I’m a Yankees fan so I love it, but I understand how people will hate it because of how many championships we’ve won throughout the ancient history of baseball, but I’m curious if anyone here who isn’t a Yankees or Dodgers fan plans on watching it.
I know millions upon millions of Japanese people plan on watching it due to Ohtani, and it will probably be the most watched World Series of all time just because of Ohtani.
Here we go not the Yankees!!
Yeah but it's the Dodgers so 🤢
Is it the Mariners? No
Is it the Yankees? Go other team
My mind is quiet BASIC.
It's the two largest markets in baseball with the two largest payrolls. I love cheering for the little guys. Ohtani is the only thing mildly feel good about this
Ohtani is such a phenom, I want him to win at least one World Series. If he's doing it okayung for the Dodgers, so be it.
Literally the worst case scenario? As a Giants fan, now forced to hope for the Yankees to win.
MLB is just BLM spelt backwards.
Can they just have that earthquake to cause LA to fall off into the ocean already? Preferably during a game at Dodger Stadium. Take both of the teams with it.
Who the fuck actually cares about the pozzed pets of billionaires playing stickball. It's not as bad as ape hoop or felon egg, but really.
The same people who care about the pozzed pets of tech billionaires churing out shitty, woke games and the other pozzed pets of tech billionaires writing about it.
See, I can make everything sound infinitely pointless too.
I don't buy AAA slop. There are tons of other games.
If you like baseball, you don't need to watch the bread and circuses monkey shows by billionaires, you can join a local league and PLAY baseball. Going outside, getting exercise, etc - infinitely preferable.
You missed the point of this post and of this board. The entire point is that they have captured our cultural institutions and we need to get them back "just ignore it" isn't how we get them back.
I agree with hellsbells00, everyone should stop enjoying things.
If you enjoy things the communists win or something
Except I didn't, you did.
This thread isn't about getting the institutions back, it's about consuming slop. It's the equivalent of a thread asking which AAA bullshit you've pre-ordered, and the answer should be none.
"Just ignore it" isn't enough, you're correct, actively attacking it is better. Which is what I'm doing by telling people it's fucking stupid. You don't campaign against something by giving them money. Which you seem to be advocating for, considering you got butthurt when I called it bullshit, and made a massive false equivalency failure of a post. And you claim I missed the point?
You're right. They are just grumpy someone is calling them out for being slop enjoyers.
Imagine fanning over some random mercenary hired by a billionaire to play for your team. I'm just glad I grew out of that trash when I saw how they pandered to felons and knelt for BLM.
When I think kia2 might be developing a brain they file back into sportsball lines and support some kneeling fucking faggots like the MLB.
My God it's so sad.
Sports used to actually be about supporting your home town boys, not some foreign billionaire hiring some rando to wear the colors for 5 minutes and make money.
Sportsball fans are pathetic. At least with video games YOU are actually playing them. Not sitting there with your beer plugged into your couch watching some rigged bullshit bread and circuses.
I assume with that attitude you hate livestreamers as well.
Depends on the live streamer. The Yankees have endorsed every degen thing and hate you.
You're pathetic.
I’m a Rangers fan but I love baseball so I’ll watch if I’m home. Plus my Ohtani and Judge rookies keep going up.
As a Cleveland fan? Absolutely disgusting. That league needs a salary cap so damn bad. No coincidence 3 of the 4 teams remaining were top 5 salaries. I won't watch, but then again I rarely watch when my team isn't in it except the occasional Game 7.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUxvW-wpyzg
Probably the most comprehensive video on the history of baseball salaries and the relationship between players, the players’ union and owners to date, but a TL;DR on specifically the salary cap aspects are that the owners refuse to entertain the idea of the salary floor without a cap, but their floor is way lower than what the NBA and NFL has, so for the MLBPA, a salary cap is a non-starter.
The last time the owners tried to force a cap, the World Series got cancelled and the only reason that scabs didn’t get used was because Sonia Sotomayor put an injunction on the owners trying to use scabs and their unilateral version of the CBA that had a salary cap.
I understand why people like Hellsbells doesn’t like athletes, but the guys at the end of the bench/people who bounce between the majors and minors are WAY closer to me, you and him than they are to the owners.
Oh yeah I don't begrudge the players for wanting to get their bag. And I certainly like most of them more than most owners. Doesn't really change the idea that from a watchability and competition standpoint a salary cap would do tons of good.
I'm from outside the US but I started to get interested in baseball in recent years. All I know is that the Yankees are a huge team and that the Dodgers represent a cancerous city (LA) plus they wear a very faggy kit (edit: I remembered wrong, I was thinking of the Padres City Connect kit). In an attempt to avoid watching the most grievous BLM-kneelers and homo-worshippers, I picked (with my gut) the St. Louis Cardinals to follow this year, but in the end I didn't get much viewing done at all.
Baseball fans, what are the prospects for anyone hoping to watch and learn about pro baseball without being forced to swallow propaganda, and how much will likely feature in the World Series? For example I know with football (be it the US or euro kind) it's completely impossible.
In the World Series, I'm actually not sure. Because of how baseball works, the only time for 'propaganda' would be the choice of who throws out the ceremonial first pitches, but as the first game of the World Series is on Friday (in the US, might be Saturday if you're from Europe), no one knows who is going to be throwing out the first pitch.
Within the broadcasts themselves, they keep it on the game itself, unless the home team is running a special promotion at the stadium, in which case the local home broadcast will show off that promotion, but since this is the postseason, it's nationally televised and those special promotions don't happen in the postseason, so it should be relatively politics free, unless they have Kamala come out as she is from California.
I do not worship Africans, Latinos, or Asians. Therefore, I do not care about sportsball.
There used to be a lot of White guys who played baseball...
Lotta cucks willing to kneel for BLM lol
Boooooo...
I still haven't forgiven them for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT6q-lDiDA0
I'll always remember the name Jeffrey Maier.
So the two teams with the biggest budgets went to the championship?
fuck sports ball
Fuck the Dodgers, go Yanks.
I am a Mariners fan. I cry all the time.
I look forward to all the large gatherings going forward.