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Originally Posted by mattmets
Haller also told him he would be in the Hall of Fame "for what, *ucking up World Series, Earl?"
Such a personal attack today would probably get an umpire hung!  |
I still don't see the similarity between using a word in a conversation (which your example is, not a personal attack), and using the word in a personal description of someone. Doesn't anyone understand that name-calling is totally different from just using a bad word in a sentence?
"You're horsesh*t" and "you're a piece of horsesh*t" are two
TOTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS.
I'm sure Weaver thought what Haller said was funny as hell. I thought it was when I first heard it years ago. I don't recall Haller calling Weaver a "*ucking piece of sh!t" or I would have remembered it.
There is also a thing called context. Even if Haller had called Weaver a name, Weaver probably would have just called Haller a name back. You don't call a player with a reputation as an explosive hothead a name to which he is certainly going to react violently.