MLB Off-Topic

[Blzer]

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I don't care what it's called, but political correctness is the last thing that goes through my mind when I speak or write out the term.

Seriously, if no one said that was the reason I would have thought it was because "Injury" is faster to type than "Disabled," yet another way that the MLB would be upping the pace.

Surely they did this on their own merit, because I hope people weren't up in arms over the previous name because 2019.

EDIT: Whoa, no pun intended there.

[SPTO]

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I don't care what it's called, but political correctness is the last thing that goes through my mind when I speak or write out the term.

Seriously, if no one said that was the reason I would have thought it was because "Injury" is faster to type than "Disabled," yet another way that the MLB would be upping the pace.

Surely they did this on their own merit, because I hope people weren't up in arms over the previous name because 2019.

EDIT: Whoa, no pun intended there.

Well the PC thing was an assumption on my part.

[TheMatrix31]

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Yeah, still gonna say DL.

Just gonna be dumb to not see it written as DL. Pointless.

[WaitTilNextYear]

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Some name changes.

Zach Britton is now Zack Britton.
And Melvin Upton Jr. is once again B.J. Upton.

Sorry, you don't get to change it and then change it back. I will continue to refer to him as Melvin.

Make up your mind, B.J.

Oops.

[DieHardYankee26]

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I'm a little surprised it took so long to change Disabled List to something a little more PC. Still, i'm gonna call it by that name.

"Disability advocates asked Major League Baseball to change the name because so people wouldn’t confuse*“disabilities” and “injuries” and further the thinking that a disability means someone can’t play a sport."

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-changes-name-disabled-list-request-disability-advocates-004157739.html

[JaFFiTh]

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Some name changes.



Zach Britton is now Zack Britton.

And Melvin Upton Jr. is once again B.J. Upton.

The sad thing about that is the change probably won’t make it into The Show till next year


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[Mercury112491]

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Draft should stay the same. Baseball drafts are biggest luck based thing in all sports. There's no tanking in baseball. Do baseball fans get excited by losing because their team will get a top pick who could turn their franchise around? Obviously not. There's a difference between tanking and rebuilding.

Uhhh this is just blatantly untrue. There absolutely 100% is tanking in baseball and it’s become more and more prevalent. The Rays, Astros, Cubs are all shining examples of teams that succeeded doing it. The Marlins are a prime example of a team currently doing it. And it absolutely is hurting the game.

Rewarding a team for coming in Last is a very outdated American idea and it needs to change.



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[countryboy]

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"Disability advocates asked Major League Baseball to change the name because so people wouldn’t confuse*“disabilities” and “injuries” and further the thinking that a disability means someone can’t play a sport."

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-changes...004157739.html

As the parent of a child with a disability, it didn't bother me that it was called the disabled list. But I can also understand, and appreciate, the reason behind changing the name.

[JaFFiTh]

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As the parent of a child with a disability, it didn't bother me that it was called the disabled list. But I can also understand, and appreciate, the reason behind changing the name.

I get it, (I’m technically disabled but I don’t call myself that just Deaf and have a daughter with health issues as well) but I’ve never seen it that way. Maybe if it was people who doesn’t really follow baseball and sees that and go eh? All sports may as well use one term, like IR or IL (that really looks weird lol) or whatever.


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[JayBee74]

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I became an Oriole fan when my dad took me and my brother to Memorial Stadium in 1965 to see a game against the Minnesota Twins. I actually remember much of the offseason talk leading to the 1966 season was about Frank being an "old 30" referring now to the infamous trade that the Reds bungled. He was my first and favorite sports hero even surpassing Johnny Unitas.

On First Take today Stephen A said, "I'll tell you this I want to know who were the 10.8% of the people that voted against him being a first ballot Hall Of Famer".

[SPTO]

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On First Take today Stephen A said, "I'll tell you this I want to know who were the 10.8% of the people that voted against him being a first ballot Hall Of Famer".

That's rich...I mean, retrospectively Robinson deserved more votes but the thing is, he's one of those guys who got lost in the shuffle. There was a discussion about him on the radio here last night and it was discussed that he was hurt by playing in small markets (Cincy, Baltimore and Cleveland) so people didn't really get to see/hear a lot of him.

[TheMatrix31]

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"Disability advocates asked Major League Baseball to change the name because so people wouldn’t confuse*“disabilities” and “injuries” and further the thinking that a disability means someone can’t play a sport."

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-changes...004157739.html

lol that's so dumb.

[Suntan Superman]

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I always thought disabled list was a stupid name that was just another thing the traditionalists would get red faced and cross eyed if someone tried to change it.

Sounds like that assumption was correct. No one hates baseball more than them.

[TheMatrix31]

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I always thought disabled list was a stupid name that was just another thing the traditionalists would get red faced and cross eyed if someone tried to change it.

Sounds like that assumption was correct. No one hates baseball more than them.

Except for guys like Rob Manfred and baseball writers and media who seemingly can't go one day without saying something is wrong with their sport and proposing a million changes to non-existent/manufactured problems, but hey.

[Suntan Superman]

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Except for guys like Rob Manfred and baseball writers and media who seemingly can't go one day without saying something is wrong with their sport and proposing a million changes to non-existent/manufactured problems, but hey.

Nah traditionalists hate it way more than they could ever dream of it's not even close