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Pirate for Life 69: Joe did a 180 and told me that the Pirates were sending me to Columbus.at do a 180 (v.) under 180, n.
Pirate for Life 69: Joe did a 180 and told me that the Pirates were sending me to Columbus. Pirate for Life 174: I had to make sure I had my act together.at have one’s act together (v.) under act, n.
Pirate for Life 91: My mother [...] sent a scathing letter to Dick Young and just aired him out.at air, v.
Pirate for Life 173: So now we had a 2-0 game, runners at second and third, just one out, and the whole thing was in the fire.at fat is in the fire, (all) the, phr.
Pirate for Life 97: Sangy knew me just as much psychologically as the nuts and bolts of the actual pitch calling.at nuts and bolts, n.
Pirate for Life 85: He ripped my ass real good, and I appreciated that. It helped make me a better team player.at tear someone’s ass(hole), v.
Pirate for Life 120: It was like ‘Katie bar the door,’ when that young talent joined the Stargells, the Clementes, the Mazeroskis, and the Bob Veales of the club.at Katy bar the door, phr.
Pirate for Life 123: Dave Giusti would argue with [Roberto] Clemente, and he’s pulling up as much as Italian as he can, while Clemente is just blistering back at him in Spanish.at blister, v.
Pirate for Life 152: [Dave] Giusti, our bulldog closer .at bulldog, adj.
Pirate for Life 158: I just had to be sure to keep it away from the middle of the plate. A guy like Boog [Powell] would cash in on a mistake like that.at cash in, v.
Pirate for Life 9: I pulled up to a red light [...] and yelled, ‘Fire Drill!’ We all got out of the car, running around it, screaming every obscenity we had ever heard.at Chinese fire drill (n.) under Chinese, adj.
Pirate for Life 162: [O]n the first pitch, I was in ‘rip city,’ hoping to get a fastball.at -city, sfx
Pirate for Life 210: [of employment] I am truly thankful to the Pirates for allowing me to stay on the broadcast team [...] It would have been devastating to have gone cold turkey and stopped broadcasting altogether.at cold turkey, adv.
Pirate for Life 164: The usual courtesy is to put the visiting World Series team’s comp tickets a little closer to the action, often behind home plate.at comp, n.
Pirate for Life 97: When a pitcher is on a roll [...] you’re so confident that you often think, Okay, you want that one? I can get him out with that one, too. That’s when you’re really cooking.at cooking, adj.1
Pirate for Life 186: We got crushed to the point where Wilkins drove home [...] and instead of winding up in his suburban Chicago home, he found himself in Indiana.at crushed, n.
Pirate for Life xi: [A] ‘smoker’ at a VFW Hall, filled to capacity with salt-of-the-earth, blue-collared men throwing back beer in plastic cups and chewing on dirty-water dogs.at dirty-water dog (n.) under dirty, adj.
Pirate for Life 122: [I]f you’re an established player, there’s a good deal of downtime at the ballpark.at down time (v.) under down time, n.
Pirate for Life 12: I was trying hard to figure everything out and what was happening to me. I didn’t want to dump it all on my family or my teammates.at dump on, v.1
Pirate for Life 101: That game represented the third time of the season I had put up nothing but goose eggs against Atlanta.at goose egg, n.
Pirate for Life 112: The matchsticks [doubling as poker chips] went all over the floor, creating a mad scramble. It was elbows and assholes going down to pick up as many matchsticks as we could.at elbows and assholes (adj.) under elbow, n.1
Pirate for Life 48: [I] asked, ‘Do you remember catching me when I tried out in high school in 1960?’ Oldis replied, ‘Fuck no’.at fuck no! (excl.) under fuck!, excl.
Pirate for Life 122: [Y]ou’ve got your game face on from 4:00 until first pitch three hours later.at game face (n.) under game, n.
Pirate for Life 104: [T]he designated hitter rule [...] was the biggest change baseball ever made to goose offensive numbers.at goose, v.3
Pirate for Life 204: [T]hey weren’t guys who were gifted with phenomenal natural talent. But they maxed out their abilities and were ‘grinders’.at grinder, n.1
Pirate for Life 140: Danny had kind of a gut feel about managing and seldom went with the percentages.at gut, adj.
Pirate for Life 30: I didn’t feel a helluva lot better afterward.at hell of a, a under hell, n.
Pirate for Life 205: I immediately leaped from my seat and said, ‘Let’s go. We’re outta here’.at out of here, phr.
Pirate for Life 3: I had that string of good years starting in 1966. It was a hoot for me. I was having the time of my life.at hoot, n.4
Pirate for Life 133: All we were thinking about going into the series was how we were playing the Giants, and whether they were hot or cold.at hot, adj.
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