In baseball, a pebble picker, or pebble hunter, is a fielder who picks up a pebble from the ground after a missed catch, as if to blame the pebble for his own error. In the world at large, the term is a jab at someone who can never admit a mistake. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of ““Pebble Hunter” and “Pebble Picker” Blame-Shift Onto Innocent Objects”
Here’s another baseball term that I wish would be adopted into everyday speech. It’s pebble hunter.
Have you ever heard this? Pebble hunter or pebble picker? No, this is a defensive player, usually an infielder, who picks up a real or imaginary pebble and blames his error on that.
And in the old days, they used to sometimes carry pebbles in their pockets so they could hold up a pebble and say, “This is why I missed the ball.”
I think that’s great, don’t you?
It’s hard to be on the spot like that.
Well, sure it is. Thousands of people watching.
Sure it is. But I could just see somebody in the office who’s always blaming everybody else or the machinery, the Xerox machine, whatever.
We know these types.
Yeah, yeah. He’s a pebble picker, a pebble hunter.
Yeah.
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