After Tuesday night's escapades of Aroldis Chapman following his save, the one word used over and over was, "somersault." Chapman did NOT do a somersault. This is what a somersault looks like:
What Chapman did is a forward roll.
Got it?
I went and looked at Wikipedia after you tweeted about this last night. I found this:
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So in the Wikipedia contributors' minds, rolls are a subset of somersaults, which can either be ground- or air-based. And as we all know, Wikipedia is never wrong!
(I'm glad I'm involved in debating the important issues of the day, by the way.)
So that would mean an admission of fallibility...Crap
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