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Aerie Vol said:
Sewell deserved better than that. Had a couple strike 3s that inning.
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He is trying to be too perfect after he gets 2 strives on the batters. All he has to do is don’t waste pitches on his 1-2 counts. When the count goes to 3-2, and the bases loaded, he is almost afraid to throw a strike. He can get over it by continuing to throw strikes at 0-3 or 1-2.
 
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patrick said:
I will never call a home run a _ong!

A “dong” is a dong, not a home run.

But you guys carry on.
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A brief history of "dong" and it's use in baseball vernacular.
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Ever since I've been on reddit I have been fascinated by our use of the term "dong." Not only is it a common phrase on this sub, but it's been used many times on r/baseball and now has it's own subreddit, r/monsterdongs.
For the longest time, I thought it was a term we coined, something unique to the Royals. But in my research, I have found that there is a much richer history that dates back to the days of BrettDongs.
So where did it come from?
My search first began here, on r/KCRoyals. I wanted to find the first instance of it's use in this tight-knit community dedicated to dongs.
The first use, that i could find is this post on April 17, 2014. As you can see, people seem to be familiar with the term at this time, but some people were still resistant to the nickname. All searches for the term "dong" in earlier posts and comments have come up empty. Either the original thread was removed, or google just doesn't want to put forth the effort.*
I then broadened my search to r/baseball and /u/thedeejus helped me find its earliest use of the term "dong" to mean a home run here on August 19, 2010. As you can see, the term wasn't well received. The OP has not been active for over three years, so I knew I could not question them for their source of the term.
I then went to the second earliest post that used "dong" to describe a home run and found it posted by /u/hanshinfan, a former member of Hanshin Tigers' ouendan. He is still very active on reddit, so /u/thedeejus and I both messaged him about the history.
We initially thought it may have been a Japanese term, but /u/hanshinfan quickly corrected us, explaining that the "ng" sound is not in Japanese. He pointed us to an old Budweiser ad, with none other than Joe Buck, himself.
For a brief moment, I was worried. Heart broken, even. Could it be that the term "dong" was somehow coined by Joe Buck!?
Fortunately for /u/thedeejus and I, the rabbit hole was not yet over. /u/hanshinfan again came to the rescue and sent us another link.
Here in this baseball dictionary, you can see the term was first recorded in 1987 as a Seattle Mariner's term. Then, it was called a "Dome dong," a home run hit inside a dome. Later, you can see that in the 90's "dong" began to exist on its own and be a simple term for all home runs.
So how did the term become so popular in r/KCRoyals? My best guess would be royalsreview.com. You can see early use of the term here and here. I know for many, royalsreview.com was a precursor to r/KCRoyals as a fan base forum.
So while the Royals and more specifically, r/KCRoyals didn't coin the phrase, we certainly have made it the term it is today. May many dongs hang high on this great day.
Thanks again to /u/thedeejus and /u/hanshinfan
*EDIT: Further research shows that in the Game thread from April 16, 2014. Moose hit a home run and there was no mention of "dong." Then, in the Game Thread from April 18, 2014 Moose hits a second home run and we see several dong mentions. The above "MooseDong" post was posted on April 17, 2014.
 
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Volstylexx said:
A brief history of "dong" and it's use in baseball vernacular.
renderTimingPixel.png

Ever since I've been on reddit I have been fascinated by our use of the term "dong." Not only is it a common phrase on this sub, but it's been used many times on r/baseball and now has it's own subreddit, r/monsterdongs.
For the longest time, I thought it was a term we coined, something unique to the Royals. But in my research, I have found that there is a much richer history that dates back to the days of BrettDongs.
So where did it come from?
My search first began here, on r/KCRoyals. I wanted to find the first instance of it's use in this tight-knit community dedicated to dongs.
The first use, that i could find is this post on April 17, 2014. As you can see, people seem to be familiar with the term at this time, but some people were still resistant to the nickname. All searches for the term "dong" in earlier posts and comments have come up empty. Either the original thread was removed, or google just doesn't want to put forth the effort.*
I then broadened my search to r/baseball and /u/thedeejus helped me find its earliest use of the term "dong" to mean a home run here on August 19, 2010. As you can see, the term wasn't well received. The OP has not been active for over three years, so I knew I could not question them for their source of the term.
I then went to the second earliest post that used "dong" to describe a home run and found it posted by /u/hanshinfan, a former member of Hanshin Tigers' ouendan. He is still very active on reddit, so /u/thedeejus and I both messaged him about the history.
We initially thought it may have been a Japanese term, but /u/hanshinfan quickly corrected us, explaining that the "ng" sound is not in Japanese. He pointed us to an old Budweiser ad, with none other than Joe Buck, himself.
For a brief moment, I was worried. Heart broken, even. Could it be that the term "dong" was somehow coined by Joe Buck!?
Fortunately for /u/thedeejus and I, the rabbit hole was not yet over. /u/hanshinfan again came to the rescue and sent us another link.
Here in this baseball dictionary, you can see the term was first recorded in 1987 as a Seattle Mariner's term. Then, it was called a "Dome dong," a home run hit inside a dome. Later, you can see that in the 90's "dong" began to exist on its own and be a simple term for all home runs.
So how did the term become so popular in r/KCRoyals? My best guess would be royalsreview.com. You can see early use of the term here and here. I know for many, royalsreview.com was a precursor to r/KCRoyals as a fan base forum.
So while the Royals and more specifically, r/KCRoyals didn't coin the phrase, we certainly have made it the term it is today. May many dongs hang high on this great day.
Thanks again to /u/thedeejus and /u/hanshinfan
*EDIT: Further research shows that in the Game thread from April 16, 2014. Moose hit a home run and there was no mention of "dong." Then, in the Game Thread from April 18, 2014 Moose hits a second home run and we see several dong mentions. The above "MooseDong" post was posted on April 17, 2014.
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Brief?
 
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