Good Eye

Because baseball is a slow moving sport with lots of awkward silence, people feel the need to fill it with noise, which is why coaches often yell, “Hey, let’s hear some chatter out there!” Among the pointless blabber is the stupid expression “good eye.”



Attend any Little League game and you are sure to hear idiots shout “good eye!” every frickin’ time a kid chooses not to swing, even if the pitch is a mile away from the strike zone. In fact, in some cases the kid is too weak to swing a bat anyway, so it’s not so much “good eye!” but “weak body!”

“Good eye” does have the potential to be a non-stupid expression if it were used in other situations. Like say you’re at a bar and a buddy of yours is about to hit on a girl, but at the last second realizes she’s not so hot, and backs away. We should salute him. Say, “Good eye, Johnny! Way to lay off! That was a close call!”