[RobRoy]

>>Oh give me a break... it’s stupid to boycott over this...<<

I agree. After the first baseball strike, I didn’t call for a boycott. I just stopped watching. I stopped going. I stopped taking it seriously.

To this day...

[Trailerpark Badass]

I agree. After the first baseball strike, I didn’t call for a boycott. I just stopped watching. I stopped going. I stopped taking it seriously.

To this day...

Exactly. After the strike, I will admit I watched the Braves win it in '95, and I watched them throw it away to the Yankees in '96.

But after the '98 "Chicks Dig the Long Ball" Juiced Ball, Steroid-Fest, Pay the Pitchers to Groove a Couple Freak show, I haven't watched a MLB game since. Haven't cared either.

[aquila48]

“I agree. After the first baseball strike, I didn’t call for a boycott. I just stopped watching. I stopped going. I stopped taking it seriously.

To this day...”

Same here... most of the characters in the sports world from players to owners, to commentators just turn me off - soooo, I turn them off. The Bret Favre childish melodrama was the last straw, and this episode with Rush was the nail in the coffin.

[nathanbedford]

It was Walter O'Malley who gave me my summers back. So I guess that makes me older than you are. That was my epiphany, the disillusionment which occurred when O'Malley took the Brooklyn Dodgers 3000 miles away. It was a liberating experience, it permitted me to view baseball as a beautiful sport but to root for a major-league baseball team was to play the sucker.

A painful but invaluable insight for a young teenager and not a bad state of mind either for an investor in the stock market to cultivate.

The NFL is a business, a very big business, but it verges on the immoral when it co-opts American youth and invests them in what is essentially a gigantic lie: that the NFL is for sportsmen who operate with a sportsmanlike ethos, it is not, is a calculated public relations contrivance that at root is false and hypocritical.

Thank you Walter O'Malley and thank you Rush Limbaugh.

[ZinGirl]

After the first baseball strike, I didn’t call for a boycott. I just stopped watching. I stopped going. I stopped taking it seriously

that is exactly what my husband did back then.

today, he's doing the same thing. "i stopped watching baseball....i can stop watching football". the stupidity isn't worth it.

[Enterprise]

I can’t take any sport seriously, but there is one subtle difference in behavior during the games. In basketball, someone dunks and then snaps their jersey and hops away like they’re on a pogo stick. In football, someone makes a tackle and gets up and does a butt dance. In baseball, uh, careful there. Too much celebration and they’re going to get beaned by a 100 mph fast ball.