_wonky_ = "shady"?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/19/2012 09:57 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>This just in:
>
>http://goo.gl/IRHeZ
>>Game 5 is Friday night in Pittsburgh, and the Pens will get Craig
>>Adams and James Neal back from suspensions incurred in Sunday's wonky
>>Game 3.
>
>I could sit here with a dictionary for a week and not figure out what
>"wonky" means here. "Inexplicable"? "One only a true fan could love"? I
>have no idea.
>
>For the record--Game 3 was won by Philadelphia Flyers. If featured a
>large number of penalties, including some of the dirty varyiety, that
>merited three Pittsburgh suspensions by the league. Even given this
>information, I'm not sure how it was "wonky". But one thing it wasn't is
>"shady".

Didn't one team score a touchdown, an extra point, and a field
goal?  The Philadelphia goalie must have felt more than a little
wonk! wonk! wonk!

Anyway, to me "wonky" has meant "weird in some technological
way".  But I don't exclude other meanings.

Joel

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