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Walk-Off is so overused today. I bet most people don't know how it started.
http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2...endary-walk-off-home-run-in-the-world-series/
http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2...endary-walk-off-home-run-in-the-world-series/
This West Virginia team could be good.
Good chance they can play in the NCAA Tournament
Like I have said...WV's major issue will be location.
The Virginia schools might be the only serious baseball schools within a 250 mile radius.
Don't know how far Lexington or Louisville is...
But if they are that would be 4.
Hard to get a good schedule for the midweek and for early season play.
Good chance they can play in the NCAA Tournament
Like I have said...WV's major issue will be location.
The Virginia schools might be the only serious baseball schools within a 250 mile radius.
Don't know how far Lexington or Louisville is...
But if they are that would be 4.
Hard to get a good schedule for the midweek and for early season play.
...because your Google sources say so? Or, would it be because of your vast experience in baseball while you were doing all the rest of the stuff you lie about?
Because I watch college baseball.
You should as well.
Would have went to the Texas/Rice game last night if it wasn't so cold.
Missed out on a great rivarly.
WV has 4-6 great players...
Because not all baseball players are on scholarship the other 10-15 are important.
Texas schools have a huge pool of players who don't want to sign major League contracts.
If those 10-15 players from WV are anywhere near average WV could give someone a battle in the regionals
You should as well.
Would have went to the Texas/Rice game last night if it wasn't so cold.
Missed out on a great rivarly.
WV has 4-6 great players...
Because not all baseball players are on scholarship the other 10-15 are important.
Texas schools have a huge pool of players who don't want to sign major League contracts.
If those 10-15 players from WV are anywhere near average WV could give someone a battle in the regionals
Since you claim to watch all sports...and be an expert in all sports...and have in-experience in all sports why would anyone think differently? BTW: I have done more than just"watch" baseball...then again living in your mom's basement you do need something to do. lol How is that wall of TVs coming?
Although the concept of a game-ending home run is as old as baseball, the adjective walk-off attained widespread use only in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
According to web sites Dennis Eckersley did create the term walk off. THe same year he gave up the Kirk Gibson legendary walk off HR in the world series.
Amazingly enough, the term was never used until that point. Bobby Thomson, Bill Mazeroski, Chris Chambliss, Carlton Fisk, none of their legendary postseason home runs were referred to as “walk-off” home runs at the time.
Peter Gammons called it his “DialEck.”
A home run would be “taking the pitcher over the bridge.”
A pitcher who gave up a lot of home runs was a “bridgemaster.”
A very fast fastball “had a lot of hair on it.”
The first use of the term “walk-off” occurred on July 30, 1988, in the Gannett News Service: ”In Dennis Eckersley’s colorful vocabulary, a walkoff piece is a home run that wins the game and the pitcher walks off the mound.”
What’s fascinating about the original usage, of course, is that Eckersley meant for the word to have a negative connotation, not a positive one.
Less than three months later, though, the word that Eckersley coined was forever associated with a different, euphoric connotation. Now teams walk-off in celebration (in addition, the term itself has been bastardized a bit from the original meaning which was strictly referring to game-winning home runs and is now used to describe ANY game-winning hit that ends a game).
http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2...endary-walk-off-home-run-in-the-world-series/
According to web sites Dennis Eckersley did create the term walk off. THe same year he gave up the Kirk Gibson legendary walk off HR in the world series.
Amazingly enough, the term was never used until that point. Bobby Thomson, Bill Mazeroski, Chris Chambliss, Carlton Fisk, none of their legendary postseason home runs were referred to as “walk-off” home runs at the time.
Peter Gammons called it his “DialEck.”
A home run would be “taking the pitcher over the bridge.”
A pitcher who gave up a lot of home runs was a “bridgemaster.”
A very fast fastball “had a lot of hair on it.”
The first use of the term “walk-off” occurred on July 30, 1988, in the Gannett News Service: ”In Dennis Eckersley’s colorful vocabulary, a walkoff piece is a home run that wins the game and the pitcher walks off the mound.”
What’s fascinating about the original usage, of course, is that Eckersley meant for the word to have a negative connotation, not a positive one.
Less than three months later, though, the word that Eckersley coined was forever associated with a different, euphoric connotation. Now teams walk-off in celebration (in addition, the term itself has been bastardized a bit from the original meaning which was strictly referring to game-winning home runs and is now used to describe ANY game-winning hit that ends a game).
http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2...endary-walk-off-home-run-in-the-world-series/
1988 is a long time ago.
http://m.mlb.com/glossary/idioms/walk-off
Walk-off
Definition
A "walk-off" is any offensive play that gives the home team the lead -- and thus, the win -- in the bottom of the last inning.
Origin
The term walk-off originated as "walk-off piece," and was coined by Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley. ''It was always walk-off piece," Eckersley told the Boston Globe. "Like something you would hang in an art gallery. The walk-off piece is a horrible piece of art."
The first reference to walk-off came in a July 30, 1988, story in the Gannett News Service: "In Dennis Eckersley's colorful vocabulary, a walk-off piece is a home run that wins the game and the pitcher walks off the mound."
Walk-off piece was only intended to describe a pitcher's dejected walk off the field after giving up a game-losing home run, but it soon grew into its own phenomenon.