When and why did you start saying dime anytime an AG has a fly out?
it's re-tarded as hell.

Sorry you feel that way JC. I don't think it is. Why do you care, if I'm the one using it, how does it reflect on you? I'm certain those of us who use the term explained it last season and I recall us doubling down on it when called out for using it. Remember two nickels, ten pennies? All baseball argot started somewhere, I wonder if someone *****ed about can of corn, frozen rope, golden sombrero, worm killer, so on and so forth. Yes I get these are now all part of the common baseball vernacular but please explain to me how they are any less idiotic.. The very nature of the game lends itself to the creation of such words and phrases. If you can't be silly or have fun watching baseball, what's the point? In other words . . .




Oh, and typing dime is easier than pop fly, can of corn etc. and most here understand what we mean when used.

I thought I was CRAZY being awake at 3 am thinking about baseball. Wow calling out individual posters for "dime"? It's been explained and goodness the baseball forum is different, not the zoo, part of what I love about this place IMHO. Too many great things going on to get worked up over this. And for nostalgia, I still have an Olsen field souvenir bat, given to me personally by Mr Olsen himself as he used to do on game days. My dad (class of 65) made a display case out of wood for it to sit on. Gig Em, let's take the series today

Thanks for the explanation John. I wasn't meaning to call you out. I was just curious and I knew you could/would explain it to me without telling me to go F*** myself. If it was explained last season, I either missed it, or I had forgotten it. It doesn't reflect on me in anyway, I just don't recall any of us ever saying that in section 103 back in the good old days before I joined the Army. Of course, there's a lot of stuff I don't remember since I got blown up.
To me, it's just a little distracting because everytime I read it, I think of this scene from Blazing Saddles:

Have also never heard dime used in that context and have no idea what he was trying to say.

Sorry JC. My initial response to your post was me not realizing it was you. Left if up even after my two functioning brain cells met because at times I can be an ass, just ask my family. I will keep it up since at least a few folks have seen by now and I don't like taking things down even it does not paint me in a particularly good light.

The sentiment of that post still remains but I should at least have answered you. Not sure who started it in section 103/104. Maybe me, not likely since I'm rarely creative with such things (or is that proof I did start it) or K-man or any of the regulars in that section. Not exactly sure when it started, '04 or '05 with our frustration with the Ags skying ball, after ball, after ball.. Basically a dime was what a player had to pay into the imaginary fine jar for pop ups. For at least a couple of seasons many of us would dejectedly say it when the Ags popped it up, particularly if said pop up occurred in a key moment of the game. dabo man remined me of this last season so I began using it here. Obviously I like it. It is a reminder to me of fun times at Olsen even in crappy seasons with good people and I wish you could have been there with us. Again, I apologize for my rudeness.

What a weird pillow talk thread. And started by the dude who does the forced kkkk shtick on game threads to boot?

Sean98 said:

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Have also never heard dime used in that context and have no idea what he was trying to say.

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Let me help here as an unbiased observer.

Yes, using the term "DIME" as baseball vernacular is absolutely wrong. Makes no sense and is very confusing to other fans. It must absolutely stop at all costs before the baseball gods get really, really pissed off.

Tom Chandler himself is rolling in his damn grave!!!

What is "dime"?
1) A hot ass chick
2) 1/10 of an oz of mary jane
3) 10 years jail sentence
4) Snitching or Betraying. From a 10 cent call to the police (using a dime in the phone booth)
5) In football...it is a perfectly thrown pass
6) In Basketball....it is a perfect pass for an assist
7) In Baseball? There is NO relevancy. Other than possibly referring to a smashed line drive head over a fielders head. I can accept those as dimes. But pop ups? Makes no sense whatsoever.

Glad I could clear this up for everyone.

If you keep using the term dime as pop-ups, you will receive at least 100 years bad luck which is transferable to your closest relative upon death.

It's relevant in Aggie baseball lore and that's all that matters.

We do plenty of things that aren't done anywhere else in regards to baseball.

This helps. Inside jokes I get. Had never heard it and had no idea what the heck it meant. ...as someone when no TV, trying to picture what is happening based on Will, Scott, etc describing something through the internet radio waves I never had moving pictures to tie anything together.

It was an early season game around 2005/6/7. The Ags were hitting pop up after pop up after pop up. AB2 (haven't seen him post in a long time) blurted out "I don't care if these guys are amateurs. We should start fining them for these pop ups."

We settled on ten cents, and a popup became a dime.

Wait, are you trying to tell me that baseball players coaches or fans are weird and do weird things? Well, I never!

I mean, pretty much everything about this dumb beautiful sport is weird.

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If you keep using the term dime as pop-ups, you will receive at least 100 years bad luck which is transferable to your closest relative upon death.

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Is it weird that sometimes a player or fan won't wash an article of clothing on a winning streak? What about not shaving or cutting their hair?

Is it weird that some players eat the same thing before every game?

Is it weird that some people think broadcasters or fans talking about a no-hitter actually affects the outcome of the game?

Is it weird that we talk about appeasing and sacrificing to the baseball gods?

Is it weird that when players come off the field, many have a rule about whether or not they will step on the chalk?

Baseball is pretty weird; Texas A&M is pretty weird. Seems like a perfect match to me.

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I thought I was CRAZY being awake at 3 am thinking about baseball. Wow calling out individual posters for "dime"? It's been explained and goodness the baseball forum is different, not the zoo, part of what I love about this place IMHO. Too many great things going on to get worked up over this. And for nostalgia, I still have an Olsen field souvenir bat, given to me personally by Mr Olsen himself as he used to do on game days. My dad (class of 65) made a display case out of wood for it to sit on. Gig Em, let's take the series today

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The Baseball board is WAY better than the zoo because of the people in it. They deeply care about the program and want it reach new heights, but are also level-headed enough to not whine and complain after every loss. My kind of people.

dabo man said:

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It was an early season game around 2005/6/7. The Ags were hitting pop up after pop up after pop up. AB2 (haven't seen him post in a long time) blurted out "I don't care if these guys are amateurs. We should start fining them for these pop ups."

We settled on ten cents, and a popup became a dime.

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This whole thread is really my fault. I moved away from B/CS in 2004 and the remaining 203/AAers couldn't keep the mojo going and let the whole program fall to s*** so things like this had to be invented to keep them entertained.

I think it should be asterisked out d***, that way people in the know can play their game and people annoyed by dime play theirs. Sure nothing can be bad about scattered d***'s in the thread or even d*** pics for that matter.