Woman Triggered After Seeing the Letters 'KKK' at Baseball Game Counting Strikeouts

[Poisonshady313]

Imagine you are at a baseball game having a wonderful time, but then you notice someone begins hanging “K” signs every time the pitcher strikes someone out.

Normally, any self-respecting baseball fan would understand this and know that if there are three of these signs in a row, it does not stand for the white supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan, but instead that the pitcher had successfully struck out a batter.

But one Twitter user decided that she was extremely offended anyway.

Woman Triggered After Seeing the Letters 'KKK' at Baseball Game Counting Strikeouts

Seriously... especially for an adult enrolled in an institution of higher learning, this is entirely unacceptable. If you can look at a strike out counter and think literally any thought besides "this is the number of strikeouts this pitcher has gotten so far in this game", you're doing it wrong.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Smells like a troll to me.

 

[Poisonshady313]

If you're genuinely unaware of baseball's tradition of keeping track of a pitcher's strikeouts using the letter "K", and you see three K's like this in the outfield, it's ok if your initial reaction is "wtf?"

But when someone explains it to you, the only right response is something along the lines of "Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Now I know."

 

[Valjean]

Why is a strikeout represented by a K?

 

[Poisonshady313]

Why is a strikeout represented by a K?

It started in the late 1850s by the inventor of the Baseball box score, Henry Chadwick.

"Although these days score cards use lines to indicate base hits, Chadwick used an S for single, a D for double, and so on. When it came to making an out at the plate, Chadwick needed an abbreviation for what was known at the time as having "struck three times" and made an out. Since S was taken, he went with K, the last letter in "struck.""
Why Does "K" Stand For "Strikeout" In Baseball?

 

[BSM1]

Now if we can only get people saying the word "*******" again.

 

[Poisonshady313]

Now if we can only get people saying the word "*******" again.

What?

 

[lewisnotmiller]

If you're genuinely unaware of baseball's tradition of keeping track of a pitcher's strikeouts using the letter "K", and you see three K's like this in the outfield, it's ok if your initial reaction is "wtf?"

But when someone explains it to you, the only right response is something along the lines of "Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Now I know."

She'd be better served by getting on the Washington Redskins case.

 

[Twilight Hue]

A mind truly is a terrible thing to waste.

 

[BSM1]

What?

GOOD GRIEF! The powers that be actually censored the word.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/*******

 

[Poisonshady313]

GOOD GRIEF! The powers that be actually censored the word.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/*******

It censored it again in the link.

 

[Revoltingest]

It started in the late 1850s by the inventor of the Baseball box score, Henry Chadwick.

"Although these days score cards use lines to indicate base hits, Chadwick used an S for single, a D for double, and so on. When it came to making an out at the plate, Chadwick needed an abbreviation for what was known at the time as having "struck three times" and made an out. Since S was taken, he went with K, the last letter in "struck.""
Why Does "K" Stand For "Strikeout" In Baseball?

This is proof positive that baseball has racist origins, & is therefore racist.
(I've learned how to reason thus by taking an advanced course in victimization studies.)

 

[BSM1]

It censored it again in the link.

I saw that! Deja Vu again.

 

[Revoltingest]

Now if we can only get people saying the word "*******" again.

At least RF is loosening its grip.
We may now post "fist".
(Yes, it was previously banned.)

 

[BSM1]

This is proof positive that baseball has racist origins, & is therefore racist.
(I've learned how to reason thus by taking an advanced course in victimization studies.)

Good thing you didn't reference the use of white balls in the game.

 

[Revoltingest]

Good thing you didn't reference the use of white balls in the game.

And the ball has stitches, which rhymes with *******!
And the white uniforms!
And all the balls! (Misogyny, you know.)

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I'm triggered by morons.


Obviously, I'm constantly triggered, so I spend my life twitching under the covers with noise-canceling headphones on, sucking on a pacifier.

 

[BSM1]

And the ball has stitches, which rhymes with *******!
And the white uniforms!
And all the balls! (Misogyny, you know.)

And long hard bats driving those white balls into dark, soft, supple folds of skin...uhh...sorry, I've gotta go take a shower--I'm starting to feel like @Wirey.

 

[rosends]

I'm triggered by morons.


Obviously, I'm constantly triggered, so I spend my life twitching under the covers with noise-canceling headphones on, sucking on a pacifier.

Uh oh. I'm triggered by the mention of pacifiers.

 

[icehorse]

and that 7th inning stretch, oh my!