I was a fan of the SF Giants since 1969, in the days of Mays, McCovey, Marichal and Perry. In the ensuing years, I followed and cheered for the Giants though prosperous years and miserable ones. No matter what, they were “my” team.
But then came last week’s kneeling antics, and just like that, I was done.
Blacks and Whites were better off in the 80’s.
More Blacks and Whites were married.
You could still exist on one income, with the mother raising the children.
We are in serious retrograde right now.
It is sad that so many Americans, growing up loving sports, are now reaching the point where they despise the athletes, the money, and most importantly, the politics...
They have forgotten why they are able to play these kid’s games and earn luxurious lifestyles...
We are witnessing our country rotting on the vine and the end will not be pretty...
Have not watched baseball since they went on strike and never played the 94’ World Series. Used to be a big Yankee fan. Those cry babies are making a lot of bucks to play a kids game and they still wanted more. Just my 2 cents.
Professional athletes have killed their golden goose.
Excellent article! My feelings exactly!
That said, I must confess I’m not a newcomer to being anti baseball. I quit watching it at least 20 years ago due to the very low percentage of players or owners that EVER expressed a scintilla of appreciation of being “born into” the Greatest Country on earth and ENABLED THEM to make millions of dollars.
Along about the same time I quit watching baseball, I retired my TV. It currently resides face down under my bed where it has been for years.
So many people allow the actions of others dictate how they live. There is no more live and let live, the attitude now is - I disagree with what some people do I will therefore never watch baseball or football again, why not just watch the game that goes on between the lines.
Grew up playing baseball. Little league, stickball ( we played automatics - pitching, hitting, fielding. No running the bases). One of my fondest memories was going up the street to my friends house with my brother. The three of us would play a game we called “hit off the wall”. At his house there was a stone wall with rock faces jutting out this way and that. One of us would “pitch” the ball at the wall, one would play fielder and one would play first base. We used a sponge ball (does anyone remember those) or an indian rubber ball (probably can’t call them that today). The fielder was about 30 feet from the wall and, depending where on the wall it came off from, you would have to move pretty fast to field and then throw over to first base. The game really developed your reflexes (after a while I was always positioned at third base in little league). We played that game for hours. Hit off the wall.
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This travesty, masquerading as baseball, won’t last more than a couple more weeks. After MLB shuts it down due to inclement flu conditions will the libtard players continue free agent kneeling?
I haven’t watched a ballgame for years.
I don’t get Major League sports at all. I hire you at an outrageous salary and then I have to let you do what you want to do and send BS messages and ruin the sport I hired you for.
To me it’s simple.. STFU, do as your told, play the game or you’re fired and once fired you’re barred for life from the sport.
Watch what you do off the field because that says a lot to who you are on the field.
Little League baseball was taken seriously on the US bases in Germany--they had both major and minor leagues. At Bad Kreuznach, I played for a minor league team, the Red Braves--there was also a Blue Braves.
Washington Nationals fan, just cancelled my season tickets. No NFL, MLB or NBA for me....still have NHzl....
Every October, when the curtain came down on the baseball season, Pilgrim will admit it . . . he felt a little tear roll down his cheek as he began the countdown, “# number of days until catchers report for spring training.”
Well, those sentiments have come to an abrubt halt as I could no longer be concerned about any group that embraces the very forces that would destroy this nation. I’m sure that not everyone will follow in my decision because it is easier to whitewash the things that excite us, like a hard triple down the right field line, or a ball bouncing off a fielder’s head to result in a home run. But then, there were many that turned a blind eye to a lot of things through history - like the gassing of millions of Jewish people during the holocaust.
Yea, I think that is the direction the world is going, only we can add Christians and conservatives to the list. Crowds will be enjoying another day at the ballpark while people will be in the process of being eliminated just a few blocks down the road.
Heck, that whole thing sold a bunch of tickets in the Roman Coliseums way back then.
Sports are suffering even without the self-inflicted wounds. I’m not even sure if CPR will save ‘em. Good riddance.
I have absolutely no interest in major league baseball, football, or anything else. These leagues can wither away and die on the vine for all I care. In fact, considering their recent behaviour, I think they should.
Wow. How times have changed. Can you imagine any top sports franchise doing such a thing today?!
Not only are the besmirching the anthem, the flag, the military.
They are also besmirching the past greats of their own sports, who honored those very same things.
The marxist leagues must die so they can be replaced with patriotic leagues.