Sunday, November 2, 2014

New Batsu Game Rules: "Sloppy Seconds"; Use of the Word "Market" Now Banned

Since the podcast first started, we had only one rule:

Nothing that will cause permanent physical harm.

The time has come to add a few more rules:

New Rule 1: No using the same theme for back-to-back batsu games.
New Rule 2: If the same theme is used in back-to-back batsu games, that theme is subsequently banned - permanently.
New Rule 3: Attempts to use banned batsu game themes will result in a revenge batsu game.

This set of New Rules will collectively be known as "Sloppy Seconds."

As a result of these new rules, batsu games themed around the Kansas City Royals are now banned, as the Royals have been the basis of the last two straight batsu games.  Any further attempt to use a Royals theme in a batsu game will result in the batsu game issuer being "sloppy seconded-ed-ed."

Credit for the term "sloppy seconds" goes to local KC comedian Teague Hayes.



Another non-batsu game-related change to the podcast: use of the term "market" to refer to a team, city or region is now banned.

Why?  We'll let this banner say it all:


The term "market" implicitly treats sports fans as though they are nothing more than customers.  The relationship between fan and team is - and always has been - much more than that.  Fans deserve more respect than to be treated as statistics, and that starts with the media (i.e. us, a media outlet done by fans for the fans).

That is all.  Continue enjoying the podcast.