ESPN (A bunch of Death-Spiraling maroons)

[BayBuck]

You mean just like the baseball term "hit and run" where the base runner starts running before the ball is hit? Should be called a "run and hit" play...

I don't give [censored] if the term "home-and-home" had been misused to the point inclusion in Merriam-Webster, it's still incorrect and violates plain common sense...genius.

So [censored] ESPN and Merriam-Webster. A two-game series where one game is played at Team A's home venue and the other at Team B's venue is a "home and away", because it's exactly that...one home game and one away game for both teams.

So I take it "home and away" is the preferred term of the Hawaiian local TV newscasts? Because I'm pretty sure nobody else, anywhere ever, uses that term for a two-game football series.

 

[Zippercat]

Maybe one of the mods needs to start a "Definition of Home" thread, move all this nonsense to it and let this one get back to E$PiN?

 

[BayBuck]

Maybe one of the mods needs to start a "Definition of Home" thread, move all this nonsense to it and let this one get back to E$PiN?

I vote we call it the "Milictionary" thread so there's a home for all his various tilts at the windmills of the English grammatical establishment.

 

[buckiprof]

I know media folks will type using the term incorrectly...just baffles me how terms like these come into usage in the first place. You'd figure media folks would comprehend basic English...

The most baffling in sports is calling the pole down right field and left field in baseball a foul pole. It should be called fair pole.

 

[Zippercat]

The most baffling in sports is calling the pole down right field and left field in baseball a foul pole. It should be called fair pole.

 

[buckiprof]

And the lines are fair lines too

 

[ochre]

This thread is inflammable.

 

[Dryden]

Maybe one of the mods needs to start a "Definition of Home" thread, move all this nonsense to it and let this one get back to E$PiN?

Agree. This thread is now completely off topic, somebody needs to get it untracked.

 

[BigWoof31]

Agree. This thread is now completely off topic, somebody needs to get it untracked.

Assuming you mean on-track.
So here is an interesting article from early in the season that might have gone without notice.

http://espn.go.com/ncf/notebook/_/page/StoppingTheSEC/who-stop-sec-college-football

 

[southcampus]

Agree. This thread is now completely off topic, somebody needs to get it untracked.

Untracked? Shouldn't it be "de-tracked?"

Let me put it to you this way:
You and your buddy are having a conversation about train tracks....

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

The most baffling in sports is calling the pole down right field and left field in baseball a foul pole. It should be called fair pole.

I know, right? And a 'home run' should be a 'home trot', 'cause they never really run, ya'know??

 

[Dryden]

Assuming you mean on-track.
So here is an interesting article from early in the season that might have gone without notice.

http://espn.go.com/ncf/notebook/_/page/StoppingTheSEC/who-stop-sec-college-football

Untracked? Shouldn't it be "de-tracked?"

Let me put it to you this way:
You and your buddy are having a conversation about train tracks....

Like fish in a barrel ... that was too easy.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

Like fish in a barrel ... that was too easy.

Have you ever tried to shoot fish in a barrel? It's really hard, and after the first miss all the water drains out. :(

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Agree. This thread is now completely off topic, somebody needs to get it untracked.

I have one week. No joke.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Maybe one of the mods needs to start a "Definition of Home" thread, move all this nonsense to it and let this one get back to E$PiN?

I vote we call it the "Milictionary" thread so there's a home for all his various tilts at the windmills of the English grammatical establishment.

"Home-and-home on the range"