Trash Talking

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Date: May 31 2007
Topic: Conversational English

Author: phoogoo

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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