A baseball term for a player, coach or manager who is annoying and distracts opposition players and umpires from his team's dugout bench with verbal repartee.
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- As verbal jousting is frequently called "riding", the the "rider" sitting on a bench came to became known as the "bench jockey".
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Submitted on September 01, 2009
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