off, for one thing, and we didn't need a way to say the inning ended with one out.

I pay my coworkers $5 if they remove it from a headline.

'Beebs mashes winning homer'

works just fine.

Beebs mashes Homer, Homer sues.

D'OH!!!!

That's old school.

Ritterskoop wrote:The sports phrase I loathe the most from announcers is "walk-off" in baseball.

No one walks off, for one thing, and we didn't need a way to say the inning ended with one out.

I pay my coworkers $5 if they remove it from a headline.

'Beebs mashes winning homer'

works just fine.

No it doesn't. If Beebs hit the a homer in the 1st inning and they won 1-0, 'Beebs mashes winning homer' does not tell the story which is not as dramatic a finish as a 2 out homer in the bottom of the 9th with the score previously 0-0.

"Walk off" refers to no need to finish the game. Everyone playing can just walk off the field. It is meaningful.

BackInTex wrote:

Ritterskoop wrote:The sports phrase I loathe the most from announcers is "walk-off" in baseball.

No one walks off, for one thing, and we didn't need a way to say the inning ended with one out.

I pay my coworkers $5 if they remove it from a headline.

'Beebs mashes winning homer'

works just fine.

No it doesn't. If Beebs hit the a homer in the 1st inning and they won 1-0, 'Beebs mashes winning homer' does not tell the story which is not as dramatic a finish as a 2 out homer in the bottom of the 9th with the score previously 0-0.

"Walk off" refers to no need to finish the game. Everyone playing can just walk off the field. It is meaningful.

No need to finish the game? Are there rules in place that a game can continue after the home team gains the lead in the bottom of the 9th or later?

I've never liked the term, but that's because I can remember exactly when I first heard it and it quickly became the trendy thing for sportscasters to say. In April of 2000, the Royals had three straight game in which they ended the game with a homer... and at some point in that run, the guys on SportsCenter started calling them "walk off homers." Eventually, "walk off" started spreading to any way the home team ended a game by winning in the bottom of the 9th or later.

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