I lived in Jersey. Was not a Yankees Fan, but this guy was one of my childhood heroes. No. 7:
Posted on 05/24/2023 9:32:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I was a huge baseball fan growing up....lost all interest. First gradually then suddenly.
there’s nothing more disgusting than a guy being paid well into 6-figures a week charging a 10-year old kid for an autograph at a baseball card show.
Tatted up, earring wearing goofs… I stopped watching 20 years ago.
the bud light squeeze
Will the players be wearing faggotry promoting jerseys? If so then they deserve plenty of hate mail for participating in this satanic evil.
I was a HUGE Yankees fan. Grew up in the Bronx in the shadow of Yankee stadium. Watched Maris hit 61. Watched most every game of the 96- 00 World Series era dynasty
I won’t watch a WOKE baseball league. I haven’t watched more than a few minutes here and there for about 3 years now. That ain’t gonna change till MLB changes direction
I stopped paying attention to baseball during the strike.
I wish I had watched baseball before, but I haven’t spent 10 minutes watching it. That way I could boycott, I will just keep not watching.
30 years for me......the only redeeming value I see in mlb is unlike football and basketball its not full of obnoxious thuggish black players.
My tagline!
“I stopped paying attention to baseball during the strike.”
Me too......the strike of ‘93 that is.
The Dodgers sickeningly groveled and were rewarded by stomping the Braves all over Atlanta. Coincidence?
This was followed up by a period of time where MLB turned a blind eye to what was the coming steroid era. Those in charge only saw the increase in attendance at the games post-1994, and many got wealthy on it
Then, to add insult to injury, MLB decided to let those who salvaged the sport post-1994 be tainted by the steriods they chose not to enforce. As a result, several players who would have made the baseball HOF prior to the steroid era (Bonds and Clemens immediately come to mind) were blocked by the HOF voters.
Along the way, MLB decided to embrace the computer age and analytics. The incremental changes to the game now results in high home run and strikeout totals and low batting averages. The game is experiencing the lowest percent of batters on base since the 1900-1920 deadball era.
Also, analytics has inspired the "opener", who is basically a reliever who pitches the first inning because, statistically, this is a poor inning for most starting pitchers. The regular starting pitcher would then come into the game in the 2nd inning.
And speaking of starting pitchers, most don't pitch past the 5th or 6th inning anymore, at which point the game saw a flurry of relief pitchers in many cases pitching to only one batter. This has led to the rule that a relief pitch *must* pitch to at least 3 batters or at least to the end of an inning.
And don't get me started about the idiotic idea, spawned during the COVID lockdowns, to place a player on 2nd base at the start of extra innings for each team. Ugh.
This dope should have lost interest in MLB when they took the All-Star Game away from Atlanta over Georgia’s totally harmless voting law.
Baseball is a game that is totally unsuited to the age of modern TV-oriented sports programming.
Vin Scully is fortunate to not be around to see this insanity.
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