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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