I find her sports analogy pretty bang on the money.

Some analysts were skeptical that the sports analogy would translate into sales.

"Dad will make a lot of sports analogies," he said.

He even countered with his own sports analogy.

"I frequently use sports analogies in business," he said.

And sports analogies can lead a person astray.

To use a sports analogy, this came out of not deep left field, but deep center field.

"Why do men always resort to sports analogies?"

It would be a fast ball, a line drive, an outside shot, or some other ridiculous sports analogy that I don't understand.

A sports analogy, which extends all the way to a seeding system for top teams and a playoff ladder, is quite intentional.