[Ads-l] Request from sports writer for origin of a new sports term

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

An article in the Guardian on March 23, 2014 used the phrase
"piss-fast hot-rocks" to describe very fast baseball pitches. So
"piss" was associated with speed in the sports domain in March 2014.
Further below are two tweets commenting on the phrase.

Website: The Guardian
Article: Major League Baseball in Sydney: hairy giants, meaty thocks
and Miller beer
Author: Matt Cleary
Timestamp: Sun 23 Mar 2014 18.43 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2014/mar/24/major-league-baseball-in-sydney

[Begin excerpt]
Wow. Big Kenley’s throwing super-hot rocks, trying to crush life from
this petering contest. He’s a “closer”. It’s what they do. Then he
gives up a walk. The game-tying run comes into bat in the form of …
someone, a man. The accordian gets a workout: Let’s go Arizona
Diamondbacks. Let’s go. Crowd getting a little jiggy … might we see
something extraordinary? No. We do not. Big Kenley stands atop the
Diamondbacks' throats with a series of piss-fast hot-rocks, and after
two hours and 49 minutes the game peters out, as baseball games do,
and we finish Dodgers of Los Angeles 3, Diamondbacks of Arizona 1.
[End excerpt]

https://x.com/BMcCarthy32/status/447931717144150016
Brandon McCarthy @BMcCarthy32
from that article, if we could start using the phrase 'piss-fast
hot-rocks' to describe good velocity, I'd really enjoy it
11:03 PM · Mar 23, 2014

https://x.com/MikeBatesTWIBH/status/447934148951302144
Mike Bates @MikeBatesTWIBH
@BMcCarthy32 Yeah, but what's the threshold for "piss-fast hot-rocks?"
94? 95? Below that is "dribble-speed warm-balls."
11:13 PM · Mar 23, 2014

Garson

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