Legendary Manager Suggests That A Baseball Trade Was A “Rape”
Dear Lou Piniella: if you “don’t want to use the word ‘rape,’” then DON’T USE THE WORD “RAPE.”
1. Lou Piniella spent almost five decades as a player/manager in Major League Baseball. Now, he’s a commentator for the YES Network, and he said this today regarding a recent Toronto Blue Jays - Miami Marlins trade.
The trade, which sent five valuable Miami players, including All-Star Jose Reyes and pitchers Mark Buehrle and Josh Johnson, to the Blue Jays in exchange for five minor players, is widely viewed as a salary dump by the Marlins, selling off their best assets to save money.
3. Lou — you clearly know that using the word “rape” is a terrible, insensitive idea here. So just don’t use it!
H/T to Jimmy Traina
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Youngurbanfailure 2 months agoMeh. Rape is also defined as “an act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation: the rape of the countryside.”
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sillymessiah1981 2 months agoThere are so many things I can no longer take seriously simply because everything said, done, or implied angers some cross-section of people. WAH! Quit crying about every single turn of phrase. Everyone knows rape is horrible, there are fights to be had about shaming and other facets of it. We aren’t fighting the word, though.
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freak dageek 2 months agoAnd when will we see your similarly scathing article about the “terrible, insensitive” use of the word in, say, “The Rape of Europa,” the fantastic film about theft and recovery of classic works of art (to cite just one example of the word being acceptably used to refer to theft)? It’s about time somebody took those assholes over at the National Endowment for the Humanities down a peg or two.
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