Guest blog today… from Throwmearope

Many people have commented on the way sports announcers seem to borrow from the language of love, straight out of romance novels. Lately, it seems to me, they have been dipping into the language of erotica.

It never struck me that the announcers were being so, well, graphic, until one day at the rec center. I was reading the closed captioning instead of listening to the game. The sportscasters were talking about a golf tournament. Some of the phrases could have been pulled straight from the pages of the e-books I recently started reading.

“Look at the way he’s using the whole shaft.”

“The great thing about this tournament is that the sponsors just team people up and let them go at it.”

“There were a great couple of balls in that last round.”

“Oh, look at the smooth way he shifted to using his left hand. Of course, he is left handed.”

“I think we’re going all the way with that ball.”

So now when I’m bored on a weekend, I turn off the sound, turn on the closed captioning and read what the commentators are saying about games played with round objects. Definitely borrowing from erotica.

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Heh. Look at what I’ve been missing. Thank you, throwmearope!