Conference 7.286::sports_90

    a).  "It looks like xyz team came to play today"
            What the hell do the announcers think the players show up to
    do, scratch their appendages????  Come to think of it....!!!
    
    JaKe
    
                                                   

    o	"He's s-o-m-e kind of a ballplayer ..."
    
    o	"It's a brand new ball game ..."
    
    o	"I just didn't have my good stuff out there today ..."
    
    o	"We just didn't get the breaks today but we'll be back tomorrow ..."
    
    o	"They're not firing on all cylinders ...
    
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    Bob Hunt

    "You gotta love [insert player's name]"
    
    The hell I do!
    
    	--dan'l

    
    "Well if we scored some more points we might have won."
    
    Duh!
    
    
    
    
    Steve

    'HOLY COW!!'
       and
    'OH MY!!!'
                                   Denny

  How about "It's not over until the fat lady sings"

    
    "They never did get Un-tracked"  .. what the hell, I allways thought 
    
    On-Track would have been more appropriate.  
    
    
    /Jeff

    
    "We feel we're very fortunate to be here, since nobody gave us much of
    a chance before the season started.  But we worked hard as a team, not
    just individuals, and everybody pulled together to get us this far.
    The only thing we can do right now is to go out there and play and take
    the games one at a time."
    
    The above, according to Mass. State law chapter 23, section VI,
    paragraph 3., must be memorized by any professional team member so
    employed within the Commonwealth.
    
    Dickster
    

    The absolute worst one I hear is "They haven't given up"
    
    Have you ever heard an announcer say a team has thrown in the towel?
    

Actually, the tired, dumb cliches are what piss me off most about
announcers.   What I think would be really funny is to mix sports
and cliches up.

I mean, let's use a few baseball cliches in golf, and a few tennis
cliches in football.  The announcers sound like dweebs anyway, so
why not go all the way to becoming a total a__hole.

'Saw

    
    "A play just a little to the right or to the left would have made all
    the difference in the game.  This game is truly a game of inches."
    
    -Bobby Fisher
    

  "they seem to want it more"...

 and what does the other team want pizzas and buds?

    Sorry about .11
    	The whole interview that the young pitcher in the movie
    'Bull Durham' gave to the NY reporter after he was brought up
    to the 'show'. Classic cliches, all of them.
    
    Andy

    
    "Not tonight, I have a headache."
    

    "Your mother did what for how many cookies?!?!"

   Wally Schweinschtupper is without a doubt the most underrated inside
   linebacker in the league.

    
    
    	How about "Heads up!"  If you look up, the ball would only hit
    you in the face...
    

    
    "In yo' face!"
    
          -Zeke Mowatt
    

    Re .12
    
    I think it was Marty Schottenheimer who was coaching the Browns at the
    time, who said something like: "If you can score runners from 3rd with
    less than 2 out, and yopu can't sink those 12-foot putts, you aren't
    going to win too many football games."
    
    I also remember ex-Buc coach john McKay baing asked about the
    execution of his team after a big loss. "I'm all for it."
    
    If you think THIS is bad, you should hear the nossense spewed forth by
    the soccer guys on the BBC. All this stuff about being "A game of two
    halves", being "sick as a parrot" after a loss or "over the moon "after
    a win" and how "everybody in the organisation, from the tea lady to the
    supporters have been a part of this. We've got the best supporters in
    the world, and they've turned out through thick and thin, even though
    the factory closed and they had to hock the telly, they've still
    comeout to support The [insert coloUr]s. The players, they've never given
    up, and have fought through thick and thin, against all odds, but it's
    all worth it in the end, to see Big [fill in name] holding that Cup
    over his head...."
    
    Tom

    and a few from across the puddle....
    
    	"Oh, I say, that was a lovely shot."  Dan Maskell (Wimbledon
    							   Commentator)
    
    
    	"The lad (insert name) done good this afternoon"
    
    	"He played the ball all over the park."
    
    	"I thought we did enough to earn a point."
    
    	"You can't take it away from them (the other team)"
    
    PJ

       For those who have ever watched a fishing show.
                                Denny

   Brit Golf Commentator:

   	I say... Well struck!


   Do they really say `Sick as a parrot'?
   Is that from the Monty Python "Dead Parrot Sketch"?

   Mike `e's just resting' JN

    He's not resting,....he's passed on!!
    
    If you hadn't nailed him to the perch, he would have been pushing up
    the daisies. He's gone to meet his maker.  He's kicked the bucket and
    joined the Choir Invisible.  THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!!!
    
    
    (Yes, we say this all the time)
    PJ

    RE:  385.2  "I just didnt have my stuff out there today."  One person
    always keep on coming up in my mind, Gaylord Perry.
    
    
    Greg

On the other hand, for some reason some clich�s are not tired, and
seem to work.

Usually at half time our captain tells us forwards "Eight as one, guys,
eight as one".  Now everybody knows that if the eight forwards don't
play as a unit you'll never win, but somehow hearing it reminds you...

They also talk of "leaving it all on the field".  I've heard that
in other sports, but when I hear that at halftime, I come out and
feel that I'm going to give so much that I'll have to be carried off
after the final whistle.

So, I'm wondering if the tired clich�s used by some players are
more meaningful in the context of a player playing a game than
they are when they're heard by and outsider?

'Course, this has nothing to do with STUPID Sportscasters....

'Saw

    On British sportscasting, the one cliche that's absolutely verboten
    after losing a tough football match would be:
    
    	"This will be a crushing defeat for the fans."
    
    MrT

    Surprised nobody mentioned the most abused, least information cliche of
    all!
    
    "This is a really BIG game"....
    
    Funny, I thought they all counted as either 1 win or 1 loss...
    
    ML

    
    Hey CARR-nac, didja already spend the dough from the football pool?
    

    
    How bout "We really need to win this game today."
    
    Like, gee, maybe if we thought about it, losing the game might somehow
    be to our advantage?
    
    Dickster
    

    
    "N.L.C.S." (National League Championship Series)
    
    "A.L.C.S." (American League Championship Series)
    
    I never heard these abbreviations/acronymns used until a few years ago,
    but they're already becoming tiresome.
    
    Steve

    "Controlling their own destiny."
    
    Definition of destiny: a predetermined course of events often held to
    be an irresistable power or agency.
    
    Therefore, one cannot control it.
    
    	--dan'l