Synonyms for Average
by Eno Sarris
March 12, 2012
Your spectrum of adequacy, from regrettable to decent. Baseball writers, enjoy:
Regrettable
Who?
Participatory
Just a guy
Tolerable
Unobjectionable
Adequate
Passable
Sufficient
Mediocre
Ordinary
Average
Meh
Fine
Scratch
Okay
Good enough
Respectable
Nice (little)
Nifty (little)
Dandy (little)
Decent
With a phone full of pictures of pitchers' fingers, strange beers, and his two toddler sons, Eno Sarris can be found at the ballpark or a brewery most days. Read him here, writing about the A's or Giants at The Athletic, or about beer at October. Follow him on Twitter @enosarris if you can handle the sandwiches and inanity.
I officially advocate the replacement of the term “average” in “batting average” with some of these terms based on the following criteria:
BA .315 = Batting Dandy
It seems the website deleted the middle of my comment? Let’s see if this works:
BA .315 = Batting Dandy
Hopefully third time’s the charm…
BA below .250 – Batting Participatory; BA .250-.270 – Batting Tolerable; BA .270-.285 – Batting Passable; BA .285-.300 – Batting Respectable; BA .300-.315 – Batting Nifty; BA below .315 – Batting Dandy
I’m bad at the internet. That last one should read “BA above .315.”
You had me at just replacing batting average completely with batting dandy
This may have been the first time I thumbs upped a comment. Congrats, this actually made me LOL.