You want baseball-speak. How about, "You need the cheese for the kitchen and the yacker for the kudos."*
*Cheese is a fastball. Throw that in the kitchen - up and in - and it keeps a guy off the plate. A yacker is a curve. Sometimes when a guy swings and misses, he's so off balance that he kinda bows toward the mound. Thus, the kudos. Thank HOF pitcher Dennis "Eck" Eckersley for the deathless prose.
When Eck was doing color for the Red Sox, we had our "Eckisms" bingo cards ready. It's the only thing that made him tolerable -- unlike everyone else who heard him, we couldn't stand his shtick.
Same here. I didn't take either of the polls, as I have not the first clue (although I wonder if there are nine NBA players over seven feet). Also, I do not buy coffee at Starbucks (or anywhere else); I drink at home. Consequently, comparisons to prices of expensive fancy coffee do not move me.
I neither know nor care about basketball or baseball and with all due respect (...) hope you won't do this sort of thing too often.
Once in a year! Anyway, attend to item two. That should be in your wheelhouse. And non sports.
Until recently I didn't know I had a wheelhouse. When did this apparently nautical expression start appearing all over the place?
Anyway: okay, I'll try.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wheelhouse
You're right. It defines, but does not explain, the sports application.
You want baseball-speak. How about, "You need the cheese for the kitchen and the yacker for the kudos."*
*Cheese is a fastball. Throw that in the kitchen - up and in - and it keeps a guy off the plate. A yacker is a curve. Sometimes when a guy swings and misses, he's so off balance that he kinda bows toward the mound. Thus, the kudos. Thank HOF pitcher Dennis "Eck" Eckersley for the deathless prose.
When Eck was doing color for the Red Sox, we had our "Eckisms" bingo cards ready. It's the only thing that made him tolerable -- unlike everyone else who heard him, we couldn't stand his shtick.
Same here. I didn't take either of the polls, as I have not the first clue (although I wonder if there are nine NBA players over seven feet). Also, I do not buy coffee at Starbucks (or anywhere else); I drink at home. Consequently, comparisons to prices of expensive fancy coffee do not move me.
There are, I believe, more than two dozen over seven feet. However, you are already a paid subscriber so you can ignore the analogy.