Help a broadcaster out (re: baseball myths)

[Larry1953]

Milo Hamilton always makes it a big deal to call it a "book rule double" or a rule book double", usually with a lengthy explanation of why it is that and not a ground rule double. I'd much rather he just say GRD and spare the other stuff. We get the idea already. What bugs me is when the announcers don't know the ground rules of their own park.

I don't mind at all if an announcer says, "he swings and tips it back foul". That paints the perfect word picture. If it is really a "foul tip" it is for all intents and purposes a swing and a miss - unless the catcher drops it in which case it's " swing and a miss, strike three .... nope he's still alive, he must have tipped it". Again, a perfect word picture even though it is not technically correct. I have never heard an announcer argue that a foul tip is a dead ball.