Since last season, I've written on several occasions about how violence is not just someone body-slamming another, and rhetoric can be very violent. "Dems fightin' words!" didn't come from nowhere. From the very beginning, our rules clearly state not to be "trite or violent" with the trash-talking.
Franz, a witty guy, always had a Howard Stern like ability during games to dance up to the line, but not cross it. I wish I could say the same a few others in the league. As a recovering misogynist, I really do not like terms like "bitch" or "cunt", because, though, in certain contexts, they are not necessarily violent or trite, but in most cases those words are.
Therefore, I am instructing my umpiring chiefs to properly enforce the trash-talking rule. Any violator will be ejected from that game, and if he/she refuses, then that person will be sent home for the night. The same goes for homophobic and racist remarks, and anything else deemed trite or violent by our umps. The umps *do* have the right to eject people, although I will request they use that power sparingly and wisely. As I've also said a few times before, I do not want to be David Stern.
So, please choose to embrace first, walk-away second, and dis a far third.
Chill, with this classic, self-described "ditty" from Pete Townshend.
Franz, a witty guy, always had a Howard Stern like ability during games to dance up to the line, but not cross it. I wish I could say the same a few others in the league. As a recovering misogynist, I really do not like terms like "bitch" or "cunt", because, though, in certain contexts, they are not necessarily violent or trite, but in most cases those words are.
Therefore, I am instructing my umpiring chiefs to properly enforce the trash-talking rule. Any violator will be ejected from that game, and if he/she refuses, then that person will be sent home for the night. The same goes for homophobic and racist remarks, and anything else deemed trite or violent by our umps. The umps *do* have the right to eject people, although I will request they use that power sparingly and wisely. As I've also said a few times before, I do not want to be David Stern.
So, please choose to embrace first, walk-away second, and dis a far third.
Chill, with this classic, self-described "ditty" from Pete Townshend.