English Lessons

Trash Talking

May 31 2007

Lesson

My brother and I went to the Yankees vs. Red Sox game last Tuesday. I have to say, there was a lot of trash talking at the game. I heard a lot of Yankee fans shout things like "Red Sox suck," or "go home Red Sox fans." Even though there were not nearly as many Red Sox fans they could certainly dish it out as well. It helped that the Red Sox crushed the Yankees 7-3. We even saw one fan spit on another fan. If it were the Mariners or the A's or something it might not have been so heated. But the Yankees and Red Sox have a rivalry that goes back a long way.

Vocabulary

Yankees (n.)- One of New Yorks professional baseball teams located in the Bronx

Red Sox (n.) - Boston's baseball team

trash talk (n.) - when someone yells insults at another person

trash talk (v.) - yelling insults

suck (v. slang) - to be bad, not cool, not good - it's a pretty strong word

dish out (v.) - to attack

crush (v.) - to beat someone by a wide margin or by a lot of points

Mariners (n. ) - Seattle's baseball team

A's (n.) - Oakland's baseball team

heated (adj.) - angry or confrontational

rivalry (n.) - when one person or team has a long time competition with another one, sometimes to the point where each one hates the other.

Picture

These were our seats in Yankee Stadium

Discussion

Is it common in other cultures for people to trash talk? What do people trash talk about? Sports? Politics? Relationships? Fashion? Is it serious or just a friendly game?

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06:18 AM Jun 25 2007 \| Reply
sandra tiriba Brazil	very good! I do love it! I have learnt so much here. If we watch a game on TV or a movie and don't know the slangs, we won't understand nothing.

06:18 AM Jun 25 2007 | Reply

sandra tiriba

Brazil

very good! I do love it! I have learnt so much here. If we watch a game on TV or a movie and don't know the slangs, we won't understand nothing.

11:57 PM Jun 25 2007 \| Reply
solomon_5050 India	I am very lazy to give my comments and all. But after reading your lesson, i could not resist to leave without any comment over your VERY VERY USEFUL lesson. I learnt lots and lots of new words and vocab. Really fantastic!!!. Please keep giving lessons like this. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH

11:57 PM Jun 25 2007 | Reply

solomon_5050

India

I am very lazy to give my comments and all. But after reading your lesson, i could not resist to leave without any comment over your VERY VERY USEFUL lesson. I learnt lots and lots of new words and vocab. Really fantastic!!!. Please keep giving lessons like this. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH

08:42 AM Jun 26 2007 \| Reply
Thiago Henrique de Souza Brazil	I think that's horrible to for someone who is watching a soccer or baseball game and there are people talking a lot of bad things or trash talking… It's just game, but many people give the blood for see your team win the game!

08:42 AM Jun 26 2007 | Reply

Thiago Henrique de Souza

Brazil

I think that's horrible to for someone who is watching a soccer or baseball game and there are people talking a lot of bad things or trash talking… It's just game, but many people give the blood for see your team win the game!

08:42 AM Jun 26 2007 \| Reply
Thiago Henrique de Souza Brazil	I think that's horrible to for someone who is watching a soccer or baseball game and there are people talking a lot of bad things or trash talking… It's just game, but many people give the blood for see your team win the game!

08:42 AM Jun 26 2007 | Reply

Thiago Henrique de Souza

Brazil

08:42 AM Jun 26 2007 \| Reply
Thiago Henrique de Souza Brazil	I think that's horrible to for someone who is watching a soccer or baseball game and there are people talking a lot of bad things or trash talking… It's just game, but many people give the blood for see your team win the game!

08:42 AM Jun 26 2007 | Reply

Thiago Henrique de Souza

Brazil

08:44 AM Jun 26 2007 \| Reply
Thiago Henrique de Souza Brazil	I think that's horrible to for someone who is watching a soccer or baseball game and there are people talking a lot of bad things or trash talking… It's just game, but many people give the blood for see your team win the game!

08:44 AM Jun 26 2007 | Reply

Thiago Henrique de Souza

Brazil

08:44 AM Jun 26 2007 \| Reply
Thiago Henrique de Souza Brazil	I think that's horrible to for someone who is watching a soccer or baseball game and there are people talking a lot of bad things or trash talking… It's just a game, but many people give the blood for see your team win the competition!

08:44 AM Jun 26 2007 | Reply

Thiago Henrique de Souza

Brazil

I think that's horrible to for someone who is watching a soccer or baseball game and there are people talking a lot of bad things or trash talking… It's just a game, but many people give the blood for see your team win the competition!

08:44 AM Jun 26 2007 \| Reply
Thiago Henrique de Souza Brazil	I think that's horrible to for someone who is watching a soccer or baseball game and there are people talking a lot of bad things or trash talking… It's just a game, but many people give the blood for see your team win the competition!

08:44 AM Jun 26 2007 | Reply

Thiago Henrique de Souza

Brazil

07:38 PM Jun 26 2007 \| Reply
Merghadi Morocco	i’m not lazy as our colleague so i give a comment to this lesson. it’s a bad thing to insult someone, especially if it concern games. i think that is consequence of education and we must working hardly to diffuse values of mutuel respect. at the end i thank you very much

07:38 PM Jun 26 2007 | Reply

Merghadi

Morocco

i’m not lazy as our colleague so i give a comment to this lesson. it’s a bad thing to insult someone, especially if it concern games. i think that is consequence of education and we must working hardly to diffuse values of mutuel respect.
at the end i thank you very much

06:06 AM Jun 27 2007 \| Reply
venkat reddy India	it is very nice

06:06 AM Jun 27 2007 | Reply

venkat reddy

India

it is very nice

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