Malapropism of the week
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Favorite headline of week. He pitches righty, lefty — and evidently, also underwater. Faces Aquaman in next outing. pic.twitter.com/efxaQxFp8Z
— Neill Woelk (@NeillWoelk) June 8, 2015
[h/t David Donnell]
Keith said,
June 9, 2015 @ 3:14 am
Presumably he is the only player on the field who needs a pair of baseball gloves. With webs between the fingers, to help him swim.
Rubrick said,
June 9, 2015 @ 3:24 am
His talents are wasted in Oakland. He should play for the Mariners.
Bhell said,
June 9, 2015 @ 3:55 am
On the other hand, amphibious also means "of a mixed or two-fold nature".
Jongseong Park said,
June 9, 2015 @ 6:53 am
I would understand "amphibious pitcher" to mean that he can also pitch underhand (submarine), though that's evidently not what they meant.
Tim Finin said,
June 9, 2015 @ 7:03 am
Neither fish nor foul ball
Rube said,
June 9, 2015 @ 7:19 am
I was just relieved they didn't go for "bisexual".
Karl Weber said,
June 9, 2015 @ 7:52 am
@Rube–No, in baseball the term "switch hitter" is used for someone who "swings both ways."
KevinM said,
June 9, 2015 @ 9:09 am
When he came out, the organist played Joni MItchell's "Both Sides Now." A nice touch, I thought.
Frank said,
June 9, 2015 @ 10:23 am
Nobody realized that this was an homage to Yogi Berra?
Dr. Decay said,
June 9, 2015 @ 11:14 am
Like Jongseong Park, I immediately thought "submarine pitcher" when I saw the headline.
K. Chang said,
June 9, 2015 @ 11:42 am
Just for the heck of it… Is it "malaprop of the week"… or "malapropism of the week"? ;)
VUGear said,
June 9, 2015 @ 12:28 pm
I hear he's got a heck of a sinker.
Eric P Smith said,
June 9, 2015 @ 1:04 pm
It never fails to amaze me how a headline-writer can foul up a perfectly good article. The second paragraph of the article plainly says "ambidextrous". Why on earth did the headline writer choose a different word?
David Fried said,
June 9, 2015 @ 2:22 pm
First amphibious baseball player since "Gill" Hodges. . .
David Fried said,
June 9, 2015 @ 2:27 pm
But now there is an entire team of amphibians . . .
http://www.salamandersbaseball.com/
I'll stop now.
Jacob said,
June 9, 2015 @ 2:58 pm
Don't forget the dodecadactylous Antonio "Octopus" Alfonseca.
Chris C. said,
June 9, 2015 @ 8:26 pm
Frank is right. The purported Berra-ism is, "He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious."
Whether Yogi ever actually said that is a different matter. As he put it, "I never said most of the things I said."
Tom Goodwillie said,
June 9, 2015 @ 8:36 pm
My first reaction was to search for a pitcher called "Newt". Found one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Kimball
David Donnell said,
June 10, 2015 @ 12:49 am
If that headline was a Yogi Berra riff that I was ignorant of, then this-here near-St Louisan feels mortified! (Thanks Frank & Chris C.)
Larry Sheldon said,
June 11, 2015 @ 2:39 am
Suresh Ramasubramanian posted this one on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/hiddenpockets/photos/a.1023621724317895.1073741829.1020854197927981/1068889133124487/?type=1
Graeme said,
June 14, 2015 @ 3:54 am
Dexterity is, etymologically speaking, a sinister word. The sub-ed was subverting the paradigm.
PubliusVA said,
June 16, 2015 @ 8:11 am
"Dexterity is, etymologically speaking, a sinister word."
You are very adroit in pointing out the gaucheness of this term.
nickM said,
June 17, 2015 @ 10:23 pm
@Rube Or "gender-fluid".
But Occam's Razor suggests that Frank is right about the Yogi Berra tribute. As well as Poe's Law – and the closely related natural justice principle, that it's better to mistake stupidity for wit than the reverse.