{"id":49549,"date":"2021-10-29T15:06:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T15:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49549"},"modified":"2021-10-29T15:06:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T15:06:43","slug":"peta-wants-to-do-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49549","title":{"rendered":"PETA wants to do what?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Are you &#8230; kidding me?<\/p>\n<p>People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has weighed in with what I believe qualifies as the most preposterous request ever made &#8230; by anyone, ever, in the history of the world.<\/p>\n<p>PETA wants Major League Baseball to rename the &#8220;bullpen &#8220;&#8211; the place where relief pitchers warm up before entering a game &#8212; to &#8220;arm barn.&#8221; PETA wants to be &#8220;sensitive&#8221; to, um, bulls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bullpen-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49550\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bullpen-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bullpen-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bullpen-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bullpen-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bullpen-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>USA Today reported: <em>&#8220;Words matter, and baseball \u2018bullpens\u2019 devalue talented players and mock the misery of sensitive animals,\u201d PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman said in the release. \u201cPETA encourages Major League Baseball coaches, announcers, players, and fans to changeup their language and embrace the \u2018arm barn\u2019 instead.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/mlb\/peta-calls-for-the-mlb-to-change-term-bullpen-to-the-arm-barn-to-be-sensitive-to-cows\/ar-AAQ5MJF?li=BB15ms5q\">PETA calls for the MLB to change term &#8216;bullpen&#8217; to the &#8216;arm barn&#8217; to be sensitive to cows (msn.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What in the name of social activist idiocy is going on here?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like MLB pens up actual livestock in these places, for ever-lovin&#8217; sake. Yet here we have PETA seeking to replace a commonly used place with something that is more <em>animal friendly!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I saw the story and thought momentarily that it must be a satire published by The Onion. It isn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s for real.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also just plain idiotic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you &#8230; kidding me? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has weighed in with what I believe qualifies as the most preposterous request ever made &#8230; by anyone, ever, in the history of the world. PETA wants Major League Baseball to rename the &#8220;bullpen &#8220;&#8211; the place where relief pitchers warm up before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49549\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PETA wants to do what?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3105,3567],"class_list":["post-49549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-mlb","tag-peta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49551,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49549\/revisions\/49551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}