The A's finally get off the schneid with a win! (Just thinking as I wrote this - What is a "Schneid" - how and why are you on it in the first place? Why is it good to get off it? Is it something that you should be innoculated from or is it just another form of the swine flu? Is it sticky? Is it like carrying a potato in your back pocket? Does it have anything to do with Schneider fron "One Day At A Time" - God, I hope not because that would mean you really suck!)
Led by a pair of long 3-Run HR's from Derek Rice and Scott Travis, the A's offense finally clicked. Bucky Kruzinski was in mid-season form allowing only three hits in 6 innings and also collecting three singles and a double of his own. Rice also had a single and the rest of the offense was spread up and down the A's lineup.
Koster, Careccia and Tarantino had the hits for the Jays.
One thing that should be put back on this "schneid" thing is the 10-Run Rule. The game ended in the bottom of the 6th when the A's went up by ten. The Blue Jays had just brought in a new pitcher and were trying to get him some work. When the run scored, the game ended and the he only got to throw to two batters. There was plenty of time and sunlight and both teams were willing to continue. This rule sucks!
Found this on a web site. There were other notations that it may come from pinochle, not gin. Never played pinochle, don't drink gin. Maybe Bonnie Franklin can channel her energies and offer more.
Apparently the original sense was that if you were "schneidered" in gin you were "cut" (as if by a tailor) from contention in the game. "Schneider" first appeared in the literature of card-playing about 1886, but the shortened form "schneid" used in other sports is probably of fairly recent vintage.
Either way, congrats on getting off. Hope we're next.
Tom - I had looked it up also after posting this. Like you said, it's some German thing about being "cut" in pinocle or gin and it progressed to being used in other sports, sometimes in the shortened "schneid" version.
If that's the case, maybe Sylvester Stallone should have said "Schneider me, Mick" in the Rocky movies? Maybe he did - the way he mumbles just made it sound like "cut".
