"cheek music"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/22/2011 08:46 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>And all of them for a sense with which I'm unfamiliar ("talk,
>chatter", chiefly U.S.).  No record of the only sense I do know, as
>a term of baseball art = 'beanball' (thrown under the chin of the
>batter, give or take).  Is the original sense still extant?

"Chin music" for "chatter" I believe I've heard or read -- but not
"cheek music".

But I can suggest another baseball context -- when Derek Jeeter's
3000th career hit is on a day when he goes 5 for 5, and he is shown
preparing for each at bat with his usual ritual, including
penultimatey extending his right arm towards the plate umpire asking
for time for the last placement into position of his feet -- but
invariably followed, as the last act of this ritual, by puffing out
his right cheek with his tongue.

Joel

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