froggy, get a clue. all of you grammar nazis and politically correct buffoons are out to lunch on this one. the out was yours. you struck out or, in some cases, you struck, tagged or otherwise forced an out. maybe you never played the game or it could be that the terminology you used differed, but in my neck of the woods you owned that out and it was yours. now i never claimed to be the sharpest pencil in the box, but i spent my childhood playing the game and, unlike in today's emasculated version, you took responsibility for your failures as well as your successes, they were yours. what is funniest about this whole thing, something even buck figured out, is that it was all a joke in the first place. i've been silently correcting the posts of everyone i quote since i started posting here and the entire idea of calling out other people's grammatical errors seems incredibly childish.
so go back and play with your pet. you know, a friend of mine once had a dog named duke. it was a huge, dumb, slobbering creature. i don't think i'll be able to get that image out of my mind now. every time i read one of duke's posts (and yours by association) i'll no longer be able to picture him as that balding basement dweller, but as that long dead dog.