GDT 6/23/24 Arizona Diamondbacks (Cecconi) @ Philadelphia Phillies (Sánchez, C)

[zambonir]

I wasn't trying to push the envelope, it only occurred to me/was reminded of the other instance after bkox brought it up. I did always find the censorship tool of the previous version of the board to be a bit extreme in the age of cable television, and even the FCC's rules were and still are a bit too stringent IMO (and George Carlin's). Though I can't imagine a scenario where I'd actually need to use the two least harmless/most common of the seven here (though there's a third word that would fall into that category if those was a British soccer board).

But it is also admittedly part of the charm that this board has a more refined sensibility than its real-life equivalent (i.e. the proverbial barroom argument. Or for that matter the Phillies clubhouse and stadium).

[zambonir]

I won't embed the tweet because then I would be pushing (or downright destroying) the envelope but here's how an NBA head coach talks in a press conference these days.

https://x.com/khobi_price/status/1805349465404096856

(I guess we need an OT: board language thread at this point.)

[schillingfan]

I’m late to the party, but it clearly is a gender intended word. It’s a reference to females behavior at her time of the month, i.e. a dog in heat. Thus women are bitchy, men were quarrelsome, referring to aggressive. Bitchy has feminine overtones, so while a man can be bitchy, but he’s really being accused of acting like a complaining woman (the underlying assumption is that they were arguing for no good reason). This is like only women are called hysterical. Just my feminist two cents.

[zambonir]

No question that is the root of the word (though the basic root is simply female dog not being in heat). So if you (or anyone) takes offense that's fair. But that's exactly why so many feminist writer and authors and musicians decided to claim it with subversion and/or irony.

And language does evolve. The dictionary definition of the noun includes both the gender-specific and gender-unrelated usage, while the adjective does not include the former.

Truth is, there are probably more words that we still shouldn't be using than ones which have become more generic or harmless. Like "master bedroom," which has faded. But I'd argue "peanut gallery" or "grandfathered in" are long removed from their racist roots. Then again, in all of these cases it's ultimately not for me to say.

[phillychuck]

This has been the most debated of my posts since I registered over 20 years ago. And it had nothing to do with baseball!

Back in the day we went on for months about moneyball and sabermetrics. And Bobby Abreu.

[julio]

I won't embed the tweet because then I would be pushing (or downright destroying) the envelope but here's how an NBA head coach talks in a press conference these days.

Yeah, we have a presidential candidate who's a public potty-mouth, too...but nothing that man does should be normalized. (In his case, I suspect that the inhibition filters in his brain have ceased to function; it's a pretty standard symptom.)

[BostonRoss]

Must have been a good game. 27 posts (now 28) after the game ended.