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Language of game is constantly changing.(Brief Article)
CRAZY. TWENTY YEARS IN THE bigs, and Tony Gwynn couldn't figure out what in the world these college baseball players were telling the opposing team's pitcher. Gwynn listened intently, trying to decipher the almost whisper of a chant.
Breeeeeeeeeeathe ... breeeeeeeeeeathe ... breeeeeeeeeeathe ...
"I finally figured it out," says Gwynn. "We had been down, but now we were rallying. The pitcher was getting fight out there. We were starting to hit him pretty hard. Our guys were on him, telling him to breathe. It was pretty funny.
"In one game, a fly dropped in and someone in the Rangers' dugout piped up, `Can't teach that.' I had never heard that one before."
Language is a living thing, and sports jargon is as much habit for some as coffee with cream. In baseball, the ways you might have described a home run as a child--tater, dinger, crushed it, rocket, long ball--might still apply on fields today.
There are just more ways to say it.
And yet no matter the level, baseball jargon is like chat-room rumors. You throw a few hundred sayings out there and see which ones stick.
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