Even when someone is preserving food in vinegar, using pickled as a verb irks me. To this day, I still have a mixed reaction when recalling a former St. Louis Cardinals announcer's use of the word.
Red Rush was in the Cardinal booth in 1984, and I still remember him saying, "He really pickled that one over the fence," when a hitter knocked out an especially impressive home run. Although the pickled-as-a-verb aspect of it makes me cringe a little, it was an admittedly unique way of calling a home run. I'm still not entirely sure of my own blood type, but I remember Rush's recurring home run verbiage 34 years later.
How the mind works is still a mystery to me.
