Why is it?

Why is it that Fox could have cheap, sophomoric jokes about sexual organs on any of its comedies, run Viagra and Cialis commercials 24 by 7, and still can’t discuss it openly when the catcher takes a foul ball in the nuts?

Ivan Rodriguez is rolled up in the fetal position, writhing in pain on the ground and Tim McCarver says it looks like it hit him in the thigh. In fairness McCarver did mention the “cup” twice, but even “groin” didn’t venture into the description.

Testicles — they’re called testicles.

(Which would be about the only word found in the dictionary that Joe Buck didn’t use several thousand times each during the nine innings.)