from Mark Whicker of the LA Daily News,
The news cycle went into overdrive between Games 4 and 5. And we’re not talking about affairs of state.
Most of it concerned the leftovers from Anaheim’s overtime win in Nashville Thursday.
In ascending importance, Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf got fined $10,000 for an epithet he delivered to the officials from the Anaheim bench.
It was a homophobic expression, approximately the same as the one used by Chicago’s Andrew Shaw last year in Game 4 of a first-round series against St. Louis.
Shaw was suspended for that Game 5. Getzlaf was not suspended for this Game 5. So we’ll hear a lot of byplay about that.
It was already on the minds of Canadians because Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar got a one-game suspension for the same type of thing, delivered toward an Atlanta pitcher.
Shaw also was asked to attend sensitivity training sessions. Sounds more like he and Getzlaf need vocabulary adjustments
Referring to someone as a body part or a descendent of an animal is presumably more appropriate.
Maybe we should expand our definition of an obscenity. There are certainly things in life that are universally despised.
The next time an official makes a bad call, the players should be trained to yell, “You telemarketer!”
Or maybe, “You son of a Madoff!”
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