Atdtda31: Games and last moves, 873-874

[Dave Monroe]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:44 PM, john
barleycorn<warlockjacklondon at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Thanks as always, Paul!  Right up there with Robt. Jackson's heroic
>> pinch-hitting stint on the last M&D group read, not to mention ...
>
> Pinch-hittin? Long term lurker says this phrase is not accurate. This phrase
> suggests that the replaced player is not allowed back into that game and
> since the pinch-hitter assumes the spot in the batting order of the player
> he replaces and usually replaces  a starting Pitcher or Player,  most often
> a starting player when the pinch hitter is thought to have a better chance
> of reaching base or helping other runners to score, and since it also
> suggests that the pincher, in some way or another, is a lesser talent, at
> leasst in terms of the current game dynamic it ain't quite a cope ah stetic
> term:  Paul is Babe Ruth. Replace him on the mound if you must but let him
> swing for the fences. I'm out there in the Underworld waiting to Catch that
> shot heard round the world.

"I never played the game." --Howard Cossell

I said Robt. pinch-hit (pinched-hit? pinch-hat? pinched-hat?), not
Paul.  But perhaps not quite the right figure in either instance, so
...