"If we're wrong about that, then we are out in left field on everything."
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You are so far out in left field on this, you have lost touch with reality.
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M.O., which I did for a while, they're just left out in left field, I guess.
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IF THEY HAVE SOMETHING ON THEIR PHONE THAT SAID APPLE HEADQUARTERS WAS THE NEXT TARGET, THAT'S OUT IN LEFT FIELD.
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I'm so out in left field—and this might sound weird—that I don't even think of myself as even having an audience.
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He was back out in left field in the bottom half of the fifth but was replaced by Brandon Nimmo in the next inning.
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In doing so, they have anchored the conversation so far out in left field that any settlement is a win for them and a loss for us.
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He can dump one out in left field with two strikes, or he can steal a base, or he can bunt, hit a homer tonight, makes plays.
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And when we said Cisco and the internet would change the way the world works, lives, learns and plays in the early '90s, people thought we were out in left field.
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This is especially true when we feel as if we've missed the mark, or perhaps, our manager is out in left field and we aren't sure on how to reel them back in.
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I'm very into how the guitar doesn't even sit on top of the music, it is just out in left field doing its own thing with total autonomy from the melody of the song.
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Those memories materialize in the playground bullying of "Origin," a window into his past as a "shy, withdrawn kid" through the eyes of his art student in "Time Machine," or, from way out in left field, when the artist takes the shape of a long-beaked bird in several stories.
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Some of the show's most ridiculous plots mimic real-life events — the death of a foreign princess in a murder-disguised-as-car-crash hit a little too close to the conspiracy theories about Princess Diana, for example — others are so far out in left field that they're just laughably ridiculous, like when Fitz made an incredibly speedy recovery after an assassination attempt.
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Dana Goldberg at HRC Gala Dana Goldberg (b. 1976) is an American comedian. She is especially known in the gay community, as Goldberg herself is gay. She is a weekly guest on The Stephanie Miller Show on SiriusXM and hosts her own podcast, Out in Left Field With Dana Goldberg on Advocate.com.
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Paul Attanasio of The Washington Post wrote, "After 'This Is Spinal Tap' and the book 'Ball Four,' you'd hardly think you could make a dull movie about baseball, rock 'n' roll or the two together. But here is a Neil Simon movie with all of his banality, but none of his humor—a sort of 'The Nod Couple.'"Attanasio, Paul (March 30, 1985). "'Slugger': Out in Left Field".
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The origin lies in the West Side Grounds that the Chicago Cubs called home from 1893 to 1915. As legend has it, a mental hospital was located directly behind the left field wall. The institute housed mental patients who could be heard making strange and bizarre comments within listening distance of players and fans. Thus, if someone said that you were "way out in left field," the person was questioning your sanity and comparing you with a mental patient.
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One of the band's more streamlined numbers, "Car Radio" starts off as a brooding alt-pop and rap rock anthem before exploding into existential rave-hop and electronic rock at its euphoric climax. Its musical composition has a song structure that is "way out in left field" due to the fact it contains no chorus and no hook. The song's verses talk about a true story of Tyler Joseph being late to a class at college and losing his car radio.
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A left-fielder would thus typically be stationed further back from the action than the center or right fielders, as he would have a greater amount of ground to cover. Hence, "out in left field" meant one was furthest from the action taking place at home-plate, and the most likely to draw erroneous, fanciful conclusions about that action; thus, in a general sense, someone out in the left field would be someone who was not taking part in the action of whatever endeavor we were talking about.
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In Safire's Political Dictionary, Safire writes that the phrase "out of left field" means "out of the ordinary, out of touch, far out." The variation "out in left field" means alternately "removed from the ordinary, unconventional" or "out of contact with reality, out of touch." He compares the term to left-wing politics and the Left Coast—slang for the liberal-leaning coastal cities in California, Oregon and Washington. In 1998, American English professor Robert L. Chapman, in his book American Slang, wrote that the phrase "out of left field" was in use by 1953.
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In May 1981, columnist William Safire asked readers of The New York Times to send him any ideas they had regarding the origin of the phrase "out of left field"—he did not know where it came from, and did not refer to Shaw's work. On June 28, 1981, he devoted most of his Sunday column to the phrase, offering up various responses he received. The earliest scholarly citation Safire could find was a 1961 article in the journal American Speech, which defined the variation "out in left field" as meaning "disoriented, out of contact with reality." Linguist John Algeo told Safire that the phrase most likely came from baseball observers rather than from baseball fans or players.
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Jim McCawley (1938–1999, professor of linguistics at the University of Chicago, who wrote his scatolinguistic treatises under the noms de plume of Quang Phúc Đông and Yuck Foo, both of the fictional South Hanoi Institute of Technology) is credited, on page ix of the preface of Studies out in left field as having "created the interdisciplinary field[s] of pornolinguistics and scatolinguistics virtually on his own" in 1967. Technically, scatolinguistics is the study of the words for various forms of excrement (compare scatology). But, given the lack of any cognates such as "pornolinguistics" (despite the above) or "coitolinguistics", it has come to cover the study (including etymology and current usage) of all rude and profane expressions.
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