bootleg recessionistas

[Alice Faber]

Laurence Horn wrote:
> OK, "bootleg" isn't new, and I even have some Bootleg Dylan on my
> iTunes, but is anyone familiar with it in this apparently bleached or
> shifted sense as used by Matt Stairs below?
> ================
> Friday, October 24, 2008
> Phillies upset about World Series introductions
> By Amy K. Nelson
> ESPN.com
>
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>
> "It's disappointing and some guys were extremely mad about it,"
> Stairs said early Friday evening after the team's workout at Citizens
> Bank Park. "I think it's bootleg when you have the World Series and
> guys are jogging out to the line and they don't take the extra five
> minutes to introduce the players."

Could it be a Canadianism?

Alternatively, a malapropism (for bush-league)?

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