(Audacy) Managers have been going to the bullpen a lot in the MLB playoffs, and one organization is calling for a change.
No, not about the game -- but rather the term “bullpen” itself.
PETA, the animal rights organization, is proposing that MLB renames the bullpen to a more animal-friendly name. The suggestion?
The arm barn.
“Words matter, and baseball ‘bullpens’ devalue talented players and mock the misery of sensitive animals,” PETA executive vice president Tracy Reima said in a press release. “PETA encourages Major League Baseball coaches, announcers, players and fans to ‘changeup’ their language and embrace the ‘arm barn’ instead.”
In non-baseball terms, a bullpen usually refers to a holding area where bulls are kept before being slaughtered.
PETA noted the cattle are treated brutally — and are hung upside down with their throats slit in the meat industry. Bulls are also kept in “bullpens” during rodeos, where they're “tormented into kicking and bucking by being electro-shocked or prodded,” according to PETA.
There are plenty of issues that baseball needs to address to fix the game, but renaming the bullpen to the “arm barn” doesn't seem like it will be a priority item.
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