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  • Now sometimes a pitcher may choose to “walk” a player by throwing 4 balls; pitchers may do this on purpose if they feel the batter could hit a home run)

    Could you explain that bit? The rest I get. Is a pitcher “throwing” a ball basically them deliberately pitching poorly so the batter can’t hit it?







  • I love it when actual experts chime in! Especially when it improves my understanding.

    My source was me: working in my country’s equivalent to the BBC, just not specifically in the studio part. So, kind of second hand, slightly corrupted, fun facts gleamed from colleagues.

    Yeah, just a mis-read or typo of the word is by far the simplest explanation.


  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nztoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldPantries
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    Teleprompters are also phonetic. So some words are mangled to be pronounced quickly.

    It’s entirely likely that what he actually read of the promoter was something like “PAN-TEES” which only “groks” once said aloud (reading and speaking are quite separate parts of the brain BTW).

    Edit: it means that news readers are just inefficient text-to-speech systems implemented in wetware.