meaning of cranked sports mentality

[yochan]

what does it mean to have a "cranked sports mentality"?

 

[BobK]

It's presumably said by someone who thinks that being interested in sports is cranky (I don't think cranked is a word [as a participle, that is]; it looks like a combination of 'cranky' and 'skewed'.

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[Rover_KE]

Welcome to the forum, yochan.:-D

What does it mean to have a "cranked sports mentality"?

Start every sentence with a capital letter.

Where did you encounter this phrase? It's not a common expression.


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[Charlie Bernstein]

In the U.S., cranked often means revved up, excited, wound up.

- By the time she'd finished her third espresso, she was really cranked.
- The team was cranked and ready to play.

 

[BobK]

:up: Aha... The nearest BE to that I can think of is 'pumped up' (sometimes just 'pumped').

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[yochan]

Thanks to all that answered, it was a comment on a picture of brazilian football player Neymar being taken to hospital by a helicopter, this is what it says:

"Wearing a baseball cap while on a stretcher being flown on a medical transport clearly shows why Brazil lost. Too much ego. Beside poor quality of football and a cranked sports mentality which is the general hallmark of Brazil."

 

[Rover_KE]

yochan, please take note for next time that the context would have been more helpful in post #1 than #6.

 

[Barb_D]

However, I also must confess that even with the context, the expression is meaningless to me. I have no idea what the author meant.