I grew up watching the Toronto Blue Jays. The first few seasons were kind of traumatic for me. Every time a guy struck out, or grounded into a double-play, I thought his career was over. These guys would walk back, dejected, to their dugouts, and I wondered where they would find a replacement. The announcers screwed me up - they kept saying the batter was "retired"! I was horrified every time a pitcher would strike out all three batters, and the announcer would scream that the pitcher had "retired the side"! Meanies...
A childhood belief about sport
others believed things like this
- I used to think that retarded was the same word as retired.Anon
- When I was younger I cut my Barbie doll's hair and wondered why it never grew back.Anon
- Some sport cars have a double exhaust. I wondered why. Why would people want to pollute twice as much?— F*ck the environment?
- when i was younger I thought that canada was only toronto, mississauga, burlington and niagara falls.Anon
- When I was little I thought that a "wallflower" was a kind of flower that grew on walls.— A. Nonny-Muss
- I used to think spiders came from rosebuds. Don't ask. It was a traumatic experience.— Zog