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Friday Open Thread: What’s your favorite baseball term?

Baseball is a lingo-heavy game. There are roughly 100 different phrases an announcer might pull out to describe a home run, and even more to colorfully contextualize a catch (ice cream cone, anyone?) or a throw (frozen rope!).

With so many options to choose from, everyone is bound to have a favorite. Something that just tickles them whenever they here it on a broadcast, or it gets mentioned in an article. My personal favorite isn’t even about on-field play, it’s about bench-clearing brawls: donnybrook.

So think long and hard about the lingo that gets you pumped up in a game or the phrases that make you giggle (golden sombrero?