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greenfly v. Greenfly: A baseball colloquialism derived from insects that swarm around livestock, a derogatory reference by baseball people toward over-zealous media types. Example: “That writer was greenflyin’ me the whole series.” [English Baseball Sports & Recreation Slang] [full cite] (Mar. 23, 2006)

greenies n.pl. There’s an old joke in baseball that players hate rain delays even more than fans do because postponing the first-pitch time makes it hard for them to judge exactly when to take their “beans.” Also known as “greenies” or “crank,” amphetamines have been an accepted part of the sport for so long that many clubs used to keep jars of them in the locker room and the phrase “beaned up” has entered the lexicon. [English Baseball Drugs Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Dec. 16, 2004)

gyroball n. Much may depend on the mystic machinations of silent Mariner partner Hiroshi Yamauchi, who may not only empower managing partner Howard Lincoln to bring back Ichiro at any cost, but also work to bring legendary Japanese League “gyroball” pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka to Seattle—at a cost rumored to begin at $30 million just for the rights to negotiate with him. [English Baseball Sports & Recreation New or Nonce] [full cite] (Sep. 8, 2006)

gyroball n. When Japanese television analysts tried to deconstruct the mystifying slider thrown by Daisuke Matsuzaka, they called it a gyroball, partly because the pitch seemed to come from another world. [English Baseball Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Feb. 23, 2007)

have one’s hazards on v. phr. Last column’s treatise on baseball pants pockets prompted some good responses, many of them chiding Uni Watch for not mentioning that having an inside-out pocket is often referred to as “leaving your blinker on.” And David Conley adds that having both pockets turned out is often called “having your hazards on.” [English Baseball Sports & Recreation Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 10, 2006)

hitterish adj. “How many years did you hear that a lefty could never win at Fenway? It’s not true.” In July and August, when the air is conducive to what the late Ned Martin referred to as hitterish weather, the wind blows from the Southwest, toward The Wall. [English Baseball Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Apr. 16, 2007)

human rain delay n. I get up there, I throw my pitches and I get rolling. I like to keep the pace of the game going. I’m not one of those human rain delays, as they call them. The only thing I had to do was slow it down. [English Baseball Sports & Recreation Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 7, 2006)

kantoku shou n. After contributing to a Hanshin victory, Igawa’s manager would frequently hand him an envelope stuffed with yen, usually the equivalent of about $1,000. Igawa was free to spend the money as he liked. He usually saved it and kept the envelope as a souvenir. The financial exchange, which is separate from a player’s salary, is common in Japanese baseball and known as kantoku shou, which, translated literally, means manager prize. The foreign players in Nippon Professional Baseball commonly refer to it as fight money. [Japanese Baseball Money & Finance Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Apr. 17, 2007)

leave one’s blinker on v. phr. Last column’s treatise on baseball pants pockets prompted some good responses, many of them chiding Uni Watch for not mentioning that having an inside-out pocket is often referred to as “leaving your blinker on.” And David Conley adds that having both pockets turned out is often called “having your hazards on.” [English Baseball Sports & Recreation Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 10, 2006)

lefty one out guy n. Relievers have been used for just one batter 1,013 times so far this season.…Most of them are left-handers.…The statistics community has come to call each of them a Loogy, short for Lefty One Out Guy. [English Baseball Sports & Recreation Acronym] [full cite] (Oct. 3, 2005)

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