CALL ME SNAKE

Sorry I’ve been a little busy lately, not taking care of the bottom line which is this blog, first, last, and always. Keeping up the leitmotif from my last derivative blog (is there any other kind?), here’s another thing I wonder about: They used to call it a game-winning home run when the guy comes up in the bottom of the 9th and ends the game with one swing of the hardwood. Now it’s called a “walkoff home run” or simply a “walkoff.” When did this important change in baseball parlance come about and how come nobody informed me about it?

Not that I’m objecting. I don’t mind walkoff as a figure of speech or as a turn of phrase. There is something sweet and punchy about it, like a grand payday of some sort. But I do wonder how it is that words like walkoff take over, have their run for awhile, and then disappear into the sunset. Or walkoff into the sunset, as the case may be, which is just what I’m going to do right now.