Hitting Rehearsal

[Vettezuki]

Sometimes I feel like the world is conspiring to make me insane.

Perhaps this was just a PR ploy, but the guy sounded dead serious. A minor league team in Florida decided to change the name of batting practice, a.k.a., BP since the dawn of civilization to "Hitting Rehearsal" because they didn't want any connection to British Petroleum. This may actually be the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

[94cobra69ss396]

Welcome to the world of the politically correct.

[Leedom]

That is retarded. We should not call it stealing a base since stealing is bad, we should call it "advancing to the next base on a pitch". :smack:

[Vettezuki]

In case you thought I was making this up. . .

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2010/06/minor-league-team-rename-bp-to-hitting-rehearsal-in-response-to-oil-spill/1

[Damian]

I think he is just trying to get some attention.