If people don't know what a punter is in football, they're not going to know what a fourth down kicker is, either.
A 'wedgie' is exactly what you think it is. It's the ball getting stuck between the basket and the backboard.
Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'
People in real life don't get ballplayers' humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse.
He knows all the golf lingo. You know? You hit your ball, he's like "there's a golf shot. That's a golf shot." Well of course it's a golf shot; I just hit a golf ball. You don't see Gretzky skating around going "there's a hockey shot, that's a hockey shot."
Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.
If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.
I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine.
