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Originally Posted by Jel
what's with the commentator's pronunciation of 'just'? I thought that was for effect when I've heard it in films - that would drive me fucking mental if that's really how they commentate...
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That kind of slang comes from the days when baseball and sports in general were not on TV but broadcast over the radio. The Announcers would do things like that to juice up the entertainment value. It's carried over to TV as sort of a cultural thing.