I bet you're a smarter individual than you're letting on. You might know what those mean right off the bat - but I'm sure you can infer the reference via some

I bet you're a smarter individual than you're letting on. You might know what those mean right off the bat - but I'm sure you can infer the reference via some pretty good critical thinking skills. I pay no attention to soccer, hockey or cricket, but if a fan uses a position term as part of a broader analogy, I could infer the overall context of his point. Besides all that, baseball is hardly just an American sport, it might not be as widely popular in Europe, but it's quite popular in Central / South America as well as Japan / Taiwan.