grammar 101 for baseball

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brian and i went to the Rockies game the other night; the night, in fact, that Barry Bonds broke the record. Barry has nothing to do with this post though, that was just a side comment.

all i want to say is that i discovered something about baseball that makes me want to twitch. i was enjoying the game when i happened to glance over at the big screen only to see this phrase: "Flied to Left". i shook it off and figured it was some baseball term i didn't know. then i looked over again to see "Flied to center". it then occured to me that they were recapping where the ball went. i asked brian, "shouldn't that say 'Flew to center'?" he paused and said, "huh. probably. i never thought about it before."

just because it's a popular sport they shouldn't be able to get away with such a heinous (and i use 'heinous' just for dramatic effect; i'm not THAT worked up about it) grammatical error. it's America's sport... and America, last time i checked, is supposed to be an educated country.

but that's just me.

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  1. kp8:40 PM

    ok, just last night, lafawnduh was watching baseball with me and asked what the difference is between a sacrifice hit and a sacrifice bunt, and a sacrifice fly, and i got to explain to her all about 6-4-3 and a line out and a fly out and the strategy for fielding a slowly hit foul ball.

    i love baseball. and never even considered what the proper past tense of fly ball is. you're deep.

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