Pirates announcer Steve Blass calls walk-off win “kinky”

I can think of a million different adjectives to describe a walk-off win.  Exciting, climactic, thrilling, enthralling, dramatic, significant, extraordinary, captivating, exhilirating, sensational, breathtaking, stirring, etc…

Pirates analyst Steve Blass decided to add another word into the lexicon and make it a million and one.  After Thursday night's 1-0 victory over the Tigers, Blass called it "kinky."

I love this.  It's almost as if in the euphoria of a walk-off victory, Blass' brain had nowhere else to go but to "kinky."  This is the "Mr. Strickland, I love you" of broadcasting moments.  Just imagine how wild and crazy things are going to get in Pittsburgh if the Pirates finally make the playoffs this year!

And to think, Russell Martin didn't even make the Top 10 of the Cougarlife.com hottest cub poll.  What could have been…

[Audio via Eye on Baseball]