Reason #746 why I hate baseball:
There's an expression in baseball, "frozen rope," which describes a really hard-hit line drive. So my adolescent mind interpreted that to mean that when a rope is frozen it tightens so that, if you cut it, it whips like an elastic band. Other things, like dried leather, do this when subject to changes in conditions. So it would make sense that a lax rope would tighten in the cold - and that an already-tight one would become full of tension.
It turns out a rope doesn't do that when it freezes. I spent 20 years thinking tense frozen ropes were powerful. But the phrase actually just means something straightly linear. But...then why use a rope as the metaphor? A frozen rope is just as un-straight and full of slack as a thawed one. Since freezing has no tightening effect, why not choose an object that is always straight? Why not a frozen pole? A frozen beam. A frozen knife.
Fucking baseball. Bunch of morons. They can't even do metaphors right.
