How Do You Feel About The Word Suck?

It was a busy week around HQ and some important stories fell through the cracks.

None bigger than the ‘suck-saga’.

The Cubs played in St. Louis last Monday thru Wednesday. They won 2 times, 3 if you want to count Joe Maddon changing the rules at Busch Stadium to allow the word ‘suck’ to be displayed openly.

From the Post-Dispatch:

During the Cubs’ first visit to St. Louis this season, ushers have told fans wearing Maddon’s “Try Not to Suck” T-shirt to remove the shirt or turn it inside out. The T-shirt, which is sold to raise money for Maddon’s Respect 90 Foundation, features a silhouette of signature Maddon’s Buddy Holly-like glasses and a verb that the Cardinals have for years not allowed at the ballpark. That has been true whether it appears on a T-shirt about an opposing team or, as one official described, even on “Cancer Sucks” tees.

I have been in Busch Stadium where an usher has asked a patron to turn their shirt inside out because ‘suck’ was printed on it. So yes, this is a thing.

But after Maddon made a little stink about the policy, it looks like it’s going to be amended:

Officials discussed the policy again Wednesday, and the expectation is that the team will change that stance in part because T-shirts such as Maddon’s don’t use the term offensively. Any perceived affront from the word has changed with its modern and widespread use.

I personally have never really found the work ‘suck’ to be offensive. But I remember as a kid the mom of one of my friends hitting the roof when she heard anyone use it.

What say you?

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