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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 02:46 PM
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Poll question: Will there ever be a congressional hearing without baseball metaphors?
I've been listening to this Alito hearing all day and I'm at the point where if I hear one more baseball reference I'm going to take a bat and bash my own ears in. And it's just day two.

I think it's safe to assume that for the most part these Senators have some brains, some schoolin', and perhaps a large vocabulary at their disposal. And yet, the "everyman" baseball crap continues.

(Note to Senators: Doesn't impress me. Try Apple Pie for a while instead--see how that goes over. :eyes: )

So anyway, will this go on forever, or will they one day come to their senses and knock it off (if only for a little while):
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 02:49 PM
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1. It's about as likely as
a pitcher throwing a perfect game with 27 straight strikes.
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 02:53 PM
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3. Aaaargh!!
:spank:



(wait, that means it's not likely, right?)



AAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!!!



:D
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 02:51 PM
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2. Only When They Take It One Game At A Time,. . .
. . .give 110% and knock one out of the park. Then there won't be able baseball metaphors.
The Professor
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 02:56 PM
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4. I will now pray to jeebus this series of inspiring events happens.
Also, I will hope they do it for the gipper, since they seem to do everything else for him in some way or another as it is anyway.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 03:02 PM
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6. You Used A Football Analogy. Now THAT Makes Me Mad
LOL! Gotcha, janey!
The Professor
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 03:04 PM
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8. You know, I don't know about the sports and such.
Can you tell? :D
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 03:06 PM
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10. Have A Fun Day!
Thanks for the chuckle.
The Professor
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 03:18 PM
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14. Thanks, you too Professor!
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 02:56 PM
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5. I feel your pain....It irritates the hell out of me....There are other....
metaphors that can be used to make a point. Apparently, though, the good ole boys of the Judiciary Committee (Democratic and Republican) are too ignorant to use anything but baseball to make a point.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 03:03 PM
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7. listen, pal. you wanna diss baseball, the greatest game in human history
and you better not be working too close to second base on the pivot if I'm coming down from first on a grounder to short.
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 03:26 PM
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15. LOL......You just try! I'll beat you with my backgammon board, stuff you
with lump crabmeat, and garnish you with fresh cut rosemary and basil. After I finish your "makeover" your own mama won't recognize you!

Not to worry though. I walked off a softball field in 1971 (humiliated and furious) and haven't been back. Not likely you'll see me anywhere in the neighborhood of 2nd base in this lifetime.....
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 03:34 PM
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16. mmmm
rosemary

this weekend, I'll be doing something with crab, prosciutto, parm reg and . . . sharpened baseball spikes!

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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 05:14 PM
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18. Damn! I want that recipe!
Spikes, wrapped in prosciutto, sauteed with jumbo lump crabmeat, with a dusting of freshly grated parmesan.....

Seriously, its just the baseball analogies I dislike. Where the players are concerned, well "Take me out to the ballgame"!
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 05:34 PM
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20. actually the parm goes on the inside
and the whole thing is dusted with foul-line chalk.

I bet you miss the days of the skin-tight uniforms.
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 06:10 PM
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21. There was a farm team in Jackson (Jackson Mets) some years back
and I'd go and sit with the troublemakers on the 3rd base line. My friend had binoculars and damn near had to force me to give them up!

About the only sport I watch regularly anymore is soccer. Our local Mexican restaurant usually has a game on their wide-screen and damn, just damn. Some of those Hispanic players.......
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 03:05 PM
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9. That's as likely as a line drive bouncing off of both foul line posts
Edited on Tue Jan-10-06 03:06 PM by JVS
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 03:13 PM
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11. I think you may have hit a home run with this poll!!!
:evilgrin:
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 03:16 PM
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13. Lol. It's about time. Most of mine fall harder than, a lead basketball?
That's a sports thing, right? :7
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WeRQ4U Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 03:15 PM
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12. Could the Great Bambino hit?
I thought so.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 03:35 PM
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17. If the Senator from Wyoming would like to stuff a mitt in his windpipe
before I put my cleat up his dugout :D
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 05:26 PM
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19. I once did a story on golf metaphors
A linguistics professor I interviewed noted that ours is a society that loves metaphors.

And since few recreations are more ingrained in American hearts, baseball metaphors hit .400 in my book.

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