There are a zillion baseball analogies out there. There’s “hitting it out of the park,” and “striking out.” There are people who “play hardball” and there are people “way out there in left field”… But I haven’t heard any new ones in a loooong time. Maybe all that’s left are the more obscure elements of baseball. But I guess you could also reuse some of those common elements. Anyone have any new ideas? Here are a couple, just to get the ball rolling. (Hey is that a bowling metaphor?)
A person whose overconfidence costs them in the end was “picked off at third base.”
If you are a bold person willing to take risks, you are “someone who isn’t afraid to bunt with 2 strikes”
I know- these are pretty lame. And I’ll probably look back on this tomorrow and think “why the hay did I publish that?” But then I’ll remember that I needed to get a new entry up here and I’ll feel a little bit better for a while.
And in conclusion, I could be clever and end with a final baseball metaphor, but that might be too cheap and corny and embarassing, and would definitely put me over the top as far as deciding to delete this post. So instead I’ll just finish it up with a final request for new metaphors and call it good.
