Writer's Block: Fantasy Sports

[gemfyre]

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I don't follow baseball. Being Australian and all.

Heck, I'm a bad Aussie. I hardly even follow the cricket.

What is a ringer in baseball terms?

The ringer looks around as he's beaten by a blow
And curses the old snagger with the bare-bellied yoe!

Comments

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's the worst writer's block question I've ever seen. But here I am, writing :-)

[softpaw.livejournal.com]

A ringer is someone that is ULTRA SUPER good at the sport.
Like bringing Michael Jordan on the court to play in around of HS basketball.

[blue-cat.livejournal.com]

I think the original meaning of ringer is from horse racing.

You know the phrase 'you are a dead ringer for So&So' meaning you look JUST like them?

well, you get a horse with particular markings and put them in a few races, they do ok but not great so when you put them in the hight stakes race the odds are given as (say) 100-1. Then you bring in a ringer, a horse that looks JUST like your 100-1 horse but can run much better and would be given a 5-1 chance... you run the 5-1 horse instead of the 100-1 horse.

However I think the sense they are using it is not this ;) I think their sense is "you are fielding a team of unknowns that are vampires, but you bite then bring in someone known at the last minutes".