Comment on Why do sports have different names for their arbitrating officials?
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
They’re jargon and they developed independently… sports jargon has a strong continuation pressure because there’s a lot of esoteric knowledge and an in crowd that wants you to know they’re inside the bubble.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Hence the term: inside baseball.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And see, football and tennis and rowing have completely different terms for that.
Really makes you think.