Thread: Blylevenisms

Adding and subtracting.

You are hereby circled!

and my lovely wife, Gail

for Parkinson's

cannot be disseminated without the....

Cheecago

Happy Birthday young lady (the sign says she's 90)

Nobody cared about pitch counts in my day.

Originally Posted by righty8383

HAHAHAHAHAHAH! That was classic. They could have made a snickers commercial about that one. Wanna get away...

I believe the "wanna get away..." commercial were for Southwest Airlines... Snickers are "you're not yourself when you're hungry"

Originally Posted by snepp

With that uppercut swing....



....and he DID NOT miss it.

Had both these in the Arcia HR.

By my California math

That pitch was right there

Duck-fart (evidently retired by Twins braintrust)

"He does a good job getting to that balance point" just about sums up his anaylisis of every pitcher in the major leauges.

"almost like a ....."

A co-worker pointed this out to me several years ago and it has since driven me crazy. Bert will say "right there" in almost every sentence. Like "That was a good slider right there" or "He goes inside right there for the strikeout."

It's like noticing every time somebody says "um" when they're talking. I can't not notice it now!

I think that Twins fans are ready and deserving of a more intellectually stimulating broadcast.

*They are not the broadcasters we need, nor the broadcasters we deserve right now.

I'm wondering how many games in a row Bert is gonna say something like: 'in today's game throwing 7 innings is like pitching a complete game in the old days'. He did it on the Fox Saturday broadcast, he did it Sunday and both games yesterday.

How about Gladdenisms, for us radio listeners?

I'll suggest "jamshot" (or "jam shot" or "jam-shot" -- style handbooks differ on the written representation of the term). Gladden has the remarkable ability to describe a wide variety of baseball hits, of different speeds, trajectories, distances, and directions, with the same term "jamshot". It's quite elegant in its simplicity, really.

I'd go with jam-shot.

Originally Posted by snepp

I'd go with jam-shot.

(It's getting old, but that's never stopped me before) Hey now...there are 12 year olds who read this site.

It actually sounds a little dirty when Gladden says it too. I think it's because he uses the term so often, it doesn't really accurately describe the play, so one's imagination is left to wander...

Originally Posted by spycake

It actually sounds a little dirty when Gladden says it too. I think it's because he uses the term so often, it doesn't really accurately describe the play, so one's imagination is left to wander...

Maybe what's really happening is that instead of taking jello-shots, he's slurping down jam-shots instead. That would explain much of his inane blathering during the game.

Originally Posted by snepp

Maybe what's really happening is that instead of taking jello-shots, he's slurping down jam-shots instead. That would explain much of his inane blathering during the game.

Interesting idea. My wife is out of town. Maybe I'll experiment with this and see if I can get jam-shots to work.

If I'm even less coherent than normal tonight, that'll be why.

Originally Posted by 70charger

Interesting idea. My wife is out of town. Maybe I'll experiment with this and see if I can get jam-shots to work.

If I'm even less coherent than normal tonight, that'll be why.

Just remember, you have to exclaim "jam-shot!" prior to taking each one.

Originally Posted by TheMind07

I believe the "wanna get away..." commercial were for Southwest Airlines... Snickers are "you're not yourself when you're hungry"

Good call. Found my favorite.

Originally Posted by 70charger

Interesting idea. My wife is out of town. Maybe I'll experiment with this and see if I can get jam-shots to work.

If I'm even less coherent than normal tonight, that'll be why.

Try to update us every half hour and PM your emergency contact info to a mod so we don't have to feel guilty about egging you on...