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14ers
03-26-2008, 08:54 AM
What the hell is with all this "Overtime" bullshit?


Baseball is not a Timed sport, therefore it can not have "Overtime"!!!


I first heard about Boston winning in "Overtime" on MSNBC, then I had to read about it in my local paper. Then I did a google search for it and it is posted everywhere. WTF.....


Baseball does not have "Overtime" people!
rkmsuf
03-26-2008, 08:56 AM
Why is it "sudden death"? Shouldn't it be "sudden life" or "sudden victory" so we can celebrate the winning team?
14ers
03-26-2008, 09:04 AM
Why is it "sudden death"? Shouldn't it be "sudden life" or "sudden victory" so we can celebrate the winning team?
No, it is NOT sudden death either. The first team to score does not immediately win in baseball.

WOW. I can not believe someone with so many posts on this board would not know that. :)
rkmsuf
03-26-2008, 09:07 AM
ok delayed death
Pumpy Tudors
03-26-2008, 09:08 AM
IT'S SUDDEN DEATH IN HOCKEY

WHAT SAY YOU NOW
Dr. Sak
03-26-2008, 09:08 AM
Why is it "sudden death"?

Because fans watching a game in extra innings would rather die a sudden death than watch that crap for any more than they have to.
rkmsuf
03-26-2008, 09:09 AM
IT'S SUDDEN DEATH IN HOCKEY

WHAT SAY YOU NOW

that's pressure. score or die.
Pumpy Tudors
03-26-2008, 09:10 AM
What the hell is with all this "Overtime" bullshit?


Baseball is not a Timed sport, therefore it can not have "Overtime"!!!


I first heard about Boston winning in "Overtime" on MSNBC, then I had to read about it in my local paper. Then I did a google search for it and it is posted everywhere. WTF.....


Baseball does not have "Overtime" people!
For the record, was this a serious post?
14ers
03-26-2008, 09:39 AM
For the record, was this a serious post?
Yes. For some reason it just bugged me to hear reporters talk about a baseball game going into "Overtime".
MikeVic
03-26-2008, 09:51 AM
It sounds dumb, but according to the definitions...


–noun
1. working time before or after one's regularly scheduled working hours; extra working time.
2. pay for such time (distinguished from straight time).
3. time in excess of a prescribed period.
4. Sports. an additional period of play for deciding the winner of a game in which the contestants are tied at the end of the regular playing period.


It does literally make sense. Extra innings are a period of play after the regular playing period.
M GO BLUE!!!
03-26-2008, 09:56 AM
I am unfamiliar with the Japanese rules. In Japan baseball, maybe they do have "Sudden Death Overtime" where the loser must commit Harry Carey.
Ksyrup
03-26-2008, 09:56 AM
It's technically correct, but just not in baseball jargon. And it's another example of how football is taking over the country.
ThunderingHERD
03-26-2008, 09:59 AM
I first heard about Boston winning in "Overtime" on MSNBC


How many points did they score?
14ers
03-26-2008, 10:03 AM
One of these is not like the other.

–noun
1. working time before or after one's regularly scheduled working hours; extra working time.
2. pay for such time (distinguished from straight time).
3. time in excess of a prescribed period.
4. Sports. an additional period of play for deciding the winner of a game in which the contestants are tied at the end of the regular playing period.

I do not like how this definition just seems to pull "additional period" out of then air.


Try this
4. Sports. additional time of play for deciding the winner of a game in which the contestants are tied at the end of the regular playing time.
Toddzilla
03-26-2008, 10:11 AM
I am unfamiliar with the Japanese rules. In Japan baseball, maybe they do have "Sudden Death Overtime" where the loser must commit Harry Carey.i lawled
14ers
03-26-2008, 10:12 AM
Also, I have never read of a Golfer winning a tournament in "Overtime".

Next week will I be watching ESPN and hear a reporter talk about how Tiger Woods came back in Overtime to win the US Open?
Pumpy Tudors
03-26-2008, 10:25 AM
The articles I read just said that Boston "went overtime" to win the game. I took it more as slang, not that anyone is seriously suggesting that baseball has overtime now.
korme
03-26-2008, 02:06 PM
OVERTIME
-basketball
-football

SUDDEN DEATH
-hockey

EXTRA INNINGS
-baseball


My goldfish knows that much
Pumpy Tudors
03-26-2008, 02:06 PM
but NFL football is sudden death
mckerney
03-26-2008, 02:10 PM
One of these is not like the other.



I do not like how this definition just seems to pull "additional period" out of then air.


Try this
4. Sports. additional time of play for deciding the winner of a game in which the contestants are tied at the end of the regular playing time.

But what about overtime in college football?
MikeVic
03-26-2008, 02:32 PM
NBA should be sudden death.
MrDNA
03-26-2008, 09:51 PM
NBA should suddenly die.
aran
03-26-2008, 10:15 PM
I think that hockey can be overtime OR sudden death. I think that sudden death is a type of overtime.
Pumpy Tudors
03-27-2008, 08:09 AM
I think that hockey can be overtime OR sudden death. I think that sudden death is a type of overtime.
BUT DON'T YOU SEE THAT THERE'S NO OVERTIME IN BASEBALL???????
sterlingice
03-28-2008, 10:50 PM
I am unfamiliar with the Japanese rules. In Japan baseball, maybe they do have "Sudden Death Overtime" where the loser must commit Harry Carey.

I laughed, I cried. It was that kind of pun :)

SI