Subject: Misspokements (Page 46)

There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

David Boon is now completely clean-shaven, except for his moustache.

Australian cricketer

Juarez is reported to be the most dangerous city in America.

(1950 – ) American politician & 47th governor of Texas

That was a maximization of a minimization of hits.

professional baseball player

Zane Smith is a guy who can shut you out as well as look at you.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

They can say what they want, but playoff hockey is a whole other ballgame.

It’s a great advantage to be able to hurdle with both legs.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

He’s 31 this year – last year he was 30.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

There’s a shot up the alley… oh, it’s just foul.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I read part of it all the way through.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

You’ll soon be had as a matterof course.

(1844 – 1930) English dean at Oxford whose name is given to the accidental transposition of sounds of two or more words

He’s got the balls and when he’s holding them he controls the tempo.

American professional tennis player

He just can’t believe what’s not happening to him.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I’ll always be Number 1 to myself.

professional basketball player

That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I am blind like the mighty oak.

(1971 – ) American actress

He’s breaking his grandpa’s sacrolificat.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

No captain with all the hindsight in the world can predict how the wicket is going to play.

British sports commentator

That’s a genuine fac-same-ully.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

The scene is dull; tell him to put more life into his dying.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

From the way Denny’s shaking his head, he’s either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer