The AP Stylebook just banned all of your favorite terms for ‘home run’
If you watch a lot of baseball, you know that not all home runs are created equal. While all are exciting, there’s a difference between a ball that barely gets over the fence and the ball Albert Pujols hit off Brad Lidge in 2005.
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Describing the former as a “home run” is fine, but that Pujols play is something else entirely. In the past, you might have referred to that hit as a “jack,” “bomb,” or “dinger.” You shouldn’t do that anymore, according to the AP Stylebook, the authority on style and grammar guidelines for journalists.
We officially have a problem, AP Stylebook. Some plays induce more excitement than others. More nuance is needed when describing these situations.
You expect me to simply refer to this as a “home run?”
I won’t do it! That’s a “jack,” a “bomb,” a “dinger” and a “tater” right there. Let’s fight the man, other sports bloggers. Let’s tell them that “we will not go quietly into the night!”
Play us off, Bill Pullman.
That’s more like it!
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