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3mo
I assume they were homies. Longwood still has the worst game announcers ever.
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3mo
. . of sports broadcasters including Bill Roth. I think the guys today were trying too hard to make something out of a tough assignment. It has to be tough to be homers for a team as hopeless as Syracuse. You have to try to find to find something positive.
** Edited by MidloHokie at 5/1/2026, 4:19:38 PM
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3mo
. . . The nickname “the dish” for home plate is generally credited to Damon Runyon, a colorful early 20th-century sportswriter and columnist.
Runyon wrote extensively about baseball in the 1910s–1930s and had a knack for vivid slang and imagery. He’s widely believed to have popularized calling home plate “the dish” because of its flat, plate-like shape—an expression that stuck and is still used by broadcasters and writers today.
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