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The announcer said that Vanderbilt had a lot of guys who knew how to "score the ball." This is right up there, IMHO, with "score the rock." Can't you just say, "lots of guys who can score"? Or, lots of good scorers? I wonder what things will be like tomorrow weather-wise? ;-) The only BLSS Certified Hypocrite on BA "It is better to be an optimist and be proven a fool than to be a pessimist and be proven right." Note: My avatar is the national colors of the 78th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, which are now preserved in a climate controlled vault at the Ohio History Connection. Learn more about the old 78th at: http://www.78ohio.org Back to Top JSF General User Member Since: 1/29/2005 Location: Houston, TX Post Count: 6,554 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/18/2015 11:39:53 PM  I still like it. "Loyalty to a hometown or city is fleeting and interchangeable, but college is a stamp of identity."- Kyle Whelliston, One Beautiful Season. My blog about depression and mental illness: https://bit.ly/3buGXH8 Back to Top oldkatz General User Member Since: 12/22/2004 Post Count: 1,440 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/19/2015 9:14:05 AM  What type of marks qualify as scoring the basketball? Do you use an awl???? "All my inside sources tell me I have no inside sources." Salvatore "money bucks" Mafiosiano. Back to Top UpSan Bobcat General User Member Since: 8/30/2005 Location: Upper Sandusky, OH Post Count: 3,812 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/19/2015 9:30:26 AM  This has been discussed before, but I'm with you. You don't score the ball, you score points, and it's not even needed to use either. "Score" works just as well by itself. Back to Top OU_Country General User Member Since: 12/6/2005 Location: On the road between Athens and Madison County Post Count: 8,370 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/19/2015 9:39:31 AM  Touchdown Seahawks! Marshawn Lynch just scored the football! (said no one ever) I think it's implied, and unnecessary to say when describing the game. Back to Top 5KMD General User Member Since: 8/8/2012 Location: Wexford, PA Post Count: 39 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/19/2015 10:03:51 AM  Along these same lines are the fools at ESPN who insist on pronouncing the "National Football League" every time. Just say NFL and move on, were are not discussing a sacred text here. Brad Daugherty during his first go around as a hoops analyst would always use the word basketball too much. "He is great at moving the basketball up the court and dishing the basketball off to a big guy for a basket. Just an all around good basketball player." Back to Top Mike Johnson General User Member Since: 11/11/2004 Location: North Canton, OH Post Count: 1,736 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/19/2015 10:20:36 AM  OhioCatFan wrote: I think that this has been discussed here before, but I was watching a little NIT tonight -- kind of warming up my watching skills for the Big Dance, and I heard this ridiculous expression. The announcer said that Vanderbilt had a lot of guys who knew how to "score the ball." This is right up there, IMHO, with "score the rock." Can't you just say, "lots of guys who can score"? Or, lots of good scorers? I wonder what things will be like tomorrow weather-wise? ;-) I wonder if Dick Vitale and Bill Raftery might be regarded as the "fathers" of these annoying isms. Both men clearly worked hard at becoming descriptively creative. http://www.facebook.com/mikejohnson.author Back to Top SBH General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Post Count: 4,294 Status: Online     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/19/2015 11:44:39 AM  Nice golf shot. Back to Top Alan Swank General User Member Since: 12/11/2004 Location: Athens, OH Post Count: 7,234 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/19/2015 12:04:56 PM  And my favorite, "OCF, he." No wonder our grammar is so bad in this country today. Back to Top Jeff McKinney Moderator Member Since: 11/12/2004 Post Count: 6,155 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/19/2015 12:26:18 PM  Why do we have to say "moving forward." Why not just say "in the future"? Back to Top bn9 General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Post Count: 422 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/19/2015 12:34:49 PM  Mine is "added bonus". I do not believe I have ever seen a bonus subtracted. Back to Top Recovering Journalist General User Member Since: 8/17/2010 Location: Cleveland, OH Post Count: 1,852 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/19/2015 1:21:47 PM  bn9 wrote: Mine is "added bonus". I do not believe I have ever seen a bonus subtracted. That's as grating a redundancy as ATM machine or PIN number. My first corporate job was in communications at a bank, and I fought those two in a sisyphean battle throughout my tenure. Back to Top JSF General User Member Since: 1/29/2005 Location: Houston, TX Post Count: 6,554 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/19/2015 2:05:45 PM  bn9 wrote: Mine is "added bonus". I do not believe I have ever seen a bonus subtracted. I never thought about that! Jeff: "Moving forward" implies progress. "Loyalty to a hometown or city is fleeting and interchangeable, but college is a stamp of identity."- Kyle Whelliston, One Beautiful Season. My blog about depression and mental illness: https://bit.ly/3buGXH8 Back to Top bornacatfan General User Member Since: 8/3/2006 Post Count: 5,716 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/19/2015 4:59:45 PM  prepositions ending a sentence and redundancies are pet peeves. Get the Preposition H was a favorite saying of my Grammie. Where else but BA can you find SISYPHEAN asa regular part of message board chatter? never argue with idiots, they bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. Winter comes and asks how you spent your summer..... The game loves and rewards those who love and reward the game Back to Top Recovering Journalist General User Member Since: 8/17/2010 Location: Cleveland, OH Post Count: 1,852 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/19/2015 6:34:55 PM  bornacatfan wrote: prepositions ending a sentence and redundancies are pet peeves. Generally, it is good to avoid doing it, but few people realize it's not a grammar rule at all. Deep dive into word nerd land: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/11/grammar-myths-.../ Back to Top Pataskala General User Member Since: 7/8/2010 Location: At least six feet away from anybody else Post Count: 9,365 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/19/2015 10:16:09 PM  My two latest pet sportscasting peeves: * Basketball/football game, as in "We have two minutes left in this football game" or "He's the leading scorer in this basketball game." We know what kind of game it is. * Announcers who don't know what time of day it is. They mostly think it's night, such as "He's had quite a night" even though it's 3:00 in the afternoon. Basketball announcers do this a lot, probably because they're indoors. We will get by. We will get by. We will get by. We will survive. Back to Top OhioCatFan General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Location: Athens, OH Post Count: 14,783 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/19/2015 10:25:17 PM  Then there's: -"good no-call" (Usually said after the other player has been mugged, and the replay shows the mugging, and the announcers ignore what the reply actually shows.) -"it is what it is" (Could it be what it wasn't?) -or in the oblong-ball sport: "He made a football move" (Were you expecting a hockey move?) The only BLSS Certified Hypocrite on BA "It is better to be an optimist and be proven a fool than to be a pessimist and be proven right." Note: My avatar is the national colors of the 78th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, which are now preserved in a climate controlled vault at the Ohio History Connection. Learn more about the old 78th at: http://www.78ohio.org Back to Top JSF General User Member Since: 1/29/2005 Location: Houston, TX Post Count: 6,554 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/19/2015 11:20:23 PM  Isn't "football move" codified in the rules? "Loyalty to a hometown or city is fleeting and interchangeable, but college is a stamp of identity."- Kyle Whelliston, One Beautiful Season. My blog about depression and mental illness: https://bit.ly/3buGXH8 Back to Top OhioCatFan General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Location: Athens, OH Post Count: 14,783 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/19/2015 11:57:28 PM  JSF wrote: Isn't "football move" codified in the rules? Doesn't mean it's not trite. The only BLSS Certified Hypocrite on BA "It is better to be an optimist and be proven a fool than to be a pessimist and be proven right." Note: My avatar is the national colors of the 78th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, which are now preserved in a climate controlled vault at the Ohio History Connection. Learn more about the old 78th at: http://www.78ohio.org Back to Top Jeff McKinney Moderator Member Since: 11/12/2004 Post Count: 6,155 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/20/2015 12:30:44 AM  JSF wrote: bn9 wrote: Mine is "added bonus". I do not believe I have ever seen a bonus subtracted. I never thought about that! Jeff: "Moving forward" implies progress. I can see that may have been the original intention, but doesn't it seem to you that most people use this as synonymous with "in the future"? Back to Top OhioCatFan General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Location: Athens, OH Post Count: 14,783 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/20/2015 12:46:40 AM  The team that scores the most points is going to win this game. Duh? The only BLSS Certified Hypocrite on BA "It is better to be an optimist and be proven a fool than to be a pessimist and be proven right." Note: My avatar is the national colors of the 78th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, which are now preserved in a climate controlled vault at the Ohio History Connection. Learn more about the old 78th at: http://www.78ohio.org Back to Top JSF General User Member Since: 1/29/2005 Location: Houston, TX Post Count: 6,554 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/20/2015 9:06:32 AM  OhioCatFan wrote: The team that scores the most points is going to win this game. Duh? "Team A is going to have to outscore Team B." "Loyalty to a hometown or city is fleeting and interchangeable, but college is a stamp of identity."- Kyle Whelliston, One Beautiful Season. My blog about depression and mental illness: https://bit.ly/3buGXH8 Back to Top Pataskala General User Member Since: 7/8/2010 Location: At least six feet away from anybody else Post Count: 9,365 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/21/2015 12:39:39 AM  JSF wrote: OhioCatFan wrote: The team that scores the most points is going to win this game. Duh? "Team A is going to have to outscore Team B." My favorite quote from Detroit firstbaseman Norm Cash. When asked about a pennant race when the Tigers were chasing the Yankees (as they usually were in the early '60s), he said "If we keep winning and they keep losing, we'll gain on them." Keen eye for the obvious, Norm. We will get by. We will get by. We will get by. We will survive. Back to Top ts1227 General User Member Since: 2/28/2006 Location: Tallmadge, OH Post Count: 873 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/21/2015 12:44:26 AM  OhioCatFan wrote: I think that this has been discussed here before, but I was watching a little NIT tonight -- kind of warming up my watching skills for the Big Dance, and I heard this ridiculous expression. The announcer said that Vanderbilt had a lot of guys who knew how to "score the ball." This is right up there, IMHO, with "score the rock." Can't you just say, "lots of guys who can score"? Or, lots of good scorers? I wonder what things will be like tomorrow weather-wise? ;-) There was some comedian who brought this up for some reason a few years back. I just remember the follow-up being "what else are they supposed to do with the ball, punt it?" Back to Top Deciduous Forest Cat General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Location: Ohio Post Count: 4,474 Status: Offline     RE: score the basketball    Posted: 3/21/2015 3:28:59 PM  ts1227 wrote: OhioCatFan wrote: I think that this has been discussed here before, but I was watching a little NIT tonight -- kind of warming up my watching skills for the Big Dance, and I heard this ridiculous expression. The announcer said that Vanderbilt had a lot of guys who knew how to "score the ball." This is right up there, IMHO, with "score the rock." Can't you just say, "lots of guys who can score"? Or, lots of good scorers? I wonder what things will be like tomorrow weather-wise? ;-) There was some comedian who brought this up for some reason a few years back. I just remember the follow-up being "what else are they supposed to do with the ball, punt it?" The difference is that punting is actually something done TO a ball. points are scored. runs are scored. balls are thrown, hit, passed, fielded, kicked, caught, punted, dropped. The only time they are scored is at a Ginsu demonstration...and that would be an odd ginsu demonstration. Back to Top Showing Replies:   1 - 25  of 27 Posts Jump to Page:   1 | 2    Next > View Other 'Ohio Basketball' Topics                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               WHO'S ONLINE There are 210 Active Visitors on BobcatAttack.com 207 Guests 3 Registered Users:   bobcatsquared, Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame, SBH There are no other users looking at this page.

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