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Haboob - not baboon - to blame for Arizona League Reds postponement

Congratulations if you knew what a haboob is before Donald Lutz, former Cincinnati Reds outfielder and current bench coach of the Arizona League Reds, Tweeted on Monday that the team got "haboobed out."

A haboob is defined as an intense dust storm, and many of the dust storms that pass through the Phoenix, Arizona, area - as one did on Monday - are considered haboobs.

ESPN reporter Pedro Gomez's Tweet won Twitter when he was describing a delay during the Rangers-Diamondbacks game, and "haboob" apparently autocorrected to "baboon."

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