Posted on 04/03/2021 6:46:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
The first article I ever wrote for the Thinker was last spring. It was all about how I so missed baseball. I've been a fan all my life. I was a Braves fan first in Milwaukee and then in Atlanta, where I lived for over forty years. The COVID pandemic had taken away my favorite sport, and I hated this loss of my favorite entertainment. I was thrilled when it returned even in a shortened form and was ecstatic when my Braves came within one game of going to the World Series. This year was destined to be even better, I thought, plus the All-Star game was going to be held in Atlanta — actually in Cobb County, where I had resided all those years. It would surely be a great season for Braves fans.
But then MLB announced that it was pulling the game out of Atlanta. The new election law in Georgia is unfair, representatives said. The game will be relocated to a more worthy location, to a city and state as yet unnamed, but surely one unconcerned about the result of the 2020 elections — a city and state where there are no deplorables or clingers to be found, where there are no limits to mail-in ballots, where the dead have an equal voice in elections, where you can vote early and often.
I highly doubt that the commissioner of baseball, Rob Manfred, has read the Georgia fair elections bill. Sadly, many prominent sportswriters jumped on the woke bandwagon in demanding that Atlanta be stripped of the game. Our bumbly, stumbly, mumbly shell of a president (also unlikely to have read the bill unless someone loaded it onto a teleprompter for him) said the All-Star Game should be moved. And now it has been.
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Beisbol is bedy bedy dead to me.
I gave up on baseball shortly after antenna TV died. Now the focus seems to be on everything else except the game.
MLB is going to go broke. Good riddance to
The only professional sports organization that I ever really cared about. I’m done with them.
The Republicans that pushed this new voting law through... Where were they five months ago when the Democrats were stealing the presidency and their Senatorial seats?
I’d rather watch TV with the power off than baseball; seems these clowns also are for election fraud.
Americans need to realize the power of boycotting. If there was a national organization you could join that would single out organizations that side with the effort to politicize everything or essentially “reimagine” this Republic and boycott whatever those organizations sold or sponsored, things could really be different.
Tempted???
I love baseball. The skill of the players in the major leagues is beyond fantasy. I have attended 2 or 3 major league games per year for many years. You couldn't pay me to ever watch another major league game in person or on TV.
Just add MLB to the NBA and the NFL as things to avoid. I got out of the habit of the latter two. It happened that I can no longer be described as boycotting them. They aren't even on my radar screen anymore. It was actually liberating when I first discovered I didn't miss them.
Leaving MLB is pretty easy.
For much of my adult life, I wasted too much of my time on this nonsense. Over the past few years, I tuned it out completely and my life is much better for it. I read more books on the weekends. I take more hikes. I spend more time with my family. I watch the occasional old movie that I somehow missed when it was playing in theaters.
So giving up watching professional sports was not such a bad outcome for me. In fact, it was a GREAT outcome.
I got to realizing: Does it really matter if a collection of professional athletes playing for your "home town" beat a collection of professional athletes playing for a team from another town? Isn't that whole premise sort of silly?
Take the New England Patriots football team for instance. For years, quarterback Tom Brady won Super Bowl after Super Bowl, causing many overgrown kids from the Boston area to puff out their chests and wear overpriced jerseys with his name on the back of them. Like THEY are Super Bowl champions as well! When you think about it, it's pretty sad when grown men pay $100 (or more) for a football jersey with another man's name on the back of it. Seems like something a 12-year-old girl might do if she had a crush on Tom Brady.
Then said Tom Brady moves to a Florida based team and wins a Super Bowl there. Now those Bostonians with the puffed up chests are all despondent about it and you have a bunch of 40-something losers calling sports talk stations to yammer about what fools the Patriots team are for trading the precious Tom Brady away and having somebody else besides "them" winning the Super Bowl.
Don't even get me started on sports talk radio. A bunch of buffoons, all of them.
Grow up men! Stopping watching other grown men playing a game on the TV. Invest in a set of golf clubs or a tennis racket and go play your own games. Or pick up a book to read or something.
I hope they go broke.
I would say guys like Manfred don’t even care if MLB loses half of its fan base over the next few years, as long as nobody says anything bad about him on ESPN right now. Any entity led by such an individual deserves the doom that is coming to it.
The only televised game worth watching is Rollerball.
"Jon-a-thon! Jon-a-thon! Jon-athon!"
Yes, I'm talking about the James Caan film.
Regards,
That said, it all seems so stupid now looking back on it...even before all the wokeness stupidity.
Life is short...play your own "games".
Excellent post, Sam.
Quote:
“So baseball has joined the NBA & NFL in their wokeness. Politics has contaminated every form of entertainment in our country. I am beyond sad & beyond furious for this latest insult. I have never before been so upset with ‘my’ game that I have been tempted never to watch another inning. I may get over it, but then again, I may not.
I hope Cobb County, Georgia sues the MLB organization for a billion dollars. Or a trillion. Maybe Mumbles Biden will be forced to put it in his next gargantuan spending bill. Meanwhile, I am glad I am old. I don’t know how much more of this I can take.”
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Great article.
I had been considering watching the Braves again this year, but MLB ruined it for me. I’ve had the CBS Sports app on my devices fir several years and checked scores daily, even though I’ve not been watching the games. I just finally deleted that app and won’t go back again. I’m completely done.
Either Right Field or Pitcher.
“Beisbol is bedy bedy dead to me.”
FTW!
Yep, “Bad Stuff ‘Bout The Mets” turned me off of baseball forever.
Ed Kranepool, borrow Chico’s soap and never give it back.
“The only televised game worth watching is Rollerball.”
The Globalists ran that world too.
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