'Bullpen' is offensive to cows and should be renamed 'arm barn': PETA

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(In baseball, the bullpen is the area where relief pitchers warm up before entering a game)

Animal rights organization PETA is encouraging the MLB to "strike out" the word "bullpen" and switch to "arm barn" instead, arguing that the current term "mock[s] the misery of sensitive animals."

“PETA encourages Major League Baseball coaches, announcers, players, and fans to changeup their language and embrace the ‘arm barn’ instead," stated PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “Words matter, and baseball ‘bullpens’ devalue talented players and mock the misery of sensitive animals."

According to NPR, bullpen has been hypothesized to have a few different potential origins, though it may have first appeared in a December 1915 issue of "Baseball Magazine."

The most popular theory on its origin is that at the turn of the century, most ballparks had large, bull-shaped Bull Durham tobacco billboards on the outfield wall, which is where relief pitchers would go to warm up, reports NPR.

The Hill has reached out to the MLB for comment, but has not immediately heard back.

https://thehill.com/other-political-figures/579214-bullpen-is-offensive-to-cows-and-should-be-renamed-arm-barn-peta

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