Bush league

also see bushleague. adj. 1) below good standards, not good or incorrect. pitiful, poor, terrible, awful, bad, sucky,
“that’s a bushleague call, ref.”

“that kid is real bushleague.”
amateur performance. behavior that doesn’t belong in the major leagues.
curt schilling has a running feud with yankees third baseman alex rodriguez, once calling alex rodriguez’s swat of a tag in game 6 of the alcs a “bush league play” on the jim rome show.
substandard, below par

synonomous with ghetto or bootleg
man, your car is so bush (league),
abso-f-cking-lutely nothing to do with auto racing, or anything else some functionally illiterate hillbilly might suggest. popular usage of the phrase pre-dates that example by many decades. it’s rooted in baseball, refers to leagues considered to be inferior to the majors, and is purely coincidental that it shares a spelling with our 43rd president.
dumb-ss rednecks trying to correct spelling is f-cking bush league, man.
see: andrew bynum
when andrew bynum makes an unneceary and spineless foul on jj barea, its call “bush league”.
a phrase commonly used in (but not restricted to) baseball to describe something (usually a playing style or att-tude) that is not respectable or sportsmanlike, but technically not breaking any rules of the game. someone who commonly plays with antics that are considered bushleague, would be considered a “bushleaguer”. both “bushleague” and “bushleaguer” can also be used to describe unsportsmanlike acts by fans, and to describe the fans themselves, respectively.
batter: “aww cmon ump, are you gonna let the catcher get away with that?? he keeps taunting me as the pitch comes in. this is such bushleague cr-p.

umpire: “i don’t wanna hear any more of it. now get in the box and shut your mouth.”
to denote a sub par level of compet-tion or gameplay.
what’s this bullsh-t?! i don’t f-cking care! it don’t matter to jesus! but you don’t fool me! you might fool the f-cks in the league office, but you don’t fool jesus! it’s bush-league psych-out stuff! laughable, man! forced laugh i would’ve f-cked you in the -ss sat-rday. i’ll f-ck you in the -ss next wednesday instead! wooo! you got a date wednesday, baby!

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