re: Did you get any sports terminology confused growing up?

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I confused “string” for “stream”.

For example, I was on the 3rd stream.

Punt and bunt when I was young.

But can you explain the infield fly rule????

When I would watch a baseball game on tv it confused me that four foul balls weren't an automatic out.

Also, we called the catcher the hind catcher.

I didn’t understand that the referees were different

Didn’t know why the offensive line was ‘traveling’ in football (it was false start)

When I was in the first grade, the teacher was reading us a book that had the term side-kick in the title (meaning friend of course). The problem is, it had the two friends playing baseball on the cover.

I had like a 15 minute argument with her that on-side kicks were NOT a part of baseball.

Bitch sent a letter home with me.

In her defense, my dumbass did not realize that a kickoff was a live ball until like the 4th grade.

I remember in the early 90s I was watching a Braves game on TBS with my dad when a batter grounded out to second, the announcer said something along the lines of “So-and-so is retired.” I thought he meant that the player just retired from the game after that play, not that he was just out.

In the 7th grade I suddenly became a fast runner and won the 50 yard dash and the 600 yard run in PE class. The coach told me to come out for track and told me I should run the thirteen twenty. I spent several days trying to figure out what a thirteen twenty was and didn't find out until practice started a couple of weeks later....3 laps of a 440 track, they didn't run the mile in junior high.

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Hook and ladder vs hook and lateral

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Because both terms are used.