Clusterball: Probably not a new word (though our search did not turn up any other meaning...). The very tragic and unfortunate portmanteau of Clusterbomb (or a similar word...) and professional sports (such as in our case today, Major League Baseball). While harkening in the new era of Chemicalball (Era), we have encountered what is probably one of the biggest, professional sport's scandals of our time occurring in multiple teams, states and decades (for example, as previously mentioned, see Lyle Alzado). This doesn't affect just us and our community, nor just the past (the dead, mentioned previously) but the temporal community - that is, the whole range of the community over time. One example: some of the biggest Manny Ramirez fans we know are children. What will be the long term psychosocial effect of them growing up and witnessing (live! this is life, folks!) in the Chemicalball Era? The truth is, we at The Dictionary don't know. Definition: The unexpected tragic and unfortunate outcome of the result of society living in the Chemicalball Era.
References: Manny tests positive, is suspended 50 games, Hours after Manny news, Dodgers blow big lead, Manny Takes an Asterisk on Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, Sports doping, Mannpoon, Mannclysm, and Chemicalball (Era).
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