Study: Baseball Headlines Rife with Synecdoche

One of two such headlines the author happened to find in his aggregator.

It should be noted that, by the word study in the title of this post, what the author actually means is “passing observation” — and that, by the prepositional phrase rife with, what the author really means, in this case, is “two MLB.com articles that recently appeared in his RSS reader.”

Indeed, there are reasons to believe that the author, having taken a plurality of literature classes in college, constantly finds himself looking for pretenses upon which to use his (admittedly pretty robust, but also constantly deteriorating) knowledge of rhetorical devices. Indeed, there are reasons to believe that the author, having spotted one example of synecdoche in an MLB.com headline, committed to shoehorning his observation of same into a post at the whimsical little baseball site of which he’s an editor.

The only other example of the phenomenon found by the author.