How baseball announcers are destroying the game

Perhaps the last great short-form descriptive phrase to be concocted then adopted was “crunch time.” That said it all. The game was on the line. It needed no further explanation or embellishment. Now the emphasis is on conjuring the opposite — the long-form vague, the phony-hip, the arcane and impractical, a blend of the supercilious...

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