No more 'bullpens?' PETA urges MLB to change name, suggests new moniker for warm-up area

[sarisataka]

No more 'bullpens?' PETA urges MLB to change name, suggests new moniker for warm-up area

PETA clearly believes that the bullpen is bad.

The animal rights group (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) released a statement on Thursday, asking for the staging area for MLB relief pitchers to be renamed from "bullpen" to "arm barn" to try to remove what the group feels is a negative connotation to the warm-up area.

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/peta-bullpens-mlb-name-change/17fy8vfwryhub1qvjudqgajnn2

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Way to de-legitimize your mission, PETA.

Sounds like an Onion piece.

[Botany]

2. The area for MLB relief pitchers to be renamed from "bullpen" to "arm barn"

And catchers from now on will be called homebase men.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. Homebase men... lol!

Sounds like a term my now-deceased mother would've used while briefly watching sports with the rest of the family.

She always called the managers/coaches "boss man" too.

[GemDigger]

3. That is absurd.

They want us to take them serious on this?

[secondwind]

4. This is silly....

[Cartoonist]

5. How about "pitcher's coop"

[Harker]

7. That's brilliant...

somehow.

[calguy]

6. And this group wonders why they're sometimes called whackos?

Sorry, I've always been against cruelty towards animals, but I've never been impressed with PETA.

[demosincebirth]

8. Sometimes?

[sellitman]

10. I thought this was The Onion

First time I heard it.

Stupidity unleashed.