The Morning Rant: MLB's Hatred Of Traditional America Continues Apace!

Hatred of religion is a hallmark of the progressive mindset that has engulfed Major League Baseball. Well, not all religions...just the ones that Americans prefer. Islam is conspicuously absent from the mockery and marginalizing that MLB prefers as its corporate ethos. Remember the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence? Yeah...the vile drag group that revels in insulting Christianity, in part by dressing as outrageous nuns? No hint of them dressing as an imam, or Mohamed? I wonder why! But MLB loves them!

Maybe the marketing wonks in the front offices think that there is a vast untapped market for professional baseball among America's homosexuals. How else does one explain the fixation on all things gay? Or maybe there is an equally vast but closeted contingent of gay players who secretly demand recognition but are too enamored of their endorsements to come out of the closet?

Or maybe Occam's Razor applies here, and MLB and the teams are simply overwhelmingly leftist, and they just love sticking a thumb in the eye of traditional America, no matter that it is traditional America who buys their tickets and jerseys and bobble-heads.

Major League Baseball warns San Francisco Giants players for writing Bible verses on Pride Night hats

Late last week, the San Francisco Giants hosted their "Pride Night," with the team wearing hats with a rainbow-colored Giants logo.
Several Giants pitchers, in a statement of their faith, wrote Bible verse designations on their hats. One, starting pitcher Landen Roupp, addressed his reasoning after the game, saying that the verse is about representing "God's covenant."

Good for them. There was no criticism of the ridiculous "Pride Night" nonsense...they were merely expressing their faith, and for that they deserve respect.

Hilariously and predictably, MLB has lashed out! Never mind that a "Pride Night" is an overtly political statement, and making the players wear those horrid and insulting logos is imposing MLB's political and social stance on the players, making the league's warning explicitly hypocritical.

Per The Athletic, an MLB official has now "warned" those players against violating the rules and writing on their cap.
"The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations," said Pat Courtney, MLB's chief communications officer, in a statement.

That's a lie. Pat Courtney is a liar. "Normal Practice" allows writing on caps unless it seems to attack the sacred cow of MLB... homosexuality. Too bad MLB wasn't equally strict with the amazingly offensive demonstrations with respect to dead fentanyl addict George Floyd! Apparently political stances are perfectly okay if they are in line with the leftist principles embraced by MLB, but beyond the pale when they support Christianity

Baseball is busily taking a national sport that printed money and turning it into a regional sport with a fair number of struggling franchises. If they think that embracing progressive politics that are antithetical to traditional American culture will save baseball's fortunes...they are wrong.

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Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 Hiya

Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2026 11:01 AM (X8xt3)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

3 Roomy.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 16, 2026 11:02 AM (OUMaO)

4 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2026 11:02 AM (6RVjC)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)
-

Who's on first.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 16, 2026 11:02 AM (Oj3Pf)

6 Great - now I can continue not watching the MLB.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2026 11:02 AM (kgE5c)

7 >>"The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations,"

But it's OK to change the team logos to rainbows because reasons.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2026 11:03 AM (X8xt3)

8 Well, baseball has always been gay.

Posted by: guy looking for a beating at June 16, 2026 11:03 AM (vFG9F)

9 allows writing on caps unless it seems to attack the sacred cow of MLB... homosexuality.

All those bats & balls. Makes one wonder...

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2026 11:03 AM (6RVjC)

10 MONKEY!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 16, 2026 11:04 AM (N1DT3)

11 I'm going to defer judgement until I learn what theologians David French and James Talarico have to say about this....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 16, 2026 11:04 AM (2X2jr)

12 If they think that embracing progressive politics that are antithetical to traditional American culture will save baseball's fortunes...they are wrong.

Spoiler alert: they don't.

Posted by: t-bird at June 16, 2026 11:04 AM (1zcQ9)

13 Maybe the marketing wonks in the front offices think that there is a vast untapped market for professional baseball among America's homosexuals. How else does one explain the fixation on all things gay?

Well, gay men are into bats and balls, IYKWIM...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2026 11:04 AM (l3cgK)

14 I like that one guy who just wore his normal hat.
Bible verse is best statement, but even simply refusing to wear their symbols is good.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2026 11:04 AM (X8xt3)

15 I still don't get this corporate mindset where they feel obligated to cater to a minority of 5% of their potential audience (who may or may not care) while alienating the 95% that actually care about their product.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 16, 2026 11:04 AM (gnNyN)

16 "All those bats & balls. Makes one wonder..."

Catchers and pitchers. Can it be any more obvious?

Posted by: guy looking for a beating at June 16, 2026 11:04 AM (vFG9F)

17 I too, really enjoy not wasting time watching MLB.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at June 16, 2026 11:05 AM (JNTt1)

18 Baseball was great back in the days when you could watch it on TV for free.

Posted by: gp at June 16, 2026 11:05 AM (Jr5Lq)

19 >>Remember the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence? Yeah...the vile drag group that revels in insulting Christianity, in part by dressing as outrageous nuns? No hint of them dressing as an imam, or Mohamed? I wonder why! But MLB loves them!

Learned recently that it as someone from this group that designed the original rainbow flag.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2026 11:05 AM (X8xt3)

20
MUNKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 16, 2026 11:05 AM (y9nCu)

21 I'm hoping a baseball player has a good enough lawyer to sue MLB.

But then I hope for Chanel Renee to wake up naked in my bed wearing my wedding ring.

So...hope....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 16, 2026 11:06 AM (xcxpd)

22 I used to be a huge baseball fan.

I could name the entire starting lineup of the Cardinals. (My team since I was 5).

They've made it clear they hate me for many years now.

I can't even tell you a single player on "my team". Nor the local team. They turned a hard-core fan into someone who just doesn't care. Great job, MLB.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 16, 2026 11:06 AM (N1DT3)

23 MLB is based in NYC.

No further information required.

Posted by: man at June 16, 2026 11:06 AM (XuXeR)

24 Baseball has ruined it for most regular fans by paying players hundreds of millions of dollars and pricing the sport out of reach.

As with most sports, it's not fans attending, it's freebies handed out by big corporations that now own most of the seats or sales people trying to impress a prospective client.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

25 19 >>Remember the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence? Yeah...the vile drag group that revels in insulting Christianity, in part by dressing as outrageous nuns? No hint of them dressing as an imam, or Mohamed? I wonder why! But MLB loves them!

Learned recently that it as someone from this group that designed the original rainbow flag.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2026 11:05 AM (X8xt3)

Someone once told me that the Devil loves taking what God has made and twisting and perverting it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2026 11:07 AM (l3cgK)

26 23 MLB is based in NYC.

No further information required.

Posted by: man at June 16, 2026 11:06 AM (XuXeR)

NYC is gay?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2026 11:07 AM (l3cgK)

27
I think it would be funny for the players to write a verse from the koran that condemns Teh Ghey-

and see how that plays out.

I predict-

Hilarity.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 16, 2026 11:07 AM (iJfKG)

28 Someone once told me that the Devil loves taking what God has made and twisting and perverting it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2026 11:07 AM (l3cgK)
----
That is exactly what is going on.

Evil cannot create.

It can only distort and destroy.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 16, 2026 11:08 AM (gnNyN)

29 Someone once told me that the Devil loves taking what God has made and twisting and perverting it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2026 11:07 AM (l3cgK)

Hence Islam

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 16, 2026 11:08 AM (xcxpd)

30
Someone once told me that the Devil loves taking what God has made and twisting and perverting it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2026 11:07 AM (l3cgK)

This is about me, isn't it.......

Posted by: James Talarico at June 16, 2026 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)

31 >>Someone once told me that the Devil loves taking what God has made and twisting and perverting it...

Yup.
The insult was always obvious, but it being a member of this particularly hateful group creating the rainbow flag is the cherry on top.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2026 11:08 AM (X8xt3)

32 I think it would be funny for the players to write a verse from the koran that condemns Teh Ghey-

and see how that plays out.

I predict-

Hilarity.

Posted by: naturalfake

That would be awesome.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2026 11:08 AM (6RVjC)

33 >Late last week, the San Francisco Giants hosted their "Pride Night,"
------
what are they proud of

Posted by: Don Black at June 16, 2026 11:08 AM (ZxPkt)

34 I haven't given a shit about stick and ball sports for decades. At first it was the increased commercials on TV, then the horrid pace of play, especially in football. Then it was the wokeness. And of course, the obscene salaries and thug culture that dominates stick and ball sports these days.

Fuck 'em all.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 16, 2026 11:09 AM (jehhT)

35 Baseball is America flipping the bird at those pansy brits and their... What the hell is that game called where they do a baseball thing but gayer? Wocket? The pitcher does a funny dance when he throws the ball.

Posted by: Reforger at June 16, 2026 11:09 AM (F9nWj)

36 ‘Besebol ben belly good to me.’
- shaitan

Posted by: Eromero at June 16, 2026 11:09 AM (LHPAg)

37 >> I think it would be funny for the players to write a verse from the koran that condemns Teh Ghey-

Like the 4chan guys with their "Islam is right about women" campaign. Heh.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2026 11:10 AM (X8xt3)

38 The San Francisco paper is going into hysterics over this, of course:

The backlash to the display was fierce, with fans writing on social media that they are disappointed, furious and hurt. At least one Giants fan is trying to organize a protest at the team’s next home game on June 23. Other fans want to push that protest back a day, when Roupp is scheduled to make his next start in San Francisco. More are saying the protest actions have ruined their fandoms, with some even considering giving up their season tickets or ending their support of the team altogether.

...

Ferreira, the Giants fan, feels the players exhibited all of the worst flaws of straight white male privilege in their actions, particularly a lack of compassion and empathy for others.

https://tinyurl.com/44wckju2

You WILL wear the ribbon, peasants.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 16, 2026 11:10 AM (aD4fx)

39
Learned recently that it as someone from this group that designed the original rainbow flag.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2026 11:05 AM (X8xt3)

They hijacked the word 'gay' which used to mean happy.

They hijacked the rainbow which used to be God's promise that he wouldn't flood the world again.

All they want to do is piss everyone off to gain attention.

Posted by: James Talarico at June 16, 2026 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)

40 35 Baseball is America flipping the bird at those pansy brits and their... What the hell is that game called where they do a baseball thing but gayer? Wocket? The pitcher does a funny dance when he throws the ball.
Posted by: Reforger at June 16, 2026 11:09 AM (F9nWj)

Cricket.

I think baseball had its origin in some other Brit country sport, dunno if it even had a name before we codified it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 16, 2026 11:10 AM (xcxpd)

41 SCOTUS Federal Baseball Club v. National League 1922. WTF was that? That's probably when baseball's decline really began.

Posted by: gp at June 16, 2026 11:10 AM (Jr5Lq)

42 I think it would be funny for the players to write a verse from the koran that condemns Teh Ghey- and see how that plays out. I predict-

Hilarity.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 16, 2026 11:07 AM (iJfKG)

This is one of my favorite games to play with lefties.

True or false: Islam is right about women/gays?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 11:10 AM (rii+a)

43 Oh FFS.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

44 do homos follow baseball?
seriously- what demographic is/are the SF Giants signalling to?

Posted by: Don Black at June 16, 2026 11:11 AM (ZxPkt)

45
This is one of my favorite games to play with lefties.

True or false: Islam is right about women/gays?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 11:10 AM (rii+a)

They just yell and walk away, don't they.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

46 >>More are saying the protest actions have ruined their fandoms, with some even considering giving up their season tickets or ending their support of the team altogether.

Gosh, not very tolerant of them, eh?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2026 11:11 AM (X8xt3)

47 What do league commissioners get for supporting fags? Free blow jobs?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 16, 2026 11:12 AM (g8Ew8)

48 Major
League
Buggerers

Posted by: All ghey all the time at June 16, 2026 11:12 AM (TbWk/)

49 As if there's a single fag that cares about baseball.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2026 11:13 AM (edUvp)

50 I still don't get this corporate mindset where they feel obligated to cater to a minority of 5% of their potential audience (who may or may not care) while alienating the 95% that actually care about their product.

It reflects who they associate with.

The New Yorkers of Mad Man had very different beliefs than people in Omaha, but they realized that to sell to Omaha, they had to respect Omaha's beliefs.

Corporate executives now see no need to do that.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 16, 2026 11:13 AM (aD4fx)

51 27
I think it would be funny for the players to write a verse from the koran that condemns Teh Ghey-

and see how that plays out.

I predict-

Hilarity.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 16, 2026 11:07 AM (iJfKG)

Sura 7:80-84 which, interestingly enough is about Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 16, 2026 11:14 AM (2X2jr)

52
Not embracing Inclusiveness again?

I won't get mad, deplatform, debank, shout at you with a bullhorn at your house at 2 a.m., dox you, swat you or even key your vehicle.

I'll just try to get past the pain and hurt you're causing everyone to have.

Posted by: Auspex at June 16, 2026 11:14 AM (Y8DZL)

53 Pride is one of the 7 deadly sins.

Homosexuality goes against God's Will.

They're just going all in. Good luck with that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)

54 Baseball is dead anyway. The DH, pitch clocks, ending the slide to break up the double play…

I stopped watching when the Astros were sent to the AL in 2013.

What’s risible are MLB adverts touting their 250th.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 16, 2026 11:14 AM (T6aVk)

55 Formerly Virginian, I was a huge Braves fan, especially during the early TBS years when you could hear individual fans insulting the umpires because the stadium was devoid of fans and we cheered for the opposing team because the Braves were that bad.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 16, 2026 11:15 AM (Q/FnY)

56 NYC is gay?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2026 11:07 AM

And lame.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2026 11:16 AM (kgE5c)

57 8 Well, baseball has always been gay.
Posted by: guy looking for a beating at June 16, 2026 11:03 AM (vFG9F)

How's it gay? Bunch of men tossing balls, gripping shafts, swinging wood, grabbing their crotches and patting each other on the ass...oh.

Posted by: Verdict: ghey at June 16, 2026 11:16 AM (TbWk/)

58 Old and busted: America's pastime

New and cool: past its time

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 16, 2026 11:16 AM (ndZc7)

59 Formerly Virginian, I was a huge Braves fan, especially during the early TBS years when you could hear individual fans insulting the umpires because the stadium was devoid of fans and we cheered for the opposing team because the Braves were that bad.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 16, 2026 11:15 AM (Q/FnY)

When are they going to be forced to change their name because tributes to the American Indian are VERBOTEN in this country.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

60 True or false: Islam is right about women/gays?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 11:10 AM (rii+a)

They just yell and walk away, don't they.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

Sometimes.

But sometimes I get 'we can't judge other cultures, and it's the European colonists who are to blame anyway because they drew random lines on maps with no regard for cultural and tribal boundaries. Forcing all those people together is obviously going to cause problems.

To which I ask: Forcibly injecting foreign cultures into a native population is 'obviously going to cause problem.' Tell me more about that as it relates to the United States and your position on immigration.

That's when the rest of them yell and walk away.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 11:16 AM (rii+a)

61 All the sports pro leagues have gone woke because of their front office hires.

Hockey removed the Kate Smith statue. Baseball celebrates Pride month . Football has trans cheerleaders and a Black 'national anthem' .
Basketball is just ghetto ball now and everything that goes with that.

Tennis , Soccer etc also.

Golf almost did when they dropped Trump but they came to their senses.

The Left ruin everything.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 11:16 AM (GseMx)

62 Field of Reams

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 16, 2026 11:17 AM (JxXpW)

63 The Left ruin everything.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 11:16 AM (GseMx)

It's not that they ruin everything, it's just that they demand that everyone be as miserable as they are.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

64 22 I used to be a huge baseball fan.

I could name the entire starting lineup of the Cardinals. (My team since I was 5).

They've made it clear they hate me for many years now.

I can't even tell you a single player on "my team". Nor the local team. They turned a hard-core fan into someone who just doesn't care. Great job, MLB.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 16, 2026 11:06 AM (N1DT3)

My father was a HUGE Cardinals fan.

I’d say he stopped watching about five years before he died. If he were alive today…no baseball for him.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 16, 2026 11:18 AM (T6aVk)

65
As with most sports, it's not fans attending, it's freebies handed out by big corporations that now own most of the seats or sales people trying to impress a prospective client.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

In the past 30 years, probably a good 80% of the MLB games I've attended were sales perks by vendors when I worked for larger companies. 10% or so were games I paid for myself, attended while on work trips to pass the time in the evening. The remainder were actual games attended by an actual fan.

Could be worse though, could have been soccer.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 16, 2026 11:18 AM (y9nCu)

66 Yippee ky yay, m*therf*ck*r!

Flyovers, Rodeo To Hit National Mall In 250 Celebrations

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 16, 2026 11:18 AM (ndZc7)

67 As with most sports, it's not fans attending, it's freebies handed out by big corporations that now own most of the seats"

Draftkingsfanduelsportsbook waves...

Posted by: man at June 16, 2026 11:18 AM (XuXeR)

68 a Black 'national anthem' .

Dixie?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 16, 2026 11:18 AM (Kt19C)

69 Flyovers, Rodeo To Hit National Mall In 250 Celebrations

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 16, 2026 11:18 AM (ndZc7)

Omigod, I hope they have the wisdom to include the Obama rodeo clown guy!!!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 11:19 AM (rii+a)

70 The bean counters and their love of money have destroyed sports. Baseball and NASCAR are the most visible failures of late with empty seats galore.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 16, 2026 11:19 AM (Q/FnY)

71 The good news about the Left is they can't keep anything for long.

They're *already* this year going "beyond the rainbow". Because gays and lesbians are the oppressors. They have said as much. Which is truly hilarious.

So while the alphabet crew change their colors and flags and make new promises while forgetting all the old ones, God's promise never changes. And maybe that's the lesson.

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 11:19 AM (aBLnM)

72
Draftkingsfanduelsportsbook waves...
Posted by: man at June 16, 2026 11:18 AM (XuXeR)

This is ruining sports as a whole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)

73 Corporate executives now see no need to do that."

"What's our social media number trend looking like today? "

Posted by: man at June 16, 2026 11:20 AM (XuXeR)

74 The Pride Night is stupid enough ( and I'm glad some protesters wore a passage from Scripture but this what some guy wrote about one event on his X feed: From Legal Insurrection

"Pregame during San Francisco Giants Pride Night, the team paraded 10 same-sex couples on the field where they renewed their “marriage” vows in front of fans & a gigantic drag queen…

Get this sexual depravity out of sports. Pride Nights should be banned."

Because nothing says sacredness more than than
renewing your marriage vows in a group in a stadium and having it officiated by a Drag Queen.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 16, 2026 11:20 AM (rZCVI)

75 The View is a must watch right now. Never thought I'd say that. JD Vance is doing good so far.

Posted by: Big Alfredo at June 16, 2026 11:20 AM (Vdukr)

76 There is nothing more important than being gay.

Posted by: There is nothing more important than being gay at June 16, 2026 11:20 AM (T6aVk)

77 Growing up, a lot of Red Sox players lived in my town, either permanently or seasonally. Frank Malzone, Chuck Schilling, Ike Delock, Felix Mantilla. Every game on the radio, a score or so in the bleachers.
Right now, I could not name a single player.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 16, 2026 11:20 AM (sl73Y)

78 Black 'national anthem' .

Dixie?"

Zippity do dah?

Posted by: man at June 16, 2026 11:20 AM (XuXeR)

79
Used to be a huge Tigers fan. Thought their 1968 team was a gift from heaven.

This year's version drops fly balls, puts out no effort and insults the fan base.

High School baseball is where it's at.

Posted by: Auspex at June 16, 2026 11:21 AM (Y8DZL)

80 Trump Threatens 100% Tariff on French Wines

-
And what of French whines?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 16, 2026 11:21 AM (ndZc7)

81 There is nothing more important than being gay.

Posted by: There is nothing more important than being gay at June 16, 2026 11:20 AM (T6aVk)

Fuck you, bigot!

Posted by: Trans is everything at June 16, 2026 11:21 AM (rii+a)

82 >I used to be a huge baseball fan.
-----

Bigfoot huge, or are we talking Colossus of Rhodes huge?
I kid of course
great stuff

Posted by: Don Black at June 16, 2026 11:21 AM (ZxPkt)

83 33 >Late last week, the San Francisco Giants hosted their "Pride Night,"
------
what are they proud of

Posted by: Don Black at June 16, 2026 11:08 AM (ZxPkt)

Gay enema month

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2026 11:21 AM (l3cgK)

84 Pissing off 50% of your audience to grovel in front of less than 20% has worked so well for:

Video Games
Movies
TV
News
Education
Military

These homos are geniuses!

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 16, 2026 11:21 AM (JxXpW)

85 do homos follow baseball?

Them old greek homos.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 16, 2026 11:21 AM (Kt19C)

86 and having it officiated by a guy in a dress"

FIFY

Posted by: man at June 16, 2026 11:21 AM (XuXeR)

87 I watched Moneyball again a few days ago. It did affirm what I always thought in that scouting /player evaluation is crap in all pro leagues. You could tell that just by observation of the drafts and trades .

Every once in a while they will find diamond in a coal mine. Jerry Rice comes to mind.

More often than not though is their sure thing ain't a sure thing.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 11:21 AM (GseMx)

88 I need America bounced from the World Cup and soon.

It is patriotic for America to suck at soccer. (h/t, Jim Rome)

Because soccer is a sport for Other Countries.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 16, 2026 11:22 AM (T6aVk)

89 Because nothing says sacredness more than renewing your marriage vows in a group in a stadium and having it officiated by a Drag Queen.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 16, 2026 11:20 AM (rZCVI)

That's the thing, Fen. To them, it IS sacred.

They're telling you what they worship. It's bonkers.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 11:23 AM (rii+a)

90 87.

Brad Pitt has really turned into a good actor. Moneyball is an excellent flick.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 16, 2026 11:23 AM (JxXpW)

91 High School baseball is where it's at.
Posted by: Auspex at June 16, 2026 11:21 AM (Y8DZL)

Tee-ball. That right there is the best baseball. Watching the little guys and girls progress through the season is awesome.
Next year is coach pitch.

Posted by: Reforger at June 16, 2026 11:24 AM (F9nWj)

92 And what of French whines?"

Sacre bleu!

Posted by: man at June 16, 2026 11:24 AM (XuXeR)

93 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 16, 2026 11:20 AM (rZCVI)

To them nothing is sacred or holy but their own ego, which they worship like a zealot.

It's all celebration of the self. They hate the individual because that might be someone else. But they adore their own self.

It goes deeper, like a pretzel or actually an Escher painting. But that's the pathway in. There is no path out of it but God.

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 11:24 AM (aBLnM)

94 88. America winning at poverty ball is a sign of the poxiclypse.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 16, 2026 11:24 AM (JxXpW)

95 89. Yes, it is bonkers

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 16, 2026 11:25 AM (rZCVI)

96 Brad Pitt has really turned into a good actor. Moneyball is an excellent flick.
Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 16, 2026 11:23 AM (JxXpW)

Based on a completely retarded concept that's led to one playoff win.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

97 63 The Left ruin everything.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 11:16 AM (GseMx)

It's not that they ruin everything, it's just that they demand that everyone be as miserable as they are.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

That's the blessing of socialism/communism (well, at least for all those who are not in a leadership position, serf)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2026 11:25 AM (l3cgK)

98 The more I see of current sports, the more I appreciate the men’s and women’s hockey teams, each of whom punked Canada for gold in the Olympics.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 16, 2026 11:26 AM (T6aVk)

99 Jim Rome.

What a worthless prick THAT guy is.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:26 AM (Zz0t1)

100 MLB has been infiltrated, killed, and made into a skin-suit by the left, just like so many other formerly-great institutions.

Bring back dollar beer night.

Posted by: ballistic at June 16, 2026 11:26 AM (oqH4h)

101 22 I used to be a huge baseball fan.

I could name the entire starting lineup of the Cardinals. (My team since I was 5).

They've made it clear they hate me for many years now.

I can't even tell you a single player on "my team". Nor the local team. They turned a hard-core fan into someone who just doesn't care. Great job, MLB.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
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THIS! Former die hard Reds fan and overall MLB fan who had a bucket list of seeing a live game in every MLB stadium - even got the missus involved until they bended the knee (literally) and bended to the 2%. Made it to nearly 20 venues until they spit in our faces.

But on the positive side - its amazing how much time I know have to do other stuff then I did before.

Bye MLB - we won't miss you.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at June 16, 2026 11:26 AM (VkY89)

102 96.

See. That takes good acting to pull off.

And carrying the fat kid through that movie was tough on the back.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 16, 2026 11:26 AM (JxXpW)

103 94 88. America winning at poverty ball is a sign of the poxiclypse.
Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 16, 2026 11:24 AM (JxXpW)

To me it is a sure sign we have fallen as a country.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 16, 2026 11:26 AM (T6aVk)

104 80 Trump Threatens 100% Tariff on French Wines

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And what of French whines?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 16, 2026 11:21 AM (ndZc7)

They are their own punishment

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2026 11:27 AM (l3cgK)

105 The more I see of current sports, the more I appreciate the men’s and women’s hockey teams, each of whom punked Canada for gold in the Olympics.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 16, 2026 11:26 AM (T6aVk)

Also, because is the greatest sport ever conceived of by man.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 11:27 AM (rii+a)

106 I am not normally a fan of any women's sports but I'd rather watch a women's fast pitch softball game than an MLB game. Actually I don't need a comparison. I just like watching it.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 11:27 AM (GseMx)

107 99 Jim Rome.

What a worthless prick THAT guy is.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:26 AM (Zz0t1)
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Meh, that dude has been making a really good living off being an abrasive prick for decades. It's shtick. Used to listen to him a lot 20 years ago, but eventually his entire act got repetitive and predictable.

Posted by: ballistic at June 16, 2026 11:27 AM (oqH4h)

108 99.

I use Jim Rome's voice to strip paint and keep voles out of my yard.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 16, 2026 11:28 AM (JxXpW)

109 THIS! Former die hard Reds fan and overall MLB fan who had a bucket list of seeing a live game in every MLB stadium - even got the missus involved until they bended the knee (literally) and bended to the 2%. Made it to nearly 20 venues until they spit in our faces.

But on the positive side - its amazing how much time I know have to do other stuff then I did before.

Bye MLB - we won't miss you.
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at June 16, 2026 11:26 AM (VkY89)

I was doing that too (hitting all the MLB stadiums) and was well on the way. Last baseball game I went to was in 2010.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 16, 2026 11:28 AM (T6aVk)

110 RACK 'EM

Posted by: Jim Rome at June 16, 2026 11:28 AM (oqH4h)

111 Gays 20 years ago:
We just want to have the same rights as hetero couples. Why can't you be tolerant of our lifestyles? You're a hater to deprive us of our rights! Your religious beliefs discriminate against us.
Gays today:
You are an intolerant hater if you don't celebrate our lifestyles in the ways we insist. We will tell you how to celebrate us, and if you don't do as we say, you'll be punished. Your religious beliefs must be banned from our celebration.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at June 16, 2026 11:28 AM (MNCvZ)

112 do homos follow baseball?
seriously- what demographic is/are the SF Giants signalling to?
Posted by: Don Black at June 16, 2026 11:11 AM (ZxPkt)

Baseball induces a state of anal estrus so pronounced that, on many a sultry eventide, I am simply unable to wear rough fabrics like those from which dungarees are so sloppily constructed.

Now, I must not tarry a moment longer, but sally forth to my companion Dan McLaughlin, and together we will see to it that the boys of summer are well met at the ballyard.

Tally ho!

Posted by: George Will at June 16, 2026 11:28 AM (AhAak)

113 I am not normally a fan of any women's sports but I'd rather watch a women's fast pitch softball game than an MLB game. Actually I don't need a comparison. I just like watching it.
Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 11:27 AM (GseMx)

Softball is entertaining, mainly because you never know what you're going to get.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:29 AM (Zz0t1)

114 107 99 Jim Rome.

What a worthless prick THAT guy is.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:26 AM (Zz0t1)
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Meh, that dude has been making a really good living off being an abrasive prick for decades. It's shtick. Used to listen to him a lot 20 years ago, but eventually his entire act got repetitive and predictable.
Posted by: ballistic at June 16, 2026 11:27 AM (oqH4h)

And when I was younger this had a great appeal to me. I loved his radio show. YMMV.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 16, 2026 11:29 AM (T6aVk)

115 They're not worshiping a culture or a flag or even a concept. They see their own self on every multicolor flag.

They even give it the correct label. Worshiping pride itself is literally worshiping worship of the self. Hence the insanity of it all. You think self worship is bad? Try worshiping *self-worship* and you will never ever see the trap. Worshiping pride puts a veil over their own self-aggrandizement, and amplifies it at the same time.

God gave us meanings and words for just this reason. It's all there.

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 11:30 AM (aBLnM)

116 103.

Winning at povertyball is like being the best at finding edible garbage in the dumpster behind a bodega.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 16, 2026 11:30 AM (JxXpW)

117 Posted by: From about That Time at June 16, 2026 11:20 AM (sl73Y)

Baseball's appeal has grown very selective.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at June 16, 2026 11:30 AM (wGerL)

118 America winning at poverty ball is a sign of the poxiclypse.
Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 16, 2026 11:24 AM (JxXpW)

To me it is a sure sign we have fallen as a country.

Nah, your average American soccer fan is a huge Leftist, who likes soccer precisely because it is non-American.

Having the US team win while Trump is celebrating America's 250th will drive them nuts.

USA! USA! USA!

Go Trump!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 16, 2026 11:30 AM (aD4fx)

119 Baseball induces a state of anal estrus so pronounced that, on many a sultry eventide, I am simply unable to wear rough fabrics like those from which dungarees are so sloppily constructed.

Now, I must not tarry a moment longer, but sally forth to my companion Dan McLaughlin, and together we will see to it that the boys of summer are well met at the ballyard.

Tally ho!

Posted by: George Will

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Rack 'im

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 16, 2026 11:30 AM (G3dDH)

120 110 RACK 'EM
Posted by: Jim Rome at June 16, 2026 11:28 AM (oqH4h)

HAVE A TAKE, DO NOT SUCK, OR YOU WILL GET RUN

Posted by: Jim Rome at June 16, 2026 11:30 AM (T6aVk)

121 The more I see of current sports, the more I appreciate the men’s and women’s hockey teams, each of whom punked Canada for gold in the Olympics.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 16, 2026 11:26 AM (T6aV

It was great at the Canadian open golf tournament last week. I forgot what golfer but he wore a Jack Hughs hockey jersey on the fan surrounded par 3 . It was a beautiful pure American FU.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 11:30 AM (GseMx)

122 Ten-Cent Beer Night was an ill-fated promotion held by Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians during a game against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on June 4, 1974. The promotion was meant to improve attendance at the game by offering cups of beer for just 10 cents each (equivalent to $0.65 in 2025), a substantial discount on the regular price of 65 cents (equivalent to $4.24 in 2025), with a limit of six beers per purchase but no limit on the number of purchases made during the game.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 16, 2026 11:31 AM (Kt19C)

123 Michigan Spent Billions on Schools — and 3 Out of 4 Fourth Graders Can’t Read

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They can't even do fish puns!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 16, 2026 11:31 AM (ndZc7)

124 Formerly Virginian, I was a huge Braves fan, especially during the early TBS years when you could hear individual fans insulting the umpires because the stadium was devoid of fans and we cheered for the opposing team because the Braves were that bad.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 16, 2026 11:15 AM (Q/FnY)

Ah, memories.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 16, 2026 11:31 AM (N1DT3)

125
Meh, that dude has been making a really good living off being an abrasive prick for decades. It's shtick. Used to listen to him a lot 20 years ago, but eventually his entire act got repetitive and predictable.
Posted by: ballistic at June 16, 2026 11:27 AM (oqH4h)

He got famous for pissing off Jim Everett and being attacked.

He's always been a blowhard asshole who's never boiled a mouthpiece yet thinks he's the smartest to ever live and knows everything about every sport.

He's a dime a f*cking dozen nowadays, but yes....parleyed that into a multi million dollar career.

But capitalism bad.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)

126 120 110 RACK 'EM
Posted by: Jim Rome at June 16, 2026 11:28 AM (oqH4h)

HAVE A TAKE, DO NOT SUCK, OR YOU WILL GET RUN
Posted by: Jim Rome at June 16, 2026 11:30 AM (T6aVk)

I hated that prick too.

Posted by: Jim Everett, otherwise known as Chris Everett at June 16, 2026 11:31 AM (T6aVk)

127
They're telling you what they worship. It's bonkers.

They worship bonkers.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 16, 2026 11:31 AM (Cqx++)

128 Women's Beach Volleyball and billiards continue to be the only sports worth cheering for.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 16, 2026 11:32 AM (JxXpW)

129 Posted by: Don Black at June 16, 2026 11:08 AM (ZxPkt)

Gay enema month
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2026 11:21 AM (l3cgK)

We're here for you!

Posted by: HelloFresh at June 16, 2026 11:32 AM (2X2jr)

130
He got famous for pissing off Jim Everett and being attacked.

He's always been a blowhard asshole who's never boiled a mouthpiece yet thinks he's the smartest to ever live and knows everything about every sport.

He's a dime a f*cking dozen nowadays, but yes....parleyed that into a multi million dollar career.

But capitalism bad.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:31 AM (

That was - THE INCIDENT.

Posted by: Jim Rome at June 16, 2026 11:32 AM (T6aVk)

131
The San Francisco paper is going into hysterics over this, of course:

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 16, 2026 11:10 AM (aD4fx)

Speaking of fucking with the homos, in SoCal during the Dubya Bush years I used to go to the Farmers Market while wearing a Texas Rangers ballcap. Confused the hell out of the hippies, because they were too snooty to give me shit for wearing an MLB ballcap, which would imply that they actually cared about sports. But if they got pissy because TEXAS IS DE DEBIL, then they'd look silly getting angry over a hat.

You're damned right I kept that hat in my car just to be sure I could stick it in their face.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 16, 2026 11:32 AM (y9nCu)

132 To which I ask: Forcibly injecting foreign cultures into a native population is 'obviously going to cause problem.' Tell me more about that as it relates to the United States and your position on immigration.

That's when the rest of them yell and walk away.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2026 11:32 AM (6RVjC)

133 I watched Moneyball again a few days ago. It did affirm what I always thought in that scouting /player evaluation is crap in all pro leagues. You could tell that just by observation of the drafts and trades .

Every once in a while they will find diamond in a coal mine. Jerry Rice comes to mind.

More often than not though is their sure thing ain't a sure thing.
Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 11:21 AM (GseMx)

Eh, I think it's the nature of the beast. You see that at all levels of pro-sport because it's a very steep pyramid to reach the top. You know-

The kid that's good in grade school football may not be good enough in Middle School football.

The kid that's good in Middle school football may not be good enough in High School football.

The kid that's good in High school football may not be good enough in College football.

The kid that's good in College football may not be good enough in Pro football.

Lots of steps to fail at physically or psychologically.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 16, 2026 11:33 AM (iJfKG)

134 Posted by: ballistic at June 16, 2026 11:27 AM (oqH4h)

I don't know how he recovered from being bitch slapped. I wouldn't listen to him

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 11:33 AM (GseMx)

135 Ground Game Disaster: How CA GOP, Leech Consultant Failed Spencer Pratt and L.A.

California Assemblyman Carl DeMaio said, “He had this consultant who basically blocked any outside group because she had to make all the money. Her name is June Cutter.”

Posted by: SMOD at June 16, 2026 11:33 AM (RHGPo)

136 The View is a must watch right now. Never thought I'd say that. JD Vance is doing good so far.
Posted by: Big Alfredo at

No. Just no.
This is why we have x, for excerpts and commentary.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 16, 2026 11:33 AM (sl73Y)

137 Almost all sportsball leagues require a subscription for streaming services. Screw that noise. I remember watching Ali boxing matches with my father on free tv.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 16, 2026 11:33 AM (SRceu)

138
The Left 20 Years Ago: Coexist!

The Left Now: We Must Eliminate the Jew MAGA Menace From The World in a Sea of Blood

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 11:34 AM (aBLnM)

139 Michigan Spent Billions on Schools — and 3 Out of 4 Fourth Graders Can’t Read

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They can't even do fish puns!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

To be fair, we only do it for the halibut.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2026 11:34 AM (6RVjC)

140 Know many young boys, both in family and neighborhood, ages 9 to about 12 or 13, following MLB to an astounding degree.

They can recite what seems to be never-ending facts about teams and favorite players, and they all want to be just like them when they're grown.

My point, MLB in particular has a lot influence on those kids and while a great majority of them will never be great baseball players, a clean influence of sports - leave out the social justice platforms - can be be invaluable to many, especially those who don't always come from idea family situations, but also the others who simply love the sport.

Posted by: GOAL!! at June 16, 2026 11:34 AM (NFX2v)

141 Posted by: naturalfake at June 16, 2026 11:33 AM (iJfKG)

My point is they get paid big bucks to tell the difference and they fail quite often.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 11:34 AM (GseMx)

142 IAANM, there is nothing in the Koran forbidding gay sex.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 16, 2026 11:34 AM (qFwJc)

143 Almost all sportsball leagues require a subscription for streaming services. Screw that noise. I remember watching Ali boxing matches with my father on free tv.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

I miss roller derby.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2026 11:34 AM (6RVjC)

144 Hey Pat Courtney - there is no I in Team, but there is a U in c*nt.

Posted by: Kenny Oowers- at June 16, 2026 11:34 AM (2ap+5)

145 Went to a $1 beer night at the minor league stadium in Memphis once. It was funny as it was the same 25 people that just kept rotating from the front to the end of the line for about 2 hours.

I will admit, I was reasonably smashed by the end of the game.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:35 AM (Zz0t1)

146 135.

Crab Bucket Republicans are a thing in Cali.

Most of the pricks are moving to Idaho now, sadly.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 16, 2026 11:35 AM (JxXpW)

147 Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long. A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

Posted by: Vivek Ramaslamadimgdong at June 16, 2026 11:35 AM (ZR74N)

148 123 Michigan Spent Billions on Schools — and 3 Out of 4 Fourth Graders Can’t Read
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

But they're well versed in raciss, sexiss atta tude, hater.

Posted by: Auspex at June 16, 2026 11:35 AM (Y8DZL)

149 123 Michigan Spent Billions on Schools — and 3 Out of 4 Fourth Graders Can’t Read

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They can't even do fish puns!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 16, 2026 11:31 AM (ndZc7)

They just need more money. Just like our schools
need more money.

We won’t rest until the entire Texas GDP is spent on schools. And even then we will need more money.

Posted by: Texas Association of School Boards at June 16, 2026 11:35 AM (T6aVk)

150 Michigan Spent Billions on Schools — and 3 Out of 4 Fourth Graders Can’t Read
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But I bet they're good (future) gay little commies

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 11:36 AM (aBLnM)

151 The kid that's good in College football may not be good enough in Pro football.

Lots of steps to fail at physically or psychologically.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 16, 2026 11:33 AM (iJfKG)

This reminds me of my absolute favorite Saturday Football commercial.

It showed all these collegiate athletes in their sport, then in their career. At the end, the voiceover said: "Your degree matters. 99% of all college athletes go pro in something other than sports."

I was like - YES. This is the right message.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 11:37 AM (rii+a)

152
The Left Now: We Must Eliminate the Jew MAGA Menace From The World in a Sea of Blood

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 11:34 AM (aBLnM)

ROCK ON!!!!

Posted by: Candace Owens at June 16, 2026 11:37 AM (Zz0t1)

153 Love him or hate him, Jim Rome have is the name Rosie O'Fat

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 16, 2026 11:37 AM (G3dDH)

154 or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
Posted by: Vivek Ramaslamad___dong at June 16, 2026 11:35 AM (ZR74N)

We solved that problem. The valedictorian simply wins the popularity contest. Besides, you get work based on being liked and networked anyway. Easy peasy.

Posted by: North East Independent School District, San Antonio at June 16, 2026 11:37 AM (T6aVk)

155 Softball is entertaining, mainly because you never know what you're going to get.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:29 AM

Lesbians. You're going to get lots of lesbians.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2026 11:37 AM (kgE5c)

156 Well, baseball is kind of a gay sport so I can see the reason the league is so upset.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 16, 2026 11:37 AM (RjOoY)

157 Elites destroying the things normies love is the consistent pattern across culture, sport and entertainment.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 16, 2026 11:37 AM (qycoL)

158 A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

Posted by: Vivek Ramaslamadingdong

Is he wrong?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2026 11:38 AM (Riz8t)

159 Baseball has one advantage over the other major sports. The rules are almost perfectly objective. Balls and strikes can now be called by tech, and safe/out calls are subject to video review. Umps don't determine the outcome of a game like refs in football and basketball with pass interference/holding and foul calls, which are inherently subjective and not subject to review.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 16, 2026 11:38 AM (XvL8K)

160 The multi-phase attack allegedly involved using explosive-laden drone aircraft to strike buildings in the vicinity of the event, sparking mass panic and driving the fleeing crowd toward a sniper team poised to pick them off, officials told Fox News.

A “second wave” of attackers then allegedly planned to storm the White House gate, officials said. Fox News further detailed:

The FBI first learned of the threat on June 10 and worked with partners to secure probable cause for an arrest in Cincinnati, where one suspect was taken into custody.

Investigators later uncovered Signal chats in which multiple people allegedly discussed attacking the UFC event. An initial review of one suspect’s iPhone identified at least 23 Signal users discussing pre-operational activity, officials said.

Some of those involved allegedly planned to travel to Fredericksburg, Virginia, on June 12 or 13 to prepare for the attack.

Posted by: SMOD at June 16, 2026 11:38 AM (RHGPo)

161
Lesbians. You're going to get lots of lesbians.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2026 11:37 AM (kgE5c)

Valid, but I was referring more to the product on the field, not the activities in the locker room afterwards.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

162 "Baseball is busily taking a national sport that printed money and turning it into a regional sport with a fair number of struggling franchises. If they think that embracing progressive politics that are antithetical to traditional American culture will save baseball's fortunes...they are wrong."

And people wonder why the Savannah Bananas and the Banana Ball League are doing so well. They are in it for the pure entertainment value and the quest to satisfy families, and not push THE MESSAGE out to folks.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 16, 2026 11:39 AM (j8uqt)

163 Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 16, 2026 11:38 AM (XvL8K)

Whatever you do don't tell MLB it's a binary sport.

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 11:39 AM (aBLnM)

164 A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

Posted by: Vivek Ramaslamad___dong

Now do Texas A&M.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

165 Baseball has one advantage over the other major sports. The rules are almost perfectly objective. Balls and strikes can now be called by tech, and safe/out calls are subject to video review. Umps don't determine the outcome of a game like refs in football and basketball with pass interference/holding and foul calls, which are inherently subjective and not subject to review.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

The reason baseball went to tech to call balls & strikes is because they let Angel Hernandez ump for so long. Among others. They ruined calling balls & strikes.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2026 11:40 AM (6RVjC)

166 culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

Posted by: Vivek Ramaslamad___dong

Is he wrong?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2026 11:38 AM (Riz8

Our history says he's wrong.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 11:40 AM (GseMx)

167 Posted by: NR Pax at June 16, 2026 11:37 AM (RjOoY)

Baseball is not a gay sport. It's a perfect game requiring the highest level of reaction time and hand-eye coordination, together with strength, speed and myriad athletic skills. MLB is a gay whore house.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at June 16, 2026 11:40 AM (wGerL)

168 Are no lawyers available to sue them for viewpoint discrimination?

Posted by: Smallish Bees at June 16, 2026 11:40 AM (xKjWc)

169
Was the attack going to be muslim or leftard?

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 11:40 AM (aBLnM)

170 139 Michigan Spent Billions on Schools — and 3 Out of 4 Fourth Graders Can’t Read

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They can't even do fish puns!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

To be fair, we only do it for the halibut.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2026 11:34 AM (6RVjC)

Teachers really shouldn't let the kids just skate through.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 16, 2026 11:40 AM (j8uqt)

171
And people wonder why the Savannah Bananas and the Banana Ball League are doing so well. They are in it for the pure entertainment value and the quest to satisfy families, and not push THE MESSAGE out to folks.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 16, 2026 11:39 AM (j8uqt)

THIS.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)

172 This reminds me of my absolute favorite Saturday Football commercial.

It showed all these collegiate athletes in their sport, then in their career. At the end, the voiceover said: "Your degree matters. 99% of all college athletes go pro in something other than sports."

I was like - YES. This is the right message.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 11:37 AM (rii+a)

Even the "winners" who go pro in sports need to be told that the average career for pro sports is between 2.5 and 4.5 years.

Too many of them spend like they will be a pro for 40 years.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 16, 2026 11:40 AM (N1DT3)

173 Lesbians. You're going to get lots of lesbians.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2026 11:37 AM (kgE5c)

Valid, but I was referring more to the product on the field, not the activities in the locker room afterwards.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:39 AM

I know, but someone had to say it. I mean, we have expectations here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2026 11:40 AM (kgE5c)

174 And people wonder why the Savannah Bananas and the Banana Ball League are doing so well. They are in it for the pure entertainment value and the quest to satisfy families, and not push THE MESSAGE out to folks.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 16, 2026 11:39 AM (j8uqt)

It is such an obvious answer to baseball's ills, yet they carefully ignore this!

I will be going to a minor league game or two this summer, and I am confident that it will be a much more pleasant experience than going to a NY Yankees game.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 16, 2026 11:41 AM (PLxDd)

175 Is he wrong?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2026 11:38 AM (Riz8t)

=======

No, but engineering is a bit of a dead end job, and the QB might not be the best engineer, but he is smart enough to get out of his engineering role and onto the mgmt track asap.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 16, 2026 11:41 AM (2ap+5)

176
The reason baseball went to tech to call balls & strikes is because they let Angel Hernandez ump for so long. Among others. They ruined calling balls & strikes.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2026 11:40 AM (6RVjC)

Baseball clowned itself letting that f*cker stay in the league as long as he did. There's no one more obviously corrupt than him and yet he kept getting playoff game gigs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)

177 Never liked politics mixed with sports. Just play the game. Personal issues need to be that, personal. Teams need to stay out of politics too. It's OK to support your team and your country, we all should. But personal issues? Don't drag your team into it. All you will get is some mad fans.

Posted by: Case at June 16, 2026 11:42 AM (IY9No)

178 I just don't get LGBT

if you're in that lifestyle, your whole identity is based on who and how you f***

everything you say, do, eat, wear, listen to, is processed through the mechanics of who and how you f***

it's ridiculous

Posted by: Don Black at June 16, 2026 11:42 AM (ZxPkt)

179
I know, but someone had to say it. I mean, we have expectations here.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2026 11:40 AM (kgE5c)

You're on a valid roll today.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)

180 The vet near me is a lesbian. I met her when I was running for office and at town meetings . She has a very nice wooden sculpture outside her practice with a cat, a dog and a birdRight now she has a big rainbow flag on it. I have yet to figure out what her being a lesbian had to do with being a vet and I am unaware of what pets think of their lesbian owners. The other vet in town does not have a Pride flag . I go to him. He may be gay but he doesn't feel a need to advertise if he is

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 16, 2026 11:42 AM (PFs9e)

181 157.

Culture war is their way to compensate for not being able to win a fist fight.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 16, 2026 11:42 AM (JxXpW)

182 Balls and strikes can now be called by tech, and safe/out calls are subject to video review. Umps don't determine the outcome of a game like refs in football and basketball with pass interference/holding and foul calls, which are inherently subjective and not subject to review.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 16, 2026 11:38 AM (XvL8K)

Yeah. Take all the skills developed as a Catcher since childhood convincing Umps that balls were strikes away.
Fuck all this tech in sports.
Well I don't watch them anyway so why do I care.

Posted by: Reforger at June 16, 2026 11:42 AM (F9nWj)

183 Major League Baseball - the official sport of victims of anal prolapse.

That being said, I don't watch games but do follow the 'news' to see how Ohtani and Judge are doing.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 16, 2026 11:42 AM (Sco7b)

184 I used to go to a dozen games a year. My last baseball game was 8/8/2006. I do not miss it. I miss what was sometimes but never what is.

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 11:43 AM (aBLnM)

185 And people wonder why the Savannah Bananas and the Banana Ball League are doing so well. They are in it for the pure entertainment value and the quest to satisfy families, and not push THE MESSAGE out to folks.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 16, 2026 11:39 AM (j8uqt)

Banana ball is THE BEST. Me and the minions watch it pretty regularly.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 11:43 AM (rii+a)

186 I just don't get LGBT

Posted by: Don Black at June 16, 2026 11:42 AM (ZxPkt)

There's a comic dude that did a bit recently: "Remember when it was just "G?""

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

187
Banana ball is THE BEST. Me and the minions watch it pretty regularly.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 11:43 AM (rii+a)

Tickets seem to be impossible to get.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

188 The reason baseball went to tech to call balls & strikes is because they let Angel Hernandez ump for so long. Among others. They ruined calling balls & strikes.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2026 11:40 AM (6RVjC)

They also allowed the umpires to insert themselves into the game to a ridiculous extent. Nobody buys tickets to watch an umpire argue with a player or manager.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 16, 2026 11:43 AM (PLxDd)

189 Worked at a company with multiple locations. One day, they decided to open a gay club at one of them. I think there wasn't a call from any groups for it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was because management was full of gays who wanted a place to hang out after work. And pick up men for sex.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 16, 2026 11:43 AM (1Ff7Z)

190 Jim Rome and that stupid fucking voice and cadence when he spoke. Then everyone had to sound like that cocksucker. Sports talk radio is the dumbest f’ing shit and its listeners need to get a life. Calling in babbling on while their old lady is probably getting nailed by the UPS guy at home.

Posted by: JROD at June 16, 2026 11:44 AM (m4E4U)

191 Baseball is a beer delivery vehicle

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 16, 2026 11:45 AM (xcxpd)

192 Pro tennis has gone to automated line calls at every tournament. You don't get the Jimmy Connors or John McEnroe entertaining meltdowns anymore.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 11:45 AM (GseMx)

193 It was too much to ask umps in MLB to call consistent strike zones. Hence the tech now used.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 16, 2026 11:45 AM (T6aVk)

194 Talk radio died with John Corby

Posted by: Oglebay at June 16, 2026 11:45 AM (2ap+5)

195 I will be going to a minor league game or two this summer, and I am confident that it will be a much more pleasant experience than going to a NY Yankees game.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

If you get back to Dallas, try to catch a Frisco Rough Riders game. They're the Ranger's double A team. Or the Round Rock Express down by Austin. (Ranger's Triple A team)

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2026 11:45 AM (6RVjC)

196 Yeah. Take all the skills developed as a Catcher since childhood convincing Umps that balls were strikes away.
Fuck all this tech in sports.
Well I don't watch them anyway so why do I care.
Posted by: Reforger
_________

I don't take your point. The catcher fooling the ump into a bad call is part of the game? That's not a charm of the game. It's just wrong.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 16, 2026 11:46 AM (XvL8K)

197 Tickets seem to be impossible to get.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

Indeed.

We watch on the television pretty regularly.

Ticket prices are obscene and the waiting list is years long. I'm actually glad to hear that, because it's a wholesome family experience. They celebrate Bananas Foster (their foster family charity) every game, the players are obviously having a blast, and the audience plays an active role in the game.

We love it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 11:46 AM (rii+a)

198 Gillette Cavalcade of Sports (often called Friday Night Fights) aired on NBC from 1948 to 1960. ESPN2 revived the concept with their own highly popular Friday Night Fights series from 1998 to 2015.

Kids watched, girls often included. (We even got mini-boxing lessons. Not a lot on tv way back.) Dad used to tell us the groups of fighters most represented were also rising in society. 🤷‍♀️

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Roller derby is back!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 16, 2026 11:46 AM (NFX2v)

199
There's a comic dude that did a bit recently: "Remember when it was just "G?""
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

How long did it take for him to be arrested after saying that?

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 16, 2026 11:46 AM (T6aVk)

200
There's lots of people who think sports talker Stephan A. Smith would be a great Preznit, Rich Eisen as his Viceman.

Posted by: Auspex at June 16, 2026 11:47 AM (Y8DZL)

201
Crab Bucket Republicans are a thing in Cali.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 16, 2026 11:35 AM (JxXpW)

Consider that shamelessly stolen.

Reminds me of George Lucas' hate letter to the city of Modesto, American Graffiti. All four of the friends come to a bad end: one killed by a drunk driver, another killed by the Viet Cong with his body lost and rotting in the jungle, another gets away to become a writer in Canada but it's implied that he went there to avoid the draft and can never return. And Opie suffers the worst fate, as he's dragged back into being an insurance salesman by his Crab Bucket Girlfriend, despite being the one friend who was most desperate to leave.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 16, 2026 11:47 AM (y9nCu)

202 They celebrate Bananas Foster (their foster family charity) every game, the players are obviously having a blast, and the audience plays an active role in the game.

We love it.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 11:46 AM (rii+a)

The greatest rule ever:

A spectator catches a foul ball, the batter is out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

203 Banana ball is THE BEST. Me and the minions watch it pretty regularly.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 11:43 AM (rii+a)

Tickets seem to be impossible to get.
Posted by: Sponge

They are because they travel do much. They're only in a city for two or three nights.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2026 11:47 AM (6RVjC)

204 Never liked politics mixed with sports.

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Politics has been mixed with every single thing in America. Namely, leftist politics and activists who shove their beliefs down everyone's throats. It's a horrible way we have to live now because of it, and I do admit to wishing we could just go back to the way things were back in the Normal Times.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2026 11:48 AM (qBdHI)

205 There's a comic dude that did a bit recently: "Remember when it was just "G?""

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

This is one of my favorite Dave Chappelle bits. Where he talks about the Ls and the Bs and the Gs. And how the one thing all of them agree on is that they all hate the Ts.

They tried to canx him for that, but...well... He's Dave Chappelle.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 11:48 AM (rii+a)

206 Is he wrong?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2026 11:38 AM (Riz8

Our history says he's wrong.

How? In the old days, the guys with short sleeve white shirts and pocket protectors put us on the moon, and invented semiconductors. We benefited from an influx of Euro Joos before and after WWII. Our tech fields are filled with homegrown Asians, Chinese, Korean, Indians, and Japanese. None of those are known for starring on the football field. Elon Musk is a single person, and if we didn't have him, we'd be suffering. Regardless, he's not a sports guy.

There's nothing WRONG with being in traditional sports, but let's not pretend that emphasizing those over the qualities that make our economy go doesn't have a cost in terms of time and effort. Schools can highlight and reward both.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2026 11:48 AM (Riz8t)

207
How long did it take for him to be arrested after saying that?
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 16, 2026 11:46 AM (T6aVk)

This, I do not know.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

208 Never liked politics mixed with sports.
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I definitely prefer it when sports are injected into politics.

Posted by: George Will at June 16, 2026 11:49 AM (AhAak)

209 Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2026 11:48 AM (qBdHI)

If it makes you feel any better it was a planned psy op.

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 11:49 AM (aBLnM)

210 I enjoyed roller derby before the trannies invaded it.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 16, 2026 11:49 AM (DoWN/)

211 The greatest rule ever:

A spectator catches a foul ball, the batter is out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

Not our favorite. The girl child likes that the batter can steal first. The boy child likes 'Rule #4, Bunting is Stupid,' and I prefer the fan-initiated challenge.

But damn, we love watching the fans actually impact the game.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 11:50 AM (rii+a)

212 Speaking of fucking with the homos, in SoCal during the Dubya Bush years I used to go to the Farmers Market while wearing a Texas Rangers ballcap. Confused the hell out of the hippies, because they were too snooty to give me shit for wearing an MLB ballcap, which would imply that they actually cared about sports. But if they got pissy because TEXAS IS DE DEBIL, then they'd look silly getting angry over a hat.

You're damned right I kept that hat in my car just to be sure I could stick it in their face.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 16, 2026 11:32 AM (y9nCu)

Do the same with a MAGA hat on.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 16, 2026 11:50 AM (g8Ew8)

213 I've never heard of banana ball. I looked it up. It's real!

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2026 11:50 AM (qBdHI)

214 177 Never liked politics mixed with sports. Just play the game. Personal issues need to be that, personal. Teams need to stay out of politics too. It's OK to support your team and your country, we all should. But personal issues? Don't drag your team into it. All you will get is some mad fans.
Posted by: Case at June 16, 2026 11:42 AM (IY9No)

THIS.

Sports was for me an escape. Time was when I would have followed the NBA Finals and would have been pissed at the Spurs losing. Now? I was told the Spurs lost the Finals and shrugged. NBA types running their mouths about politics killed it for me.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 16, 2026 11:50 AM (T6aVk)

215
I don't take your point. The catcher fooling the ump into a bad call is part of the game? That's not a charm of the game. It's just wrong.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 16, 2026 11:46 AM (XvL8K)

This is 100% on the ump. The rule is defined as "a strike is where the ball crosses the plate" and has NOTHING to do with where the catcher physically catches the ball.

"Framing pitches" should do nothing to the umpire and their calling of balls and strikes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:50 AM (Zz0t1)

216 210 I enjoyed roller derby before the trannies invaded it.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 16, 2026 11:49 AM (DoWN/)

I can do something to fix that...

Posted by: Jonathan E. at June 16, 2026 11:51 AM (j8uqt)

217 I've never heard of banana ball. I looked it up. It's real!

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2026 11:50 AM (qBdHI)

Truly, it's wholesome family fun. You're watching people just have fun playing a game. It's an incredible shift from what sports has become.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 11:51 AM (rii+a)

218 I've never heard of banana ball. I looked it up. It's real!
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2026 11:50 AM (qBdHI)

And it is fun to watch. The players have fun. The umps get into it.

There's even a dude that pitches while standing on stilts.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)

219 Ten-Cent Beer Night was an ill-fated promotion held by Major "League Baseball's Cleveland Indians during a game against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on June 4, 1974. The promotion was meant to improve attendance at the game by offering cups of beer for just 10 cents each (equivalent to $0.65 in 2025), a substantial discount on the regular price of 65 cents (equivalent to $4.24 in 2025), with a limit of six beers per purchase but no limit on the number of purchases made during the game.
Posted by: Commissar"

I remember that and the ensuing drunken riot. According to stories they weren't even charging for the beer towards the end. Who could have guessed this would lead to trouble?

The Tribe was so bad they had to give away beer to get the fans to the games.

Posted by: Ripley at June 16, 2026 11:53 AM (GUOwU)

220 I never saw how framing a pitch would affect the home plate umpire. It might look good for a viewer at home but the umpire could give two shits where the ball ended up or for how long. He shouldn't even be looking at the catchers glove.

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 11:53 AM (aBLnM)

221 San Francisco Reddit:

If you attended Giants Pride Night and felt disrespected, consider filing a complaint/refund request

For anyone else who attended the Giants Pride Night game on Friday and felt hurt, disrespected, or alienated by Giants players using the Pride caps to write Bible verses / make a religious counter-message: you can send a complaint directly to the Giants, MLB, and relevant SF city offices.

Pride Night was marketed as a celebration of LGBTQ fans. Many of us paid to be there expecting to feel welcomed, seen, and celebrated — not to watch uniformed players undermine the meaning of the night on the very Pride gear being used to sell that event.

If you're gonna be small minded you don't need our coin.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 16, 2026 11:53 AM (aD4fx)

222 Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2026 11:48 AM (Riz8t)

Are you ignoring that the jock and Prom Queen were always celebrated over the nerd and that sometimes the jock or prom queen was also the valedictorian. It never stopped the people who were meant to be engineers becoming engineers.

The problem I see is lowering the standards to become engineers, doctors , etc.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 11:53 AM (GseMx)

223
I will be going to a minor league game or two this summer, and I am confident that it will be a much more pleasant experience than going to a NY Yankees game.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Minor league teams are for the true fans of the game itself. Plus they have the cool mascots/team names.

Macon Bacon
Rocket City Trash Pandas

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 16, 2026 11:54 AM (y9nCu)

224 I don't take your point. The catcher fooling the ump into a bad call is part of the game? That's not a charm of the game. It's just wrong.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 16, 2026 11:46 AM (XvL8K)

If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying.

Posted by: Baseball Motto at June 16, 2026 11:54 AM (T6aVk)

225 213 I've never heard of banana ball. I looked it up. It's real!
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2026 11:50 AM (qBdHI)

It's not only real, but it's magnificent.

The owners of Banana Ball are a husband-and-wife team, and their story of how they built the business from one beaten-down field in Savannah to a billion-dollar enterprise is one of the most inspiring stories I've ever heard about.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 16, 2026 11:54 AM (j8uqt)

226 He shouldn't even be looking at the catchers glove.
Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 11:53 AM (aBLnM)

Correct, but you'd really be amazed how often that does affect the call.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)

227 The greatest rule ever:

A spectator catches a foul ball, the batter is out.

Posted by: Sponge

Saw one. Kid catches foul ball. Starts to party like it's 1999. Fans start booing him. Turns out he caught a hometown team's foul. LOL.

He was like, "oh shit!"

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2026 11:54 AM (6RVjC)

228 I like watching women's pole vaulting.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 16, 2026 11:54 AM (dhAE4)

229 "Framing pitches" should do nothing to the umpire and their calling of balls and strikes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:50 AM (Zz0t1)

Umps became lazy f*cks who were more interested in being on TV than actually doing their jobs. It's easier to watch where the ball hits the catcher's mitt than tracking the ball through the strike zone.

I am glad that the umps are being marginalized and often embarrassed.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 16, 2026 11:55 AM (PLxDd)

230 223: Macon Whoopie was a minor league hockey team.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 16, 2026 11:55 AM (T6aVk)

231 "Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that 'homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.' They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.

"The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.

"Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 16, 2026 11:55 AM (O0L8i)

232 I don't see baseball lasting very much longer with half the stands just dreaming of dating the bats.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 16, 2026 11:55 AM (JxXpW)

233 Who are these Giants players. I want to support them.

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 11:55 AM (aBLnM)

234 "How else does one explain the fixation on all things gay?"

Also: The marketing and PR firms are crawling with perverts, commies, and homosexuals.

Marketing is mostly a made-up profession anyway, so those departments and firms are dumping grounds for incompetents and undesirables. They roam in herds and inflict their perversion on everything they touch.

Same thing happened to HR in the last few decades.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 16, 2026 11:55 AM (iFTx/)

235
If you're gonna be small minded you don't need our coin.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 16, 2026 11:53 AM (aD4fx)

We really don't. You can take your blasphemy elsewhere.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)

236 The owners of Banana Ball are a husband-and-wife team, and their story of how they built the business from one beaten-down field in Savannah to a billion-dollar enterprise is one of the most inspiring stories I've ever heard about.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 16, 2026 11:54 AM (j8uqt)

If I remember it right, they mortgaged their house twice, then sold it, then lived in the office, practically bankrupt.

And turned all that effort and struggle into this. I LOVE the origin story.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 11:55 AM (rii+a)

237 I never saw how framing a pitch would affect the home plate umpire. It might look good for a viewer at home but the umpire could give two shits where the ball ended up or for how long. He shouldn't even be looking at the catchers glove.
Posted by: ...
_____________

I think a big part of it is where the catcher sets up for the pitch. It shouldn't matter, but it does.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 16, 2026 11:56 AM (XvL8K)

238 Umps became lazy f*cks who were more interested in being on TV than actually doing their jobs.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 16, 2026 11:55 AM (PLxDd)

Look! It's Enrico Palazzo!

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 11:56 AM (aBLnM)

239 Minor league teams are for the true fans of the game itself. Plus they have the cool mascots/team names.

Macon Bacon
Rocket City Trash Pandas
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 16, 2026 11:54 AM (y9nCu)

Nearby are the Amarillo Sod Poodles.

(What a stupid name)

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 16, 2026 11:56 AM (T6aVk)

240

I am glad that the umps are being marginalized and often embarrassed.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 16, 2026 11:55 AM (PLxDd)

Agreed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

241
Umps became lazy f*cks who were more interested in being on TV than actually doing their jobs.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 16, 2026 11:55 AM (PLxDd)

Actually, the quality of umpiring is better than it's ever been. If you applied the same tools we have now to games 50 years ago, you'd be shocked at how bad it was.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 16, 2026 11:57 AM (O0L8i)

242 You can't spell MLB without BLM.

Literally

Posted by: muldoon at June 16, 2026 11:57 AM (qgHp7)

243 Been to several Blue Wahoos games this season with someone who has season tickets. Don't really care about the outcomes, but the stadium located right on Pensacola Bay is an awesome venue. (Home runs to left field can find the water, but it takes a pretty good poke).

https://media.eventective.com/4204452_lg.jpg

Posted by: one hour sober at June 16, 2026 11:58 AM (J4Dwc)

244 SPLC boss had lover in Nazi group - pair even had joint bank account trib.al/7wnuofS

Posted by: gKWVE at June 16, 2026 11:58 AM (DoWN/)

245 You can't spell MLB without BLM.

Literally
Posted by: muldoon at June 16, 2026 11:57 AM (qgHp7)

In a league that's 80% Hispanic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 11:58 AM (Zz0t1)

246
Same thing happened to HR in the last few decades.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 16, 2026 11:55 AM (iFTx/

Honestly, I wonder if anyone has done a proper study of HR departments and the percentage who are Women's Studies graduates. Or better yet, vice versa.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 16, 2026 11:58 AM (y9nCu)

247 Can't spell BLM or MLB without dumping a BM

Posted by: gKWVE at June 16, 2026 11:59 AM (DoWN/)

248 @nypost
·
1h
Trump says he 'never cared' about Iran regime change, claims new leaders are 'not radicalized' https://trib.al/O6YILqQ

Posted by: Don Black at June 16, 2026 11:59 AM (ZxPkt)

249
I am glad that the umps are being marginalized and often embarrassed.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 16, 2026 11:55 AM (PLxDd)

Umpires have no problem with tools that help get the call right.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 16, 2026 11:59 AM (O0L8i)

250 Every night in MLB is a pride celebration, when the Designated Hitter appears.

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 11:59 AM (aBLnM)

251 Actually, the quality of umpiring is better than it's ever been. If you applied the same tools we have now to games 50 years ago, you'd be shocked at how bad it was.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 16, 2026 11:57 AM (O0L8i)

Where have you seen such an analysis?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 16, 2026 11:59 AM (PLxDd)

252 The Blade says it again for the 100th time: Christians get shit on because nobody fears us.

You can insult, discriminate against, attack, or even kill Christians. Christians will do nothing. No riots, no murders, no street justice. Literally nothing.

Nobody dares shit on Islam because they know what will happen if they do that. They will get their heads chopped off.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 16, 2026 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

253 From Legal Insurrection:

"MLB decries use of personal writings on Pride Night hats

Major League Baseball on Monday decried the use of personal writings on any team-issued Pride Night hats after members of the San Francisco Giants had Bible verses etched into their caps during Friday night’s game against the Chicago Cubs.

In a statement to multiple outlets, MLB chief communications officer Pat Courtney said, “The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations.”

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 16, 2026 12:00 PM (ix8EF)

254 Hate being a contrarian ( really I do) but I can only watch Banana ball once every year. I was a huge basketball fan but the Harlem Globetrotters was a once a year or two years for me back in the day.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 12:00 PM (GseMx)

255 Politics has been mixed with every single thing in America. Namely, leftist politics and activists who shove their beliefs down everyone's throats. It's a horrible way we have to live now because of it, and I do admit to wishing we could just go back to the way things were back in the Normal Times.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2026 11:48 AM (qBdHI)

What’s wrong with everything being political?

Posted by: Josef Vissiariovich Dzugashvili at June 16, 2026 12:00 PM (T6aVk)

256
Umpires have no problem with tools that help get the call right.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 16, 2026 11:59 AM (O0L8i)

Um, I fail to see where showing them their ass on a nightly basis is something they appreciate and adore. Their egos won't allow it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

257 Are you ignoring that the jock and Prom Queen were always celebrated over the nerd and that sometimes the jock or prom queen was also the valedictorian. It never stopped the people who were meant to be engineers becoming engineers.

Wut? I don't know where you got I'm saying they can't be both. Sure, someone can be good at both, but most aren't. What I'm sayng ing is that we need to treat engineers and scientists as being valuable, just like we do the jocks. I know from first hand experience with my daughters that that is often NOT the case, and it's hurting us. The STEM disciplines are harder than other disciplines, and the financial payoff often isn't great, but they're still indispensable to the country's well-being. We need to let those kids know that what they do will be valued and recognized.

My nephew just graduated from Ga Tech, with a CS degree. He was the ONLY white kid in the entire department. That's a problem.

The problem I see is lowering the standards to become engineers, doctors , etc.

That's a separate problem, but I agree, it's a big one.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2026 12:01 PM (Riz8t)

258 Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 16, 2026 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

And yet Christians know that Christians win in the end, so somewhere along the line someone has made a grave miscalculation.

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 12:01 PM (aBLnM)

259 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 16, 2026 12:00 PM (ix8EF)

That is in the post.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 16, 2026 12:01 PM (PLxDd)

260 Hudson Valley Renegades are about a half hour drive. Yankees HighA affiliate. Good place to see a game

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 16, 2026 12:01 PM (ufO5q)

261 Hate being a contrarian ( really I do) but I can only watch Banana ball once every year. I was a huge basketball fan but the Harlem Globetrotters was a once a year or two years for me back in the day.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 12:00 PM (GseMx)

I don't read that as contrarian. We've all got our own jam.

Which, really, is what separates us from the left.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 12:01 PM (rii+a)

262 Every night in MLB is a pride celebration, when the Designated Hitter appears.
Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 11:59 AM (aBLnM)

Another aspect where $$$ has ruined things.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

263 What do you call 1000 umpires buried under the Meadowlands

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 12:02 PM (aBLnM)

264 With tech, the only things umps are necessary for are:
1. Make the initial safe/out call, not to be overruled by video unless clearly erroneous.
2. When infield fly rule applies
3. Check swings
4. Balks
5. Runner/fielder interference

And the last two are rarely an issue.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 16, 2026 12:03 PM (XvL8K)

265
Every night in MLB is a pride celebration, when the Designated Hitter appears.
Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 11:59 AM (aBLnM)

Or when a game used to be played at Shea Stadium, the World's Largest Gay Bar

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 16, 2026 12:04 PM (y9nCu)

266 I never saw how framing a pitch would affect the home plate umpire"

Blocks the view and sets up a perceived path. The issue is that the strike zone is a prism, not a rectangle. That doesn't show up on camera, so...

Posted by: man at June 16, 2026 12:04 PM (XuXeR)

267 My nephew just graduated from Ga Tech, with a CS degree. He was the ONLY white kid in the entire department. That's a problem.

The problem I see is lowering the standards to become engineers, doctors , etc.

That's a separate problem, but I agree, it's a big one.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2026 12:01 PM (Riz8t)

Smart kids are being sabotaged in public schools by making sure they never get challenged because they can't be allowed to work on problems harder than the average student or the average student might get "left behind".

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 16, 2026 12:05 PM (N1DT3)

268
Where have you seen such an analysis?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 16, 2026 11:59 AM (PLxDd)

50 years ago, you'd have guys like Ken Kaiser, who never moved a foot unless it was necessary. Fat, out of shape and lazy. Calls were made almost simultaneously with the play instead of waiting a second for it to be completed.

The 1999 umpires strike was a godsend to MLB. They got rid of a lot of poorly-performing umpires and cracked down on conditioning and conduct for the remainder.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 16, 2026 12:05 PM (O0L8i)

269 >>Who could have guessed this would lead to trouble?

Also see Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in Chicago in the late 70s

Posted by: one hour sober at June 16, 2026 12:05 PM (J4Dwc)

270 Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2026 12:01 PM (Riz8t)

I guess my point is I don't think celebrating the jock or prom queen is the problem because it's always been that way .

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 12:05 PM (GseMx)

271 269.

DISCO SUCKS! t-shirts are still hanging in a lot of closets.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 16, 2026 12:06 PM (JxXpW)

272 Why do the owners want, or allow, this?

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 16, 2026 12:06 PM (4NO2D)

273 Why do the owners want, or allow, this?

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 16, 2026 12:06 PM (4NO2D)

Lot of trust fund babies at this point I would imagine.

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 12:08 PM (aBLnM)

274 With tech, the only things umps are necessary for are:

6. tell us what the video call on each play is.

Posted by: t-bird at June 16, 2026 12:08 PM (ScG/9)

275 …and I still appreciate the fact that Team USA responded to Canadians booing the Star Spangled Banner at the Four Nations tourney by immediately picking fights with three Canadian players in the first nine seconds.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 16, 2026 12:09 PM (T6aVk)

276 MLB Pride night pales in comparison to allowing trans cheerleaders imho.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 12:09 PM (GseMx)

277 >Why do the owners want, or allow, this?

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to keep money coming in, and keep angry gay mobs away

Posted by: Don Black at June 16, 2026 12:09 PM (ZxPkt)

278 Lot of trust fund babies at this point I would imagine."

Corporate ownership...

Posted by: man at June 16, 2026 12:10 PM (XuXeR)

279 Pretty people and rich people will always have an advantage in everything they do.

No use complaining about it. It's like going to a swim meet and seeing a mf'er with flippers in the next lane.

As a person of ugly and a person of low birth, when the gun sounds I swim anyway.

Doesn't stop me from hoping they get cramps though.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 16, 2026 12:10 PM (JxXpW)

280 Flounce me out to the ballgame

Nah, doesn't work

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 16, 2026 12:11 PM (ufO5q)

281 Am I alone in enjoying the variability of the strike zone from ump to ump as long as the ump is consistent with his own calls?

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 16, 2026 12:12 PM (4NO2D)

282 Trump, when asked if he would release the Iran MOU: "I'll not only release it, I'll probably have a press conference and read it to you word by word so that the press covers it accurately."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 12:12 PM (rii+a)

283 276 MLB Pride night pales in comparison to allowing trans cheerleaders imho.
Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 12:09 PM (GseMx)

One of my warning signs about the NBA was when the Spurs unceremoniously dumped the Silver Dancers.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 16, 2026 12:12 PM (T6aVk)

284
Am I alone in enjoying the variability of the strike zone from ump to ump as long as the ump is consistent with his own calls?
Posted by: toby928(c) at June 16, 2026 12:12 PM (4NO2D)

The players didn't mind umpires setting their own strike zones within reason so long as it was consistent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 16, 2026 12:13 PM (O0L8i)

285 I'll probably have a press conference and read it to you word by word so that the press covers it accurately."

"Trump's Memorandum of Understanding with Iran: What you need to know..."

Posted by: t-bird at June 16, 2026 12:13 PM (ScG/9)

286 BREAKING: Details via federal arrest affidavit reveal that a California man named Michael Alan Thomas was one of the alleged organizers of the alleged UFC White House terror plot. Feds say he admitted he believes the U.S. government is run by elites who sacrifice and eat children, had involvement with Jeffrey Epstein, and are protected by President Trump.

Investigators took screenshots of his Signal chats in which details of the plot were discussed and maps of the UFC event were shown with suggestions on where snipers should be placed. Feds also recovered rifles & ammo.

Sources tell colleague
@davidspunt
those in custody are American citizens snd there is no foreign nexus believed to be at play.

-
Americans of the Robert DeNiro persuasion.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 16, 2026 12:14 PM (ndZc7)

287 282.

That is a solid way to do it. I want him talking to real people on camera Reagan-style, not sitting with journalice like Brennan and Welker with their performative bitch faces.

This is too important for that bs.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 16, 2026 12:14 PM (JxXpW)

288 The more I learn about what my FiL did to his daughter, the more just flabbergasted I get.

Just............

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 12:15 PM (Zz0t1)

289 when has being wrong ever stopped them?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 16, 2026 12:15 PM (VyBeY)

290 >>Am I alone in enjoying the variability of the strike zone from ump to ump as long as the ump is consistent with his own calls?

I'm with you. Players will adjust if the calls are consistent.

I watch college basketball with a passion. It's maddening to see the refs call very little in the first half, then completely change and blow their whistles over every little thing in the second half. It's like a new set of officials took to the court after halftime.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 16, 2026 12:16 PM (J4Dwc)

291 Baseball was great back in the days when you could watch it on TV for free.
Posted by: gp at June 16, 2026 11:05 AM (Jr5Lq)

I still watch the occasional Blue Jays game on the not-so-big screen at the bar when I go for Wing Nite. Have not seen anything overtly political. Just baseball. Saw something weird last week. One of Jays' pitchers was throwing underhand or sidearmed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 16, 2026 12:16 PM (1z8ji)

292 It just occurred to me

there are probably league rules about altering the uniform

those fag caps are league-approved
they are thus an official part of the uniform (for homo pride night), and are not to be altered without league permission

unless I'm wrong

Posted by: Don Black at June 16, 2026 12:16 PM (ZxPkt)

293 There's lots of people who think sports talker Stephan A. Smith would be a great Preznit, Rich Eisen as his Viceman.
Posted by: Auspex at June 16, 2026 11:47 AM (Y8DZL)

I used to love Rich Eisen until he decided to post a message on bluesky to a Christian MLB pitcher who was unhappy about celebrating PRIDE MONTH to congratulate him on a good game "during Pride Month!!"

The fact that he posted it on bluesky was the tell. F*ck Eisen.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 16, 2026 12:17 PM (k9OZB)

294 Saw several engineering students graduate from Penn State some years ago and most did not have promising jobs before them.

(The U.S. Navy wasn't even interested in those with degrees in nuclear engineering.)

Decades before, there were five year college co-op programs to get good engineers onboard in the federal government & hold onto them via contract for some years.

Local grad schools now, almost everyone in an engineering program is foreign born.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 16, 2026 12:17 PM (NFX2v)

295
Sometimes I wonder what would happen if you took players from 100 years ago and gave them the fields and equipment we have today. Vice versa, what would happen if today's players had the fields and equipment of 100 years ago?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 16, 2026 12:17 PM (O0L8i)

296 Michael Alan Thomas, a Northern California resident, has been identified in federal court documents as one of the alleged organizers of a purported terror plot targeting the White House and the upcoming UFC Freedom250 event, according to details contained in a federal arrest affidavit.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 12:18 PM (rii+a)

297 A called strike is a ball thrown so that the batter can hit it, and yet so very well that it goes unstruck.

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 16, 2026 12:18 PM (4NO2D)

298 Posted by: Don Black at June 16, 2026 12:16 PM (ZxPkt)

I think the league will allow players to wear the regular hat if requested. I dont know if the NHL requires the players to wear the pride jerseys . Anyone?

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 12:19 PM (GseMx)

299 I think baseball had its origin in some other Brit country sport, dunno if it even had a name before we codified it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 16, 2026 11:10 AM (xcxpd)

Rounders, maybe? WAG

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 16, 2026 12:19 PM (1z8ji)

300
I've never heard of banana ball. I looked it up. It's real!

I think there's an ointment for that now.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 16, 2026 12:19 PM (Cqx++)

301 Sports was for me an escape. Time was when I would have followed the NBA Finals and would have been pissed at the Spurs losing. Now? I was told the Spurs lost the Finals and shrugged. NBA types running their mouths about politics killed it for me.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 16, 2026 11:50 AM (T6aVk)

Ditto. My uncle fought in WWII and loved his Spurs. He'd be appalled at them now. I was hoping they'd win until I got wind of Wemby's bullsh*t. Now I'm glad they lost.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 16, 2026 12:20 PM (k9OZB)

302 I think the league will allow players to wear the regular hat if requested. I dont know if the NHL requires the players to wear the pride jerseys . Anyone?

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 12:19 PM (GseMx)

No. In the NHL, it was voluntary.

In 2023, the NHL entirely banned any theme-night apparel or equipment.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 16, 2026 12:21 PM (rii+a)

303
293 There's lots of people who think sports talker Stephan A. Smith would be a great Preznit, Rich Eisen as his Viceman.
Posted by: Auspex at June 16, 2026 11:47 AM (Y8DZL)

Stephen A. Smith said yesterday that 35 years for Karmello was “grossly disproportionate for a first offense”.

Murder is never “just a first offense”, asshole.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2026 12:21 PM (cx1bp)

304 When is Christian Night where Christians can feel welcomed and gay stuff is banned?

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 12:22 PM (aBLnM)

305 It’s time American citizens stop supporting baseball amd see what happens

Posted by: Gonzotx at June 16, 2026 12:22 PM (nGraA)

306 The "PLEX" app found on Roku (and maybe elsewhere) has a live streaming feed of KBO, or Korean Baseball Organization. Games are amazingly good. Fan behavior is exemplary. Even the umpires make more correct calls on balls/strikes and plays at the bases. If you love the game, this offers what you need without supporting the dooshbags at MLB.

Posted by: Lurker #4975 at June 16, 2026 12:22 PM (l04it)

307 > There's lots of people who think sports talker Stephan A. Smith would be a great Preznit, Rich Eisen as his Viceman.
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Well, there are a lot of stupid people

Posted by: Don Black at June 16, 2026 12:22 PM (ZxPkt)

308 The Left would quietly let us have a Christian Night, right?

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 12:22 PM (aBLnM)

309 Stephan a Smith is an idiot. I hope the Dems nominate him, he'll be as incoherent as Kamala

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 16, 2026 12:23 PM (ufO5q)

310 Sometimes I wonder what would happen if you took players from 100 years ago and gave them the fields and equipment we have today. Vice versa, what would happen if today's players had the fields and equipment of 100 years ago?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 16, 2026 12:17 PM (O0L8i)

We can do today's players in golf and tennis.

I like that you can also get 3 or 4 degrees of separation between players.

Tiger Woods played against Jack Nicklaus who place against Sam Snead who played against Bobby Jones.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2026 12:23 PM (GseMx)

311 There's lots of people who think sports talker Stephan A. Smith would be a great Preznit, Rich Eisen as his Viceman.

Where? Point them out to us...

Posted by: The Guys with the Butterfly Nets at June 16, 2026 12:24 PM (ScG/9)

312 Or a more inclusive Bible Night?

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 12:24 PM (aBLnM)

313 I've stopped paying any attention to any sports. I find myself a lot happier this way.

In other news:

NOOD!

Ace is awake and has a new thread for us:

FBI Disrupts Planned Terrorist Attack on White House During Last Weekend's UFC Event, Involving Drone Explosives and Snipers Positioned to Shoot People as They Fled in a Panic

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 16, 2026 12:25 PM (O7YUW)

314 IMO
the only cause Sport should support, is Sport

no pride nights, no 'awareness months', no end zone slogans, none of that shit

Posted by: Don Black at June 16, 2026 12:25 PM (ZxPkt)

315 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 16, 2026 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)

316 The "PLEX" app found on Roku

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Fox to Purchase Streaming Company Roku in Deal Valued at $22 Billion

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 16, 2026 12:26 PM (ndZc7)

317 Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2026 12:21 PM (cx1bp)

The way prominent black people have commented on this makes you see that those people really do not give a solitary fuck about the murder victim. All because of the skin color of the perpetrator. Sad.

Posted by: ... at June 16, 2026 12:26 PM (aBLnM)

318 Since the World Series strike back whenever, I have not gone to a physical game and only watched 3 world series games of INDIANS vs Cubs. That is 3 games over that entire span. I have not missed watching bb at all as I rarely did before.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 16, 2026 12:26 PM (xvV+O)

319 Nood UFC plot

Posted by: From about That Time at June 16, 2026 12:28 PM (sl73Y)

320 5-10 years ago you could get season tickets for the bananas and their stadium was just a walk down from my house. The season tickets would also include basically all you can eat concessions and a drink allotment. A great deal. But it started getting more and more difficult to get the season tickets before they were all taken. You had to be online and clicking the buy button within seconds. And then they went franchise and that was all over. But in the beginning it was a lot of fun.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 16, 2026 12:28 PM (3uBP9)

321 I still don't get this corporate mindset where they feel obligated to cater to a minority of 5% of their potential audience (who may or may not care) while alienating the 95% that actually care about their product.

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It's because sports are a cult and the cult leaders know they can do anything they want.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 16, 2026 12:28 PM (Vh9CX)

322 called strike is a ball thrown so that the batter can hit it, and yet so very well that it goes unstruck.
Posted by: toby928(c) at June

Goes unswung.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 16, 2026 12:29 PM (sl73Y)

323 Tiger Woods played against Jack Nicklaus who place against Sam Snead who played against Bobby Jones.

It's a little stretchy, but Sam Snead hit the honorary tee shot until Tiger's eighth Masters.

Posted by: t-bird at June 16, 2026 12:29 PM (ScG/9)

324 I like watching women's pole vaulting.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 16, 2026 11:54 AM (dhAE4)

With the shiny chrome poles?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 16, 2026 12:37 PM (1z8ji)

325 >I still don't get this corporate mindset where they feel obligated to cater to a minority of 5% of their potential audience (who may or may not care) while alienating the 95% that actually care about their product.

I used to work for a tech firm that hosted a lot of marketing seminars that I had to sit through to ensure our product didn't crash. What I learned was that marketers have no idea what/how normal people think. They're the epitome of theorywank.

Specifically: they literally think that "market segments" are isolated, don't talk to each other, and don't see marketing aimed at other demographics. They literally do not comprehend that marketing that increases sales in one demo could decrease sales in another.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at June 16, 2026 12:38 PM (LgYtf)

326 I think baseball had its origin in some other Brit country sport, dunno if it even had a name before we codified it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 16, 2026 11:10 AM (xcxpd)

Rounders: baseball came from rounders.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 16, 2026 12:48 PM (ZVgZ4)

327 The bananas were very family oriented then. They had a thing where they would pick a newborn, Every one would put their baby into the running, hundreds of people, but each game they'd pick one and then carry the baby out in a banana costume and unpeel them to the monkey/simba music in lion king. The syndicated show now is becoming sexed up with guys dancing around shirtless and other odd ball mommyporn ways. But in the beginning it was family wholesome.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 16, 2026 12:51 PM (3uBP9)

328 Hatred of religion is a hallmark of the progressive mindset

No. It's a hatred of Christianity. Because Christianity (and Judaism, before it) is against hedonism and transhumanism. Christianity says "You don't get to be your own god, and make your own rules." (Because it's not just Islam missing from their anti-s; it's also most eastern religions, animism, and atheism missing.)

Posted by: GWB at June 16, 2026 12:55 PM (kU0PQ)

329 Banana ball is a bad joke. I left after 2 innings of that nonsense.

Give me plain old baseball. If I wanted to see people on stilts. I'd go to the circus.

Posted by: That Guy at June 16, 2026 01:11 PM (8JR9p)

330 And MLB (as well as other pro sports) billionaire owners talk local pols into spending YOUR tax dollars to support their new stadium. If you don't they'll take their team and move to a more gullible city. Good riddance all.

Posted by: Bruce at June 16, 2026 01:11 PM (21nJ/)

331 Budweiser them, I stopped watching years ago

Posted by: kilroy at June 16, 2026 03:06 PM (4YptI)

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