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This also reminds me of how announcers (and Baseball Tonight commentators) will often say that a fielder "makes the easy out!" Easy for whom? The funny thing is they make a big deal of it, while at the same time saying it was an easy out. The players will surely tell you they should've made that play, but they won't tell you that anything is "easy".

You hear this in basketball too. "He goes in for the easy lay-up." Why even designate whether it was easy or not? What about what led up to it? The tail end of the play might have not required a lot of skill, but what precipitated it likely did. Players tend to create the ease or difficulty of their own plays, and rarely is a play made in a vacuum.

Why don't they just say, "Derrek Lee flips to the pitcher for a play so easy that even Dick Stuart could've made it"?

Easy out? No! It's not easy. At the very least, the pitcher had to do something special to get them in that situation. If outs were often easy, then Garth Brooks and Meat Loaf could have starting jobs for major league teams.

It seems an insult to the players to be saying that it's an easy play. "Ichiro makes the easy catch." In other words, according to the announcer, what Ichiro did required very little skill at all.

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Yeah, those "almost makes a spectacular play" calls are a little over the top. Rick Rizz revels in them, as does Niehouse. They get into the superlative before the outcome of the play is even known.

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Now, the question I'd want to know about Taveras is: did he jump on his horse to get to the ball?