Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:

> >> You did end up learning of its origins in baseball, yes?
> >
> > Baseball?
> 
> Yes. If a baseball game has to be halted due to inclement weather or other
> reasons before a certain point in the game, franchises without domed
> stadiums allow spectators to exchange their tickets for a ticket of the same
> value for another game in the near future. That's the rain check, although
> the rain ceck is generally just a policy printed on the back of the ticket
> itself rather than a separate piece of paper.
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/ia4z is a typical rain check policy.

Aha! So that's where it comes from. Thanks.
> 
> > I might've guessed--so many Sepponian idioms do seem to come
> > from baseball (I bristled when someone called me a pin-shitter, until
> > I found out what it meant).
> 
> Take a guess at what "sticky wicket" brings to mind.

Oh rats--have I guessed wrong again? I had joined the team as a
last-minute substitute, but it wasn't a particularly "sticky wicket"
since it was the C team that time (unlike last year when I found myself
on the A Team because the really strong players wimped out of going down
to Miyazaki--I'm on the A team again in September, for the same reason).

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