So I also sent an e-mail to the NPR.org, but got an automated response back letting me know that they receive so many e-mails that I should not expect a response. I reached out to them because I really just want to know who to report a term being used on public broadcasts during MLB baseball broadcasts. I do not know if the broadcasters have to be licensed and belong to an organization or if there is a department at MLB. I could not locate anything in a google search. I want to tell you that one broadcaster in baseball that also does public national broadcasts uses the term FISTED when there are other terms to outline this type of batter's hit. Sometimes a batter will swing at the ball and it hits the ball inside close to the fists. I cannot take listening to the TERM it has DEROGATORY meaning and it does not need to be used to outline this type of hit. You are not using a clinched fist to bat at the ball, you are using a bat. I am familiar with the derogatory meaning because I stumbled into it do to some investigations on sexual assault. Maybe people in baseball do not know the derogatory meaning, but I cannot believe it. Who can I report this do along with signatures to get it addressed......maybe there is someone in the NPR org or CPB that would CARE!
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