The Champion’s Blog (You already know who dis is)

1. According to the author a rant is a high-flown, extravagant, or bombastic speech or utterance; a piece of turgid declamation; a tirade. The baseball example qualifies because it fits the definition of a rant, they are just dragging out this conversation of derek jeter and joe torre.

2. The rant has changed in the age of the web because the web makes it possible for others to write a response to rants, thus causing more and more rants.

3. This essay definition looks at comparison and history. 

4. “ Some of the first rants of the modern era—at least some of the first to be referred to as such—were associated with a short-lived, 17^th-century English sect known (to their enemies) as the “Ranters.” Its members’ penchant for tobacco, alcohol, women, and swearing sprung from a belief in the divinity of all things and a rejection of the idea of sin altogether. They were frequently accused of blasphemy and of profaning religious rituals. A Ranter preacher, Abiezer Coppe, once swore for an entire hour while standing at the pulpit. Richard Baxter, a Puritan divine, recounted with horror the power that such “hideous words of Blasphemy” could have: “[A] Matron of great Note for Godliness and Sobriety, being perverted by them, turned so shameless a Whore, that she was Carted in the streets of London.”