If you’ve been watching the playoffs this season, and I’m sure you have, you’ve heard about the brouhaha that erupted after Game Two of the Braves-Phillies series, triggered by a somewhat innocuous bit of trash talking by the Braves Orlando Arcia after the game. First off, I just wanted to use the word “brouhaha” in a story. Brouhaha seems to be a word that belongs to baseball and baseball only. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard it used in any other context outside of baseball.
This entire brouhaha emerged from a series of absolutely stunning plays, the types of which make playoff baseball great.