So many...

1. Use of the indefinite article "a" in front of a player's name, like "they don't have a Kris Bryant;"
2. There was a time about four or five years ago where every personality on the Score seemed to start using the words "Mike," "Sam,"
and "Will" to describe the three linebacker positions in a 4-3 simultaneously and without even acknowledging the change in lingo;
3. Use of the phrase "panic button," as in "they don't want to push the panic button right now." When is panic ever a viable strategy?;
4. Use of the phrase "first instinct." Instincts by their very nature are primary. You can't have a second instinct. "First" is already baked
into the cake of "instinct."

Getting the W. Saying win is 1/3 of the syllables of W.

Also, modern day nicknames. Carson Fulmer was being interviewed in ST, and I swear to god, he called James Shields "Shieldsy".

Just saying the body part of an injured player rather than the actual injury, e.g. "Dez Bryant is out with a hamstring." I feel like it's not as pervasive as it was a few years ago but Michaels and Buck were particularly annoying when it came to this.

Never better than when someone was "questionable with a ham."

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Somewhere in the recesses of my mind, I seem to remember an 80s porn scene where a guy was “questionable with a ham”.

Maybe Mac knows...

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i don't notice it as much anymore, maybe because i'm used to it, but sometime around 10-12 years ago everyone on sportscenter started referring to RBIs as RBI. and they'd really enunciate it like they wanted to drive home the fact that if you said it "RBIs" you were some kind of idiot. it trickled into regular sports radio, where if you were a caller and said "RBIs", you were chastised for it. the reasoning was "it's not 'runs batted ins'." well no shit. it's also not RsBI, right? but we are talking about "runs" plural. so if you're using a plural form of RBI, it's not stupid to say RBIs.

I remember long ago Tom Shaer was on this kick back on the score morning show.

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Not true. Sometimes he switches it up and says "No doubt about it"

In WNBA News, Bria Holmes is out with a womb

The phrase "Thought process." Does any other profession use that expression as much as sports talk radio hosts?

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

Does Mac still review/recommend porn sites on-air...can't imagine having such an appetite for porn that you'd actually pony up the monthly fee to join a site.

Possibly they (or their writers) all read the first chapter of Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong [2007]--all about how crap the RBI-metric is in determining hitter value and how to present runs-batted-in in print.

I missed this initially but

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It annoys me when talking about BAC not related to DUI that they say "two times the legal limit".

It always makes me think that some guy sitting on his couch at home is risking arrest for having that third beer.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

"Get on a heater"

Where did this come from? Bernstein and McKnight must have said it a half dozen times around the interview with Hoyer yesterday. When I hear a "heater" I think of either Dan McNeil or Ron Majers having a smoke or a Ricky Vaughn fastball from Major League.

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

"Arm talent" on a quarterback.

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Oh this is a really good one, especially when it's used in conjunction with height. The people who push it the most never ever seem to learn. The same guys who fell for Brock Osweiler are all about Josh Allen this year.

Not sure that this is a hated 'media idiosyncrasy", but it's a shame Katy Tur doesn't do her shirt sans blouse.
She has a lovely ample bosom. Did you hear me, Jules? A woman in he media has AWESOME TITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1


Still not as hot as her father, though.

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

Had to look that one up...I apparently missed that nugget while I was appreciating her amazing rack. MSNBC has quietly loaded up with some very attractive reporters and hosts.

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"Consume" and I'm not talking about soup. Douchebags one, two and three from the Score (Berns, Parkins and of course McDouche) all love to use it. I never heard it used so often as a way to say you listened to or watched something but in this current era of The Score radio hosts having to continually prove they have functioning matter between their ears to hide their insecurities of being guys who talk about sports.

1. College Coaches referring to their players as "kids"
2. Pat Hughes exaggerated pronunciation of COOOOHNtreras
3. Said it years ago, and will keep it going....Mac....stop breaking into random song when you hear a name that can be parodied
4. interviewing a coach / player on the way to half-time or in middle of the game. There's never any content...just re-hashed cliches. Waste of time. Then again...almost all player interviews are the same. Pretty short list of

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I second the Contreras pronunciation - what the fuck is wrong with Hughes having to pronounce it that way...

Just wait, Ho-Zay KEEEEEEN-TONNNNA is pitching today!

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

Holy Shit!


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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

I noticed today he's doing it with MOANcada.

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Adam EaTUN.

It's Hughes' thing. Everybody has to have a thing. Doesn't bother me. Actually, it kinda makes me sit up and take notice. I'm always waiting for when he screws up his thing. I caught him saying Eatin when EaTUN was scampering around the bases.

Football broadcasters and analysts calling rushes totes. Tuns, rushes, and/or carries has worked fine for decades. Totes sounds like a goddamn 6 year old commenting on the game.

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Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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How do you feel about "toeing the rubber" or "so and so will be on the bump"? Actually, grownups playing sports is kinda 6 yr oldish, isn't it?

It's a bit. In moments of excitement he says names correctly. it sounds contrived and DB worthy.

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hearing Hub, Bernstein and the other nerds over at the score using the term "technique" to describe a defensive lineman. "such-and-such is a dominant 3-technique". Hes a defensive tackle, stop trying to impress us with your deep football insight, coach. Enough technique already.