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At the risk of being a bore here . . . when referring to baseball "it was the bottom of the ninth, the score was tied and the bases were loaded" means: *The game had reach the last inning (the equivalent of the fourth innings of a [cricket test match]?, or, as a looser analogy, injury time in the second half of a football match) *Both teams were on the same score (ie 0-0, 1-1 or some other similar score) *Trying to describe "the bases are loaded" is impossible without giving a basic rundown of the game itself, but put simply it's a position from which one team is in a good position to score one or more, and is thus a tense period in the game. I should point out that the manuscript for orchestral music is also called a score, and in US English "loaded" is a synonym for inebriated (drunk). So the punchline of the joke is that the conductor's statement seemingly about the bass players also makes perfect sense as a comment about baseball. |
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:(Don't get it? "It was the bottom of the ninth, the score was tied and the bases were loaded" is a cliched line from baseball. "Loaded" is also slang for "drunk" in many English-speaking countries.) |
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