Inaccurate sports cliches/sayings

[Greyfox]

Sports sayings: (the subject of the thread by the way)

Horse Racing: When a handicapper says that a female jockey
"has a live mount today" ..... sounds filthy.

Hockey: "He's been charged for boarding." (Sounds like the rent is due.)

Curling: "Oops. They burned a stone."
(Stones don't burn except under intense heat.)

Baseball: "We have a double-header today." (Sounds akin to Siamese twins.)

Football : "He's bootlegging." (The Prohibition is over.)

[PhantomOnTour]

Originally Posted by Valuist

We will have a good example of the classic offense vs defense matchup later today in the Florida/Louisville matchup. Here are the offensive and defensive efficiency rankings, per teamrankings.com:

Offense: Florida 7th Louisville 178th
Defense: Florida 90th Louisville 3rd

Louisville shoots a lower FG% and FT% but beats the offensively minded Gators....hmmm...

D

Gators went cold...which happens to offense much more than defense

[Robert Fischer]

Originally Posted by PhantomOnTour

Louisville shoots a lower FG% and FT% but beats the offensively minded Gators....hmmm...

D

Gators went cold...which happens to offense much more than defense

Florida lost by 4 and shot only 12-18 from the free throw line.

To be fair you defensive fanatics won this round.

[Marlin]

Originally Posted by OTM Al

Thing is though, an excellent defender in baseball may prevent around 1 run a month that the average defender would not, and this doesn't even consider if that run even matters.

This stat is at least five fold wrong. I can argue an excellent "defender" can save at least 5 runs a month and probably closer to ten runs than an average defender. Your stat is way wrong.

[Valuist]

Originally Posted by Robert Fischer

Florida lost by 4 and shot only 12-18 from the free throw line.

To be fair you defensive fanatics won this round.

Florida was out of their mind from beyond the arc, 8 of 11, in the first half. They play again there's no way they shoot that. But 12 of 18 from the line? So what, that's 67%. What's typical for NCAA, 70%? Not unusual at all.

[Robert Fischer]

Originally Posted by Valuist

Florida was out of their mind from beyond the arc, 8 of 11, in the first half. They play again there's no way they shoot that. But 12 of 18 from the line? So what, that's 67%. What's typical for NCAA, 70%? Not unusual at all.

No. Probably about avg for the team.
Louisville proved best.
And to be completely fair it was i think 5pts including the spread.

It stood out because of the margin of victory and the fact that Louisville, the defensive team hit 80% from the line.

[Valuist]

Originally Posted by Robert Fischer

No. Probably about avg for the team.
Louisville proved best.
And to be completely fair it was i think 5pts including the spread.

It stood out because of the margin of victory and the fact that Louisville, the defensive team hit 80% from the line.

Come next Saturday it won't matter. I don't think either Florida or Louisville would be able to beat Kentucky. Kentucky is as good defensively as L-ville but they are a whole lot better on the offensive side.

[Valuist]

Defense DOES win. The Saints are loaded with talent on the offensive side of the ball. But they might as well have 11 cardboard cutouts on defense. Sorry Saints fans, no playoffs this year.