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Interesting Name Choice

by John Cole|  August 4, 20087:39 pm| 53 Comments

This post is in: Humorous, General Stupidity

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This is mildly amusing:

Sen. Evan Bayh’s staff softball team, The Bayh Partisans, has cancelled the game it had scheduled for tomorrow evening with the drug policy team The One Hitters. Bayh staffer Jonathan Stahler sent One Hitter team captain Kris Krane an e-mail Monday morning citing “[t]oo many people out of town” as the reason for the cancellation.

I can’t be the only one who recognizes that the term “one-hitter” has meaning outside of baseball.

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  1. 1.

    Third Eye Open

    August 4, 2008 at 7:43 pm

    There is a Raspberry Zingers shortage in D.C. watcha wanna bet?

  2. 2.

    Third Eye Open

    August 4, 2008 at 7:45 pm

    BTW…if they bitch out on a game, do their opponents call em the One Hitters Quiters?

    …I hate myself for typing that

  3. 3.

    taoless

    August 4, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    no wonder their cigarettes never get any shorter. they only take one hit.

  4. 4.

    Breschau

    August 4, 2008 at 7:50 pm

    I can’t be the only one who recognizes that the term “one-hitter” has meaning outside of baseball.

    No, you’re not, you DFH. But honestly, I’d never heard it called a dugout before.

  5. 5.

    Tom

    August 4, 2008 at 7:52 pm

    I actually had a one hitter for the first time in years this weekend. Thankfully, there wasn’t much in it.

  6. 6.

    SamFromUtah

    August 4, 2008 at 7:53 pm

    I’d never heard it called a dugout before.

    Heh, I had heard of that, and also a variant of one-hitters called a “bat”.

  7. 7.

    Tom

    August 4, 2008 at 7:55 pm

    But honestly, I’d never heard it called a dugout before.

    I was always under the assumption that the dugout was box that held the (infield) grass.

  8. 8.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    August 4, 2008 at 7:58 pm

    BTW if you haven’t already heard Ta-Nehisi Coates joined the Atlantic stable today. Good move on their part.

  9. 9.

    AkaDad

    August 4, 2008 at 8:01 pm

    In terms of one hitters, I’m +12.

  10. 10.

    Dreggas

    August 4, 2008 at 8:03 pm

    Heh, no you aren’t. I am sure they aren’t either.

  11. 11.

    Blurm

    August 4, 2008 at 8:07 pm

    Dugouts are the best. Mine has got to be at least 15 years old now. The one hitters last for a year or so and then you need to replace it. Once in college a friend was arrested and when he was searched, the officer found the dugout and had no idea what it was. He jumped when my friend slid the lid and the bat popped out. teeheehee. good thing they didn’t find the 3 hits of acid he had…

  12. 12.

    gypsy howell

    August 4, 2008 at 8:08 pm

    Ugh. Please FSM, don’t let Bayh be Obama’s veep choice. ‘Partisan’ he ain’t.
    His team should be called the ‘Go Along to Get Alongs.’

  13. 13.

    Ed in NJ

    August 4, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    We called them bingers here in Jersey.

  14. 14.

    Incertus

    August 4, 2008 at 8:40 pm

    Speaking of humorous things, McCain’s next ad.

  15. 15.

    cleek

    August 4, 2008 at 8:41 pm

    Heh, I had heard of that, and also a variant of one-hitters called a “bat”.

    little brass bats that get supa-hot supa-fast. yeah. good times.

  16. 16.

    John S.

    August 4, 2008 at 8:43 pm

    In terms of one hitters, I’m +12.

    I’ve been wondering this ever since John started using the shorthand for his alcohol tally. Does it really work the same for the heads?

    I mean, I don’t really keep track of the hits and nevermind the fact that all hits are not created equal…ah fuck it — John +8.

  17. 17.

    John Cole

    August 4, 2008 at 8:45 pm

    SO what is the decision here? Are they just blissfully ignorant or making an intentional joke calling their drug policy team the one-hitters?

  18. 18.

    Incertus

    August 4, 2008 at 8:47 pm

    Oh, it’s intentional, no question. This isn’t the Lawrence Welk show doing “One Toke Over the Line,” after all.

  19. 19.

    Steve

    August 4, 2008 at 8:48 pm

    If it’s a joke it’s a pretty good one, which makes me seriously doubt that anyone in our government came up with it.

    One vote for blissful ignorance.

  20. 20.

    Breschau

    August 4, 2008 at 8:54 pm

    I vote intentional joke. You have to imagine a team made up of narcs would know every single drug slang word in existence.

    What I really want to know is: do any of them get high after the game?

  21. 21.

    cleek

    August 4, 2008 at 8:59 pm

    do any of them get high after the game?

    after?

    you’re doing it wrong.

  22. 22.

    Bill H

    August 4, 2008 at 9:04 pm

    Apparently Andrea Mitchell being critical of John McCain was a one-hitter. On Hardball tonight she is saying that he is a decent, honorable sweet and kindly man who would not say shit if he had a mouthful. She says all this negative and dishonest campaign stuff is him being “misled by his campaign staff.”

    This comment will probably send John Cole over the edge, but I just report.

  23. 23.

    Keith

    August 4, 2008 at 9:07 pm

    Heh, I had heard of that, and also a variant of one-hitters called a “bat”.

    Those are good for 2 1/2 regular hits :) Only true one-hitter pipe I’ve actually seen is those ceramic “cigarettes” that take a tiny little plug at the end. I usually hear the term “one-hitter” in response to some the strain being smoked rather than the apparatus (i.e. the aforementioned “one-hitter quitter”)

  24. 24.

    Breschau

    August 4, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    after?

    you’re doing it wrong.

    LOL. Well, okay – your choice. But I haven’t gotten high since I turned 21. I figured, why put myself into an altered state using something I can be arrested for possessing, when I can pick up alcohol just about anywhere, and enjoy it in the privacy of my home with no hassle. Or, ya know, take a cab.

    That, and the fact that alcohol makes me much more outgoing, while getting high causes me to not speak for 6 hours. That didn’t do much for my social life back in college.

  25. 25.

    The Moar You Know

    August 4, 2008 at 9:27 pm

    What I really want to know is: do any of them get high after the game?

    Cops get high more often than any other folks I’ve met.

  26. 26.

    SamFromUtah

    August 4, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    I usually hear the term “one-hitter” in response to some the strain being smoked…

    Where I learned my pot slang, we called that “one-hit wonder”, as I recall. That was a loooong time ago. Cf. George Carlin’s “One-poke shit”.

  27. 27.

    maxbaer (not the original)

    August 4, 2008 at 9:35 pm

    Do they call a particularly bad swing a hash hack?

  28. 28.

    phobos

    August 4, 2008 at 9:42 pm

    A spokesman for the drug policy team dismissed the allegations, saying “Uhhh…what?”

  29. 29.

    Incertus

    August 4, 2008 at 9:44 pm

    Where I learned my pot slang, we called that “one-hit wonder”, as I recall

    Are you talking about a one-hitter quitter? Heh.

  30. 30.

    Von Cracker

    August 4, 2008 at 9:47 pm

    Ein Hitter, Bitte!

  31. 31.

    myiq2xu

    August 4, 2008 at 9:48 pm

    Mentioning drugs is racist.

  32. 32.

    Cruel Jest

    August 4, 2008 at 9:55 pm

    Gotta be intentional. One Hitter barely scrapes against a baseball term. I give them credit for the irony. Unfortunately, this is the most effective action they’ve taken in decades.

  33. 33.

    SamFromUtah

    August 4, 2008 at 9:57 pm

    Are you talking about a one-hitter quitter? Heh.

    Not quite – our definition of the Good Stuff was that you forget to take the second hit. :)

  34. 34.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    August 4, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    Incertus thanks very much, you have now sent me on a Mike Oldfield Youtube quest that will probably keep me up until 3am after I have done TB1,2,3, Millenium Bell, Far Above the Clouds and heaven knows what else. My boss thanks you for my ineptitude in the morning.

  35. 35.

    Jim

    August 4, 2008 at 10:12 pm

    “Mentioning drugs is racist.”

    Yeah, well. So is saying that mentioning drugs is racist. we could continue in this fashion, but I might have to drink more and then you’d be sorry.

  36. 36.

    Gus

    August 4, 2008 at 10:12 pm

    John +8.

    +8? +12? Maybe I’m jsut getting old, but man I’m a cheap date on the rare occasion I indulge. If I take more than two I get comatose.

  37. 37.

    hamletta

    August 4, 2008 at 10:21 pm

    Ha!

    I learned “one-hitter” here in TN, but a friend who’d spent some time at Southern IL U introduced me to the term “dugout.”

    Perhaps the linguists who do the soda/pop/coke maps should add this to their questionnaires.

  38. 38.

    SamFromUtah

    August 4, 2008 at 10:24 pm

    Perhaps the linguists who do the soda/pop/coke maps should add this to their questionnaires.

    Tetrahydrocannabinolinguistics is a sadly underfunded discipline.

  39. 39.

    Conservatively Liberal

    August 4, 2008 at 10:27 pm

    In terms of one hitters, I’m +12.

    I lose count after breakfast, but I would guess +40. But it is for legit medical reasons, really. No shit, really. I got my papers so I can use my papers.:)

    little brass bats that get supa-hot supa-fast. yeah. good times.

    I had an anodized (blue) aluminum ‘bat’, but I chrome plated it to show my boss (electroplating/bumper & chrome repair) that yes indeed, he could easily chrome aluminum with his setup.

    I may still have it somewhere around the house.

  40. 40.

    chiggins

    August 4, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    The One Hitter’s are NORML’s team. So yeah, I think they know what the name means.

  41. 41.

    Kallisti

    August 4, 2008 at 10:35 pm

    Chiggins is right. My partner plays in the same league as the NORML One Hitters, and this isn’t the first time that they’ve had upstanding teams forfit games to them.

  42. 42.

    jake

    August 4, 2008 at 10:43 pm

    Intentional.

    BTW, there is no truth in the rumor that Larry Craig has a baseball team called Swings Both Ways.

  43. 43.

    phobos

    August 5, 2008 at 3:25 am

    Dock Ellis once threw a “no hitter” while he was tripping on acid.

    Deal with that George Will.

  44. 44.

    Mary

    August 5, 2008 at 6:13 am

    OMG, grade 8 flashbacks from that ad, Incertus. (Not that I was doing anything causing flashbacks in grade 8, of course).

    The one extra thing that ad needed was a shot of McCain as the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, with his jaunty little sailor cap. Schmoo, Marshmallow Man — that’s McCain!

  45. 45.

    harlana pepper

    August 5, 2008 at 6:16 am

    The NSA is listening . . . listening . . . (beep)

  46. 46.

    harlana pepper

    August 5, 2008 at 6:18 am

    Oh, and of course it’s intentional.

  47. 47.

    4tehlulz

    August 5, 2008 at 6:23 am

    The NSA is listening . . . listening . . . (beep)

    Hey, they need to score too, you know.

  48. 48.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    August 5, 2008 at 7:33 am

    myiq2xu Says:

    Mentioning drugs is racist.

    August 4th, 2008 at 9:48 pm

    …and good news for Hillary Clinton!

  49. 49.

    crack

    August 5, 2008 at 8:23 am

    It’s a joke, but maybe the whole team isn’t in on it. It fits with the softball team naming conventions. Scared Hitless is in our league.

  50. 50.

    Bey

    August 5, 2008 at 9:00 am

    I learned “one-hitter” here in TN, but a friend who’d spent some time at Southern IL U introduced me to the term “dugout.”

    My home town! SIU! Go Dawgs!

    Deliberate, no question about it. And funny as hell, I might add.

  51. 51.

    feral1

    August 5, 2008 at 10:38 am

    Ultimate teams tend to be less subtle. My favorite name for a club team so far is- We Smoke Pot.

  52. 52.

    w vincentz

    August 5, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    My team is called the “tokers”. I’ll tell you all about them. At first base is a guy named….?
    OK, at second base is a guy.
    Shortstop, yeah we got one.
    Pitcher, yup.
    Catcher? Who cares.
    Outfield…we all are.

    What was I typing about?
    Oh, nevermind. Pass it mfer!

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    August 4, 2008 at 9:04 pm

    […] Via B.J.: Sen. Evan Bayh’s [pronounced “Bye’s”] staff softball team, The Bayh Partisans, has cancelled the game it had scheduled for tomorrow evening with the drug policy team The One Hitters. Bayh staffer Jonathan Stahler sent One Hitter team captain Kris Krane an e-mail Monday morning citing “[t]oo many people out of town” as the reason for the cancellation. […]

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