True that.
Now that we have to genuflect before "activists" to watch them play, it's even more ridiculous.
I think a lot of institutions have lost sight of the true nature of the relationship of the consumer/producer relationship. They assume that we are desperate for their product and they can dictate the terms.
Professional sports is a pure luxury good that competes with a lot of other possible uses of our time and money. I’ve discovered I like spending my time outdoors, walking my dog, kayaking, talking with my neighbors, working on my lawn. As someone who tell you the starting lineup and the pitching rotation of almost every Cubs team of the 1970’s, I have no desire to even turn on a baseball game.
Many of our other institutions are going to experience the same phenomeman. Schools and universities assume that students will be there and gratefully accept whatever ‘education’ that teachers deign to give them. I think they will be shocked this fall as parents find alternatives for their children when schools and teachers refuse to do their job.
The list will be a long one.
Personally, I have progressed as follows:
I LOVE professional sports
I wish professional sports didn’t do that
I can live without professional sports
I SHOULD live without professional sports
I DESPISE professional sports
Check that. I have become a huge fan of watching professional disc golf. Don’t laugh. Or @me.
I never had the slightest interest in professional sports of any type. I loved playing some sports, but had no interest in watching them. However, I was happy that they prospered as they were an engine generating jobs. More importantly, perhaps, was they provided a sort of social glue bringing people together. In a way, they filled a small portion of the vacuum left by the state’s war on religion. Like other ventures, for every dollar they generated that dollar was multiplied in the larger economic sphere by as much as eight. But it was the tailgate parties and sports bar venues that benefited society the most; bringing people together in celebration of something larger than themselves.
Social Justice Warriors have spoiled the entire venture, as they spoil everything they touch, from movies to education, to social media. I think the death of professional sports will be a benefit to American culture. From the ashes of its funeral pyre, something good may arise. We are being shown the way by an unlikely source, Red Bull, which recently fired its diversity staff. Let us hope that Red Bull is the first trickle in a flood of firings.
Eventually, we will need to undo the damage done to the nation’s education system. This should start by getting government money out of education. Covid 19 may be the start of people taking back education.
Getting rid of an entrenched cancer like SJW and political correctness won’t be easy as it generates lots of money. But, the more woke people get, the less money they generate. So, goodbye professional sports. We had a good run, but now it’s time to move on to something else.
If it wasn’t for the slo-mo replays with the bombastic music (and the post-play histrionics), sports highlights are pretty repetitive. The endless hours of sports reporting has devolved into schtick and trash talk. (with exceptions for local radio and a handful of sports talk shows)
The TV folks have fallen in love with themselves & their productions.
The whole sports experience of the crowd, the beer, the companionship has been drained dry - now it’s a video game.
Country over paid sport liberals. Screw the liberals.
I have a ton of things I rather do than watch a bunch of overpaid drug addled, power hungry, America hating _lacks on TV
I have officially purged Big Corporate zsports from my life. Feels great.
One more nail in the coffin for the irrational “worship” of celebrities and athletes.
They are entertainers. Most are not very intelligent either. Poor role models for anyone.
Sports are a powerful way to teach children how to be everything they can be. Adults playing games for pay, however, is just sad. I have, honestly, lost all taste for the violent spectacles. huge wastes at multiple levels. Too bad for all the industries that have developed dependencies and even flourished, but that is what happens when one backs the wrong horse.
The only sports I can watch is professional pool. I have never cared for any kind of ball game and sure as hell wouldnt watch one now with the athletes acting like they do.
Pro sports has become just another arm of the left.
F them!
Sports betting is a billion dollar business. I watched a guy in his 20s win a million bucks on a golf game with several bets on Collin M.
The Red Sox pitcher is having heart issues related to covid
A poster here has a brother who thinks he had covid and it has destroyed his ability to compete in Tennis.
Kbo baseball has been playing just fine..but its going to be another story in the US
Marlins team has a huge outbreak. That caused yankees to cancel phillies game because marlins had just played philly. mLB left it an option to play with covid outbreak...and marlins chose to play
They can go ahead and rant and rave...but the game they get paid to play is going to change drastically this year in all sports
The sports will survive. It is the leagues that are killing themselves by embracing marxism. They are only inviting competition.
The marxist leagues must die. Long live sports.
Like so many other professions these days, they fail to understand their role on life’s stage.
I guess they feel a need to be more than someone that’s famous and rich for playing a sport, singIng, acting, telling jokes or readIng news.
Are their fame and riches not fulfilling enough for them? Or is it a bandwagon “Me too! Me too!” thing among the rich and famous?
I’ve made a conscious decision to take the time I used to spend enjoying baseball, some football, and some basketball, on music instead. Much better use of my time.
For decades pro sports have been to self-aggrandizing for my tastes. To me the best football has always been on Saturdays. Now that the NFL has gone pedal-to-the-metal on blaming America for everything under the sun, especially white male America, they couldn’t pay me to watch the stupor bowl.
I love sports and especially college FB, but expect to be giving that up too. Pro sports is boring and don’t miss it.