![]() ![]() Longtime baseball broadcaster Mike Ferrin, now the studio host for the Arizona Diamondbacks’ pre- and postgame shows, thinks “let it eat” is a variation on “let the big dog eat,” a phrase popularized in golf by the 1996 movie Tin Cup. ![]() “If you’ve been around the game of baseball, you’ve probably heard it for as long as you’ve played.”īoth Hendricks and Castro say the phrase is just something they absorbed during high school ball, or even earlier, but neither knows where it came from. “I can’t even remember the first time I heard it,” Castro said. “Let it eat” is a fixture of baseball slang asking a ballplayer about it is like asking any person off the street to define “OK.” When I asked Castro about the phrase, he looked at me like I’d just beamed in from outer space. “Letting it eat is just going out there and letting everything go, giving it all you’ve got, not holding anything back,” said Astros catcher Jason Castro. “I think you’ll hear it in a lot of sporting events when you’re just going out there and letting your game go, giving it all you’ve got, maybe max effort,” said Cubs pitcher Kyle Hendricks. It was an odd thing for someone as skinny as Sale to say, but “let it eat” has a particular place in the baseball lexicon, the same culture that brought us idioms like “wormburner” and “ duck snort.” So what does it mean? “I plan on just letting it eat for an inning, just getting after it,” Sale said. On the eve of this year’s All-Star Game, White Sox pitcher Chris Sale, who had been tapped to start for the American League, divulged his game plan.
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