by Dugout Dad » Tue Oct 21, 2014 11:36 am
True story.
I was at a showcase a few years ago and I was standing behind the backstop with a female college coach talking about my pitcher. We were playing a New York travel team and the blue was calling the really outside pitch a strike. The NY coach obviously frustrated at the blue and his player yelled out from the dugout, with a thick NJ accent to take the outside pitch away and position "Get nuts over the plate!" to the batter. The college coach and I turned to each other with a "did you just hear that" look, she quickly got embarrassed. A clear example that weird baseball phraseology is really weird in softball
Every time I see the college coach I ask her if she has yet used "the line" in coaching and we break out in laughter.
Thanks NY.
I don't know why I shared that story, but when I saw the topic.......well.....
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