A fictitious position on a sports team, invoked as a way to playfully mock others who are
ignorant of whichever sport you happen to be discussing, with the
target of this jest usually attempting to hide this fact. Name reminiscent of the "shortstop" position in
baseball, which is a position that laymen to the sport have heard in general conversation, but likewise often times cannot visualize or describe.
Chuckford: "He was acting
like a real know-it-all about
the game, but a lot of what he was saying didn't seem to make sense."
Rastafarian
Billy: "Did you ask him if he thought the guy playing sportstop was pushing it too wide?"
Chuckford: "Yes... and he agreed."