Glossary

DEFROCK
As in the song: ìWhen our Sox Come Runnin Homeî

ìThey creamed the Yanks, De-Frocked the Angels ìYes, they did!î
"Left the Cards all decked in shamblesî ìWorld Series Champs!î

Related Terms: boot, bounce, break, bring into discredit, bring low, bring shame upon, bump, bust, can, cashier, cast reproach upon, debase, deconsecrate, degrade, demote, deplume, depose, deprive, dethrone, disbar, discharge, discredit, discrown, disemploy, disenthrone, disgrace, dishonor, dismiss, displace, displume, drum out, excommunicate, expel, fi re, furlough, give the ax, give the gate, humiliate, impute shame to, kick, lay off, let go, let out, liquidate, make redundant, oust, overthrow, pension, pension off, pillory, purge, put to shame, read out of, reflect discredit upon, release, remove, replace, reproach, retire, sack, separate forcibly, shame, strip, strip of office, strip of rank, superannuate, surplus, suspend, turn off, turn out, unchurch, unfrock, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone

FLOG
As in the song: ìYoung Theoî

ìYoung Theo's our hired gun
Made Boston baseball lots o' fun

Well I went to the Park t'get a Fenway Dog
Saw everyone dancin' the Beantown Flog.î

• Related Terms: baste, beat, belt, cane, castigate, club, drub flagellate, flail, flay, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, goad, horsewhip, larrup, lash, layon, needle, nudge, pistol-whip, poke, pommel, prick, prod, promote, pummel, punish, rawhide, scourge, smite, spank, spur, sting, strap, stripe, winge, thresh, thump, trounce, wallop, whale, whip, whop
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  Also as in: ìWe're flogging the Yankees!î

IDIOT SAVANT
1.Person who is mentally retarded in general but who displays remarkable aptitude in some limited field.
2. 2004 Boston Red Sox
3. Sox Fan, as in ìWe know the 2004 Red Sox!î
4. Red Mooner

BOOMER

As in: "When Boomer's heirs can't cover zones."

1st Baseman of the Red Sox from 1966 to 1971 and again from 1977 to 1979. George Scott Invented the endearing term for a home run: "Tater"

AL All Star from the Red Sox in 1966 and 1967. Golden Glove 1st Baseman. Big Tater Hitter.