MLB replaces 'Disabled List' with PC list

Major League Baseball is getting rid of the "disabled list" in 2019 because it makes disabled people feel like they will never play major league baseball or something like that. They will now call it the "injured list" and hopefully this will not upset the social justice warriors who are brain injured or brain dead and who

scour the dregs of the Internet to find something to get pissed off over. That would be insensitive.

The "disabled list" has been part of professional baseball since the mid-1960s (and there are even records of some teams using a 'disabled list" as far back as the early 20th century, but those players are dead, which is a worse medical condition), and it has become normal to refer to an injured or exhausted player as "on the DL." 

But MLB has been reportedly batting around the idea of renaming the injured roster in order to better reflect the condition of players who skip games for mental, medical or physical reasons, according to ESPN, the political arm of sports television.

There is even talk of MLB developing an LGBTQsilentP list, but that's merely in the rumor stage at this time.

"The league will make the change out of concern that the term 'disabled' for injured players falsely conflates disabilities with injuries and an inability to participate in sports," the far-left sports network reported after a brief pontification about the Second Amendment. The change was made at the request of disability advocacy organizations, who have been pressing the league to make the change for nearly a decade, having nothing else to complain about.

In recent years, the commissioner has received several inquiries regarding the name of the 'Disabled List,'" MLB's "senior director of league economics and operations" wrote in a letter to MLB teams and team owners in late December.

The MLB statement said:

"The principal concern is that using the term 'disabled' for players who are injured supports the misconception that people with disabilities are injured and therefore are not able to participate or compete in sports. As a result, Major League Baseball has agreed to change the name 'Disabled List' to be the 'Injured List' at both the major and minor league levels. All standards and requirements for placement, reinstatement, etc., shall remain unchanged. This change, which is only a rebranding of the name itself, is effective immediately.

“People with disabilities do not consider themselves injured,”Jay Ruderman, president of the disability advocacy organization, The Ruderman Family Foundation, told the New York Times. “When it’s used incorrectly, when someone is injured, not disabled, that’s offensive.”

But some normal people might argue that the Disabled List referred specifically to the game of baseball and players on the list were unable [aka disabled] to effectively contribute to the success of their team at the time.

Picking nits, Ruderman went on to add that players with a "torn ACL," for example, are more adequately described as "injured" and not "disabled," hence the push. Ultimately, disability advocacy organizations hope that the change will resonate with baseball fans and lead to a more widespread understanding of the difference between temporary injury and permanent disability.

But let's face it--social justice warriors hardly like the term 'disabled' for any reason. They prefer, for example, to call a blind person 'optically challenged,' or a paranoid schizophrenic a 'reality challenged dreamer.'

Anyway, to the credit of MLB, at least they aren't taking a knee during the National Anthem . . . right?

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