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Baseball team renames 'BP' to protest oil spill
Associated Press ^
| June 5, 2010
Posted on 06/05/2010 10:40:01 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
VIERA, Fla. (AP) -- In a protest over the Gulf oil spill, a minor league baseball team is changing the name of batting practice so the players will no longer have to utter the letters "BP."
The Brevard County Manatees of the Florida State League say they will now take "hitting rehearsal."
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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; florida
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To: Free ThinkerNY
So what will they do when they go to the doctor to get their Blood Pressure checked?
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posted on
06/05/2010 10:42:26 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Free ThinkerNY
Idiots. Image is everything......intelligence doesn’t rate spit.
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posted on
06/05/2010 10:45:11 AM PDT
by
stboz
To: dfwgator
BP—Barack’s Petroleum. He got more $$ from BP corp. and its employees than anyone else.
To: Free ThinkerNY
The Onion couldn’t have written better satire.
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posted on
06/05/2010 10:47:53 AM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(ObamaCare uses Bernie Madoff theory of economics)
To: Free ThinkerNY
What will these morons be calling the bullpen?
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posted on
06/05/2010 10:48:12 AM PDT
by
Doohickey
(I try to take my days one at a time, but occasionally several days attack me at once.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
This can’t be real. It’s insane.
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posted on
06/05/2010 10:57:37 AM PDT
by
kenth
To: dfwgator
I’d say “Vascular Pressure”, but Joe Biden’s made that particular acronym a joke...
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posted on
06/05/2010 10:58:05 AM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Oh, the Hugh Manatees!)
To: dfwgator
They do as The One does - wring their hands and pass the blame...
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posted on
06/05/2010 11:03:46 AM PDT
by
TheBattman
(They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature...)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
06/05/2010 11:13:27 AM PDT
by
wny
To: Free ThinkerNY
Maybe they should change their team name from the “Brevard County Manatees” to the “Brevard County Persontees”.
To: Free ThinkerNY
They will also wear dresses instead of uniforms, each player will shove a Tampax up his ass, all players will use lip gloss on deck.
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posted on
06/05/2010 11:23:42 AM PDT
by
Doc Savage
(SOBAMP!)
To: nutmeg
Thought you and Zelig would appreciate this story. LOL!
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posted on
06/05/2010 11:32:12 AM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(ObamaCare uses Bernie Madoff theory of economics)
To: Free ThinkerNY
at 19 - 34 and 13 games out of first place, you better do something different than “hitting rehersal.” Maybe if they tried to “hitting lessons” instead, it might help.
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posted on
06/05/2010 11:47:23 AM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(3(0|\|0/\/\1($ 101: (4P174L1$/\/\ R3QU1r3$ (4P174L. Could it be any more simple?)
To: Free ThinkerNY
That’ll plug the hole for sure. And don’t forget to wear a black plastic wristband — that’ll clean up the Gulf by itself.
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posted on
06/05/2010 11:58:26 AM PDT
by
353FMG
(ISLAM -- America's road to destruction.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
They should change the name of the game they play to basegonad then.
Bullpen promotes animal cruelty and should be renamed free-range bull habitat.
The bat should be renamed to old growth forest murder product.
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posted on
06/05/2010 12:01:52 PM PDT
by
Chipper
(You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
LOL, hitting rehearsal. Stupid.
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posted on
06/05/2010 2:39:28 PM PDT
by
TruJess
To: AdvisorB; 88keys; Matchett-PI; mcmuffin; 3D-JOY; WorkerbeeCitizen; shove_it; drj; Sax; Normal4me; ..
Brevard County, Florida ping.
A very strange move in a fairly conservative county.
Let me know if you want on or off this ping list.
(not associated with the county government)
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posted on
06/05/2010 2:43:49 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("The real death threat is their legislation" Rush Limbaugh, 3/25/10)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Reminds me of the idiocy when the congressional cafeteria renamed their french fries to freedom fries.
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posted on
06/05/2010 2:45:15 PM PDT
by
Oceander
(The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
To: NautiNurse
The Onion couldn’t have written better satire. Coulda fooled me ... actually, it did fool me!
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posted on
06/05/2010 2:52:09 PM PDT
by
choirboy
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