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August 1, 2007

Politically Correct Baseball

Posted by Dave Blount at August 1, 2007 8:39 PM

As a promotion, the Lowell Spinners decided to play a politically correct baseball game against the Brooklyn Cyclones.

Basemen were renamed "base persons," the batboy became the "bat person," and the shortstop was referred to as the "vertically challenged stop." Errors went unannounced so as not to offend the players who committed them.

The Spinners lost the game, 9–5.

That's what they get for only going halfway. To have a truly politically correct baseball game, you would have to dictate equality of outcome — the purpose behind most any coercive government program beloved by liberals, such as affirmative action. The game would have been a tie, as everyone would have known in advance.

On a tip from ToddonCapeCodd.

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