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Baseball: PETA wants to see pitchers warm up in the arm barn, not the bullpen

As baseball fans prepare for Game 3 of the World Series, PETA has called on Major League Baseball to use the term “arm barn” instead of “lifter,” which the animal rights group says , laughs at “the misery of sensitive animals”.

The area where relief pitchers warm up before entering a game is known as the reliever pen, but PETA said the term also refers to the “waiting area where the terrified bulls are. kept before slaughter ”.

“Words count, and baseball ‘pens’ devalue talented players and poke fun at the misery of sentient animals,” the group said in a statement. statement Thursday.

“PETA encourages Major League Baseball (MLB) coaches, announcers, players and fans to change their language and embrace the ‘arm barn’ instead.”

PETA’s request comes a day before Friday’s World Series game between the Atlanta Braves and the Houston Astros at Truist Park, with the series tied 1-1.

(Reporting by Manasi Pathak in Bangalore; editing by Peter Rutherford)

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