The Internet has been a mixed bag for society. So it’s nice when it can give us something so universally beloved as the term TOOTBLAN. Originally coined by Tony Jewell in 2008 at his Cubs blog, Wrigleyville23, it’s an acronym for Thrown Out On The Bases Like A Nincompoop, and in the years since, the term has become a staple of the Baseball Internet. We needed a special term for it, one that captures the embarrassment of an unforced error. There’s a lightheartedness to using the word nincompoop in the phrase. It signifies, “Hey, been there, dude.
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