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Posted on 3/25/09 at 1:00 pm to TigerPanzer
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Safeties: base hits.
If thats what they are saying I'm calling
GAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY on that
Posted on 3/25/09 at 1:00 pm to tjohn deaux
No safeties for the Crimson tonight! Shut em down. 
Posted on 3/25/09 at 1:05 pm to LSU82BILL
quote:
Exactly...it's an "old school" expression to say a hitter has "hit safely"
Close. It means hit, walk, or safe on error. IE, reaching base without causing another out, like a force.
Posted on 3/25/09 at 1:05 pm to LSUfan1950
"Will Keuper (pictured) and Jonah Klees held the vaunted LSU offense in check Tuesday night"
Not sure what this says about Hahvard's not so vaunted offense?
Not sure what this says about Hahvard's not so vaunted offense?
Posted on 3/25/09 at 1:32 pm to LSUTygerFan
Posted on 3/25/09 at 1:35 pm to Padge1
I am sure the guy from Harvard is reading this thread and saying, "Dumb Coon Asses". Yes, Safety is an "Old School" Term. Any of you clowns ever watched, "The Natural" I believe the term is used in the movie.
Posted on 3/25/09 at 1:40 pm to DLSUFan
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I am sure the guy from Harvard is reading this thread and saying, "Dumb Coon Asses". Yes, Safety is an "Old School" Term. Any of you clowns ever watched, "The Natural" I believe the term is used in the movie.
Is there any reason for saying that? Why can't you just call it a frickING hit? Why does everything have to be so complicated with people from Harvard?
Posted on 3/25/09 at 1:41 pm to Padge1
quote:
I've always thought it was slang for a base hit. At least someone else believes this to:
Sorry, but Wiki is wrong. There have always been terms that embrace a group of other terms. IE, the house of reps and the senate = "congress."
Baseball writing was very specific back in the day. Hits were called "hits." There was no need to use a slang term. But they needed to get a term for reaching base "safely" that encompassed all the ways you could reach base. Thus, "safeties."
I must admit that I haven't seen the term in print since the 1950s.
If you want to go waaaay back, "walks" were counted as "hits." That inflated batting averages quite a bit back in the day.
Posted on 3/25/09 at 1:50 pm to Zach
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Is there any reason for saying that? Why can't you just call it a frickING hit? Why does everything have to be so complicated with people from Harvard?
Believe me, I am with you! Just some punk, Ivy League writer trying to be cute!!
Posted on 3/25/09 at 1:53 pm to DLSUFan
Reminds me of the Tom Cruise scene in Tropic Thunder where he asked somebody to punch the director in the face "REAL frickING HARD" and I really want to ask somebody AT harvard to punch this writer in the face "REAL frickING HARD"
Posted on 3/25/09 at 1:59 pm to mlttiger
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Why does everything have to be so complicated with people from Harvard?
It's post-modernism. You wouldn't understand.
Posted on 3/25/09 at 2:06 pm to Zach
centenary put up 31 in one game against em
Posted on 3/25/09 at 2:13 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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It's post-modernism. You wouldn't understand
What I understand is that a hit is a hit to 99.9999999999% of baseball fans out there, and I've NEVER heard one announcer call a hit a "safety." And hope I never do
Posted on 3/25/09 at 2:14 pm to The Boat
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Two safeties?
Old fashioned way of saying 2 hits. And when I say old-fashioned, I'm talking circa 1910 sportswriting here.
Posted on 3/25/09 at 2:24 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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centenary put up 31 in one game against em
I'm not surprised.
Posted on 3/25/09 at 2:24 pm to mlttiger
quote:since when is the lexicon of baseball so simple? there are tons of ways of saying everything.
Is there any reason for saying that? Why can't you just call it a frickING hit? Why does everything have to be so complicated with people from Harvard?
the way I see it (and I see this in Columbia's sports coverage), they suck at sports, and the sports writers don't know much about sports. So, they just try and write quirky stuff. it isn't like the Reveille is the paragon of journalism.
Posted on 3/25/09 at 2:29 pm to Spirit of Dunson
Yeah, the use of the term "safety" is VERY old school. Kind of like calling basketball players "cagers" and football players "gridders". Our local paper here in Winnfield runs a copy of old papers on the back page every week, like from the 40's and 50's. "Cagers" and "safeties" were used as sports terms quite often back then, at least in Winnfield. (Lord, I suppose I opened the door for Winnfield jokes there haha)
BTW, let me please add that I think the use of any of these terms in 2009 is seriously goofy.
BTW, let me please add that I think the use of any of these terms in 2009 is seriously goofy.
This post was edited on 3/25/09 at 2:33 pm
Posted on 3/25/09 at 2:30 pm to Spirit of Dunson
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Spirit of Dunson
Love to see the last article to have safeties in it, ever!!!! There is difference from being quirky and just being a bad writer and trying to hard to keep up with the Ivy League thought of being better than everyone and proving it by having a fricking vocab quiz in a SPORTS article!!!!
I think thats why people read the Sports section of newspaper b/c its shite they can actually understand and relate to in life.
Posted on 3/25/09 at 2:36 pm to mlttiger
Seeing the name "Buzzy Hayel" on Harvard's Web site just looks out of place.
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