Posted on 08/17/2020 1:29:24 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Watching or listening to baseball on a summer night has been a habit of mine for most of my life. I tuned in to the Covid-delayed opening weekend and was so offended by what I saw that I haven’t tuned in again. In fact, I canceled my MLB-TV subscription and requested a refund this past week.
I’m not boycotting Major League Baseball – I’m repulsed by it. All the left-wing slogans on the pitcher’s mounds and uniforms was probably enough to turn me away. But seeing the players overwhelmingly take a knee to profess their hatred of the USA and then slander the fans as racists made me sick. I could no more cheer for these ungrateful ballplayers than I could cheer for Covid.
They called their fans racists and figuratively spit on the American flag. And now we’re being told it was just an opening week tantrum. They want me to tune in and spend money on them again, even though they hate me and my country.
Something else that is really disturbing to me is that aside from the American-born players - who were taught to hate this country by the US media and our broken public school system - my team includes players who escaped the communist paradises of Venezuela and Cuba. They escaped communist Hell-holes, became multi-millionaires in the United States, and have a fan base that loves them and has made them rich. In return these communist refugees disparage this country, dishonor the flag, and call me a racist. Yuck.
I think back on how MLB permanently damaged itself with the 1994 strike, which resulted in no World Series that year. Baseball attendance took years to recover, and the World Series as a shared American event died then and there. My circle of family and friends all used to watch the World Series every year no matter who was in it. That all ended in 1994. Pretty much no one I know watches the World Series any more unless their team is in it. I don’t. In addition, before the 1994 strike I would drive three hours to the big city to attend a game at least 5 or 6 times per year. Since then, although I still watched baseball on TV, I’ve often gone several years without attending a game in person. There was permanent damage from the 1994 strike. There will be permanent damage from baseball’s 2020 anti-American spectacle.
A funny note to end this post – when I called MLB-TV to cancel and get my refund, the polite gentleman in India who I was talking to inquired as to why I was canceling my service. I told him I was deeply offended by the players’ anti-patriotic demonstrations on the field, therefore I was not going to watch any more MLB. He replied, “Oh yes. That again.”
MLB decided it wanted to be part of the 2020 culture wars? Fine. I am happy to let the ungrateful, America-hating MLB players get a taste of being cancelled. That’s how the culture wars work, right?
the fact that steve garvey couldn’t keep it in the pants is a weird reason to give up on all professional sports.
I even refuse to check scores, standings and highlights.
I have no idea what is happening in the world of MLB and don’t care.
And I used to watch or listen to, at least part of 100 games per year. And always the playoffs/series.
let me save you the trouble; your team lost. again.
I can’t get past the little league toddler rule to put a runner on 2B in extra innings.
“I gave up on ALL Sports after seeing what they did to Steve Garvey for cheating on the Family Channel’s little darling, his Wife Cindy.”
Had to look it up. Cindy at least got a book deal out of it. Steve Garvey was almost as successful as Steven Seagal, who managed two wives and a pregnant girlfriend at the same time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Seagal
I am repulsed by the Fake audience.
Not only does most of the fake news of the MSM get a turn off from me. Why would I want to watch fake bodies and images in the near stands ?
I haven’t been to an MLB game in person since the strike that cancelled the 1994 World Series. My employer forced our entire workforce to take a 5% pay cut in 1993, so the 1994 players’ strike repulsed me. I haven’t watched a game on TV since the introduction of the ads behind home plate, visible from the center field camera. When I glance up at a game on TV when I’m at my gym, I cringe when I see the electronic strike zone. Had I still been a fan, this year’s anti-American display would have further repulsed me. I’m done with professional sports. I’ll watch a Jane Fonda movie before I watch MLB, NFL, or NBA.
Wow, had not heard that. We adult softball players are no longer allowed to slide into Home.
It appears obvious you didn’t understand anything I wrote, because that isn’t what I said. Here is a link to help you understand the big words I used:
https://www.hookedonphonics.com/
Same here, no baseball for me.
“I even refuse to check scores, standings and highlights.
I have no idea what is happening in the world of MLB and don’t care.
And I used to watch or listen to, at least part of 100 games per year. And always the playoffs/series.”
Amen
The entire Sports Industry changed overnight and gave up on decency and morality.
Same here, and I usually watched the All-Star Game, even though I knew at the time THAT was bunk.
I went to two world series here in Toronto in 92 and 93. I was at game 6 when Joe Carter hit the second walk off home run to end a series. That for a fan was the mountain top. I still remained an avid fan for a few years but I’ve been coming down off that mountain for a long time now. Stopped watching when MLB went full homo some years ago now. These latest things are just pounding the rubble for me at this point.
Seagal spoke out against the protests during the United States national anthem by professional athletes, stating, “I believe in free speech, I believe that everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, but I don’t agree that they should hold the United States of America or the world hostage by taking a venue where people are tuning in to watch a football game and imposing their political views.” He also expressed skepticism of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.
Yep, MLB instituted the rule wherein extra innings start with a runner on 2B. Last batter out from the prior inning starts the extra inning on 2B. Rules for babies.
Love to watch baseball. Dodgers are in first place, I watch a replay most afternoons of the previous days game, granted I only watch from the start of the game to the end but have yet to see any “commie” behaviour.
I’d rather watch Cricket anyway. Takes more skill than just being able to jack a pitch every 20th at bat, and strike out the rest of the time.
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