Jerry Seinfeld, Like William Safire, Can Be Pedantic About Baseball Broadcasts

data-mm-id=”_skiew0kh9″>Coffee and Mets enthusiast Jerry Seinfeld has always had a way with words. More specifically, wielding their specificity and absurdity as a weapon in his comedy. The man has made more salient and humorous observations about the English language that I ever will. But I think I may disagree with his latest nitpick, which came about as a result of SNY announcer Gary Cohen's late-game verbal tic. Cohen, like many other baseball announcers, has a habit of saying that a team one strike away from losing the ballgame is "down to its final strike." We all know what that means. One more strike and the party is over. But what if that batter reaches base? What then?Gary, you are the best. But,it is not technically correct with 2 outs and 2 strikes in the 9th to say, “The Nats are down to their final strike.”Because a base hit gives them at least 2 more strikes. It would be accurate to say, “The Mets NEED only one strike.”@garykeithron— Jerry Seinfeld (@JerrySeinfeld) September 25, 2020More Articles about Seinfeld:

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