BCB Dictionary

The Person Who Shall Not Be Named = Ronny Woo Woo

gaius mariuses -- banned posters

Loud Sustained Applause

The curse word meter.

some name that stands for Ryan Dempster a month or so ago... but I can't remember it now.. .but it took me forever to figure out.

For Cub "employee" (Mark Prior) practing pitching with a towel in hand. The towel drill phrase can be used with other pitchers also coming off injury (see Kerry Wood multiple times).

KerrysOtherWife = Cubstoseriesby100

anyone?

who will not be coming here in TTTSNBN.

TNO = Brian Roberts
TTTSNBN = The Trade That Shall Not Be Named

(Deep Goat is still an abbreviation for which no one except Al knows the real meaning.)

deep goat= bruce miles???

IMHO - In my humble opinion
FWIW - for what it's worth
ROFLMAO - Rolling on the floor laughing my a** off

There are more that aren't coming to mind right now...

what on earth does roflcopter mean?

The letter "z" since migrating to the new version 10 days ago!

Pink Hat Guy .. definitely a blip on the BCB screen.

refers to BrewCrewBall the SB Nation Brewers site.

should be put together and added to the FanPost Welcome Guide.

I know "our favorite site" is mlbtraderumors.com, but why do we all refer to it as that?

...though that's hardly a BCB-specific term either.

Piggy = Pignatiello
Twisty = Pie

n/t

= Carlos Marmol

(Sliders so nasty, they make you crap your pants.)

source: bluebythebook

During game threads, No Large Pictures At This Time

source; Al

Variation; NLPATT Zone

The denizens of the Cubs LiveJournal community came up with these last year. Some are also used here frequently, but I'm sharing them anyway.

Fonzie - Alfonso Soriano. Fonzie, AlFONSo.

Opie Weasley- Matt Murton. For his uncanny resemblance to Ron Howard and any of the Weasleys from Harry Potter.

The Riot - Ryan Theriot. Duh.

The G Spot OR Soy Goat Oven - Geovany Soto. The latter is an anagram.

White Castle - Carlos Marmol. See above comment.

Dome OR Fuku - Kosuke Fukudome. Dome is his preferred nickname, but some just can't resist being crude and saying Fuku.

Seems to be hot right now….and I’ve been seeing Ko Fu used a lot lately too…

The reverse of Cedeno (a statement normally meaning a baseball blunder such as overrunning a base), ONEDEC is an exclamation of a great play, usually resulting in Cubs runs or depriving the opposition from scoring.

For example: CEDENO!!!! Did you see that stop Ronny just made?

Originally spoken by dat cubfan daver

Stands for: Dumbest Baseball Writer In Town

An honor that tends to flutter around our fair city of Chicago like a diseased, diarrheatic pigeon…from Muskat to Mariotti to Downey to Sullivan to parts unknown. Never to Bruce Miles, however.

A word I came up with on Jimbo Hollywood Ballgame’s inaugural day at Wrigley Field. It’s when you’re booing…but only on the inside.

Stans for That’s What She Said

Posted as sophomoric attempt at comedy in a reply to a comment.

Example:

Post: Man, Soriano is swinging a big stick tonight!

Reply: TWSS

it’s a shirt. it’s world famous.

Who or what is the Dread Pirate Graybar?

Why it's this!

A strange quirk in the SBN programming that creates an unsightly gray bar in your posts if you: 1) Add two hard returns after your initial sentence, and 2) Add two spaces before your next sentence.

Be careful! If you make that next sentence too long, the Dread Pirate Graybar will force it to walk the plank, like this:

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off -- then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.

Some intrepid BCBers have joined the Dread Pirate’s scurvy crew and use the gray bar to emphasize their points. Others happen upon it by accident and are soon treated to a deafening chorus of “Arrgg!”s and bad pirate jokes by their fellow cutlass-wielding baseball fanatics. We could, of course, report this bug to the SBN technogeeks, but what fun is that?

Sometimes I see “+1” as a comment. What that about?

An acronym for “Lefty One Out GuY,” a left-handed pitcher who may be brought into the game to pitch against just one or two left-handed batters.

(I had to look this one up today, so i figured someone else might too)

not to be confused with DLee…..Dreaded Lead Off Walk from a cubbie pitcher to any opposition. especially treacherous in the late innings of a close game.
i submit to the group for approval =)

What happens when you give the umps power to assign balls and strikes to players based on their behavior, rather than game-play. The technical balk would be given to umpires to give them more power to make players and umps “shut up and play”. A highly misguided concept that could never be implemented. Umpires use the technical balk to run up their score, because the game is clearly about THEM winning, not either of the teams playing.

EX: Jim Edmonds, batting fifth, takes strike three called a few inches wide of the . He looks at CB Bucknor, the home-plate umpire as if to say “are you kidding me?” Bucknor issues a technical balk on Edmonds, and DeRosa, the #6 hitter, starts his at bad already at no balls and one strike.