Hate to break it to you, but Major League Baseball just got even worse

American Thinker ^ | 6 Jun, 2021 | Harrington

[Lurkinanloomin]

Used to be a big fan of MLB and NFL.

Stopped entirely.

Get woke, go broke.

[TiGuy22]

When do they start organizing seating by skin color?

[Jay W]

I know there are guys here who haven’t watched an MLB game since 1928 or so. I can’t match that record. But I can say that I haven’t watched any MLB games since 2019. This year I haven’t checked the standings or box scores even once.

It’s actually rather easy to stop following MLB.

[DrHFrog]

I know there are guys here who haven’t watched an MLB game since 1928 or so. I can’t match that record. But I can say that I haven’t watched any MLB games since 2019. This year I haven’t checked the standings or box scores even once.

It’s actually rather easy to stop following MLB.

Yes, and NFL, NBA, Nascar, and any other sport touting this PC BS that brings politics into what was supposed to be entertainment and not indoctrination. So far there is still Curling and Cornhole !

[minnesota_bound]

A search came up with the following:

Commissioner of Baseball Rob Manfred salary
He makes $11 million a year with annual raises built into his contract through 2024,
He has a net worth of $30 million

Taxpayers pay for the stadiums.

[ealgeone]

That lesson was confirmed last spring and through the summer.

[MtnClimber]

Will he hang his white privilege somewhere...like a lamp post?

[Dutch Boy]

I forgot about the betting. That needs to be shunned too.

[radmanptn]

That's a great idea. It could just be included in the 7th inning stretch, they could even drag a few fans onto the field to be belittled by multimillionaire athletes.

[SamAdams76]

I drove through Boston last weekend on my way to a NH camping trip. As I passed Fenway Park on I-90, I saw the giant BLM sign across the back of the bleachers.

I lived in Boston much of my life (moved out of there for good about 10 years ago) and went to literally hundreds of games at that park. I remember as a kid getting a bleacher seat for $1.75 with my newspaper route money and scoring the game with a number 2 pencil (that I bought for a quarter with the program). It was a nice way to spend an afternoon and I went to pretty much every home weekend game (including doubleheaders) during the mid to late 1970s as Fenway was just a few subway stops from my childhood home.

I will never step into that ballpark ever again. But at least I will have my memories.

[Don Corleone]

I still wear hats, but no more baseball caps.

MAGA hats are baseball caps.

[Rummyfan]

MLB seems intent on driving its fans away. I’m an old-time seam-head and they’ve certainly driven me away. To hell with ‘em.

[Kozak]

MLB is also dead to me.
Lifelong Cubs fan.

[xp38]

Same here. Not Fenway but similar story. That said I’m ok with this happening to me. Big Entertainment and Big Sports consumed too much of my life in the past and freeing oneself from all of it is liberating. I’m also not completely blocking it but the odd occasion when I watch a game or entertainment of any sort will now be as rare as a blue moon.

[ducttape45]

And me. I no longer watch any of them.

[MtnClimber]

I grew up in central Florida and used to go to spring training games as a kid. They are totally ruining it like communists ruin everything.

[KarlInOhio]

It was the 1994 strike which killed me. Although I have gone from active hostility to baseball to a quiet ignorance of who is who. Now when I'm flipping through radio stations and come upon a Reds game I can't tell which team is which from the players' names.

I was watching some of Ken Burns' Baseball series (I know, two Freeper stikes against me) like an alcoholic longingly looking in a liquor store window. I remembered the historical stories and the parts of the Big Red Machine (and their minor rivals) in the 70s along with the 80s and 90s. Then I hit the wall. I literally had no idea who was beings talked about. I knew there was a home run battle between Sosa and McGwire from the non-sports news at the time. I knew Jeter was a big deal in New York. I also knew about Curt Schilling for other reasons. But the rest: the winners and losers, whe were the great batters and pitchers, the concern about immigrant players: all of it was as foreign as the stories from the 1910s. And I realized I still really didn't care.

[SamAdams76]

I mentioned earlier that as a kid, I could afford to go to the park on my newspaper route money. Which I think was around $15-20 a week at the time.

$1.75 for a bleacher ticket and if you went by yourself or just a friend or two, you could wander around the park during the game looking for better seats to occupy, especially as many businessmen types would leave the game early to beat the traffic - or not even show up. Sometimes I'd end up right behind the Red Sox dugout by the end of the game with nothing but a bleacher ticket.

That type of experience disappeared during the 1980s, as you could not get into the more expensive sections without a ticket stub showing you paid to be in that section. Also, even bleacher seats started skyrocketing in price.

In the early 2000s, when Roger Clemens was still pitching for the Red Sox, I took my two boys to the game who were still pre-teens. The whole evening cost me well over $300 and all my kids wanted to do the whole time was to get another hot dog or hit the bathroom. Never again with the kids after that! But I did go a few more times with company tickets. So I came full circle, I became one of those disinterested businessmen who would leave the game in the 8th inning to beat the traffic home.

Nowadays, I don't even bother checking the MLB standing though my older son (now in his 30s) tells me the Red Sox are having a good year.

I don't care.

[butlerweave]

Last I watched MLB was early 1980s , I think , it’s been so long ,LOL

[stockpirate]

After being a die hard Nationals fan for 5 years. Five years during which I watched, listened to or went to every game I walked away from the game last year. Actually I hope they go out of business.