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19. As a baseball fan, velo

Mon Mar 31, 2025, 11:35 AM

Mar 31

Short for velocity. Broadcasters use it all game long for the speed of the pitch, the speed of the hit ball, the speed of the batter’s swing, etc. It drives me crazy. It’s so overused I wish that the technology to measure these was never developed. I guess they think it sounds cool or something, but to me it’s just laziness and sounds pretentious. Now it’s like some unwritten rule that they can never say the full word velocity.

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