Thu Mar 31, 2005, 08:48am
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Quote:
Originally posted by WestMichBlue
Merriam – Webster
Pickel: a difficult situation : Plight
The American Heritage ® Dictionary
Pickle: A disagreeable or troublesome situation; a plight
Baseball. A rundown
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
A difficult, often embarrassing situation or condition:
box1, corner, deep water, difficulty, dilemma, Dutch, fix, hole, hot spot, hot water, jam, plight1, predicament, quagmire, scrape, soup, trouble.
Seems like most of these words aptly describe a runner hung up in no manÂ’s land; being chased to and fro, every twist and turn she confronts evil intent of getting rid of her.
WMB
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J.H.C. I wasn't saying it wasn't a term to be used, I just said in my part of the world it isn't used as a description for a rundown in a softball game.
Hell, when a manager has no sub for the player that just injured themselves, they, too, are in a pickle.
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