Activists want MLB to use the term “injury list.”
The disabled list is going on the permanent DL.
Major League Baseball will rename the disabled list as the “injured list,” the league confirmed Thursday after ESPN broke the news.
The league will make the change out of concern that the term “disabled” for injured players falsely conflates disabilities with injuries and an inability to participate in sports.
“In recent years, the commissioner has received several inquiries regarding the name of the ‘Disabled List,'” Pfeifer wrote. “The principal concern is that using the term ‘disabled’ for players who are injured supports the misconception that people with disabilities are injured and therefore are not able to participate or compete in sports. As a result, Major League Baseball has agreed to change the name ‘Disabled List’ to be the ‘Injured List’ at both the major and minor league levels. All standards and requirements for placement, reinstatement, etc., shall remain unchanged. This change, which is only a rebranding of the name itself, is effective immediately.”
The rules of the DL will remain the same.
In a way it does make sense, but this will only embolden the idiot class to go after other targets because they “won” this one.
Are they ‘able’ to play? No? they are ‘dis’-abled. Hence the Disabled List. Just another example of the ever increasing thinning of our skin…….well, some people’s skin.
also, ‘several’ complaints. what if THOUSANDS of people complain about this semantic change? Will they be listened to? Yeah, didn’t think so.
I thought we were not supposed to use the term “disabled” for the permanently “differently-abled”…
(At what point will normal people start telling these SJWs to just STFU, leave our language alone and go away.)
It’s the death of a thousand cuts. Just a nasty little pack of hyenas going after Lions. The problem is that if there are enough of the hyenas the can kill the Lion. Maybe it’s time to really start thinning the pack.
“…this will only embolden the idiot class to go after other targets…”
Yep. I bet by Spring Training, “K” will no longer be used for strikes.
Time to break out the dictionary again:
dis·a·bled
/ˌdisˈāb(ə)ld/
adjective
(of a person) having a physical or mental condition that limits movements, senses, or activities.
When they are on the “disabled list” do they have a physical (or mental) condition that limits their activities?
I think yes.
“Injury list” isn’t complete without describing the injury. Knee injury list, back injury list, arm injury list.
That’s a fine change of names, if they want to be “accurate” then the injury list needs definition.
in·ju·ry
/ˈinj(ə)rē/
noun
an instance of being injured.
Disablement and Disability are synonyms of injury, but “Disabled” is not.
These players who are injured frequently experience a gradual decrease in tempo and ability, or ritardando to borrow a music phrase. Therefore, Rob Manfred has decreed that instead of referring to “players going on the disabled list,” the league must use “the tards are hurt.”
We trust this will be less offensive to everyone.
Please, for the love of God, don’t do this baseball. You’re all I have left.
I thought I was battling cold symptoms the past couple days but seeing as I woke up the other night with the sweats I don’t know what the hell I have. New rules!
If it ain’t woke, don’t fix it… Not a hard concept, or is it?
Uh oh. We have a disabled vehicle interrupting tonight’s commute on I95.
Time to go after traffic reporters.
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Can’t help thinking people who get this kind of nonsense published are really just keeping us from focusing on all the Clinton and Obama felonies.
Or maybe we should call the formerly ‘handicapped’ today known as the ‘disabled’, ‘inoperable’. Unable to operate as originally designed. A broken down vehicle is ’inoperable’. A ball player that cannot function as a ball player is ‘inoperable’.
I’m sorry. This whole language fudging has long ago left absurd.
First they came for the adverbs but I am not likeLY to use adverbs.
Then they came for the verbs. But verbs describe action and I’m mostly against action. Particularly action by government.
Then they came for the pronouns, my knowledge of which is still stuck waaay back in 2016, when hims were hims and she’s we’re glad. All of a sudden women dress like Bob of Bob’s Big Boy and they expect for me to know which of the 58 genders available I’m supposed to recognize and what it prefers to be addressed by.
I still have my Operation Iraqi Freedom deck of playing cards and I might do better recognizing an Abu from a Muhammad or Muhhamed or Tariq. Now I cannot get a slice of pizza on Main Street without being afraid of misidentifying a prong from a gash. Actually. I’m not afraid. I just avoid it altogether.
They’ve turned me into Archie Bunker and I stay in the bunker.
What are we allowed to call the list of players who can’t show up game day because they’re in jail for committing another violent felony?
The din-du-nuffin list?
They’re not ‘disabled.’ They’re ‘athletically challenged.’ 🙂
maybe now they can work on getting rid of the Designated Hitter because it completely skews statistics, making them ‘not accurate’
(statistics are the life-blood of MLB)
What’s next. No designated hitter because it implies violence? No batter because it offends pancakes? No shortstop because of the little people? (Almost said midget but caught myself)
Does anybody ever wake up in the morning and say to yourself, “I just really don’t give a fuck anymore.” That’s me pretty much….
Pretty much every morning Bman. And it doesn’t help that I live in Virginia.
And when a friend gets hit and killed by an Amtrak train in the same week. Yeah. I feel the suckage right now. Majorly.
Yes, they should get rid of stolen bases, change it to borrowed bases.
Stolen is racist.
MLB is as chicken-gutted as the NFL.
Include me out. My viewership has plummeted, gone down the “Don’t give a crap anymore” road. Back in 1960, I saved up $1 to mail order Gillette’s (razor blade company) History of the World Series, and read to cover to cover at least 10 times. I can still quote certain passages from it, after 59 years. I have great memories of the greats of the era, Mantle, Mays, Musial, Williams, etc.
Now, It would just be a waste of my time to watch it. It’s gone, done. So is Gillette. Ass-holes run US corporations now.