I'm Not Boycotting Major League Baseball – I’m Repulsed By It [Buck Throckmorton]

Watching or listening to baseball on a summer night has been a habit of mine for most of my life. I tuned in to the Covid-delayed opening weekend and was so offended by what I saw that I haven’t tuned in again. In fact, I canceled my MLB-TV subscription and requested a refund this past week.

I’m not boycotting Major League Baseball – I’m repulsed by it. All the left-wing slogans on the pitcher’s mounds and uniforms was probably enough to turn me away. But seeing the players overwhelmingly take a knee to profess their hatred of the USA and then slander the fans as racists made me sick. I could no more cheer for these ungrateful ballplayers than I could cheer for Covid.

Have you ever had a girlfriend (or boyfriend) betray you to be intimate with another? You initially feel angry and broken-hearted, but when she offers you the opportunity to come back and once again shower her with affection, the only feeling you feel is revulsion. That is how I feel about Major League Baseball. They called their fans racists and figuratively spit on the American flag. And now we’re being told it was just an opening week tantrum. They want me to tune in and spend money on them again, even though they hate me and my country.

Something else that is really disturbing to me is that aside from the American-born players - who were taught to hate this country by the US media and our broken public school system - my team includes players who escaped the communist paradises of Venezuela and Cuba. They escaped communist Hell-holes, became multi-millionaires in the United States, and have a fan base that loves them and has made them rich. In return these communist refugees disparage this country, dishonor the flag, and call me a racist. Yuck.

I think back on how MLB permanently damaged itself with the 1994 strike, which resulted in no World Series that year. Baseball attendance took years to recover, and the World Series as a shared American event died then and there. My circle of family and friends all used to watch the World Series every year no matter who was in it. That all ended in 1994. Pretty much no one I know watches the World Series any more unless their team is in it. I don’t. In addition, before the 1994 strike I would drive three hours to the big city to attend a game at least 5 or 6 times per year. Since then, although I still watched baseball on TV, I’ve often gone several years without attending a game in person. There was permanent damage from the 1994 strike. There will be permanent damage from baseball’s 2020 anti-American spectacle.

A funny note to end this post – when I called MLB-TV to cancel and get my refund, the polite gentleman in India who I was talking to inquired as to why I was canceling my service. I told him I was deeply offended by the players’ anti-patriotic demonstrations on the field, therefore I was not going to watch any more MLB. He replied, “Oh yes. That again.”

MLB decided it wanted to be part of the 2020 culture wars? Fine. I am happy to let the ungrateful, America-hating MLB players get a taste of being cancelled. That’s how the culture wars work, right?

Posted by: Open Blogger at 04:15 PM

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1 Steeeerike threeee!

You're out!

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 17, 2020 04:14 PM (3NkDy)

2 Makes sense to me.

Posted by: clutch cargo at August 17, 2020 04:14 PM (8B6Ng)

3 Can't boycott something that I have not attended since 1991.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 17, 2020 04:15 PM (JUOKG)

4 Thank you, Buck.

Posted by: Infidel at August 17, 2020 04:15 PM (R4aZ2)

5 Ditto.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 17, 2020 04:15 PM (yQpMk)

6 sports be evul and covidy

Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 17, 2020 04:16 PM (J8nVw)

7 Yep. I'm going to get back to fishing to avoid the NFL clusterfuck this year. Makes me want to cry.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 17, 2020 04:16 PM (7xbc8)

8 Baseball should have used the excuse of COVID to take the year off.

Posted by: SH at August 17, 2020 04:17 PM (sX1BW)

9 You can't spell MLB without BLM.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2020 04:17 PM (Fc5rx)

10 My revulsion/boycott refusal to consume now extends to the vast bulk of American culture. Our movies, our sports, our TV, our popular music, our news, our journals - all of it is destructive shit. The product sucks. It's message sucks. It's intent sucks. It's goals suck. It's outcomes suck.

I am still always on the lookout for good music, but I am no longer on the lookout for anything else. I just don't consume it anymore. It's a big world, and not everything that comes from everywhere sucks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2020 04:17 PM (hYcqw)

11 Except for "opening day" (when teams painted BLM or some such bullshit) on the back of the mound I've not seen a single leftist slogan at a game. Am I just inured to this stuff? What have I missed?

Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden at August 17, 2020 04:17 PM (2y4NB)

12 The left wants to destroy all feelings of community. They don't even LIKE sportsball. But it must be destroyed.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 17, 2020 04:18 PM (3NkDy)

13 And yet, somehow, they still haven't caught up to the sheer disgustingness of the NBA.

Which is less a positive about MLB than an indictment of just how far gone the NBA is.

Enjoy those Chinese Yuan.

Posted by: Allie at August 17, 2020 04:18 PM (vmRc0)

14 Dr. Fauci didn't make it in the big leagues because he couldn't hit the Covid.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2020 04:18 PM (Fc5rx)

15 Rural Minnesota has town ball. A bunch of people that live in the town playing the town thirty miles away on a beautiful Summer Night.

Yes, the local baseball parks have lights and everything.

Posted by: rd at August 17, 2020 04:18 PM (+0uDE)

16 I got one word for sports fans - Hockey - mostly woke free and it always was better anyway

Posted by: Greg61 at August 17, 2020 04:18 PM (FvHZ4)

17 Except for "opening day" (when teams painted BLM or some such bullshit) on the back of the mound I've not seen a single leftist slogan at a game. Am I just inured to this stuff? What have I missed?
Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden at August 17, 2020 04:17 PM (2y4NB)
++++++++++++
It's enough. They paid the Danegeld. They'll never be rid of the Dane.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2020 04:18 PM (hYcqw)

18 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 04:18 PM (Zz0t1)

19 My only connection with MLB is that Miss Linda will occasionally watch a game, or a playoff, or the Series on my TV. (Don't know why; her TV is bigger and newer.) Or I'll turn on Jeopardy! only to find that the local station is running a game instead.

All the big sports are going SJW. Joe DiMaggio and Joe Namath wouldn't recognize their respective sports any more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 17, 2020 04:19 PM (rpbg1)

20 Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie and Hyundai/Kia.

Posted by: Roy at August 17, 2020 04:19 PM (Ti+Tv)

21 Hey you know what you call a recycled post?

Compost.

jeez I crack myself up.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at August 17, 2020 04:19 PM (luzVb)

22 Sadly, I am having to keep a list of which business will still receive my custom. Unless it is unavoidable, I fully intend to shun everyone that has bent the knee.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 17, 2020 04:19 PM (yQpMk)

23 In all my 29 years I have never cared about MLB (NHL/NBA/NASCAR). I continue that trend. Where I have deviated is that once I cared about football.

https://youtu.be/M31njYuuVeo?t=17

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at August 17, 2020 04:19 PM (ExV1e)

24 Yep, I feel the same way. I'm done. We had a set of tickets for this year and when they decided they were not going to allow spectators, they gave us the opportunity to get credit for the tickets plus 50% additional credit to be used towards games next year. This was after Opening Day and all the knees, etc. Nope. Straight refund for me please, and I am done unless and until they stop kneeling and apologize for having done so.

Which means, I fear, that I'm done.

Posted by: bluebell at August 17, 2020 04:19 PM (/669Q)

25 I gave it up in '94 because of the strike and haven't looked back. Games take too long anyway.

And Lou Gehrig still holds the record for most consecutive games played. That other guy failed to show up for a whole bunch of scheduled games.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at August 17, 2020 04:20 PM (o3AYq)

26 I'm still alive you know. Drunk, but alive.

Posted by: Joe Namath at August 17, 2020 04:20 PM (yQpMk)

27 I've had partial season tickets to the Twins since my son turned 6 - had boycotted after the '94 strike but I love the game and he though it was great. 20 years later my rep and her boss just didn't understand - they don't really mean de-fund the police and why don't you want to come to downtown MPLS anymore? Do your social experiments on another family. Good luck, enjoy your new fanbase, assholes.

Posted by: jhawk90 at August 17, 2020 04:20 PM (Pya95)

28 I'll stick to golf, both playing it as much as possible and watching. So far it hasn't been too bad, but I believe they know who their fan base is and if they started down this road ... oh boy, would not be good for the production.

Posted by: stourma at August 17, 2020 04:20 PM (cgMvz)

29 Funny thing is, they had a literal captive audience. Had they played their cards right, they'd have legions of new fans. Instead, they used the opportunity to push their new religion on everybody, and tell is we're heretics and scum if we're not on board. And, if we did get on board, we're still scum.

Posted by: clutch cargo at August 17, 2020 04:20 PM (8B6Ng)

30 16 I got one word for sports fans - Hockey - mostly woke free and it always was better anyway
Posted by: Greg61 at August 17, 2020 04:18 PM (FvHZ4)

Definitely not Woke-Free.

During the Qualifiers, the PA guy at the arena was going out of its way to talk about how much the NHL supports BLM between periods.

Posted by: Allie at August 17, 2020 04:20 PM (vmRc0)

31 It really slows down the game when baserunners rounding third heading for home have to stop for a temp swipe and a nasal swab.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2020 04:20 PM (Fc5rx)

32 I cut way back on watching after the strike and shortly after football. Too much criminality. Capperdick sealed it. I couldn't get the game during the Cubs WS a few years ago, but Skip's announcing was awesome. Now I simply refuse.

Posted by: Infidel at August 17, 2020 04:20 PM (R4aZ2)

33 ESPN is so bad off that they actually made "ESPN 8 : the Ocho" a real thing during the lockdowns.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at August 17, 2020 04:20 PM (luzVb)

34 Spot on, Buck. As for me, you can also include the NBA, the NFL, and NOOSECAR.

They won't be getting any of my attention or money unless and until they stop their displays anti-Americanism. Even then, I may not return to being a fan. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - who still wants a pony at August 17, 2020 04:20 PM (HaL55)

35 I was a pretty big fan until the strike. When I had to do without baseball, I discovered that... I could do without baseball.

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at August 17, 2020 04:20 PM (qc+VF)

36 After the Cubs won four years ago, I'm good for another 108 years without current MLB baseball.

Posted by: Roy at August 17, 2020 04:20 PM (Ti+Tv)

37 The EU is straight-up evil.

Why?

Because the most extreme sentence that anyone could serve for the worst imaginable sexual crimes is just 7 and a half years.

Right now, the worst child-rape pedophile case in European history is opening in Germany, and the main perpetrator -- the leader of a pedophile ring who committed HUNDREDS of documented baby-rapes, in addition to countless other horrifying crimes of pimping out his own baby daughter to OTHER pedophiles, and then making and distributing THOUSANDS of extreme baby-rape videos -- is facing a MAXIMUM possible sentence (if he is convicted of all the crimes) of only 15 years, of which he will only be required to served HALF -- i.e. seven and a half years.

In an earlier trial, one of his fellow pedophile rapists was already convicted of similar crimes, and got a mere 10 year sentence, and will be out on the streets in FIVE YEARS:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53813249

These sentencing rules are partly constricted by EU regulations, so all the countries in the EU have similar lenient sentencing.

Why? Because in this liberal utopia, prison itself is considered "cruel and unusual punishment," and any and all extreme sentences are banned. There is even a movement (as in the US) to end the prison system in the EU altogether. Except in the US, this movement is led by wild-eyed extremists; in Europe, it's lead by bloodless bureaucrats and "experts."

Of course, in a sane world, all these rapists would be field-executed on the courthouse lawn 5 minutes after the guilty verdict.

Posted by: zombie at August 17, 2020 04:20 PM (HEEq1)

38 I'm all for a professional hide-n-seek league

Posted by: josephistan at August 17, 2020 04:20 PM (Izzlo)

39 Yup, BLM is a Racist organization, Racist against Whites.

Anyone who supports BLM, is supporting Racism against me, and my Son.

F YOU if you support that.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 17, 2020 04:20 PM (NgKpN)

40 favorite baseball memory...
riding in the car listening to Gene Elston call the Astros when my dad would whip his zippo against his pants and light a Montclaire

I never was a smoker but the smell of lighter fluid and that first puff of a new cig was awesome to me.

Posted by: DanMan at August 17, 2020 04:21 PM (XTiHL)

41 yeah, i was only tangentially watching baseball since i got to see my beloved Cubbies win the world series, mostly when not much else was on or i needed background noise. after the opening weekend crap and blm on the mound and continued kneeling and such, i'm done. and i don't care to ever go back.

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 17, 2020 04:21 PM (8D42x)

42 I still like Baseball and I still want to watch it. But not the MLB. Not after bending the knee. I am trying to figure out how to reliably stream Korean or Japanese leagues on my TV. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2020 04:21 PM (hYcqw)

43 Lifelong baseball fan here. Been to the World Series, the HoF twice, many playoff games, etc.Not watching anymore.

Posted by: Iasonas at August 17, 2020 04:21 PM (IVj0Y)

44 Well said except for the lack of profanity. Which is warranted.

Posted by: nip at August 17, 2020 04:21 PM (yoqcZ)

45 Ugh, my husband is still all-in on his sports. That opening day bullshit pissed me off so much. I looked at him and said, "why are you watching this shit?" He didn't answer so I left the room so my head didn't explode.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 17, 2020 04:21 PM (Ez6QX)

46 I am still always on the lookout for good music, but I am no longer on the lookout for anything else. I just don't consume it anymore. It's a big world, and not everything that comes from everywhere sucks.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2020 04:17 PM (hYcqw)

Same here - if I watch anything on the tube, I stream something that I know I like, inevitably something created before 2010, usually before 2000. With one or two tiny exceptions, there has been nothing at all done in the last decade that I have even the slightest amount of interest in.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 17, 2020 04:21 PM (Kpl3J)

47 I paid double the price for some Goya yesterday. I usually buy store brand beans.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 17, 2020 04:21 PM (yQpMk)

48 On the plus side, I've noticed that TV's haven't shot up in price at the start of the season. I'm willing to bet once the NFL starts up that'll be the same.

Posted by: clutch cargo at August 17, 2020 04:21 PM (8B6Ng)

49 Steeeerike threeee!

You're out!
Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 17, 2020 04:14 PM (3NkDy)

Well said!

Posted by: tbodie at August 17, 2020 04:21 PM (A5B6s)

50 >>> I'm Not Boycotting Major League Baseball, I'm repulsed by it.

==========

Preach it!!

Played HS and college. Just finished 26th year of coaching HS baseball. Will not watch game, or so much as a highlight until this BS is over. But considering who the commissioner is, I won't hold my breath.

Posted by: Backup Slider at August 17, 2020 04:21 PM (1Xx0L)

51 the smell of lighter fluid and that first puff of a new cig was awesome to me.

Posted by: DanMan at August 17, 2020 04:21 PM (XTiHL)

You shut up with that.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 17, 2020 04:21 PM (1ISKN)

52 "Oh yes. That again."

In an Apu accent.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 17, 2020 04:22 PM (9TdxA)

53 33 ESPN is so bad off that they actually made "ESPN 8 : the Ocho" a real thing during the lockdowns.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at August 17, 2020 04:20 PM (luzVb)

38 I'm all for a professional hide-n-seek league
Posted by: josephistan at August 17, 2020 04:20 PM (Izzlo)

These two things are meant for each other.

Posted by: Roy at August 17, 2020 04:22 PM (Ti+Tv)

54 Neither football, basketball, or baseball want me as a paying fan. It is obvious by the way they insult me every time they walk onto the field of their taxpayer provided stadiums, and call me names for providing them a millionaires lifestyle in return for them playing childrens' games.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 17, 2020 04:22 PM (kA3Cp)

55 My revulsion/boycott refusal to consume now extends to the vast bulk of American culture. Our movies, our sports, our TV, our popular music, our news, our journals - all of it is destructive shit. The product sucks. It's message sucks. It's intent sucks. It's goals suck. It's outcomes suck.

We will all become Amish at some point.

Posted by: 🐧 at August 17, 2020 04:22 PM (C+evo)

56 Get woke, go broke.

Catch it!

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 04:22 PM (Zz0t1)

57 If those little league fuckers kneel I will blow a gasket. It's the only baseball I'm looking forward to.

Posted by: nip at August 17, 2020 04:22 PM (yoqcZ)

58 Yay, Buck! Now do football.

Posted by: m at August 17, 2020 04:22 PM (UpS69)

59 The major sports have self-destructed. College is well on its way. You know several schools with have players kneeling and they will have slogans on the field. It is an amazing thing to watch.
I'm not a big baseball fan, but would watch a game on TV now and then. Would also go out 4-5 times a year to catch a minor league game. Sports is dead to me.

Posted by: WOPR - Clown World Timeline Thinks This Timeline is Insane at August 17, 2020 04:22 PM (J70i0)

60 I am still always on the lookout for good music, but I am no longer on the lookout for anything else. I just don't consume it anymore. It's a big world, and not everything that comes from everywhere sucks.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2020 04:17 PM (hYcqw)
--------
Sports-wise I'm down to horse racing and golf. As far as I know they both flirted with wokeness and said oh shit - never mind.

Posted by: jhawk90 at August 17, 2020 04:22 PM (Pya95)

61 Here these clowns have probably the best job anyone can have...ie. professional sports player/millionaire.

And all they can do is shit on the Flag and spit in their fans' faces. And all for a bunch of violent commie BS.

Fine, a-holes but don't expect me to give you one picogram of support or my money.

From the bottom of my heart: Go fuck yourselves.

#DumpBaseball

#DumpFootball

#DumpBasketball

#Dump Soccer

Posted by: naturalfake at August 17, 2020 04:22 PM (EERbD)

62 Not to mention baseball is boring 90% of the time.

I'm convinced our current shitty America is made possible by ridiculous easy money policy which essentially allows shitty product to exist across the board.

Posted by: MAGA at August 17, 2020 04:22 PM (bloh/)

63 NHL

Remember when Mike Dumba(ss) knelt for the US National Anthem?

He stood for the Canadian National Anthem played immediately afterward.

Mike Dumba(ss) is fucking canuck citizen. The bastard isn't even a US Citizen.

And yes, Mike and the shitty Minnesota Wild were eliminated in the first round.

Posted by: rd at August 17, 2020 04:22 PM (+0uDE)

64 Maybe if the Pittsburgh Pirates were more than just a garbage franchise that is a minor league team in the majors, maybe I'd watch more baseball. They are garbage though and my interest level in watching other teams just isn't there. I'm not angry at MLB, I just don't care. It's apathy. I know I should be angry at there disrespect but I'm not. Frankly, I barely remember they are on.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 17, 2020 04:23 PM (cMxuh)

65 There's no crying in baseball. But I notice that Tom Hanks (Peanut Butter Be Upon Him) recently decided he wanted to be citizen of Greece. So, yeah, the cultural message for as long as DJT is U.S. president must be that patriotism is deplorable, or patriotism is jingoism, or Bad Things Happen to Flag Wavers who trigger ever-timid globalists, or something.

Posted by: PaddyBeaner at August 17, 2020 04:23 PM (Ik+k6)

66 sorry sniffy, a fond memory I don't get to experience anymore

Posted by: DanMan at August 17, 2020 04:23 PM (XTiHL)

67 If your girlfriend cheated on you she'll cheat on the next guy.

If that gal or guy cheated with the new spouse before leave the current spouse.
It'll happen again.

Cheaters cheat.
Major league sports have shown themselves for what they are.

They became whores when they got out of bed with the fans and got in bed with City government.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 17, 2020 04:23 PM (SpZxj)

68
One of the interesting things to watch -- but I do not do so for long -- when we're at our place in Sussex County is rebroadcasts of Orioles games from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. The games fly by, for starters, and you get to see legendary players in their prime. That is the extent to which I'll watch baseball.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 17, 2020 04:23 PM (nGRtn)

69 Sportsball is buried deep in the end zone as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 17, 2020 04:24 PM (+y/Ru)

70
https://youtu.be/M31njYuuVeo?t=17
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at August 17, 2020 04:19 PM (ExV1e)

That was a great movie.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 04:24 PM (Zz0t1)

71 I am pretty sure football is out for me

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2020 04:24 PM (OjZpE)

72 Same here - if I watch anything on the tube, I stream something that I know I like, inevitably something created before 2010, usually before 2000. With one or two tiny exceptions, there has been nothing at all done in the last decade that I have even the slightest amount of interest in.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 17, 2020 04:21 PM (Kpl3J)

Yep, music or streaming. Pretty much everything with rare exceptions is before 1990. Love watching old kung fu and spaghetti westerns, or TV series' like The Saint or Danger Man. Seems to be plenty of that stuff for free.

Posted by: clutch cargo at August 17, 2020 04:24 PM (8B6Ng)

73 I was thinking that what baseball really needs are owners like Marge Scott and Charlie Finley.

And George Steinbrenner. They were all major league assholes in their own way, but I don't see none of them standing for this shit that's going on today.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 17, 2020 04:24 PM (7ixfo)

74 Of course, in a sane world, all these rapists would be field-executed on the courthouse lawn 5 minutes after the guilty verdict.
Posted by: zombie at August 17, 2020 04:20 PM (HEEq1)

Actually, in a sane world, these rapists would be executed by relatives of the victims who come through their windows at night and slit their throats in their beds, while sympathizers keep a lookout outside. No need to waste time on courthouses and trials, forget all of that.

I put it that the world is about to turn sane again, very soon.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 17, 2020 04:25 PM (Kpl3J)

75 F*ck the Giants, especially.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2020 04:25 PM (4BMGG)

76 I'm still alive you know. Drunk, but alive.

Posted by: Joe Namath

I have attained my dream of becoming just like Joe Namath.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at August 17, 2020 04:25 PM (luzVb)

77 Sports-wise I'm down to horse racing and golf. As far as I know they both flirted with wokeness and said oh shit - never mind.
Posted by: jhawk90 at August 17, 2020 04:22 PM (Pya95

------

World's Strongest Man , never known it to be woke. It's truly international in scope but you never get the sense they are pushing any agenda other than being a competition to find the world's strongest man.

Posted by: MAGA at August 17, 2020 04:25 PM (bloh/)

78 Same here - if I watch anything on the tube, I stream something that I know I like, inevitably something created before 2010, usually before 2000. With one or two tiny exceptions, there has been nothing at all done in the last decade that I have even the slightest amount of interest in.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 17, 2020 04:21 PM (Kpl3J)
+++++++++++++
I found that I like a lot of the dramatic story telling in Korean television, especially the revenge tales (those people know revenge). What I found most surprising - so much so that it stood out like a sore thumb to be as a foreigner - is how much they *don't* hate their culture and hate their values. It's hard to see when you're deep in your own cultural products, but we *hate* ourselves. It was really surprising how much this is not true elsewhere.

Our culture is diseased and broken. The masters of our culture are hateful and self-loathing monsters who want the culture to die. It's obvious in everything they produce - but it goes way beyond what I noticed before I started consuming other people's cultural products. It's both blunt and subtle. It's sickening and it's destructive.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2020 04:25 PM (hYcqw)

79 And now we're being told it was just an opening week tantrum.

Who said that Buck?

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at August 17, 2020 04:25 PM (Dhht7)

80 Hiya Bawk !

Posted by: JT at August 17, 2020 04:26 PM (arJlL)

81 Goops.

Forgot -

#DumpHockey

The Stars can go fuck themselves sideways.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 17, 2020 04:26 PM (EERbD)

82 63 NHL

Remember when Mike Dumba(ss) knelt for the US National Anthem?

He stood for the Canadian National Anthem played immediately afterward.

Mike Dumba(ss) is fucking canuck citizen. The bastard isn't even a US Citizen.

And yes, Mike and the shitty Minnesota Wild were eliminated in the first round.
Posted by: rd at August 17, 2020 04:22 PM (+0uDE)

Matt.

But then, I can never tell if people are intentionally saying names wrong as a form of saying "Look how much I don't care!"

Posted by: Allie at August 17, 2020 04:26 PM (vmRc0)

83 Yeah I cancelled my mlb subscription. Even my boys who play baberuth baseball have lost a lot of interest. Who has douchebags for heros?

Posted by: Chick Maldanado at August 17, 2020 04:26 PM (KOnk1)

84 C'mon man!

Posted by: Weasel at August 17, 2020 04:26 PM (MVjcR)

85 Long time Indians fan.
Been to a couple of games.
Used to watch all their games i could.

Could not fucking care less now.

Even though I could pirate the signal for every game and they not make a dime off me.

Fuck 'em, they can eat fishheads.

Posted by: RoyalOil at August 17, 2020 04:26 PM (aO8Gd)

86
Dodgeball, with head shots totally legit -- that I'd watch.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 17, 2020 04:26 PM (nGRtn)

87 I guess I'm down to boxing and MMA until the SJW athletes screw that up.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at August 17, 2020 04:27 PM (cCxiu)

88 Except for "opening day" (when teams painted BLM or some such bullshit)
on the back of the mound I've not seen a single leftist slogan at a
game. Am I just inured to this stuff? What have I missed?

Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden at August 17, 2020 04:17 PM (2y4NB)

One must learn never to touch the fire. I don't care it if was for one inning. Lukewarm is worse than hot for BLM.

Posted by: WOPR - Clown World Timeline Thinks This Timeline is Insane at August 17, 2020 04:27 PM (J70i0)

89 This.

Posted by: Muad'dib at August 17, 2020 04:27 PM (sjdRT)

90 I think it's made a lot of people just reevaluate how stupid it is to spend that much bandwidth and money on people who ultimately hate you.

Posted by: Blago at August 17, 2020 04:27 PM (gkdnV)

91 Concur Buck and I too have been scratching my head about the Hispanic players. I wonder when they will finally wake up long enough to realize they are being made the biyotches of their BLM masters.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2020 04:27 PM (axyOa)

92 >>>Who has douchebags for heros?

Billions of soccer fans do.

Posted by: Roy at August 17, 2020 04:27 PM (Ti+Tv)

93 I kid DanMan. Ex-smoker.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 17, 2020 04:27 PM (1ISKN)

94 I'm boycotting mostly because of the strike zone box.

Literally the biggest piece of garbage technology since the implementation of instant replay, which I am partly responsible for, well kinda mostly responsible for, and for that I am sorry.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 17, 2020 04:27 PM (aKyD8)

95 I'm still alive you know. Drunk, but alive.
Posted by: Joe Namath at August 17, 2020

*
*

Oh, I've seen you doing those spots about enrolling for Medicare extra services, telling us how you're "staying safe."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 17, 2020 04:27 PM (rpbg1)

96 Bunch of lollygaggers.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 17, 2020 04:28 PM (ZLI7S)

97
"Oh yes. That again."

In an Apu accent.

Heh. I bet he was just about as interested in our sports as we would in cricket or hooded-cobra wrasslin' or whatever sport they have over there.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - who still wants a pony at August 17, 2020 04:28 PM (HaL55)

98 I stopped watching the NFL after Krappernick knelt and the NFL didn't do anything about it.

I stopped watching NASCAR (after spending 18 or so years at Texas Motor Speedway) when they started changing the rules ever 15 minutes to make sure the popular drivers would make "the chase." The recent rash of bullshit they've pulled has only solidified my position of not watching it.

I stopped watching baseball this year with their BLM bullshit and kneeling.

I haven't watched the NBA in at LEAST 5 years.

It will take awhile, but all these fucks will hope they invested wisely because the teams will go bankrupt paying the salaries and contracts when their revenue is cut in 1/2.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 04:28 PM (Zz0t1)

99 That strike in 94 was the last straw for me.
This recent crap is more like lead weights on the camel.

Fuck em I hope they pine for that dream job they once had while working in thankless sedentary distribution jobs of some sort.

Hi! I am JaCoby Jones. Wanna buy some thumb tacks?

No. Go fuck yourself.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at August 17, 2020 04:28 PM (1eJby)

100 Yeah, pretty much done with all professional sports.

Thanks, Democrats, for shutting the country down, and #BLM for making industries kneel down, resulting in us learning how to live without so many of these Lefty forms of entertainment.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 17, 2020 04:28 PM (bDqIh)

101 I gave up on baseball in the Mark McGuire/Sammy Sosa era. They were all juicing. Screw 'em.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at August 17, 2020 04:28 PM (mNhhD)

102 They will always have a core TV audience due to sports betting. No one would go to the horse races if there was no betting.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 17, 2020 04:28 PM (Z4rgH)

103 I'm boycotting mostly because of the strike zone box.

Literally the biggest piece of garbage technology since the implementation of instant replay, which I am partly responsible for, well kinda mostly responsible for, and for that I am sorry.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 17, 2020 04:27 PM (aKyD

++++++++++
I kinda like it.

But where do you stand on the virtual box vs. the blue halo hockey puck that Fox used for a while?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2020 04:28 PM (hYcqw)

104 O/T but more cheerful:

All day I've been getting an ad with a naughty pic of Elizabeth Montgomery in the side-bar on the main page.

A quick Bing search reveals moar naughty pics of Elizabeth Montgomery.

So I got that going for me.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 17, 2020 04:28 PM (dfRN6)

105 It's a funny thing but being a sports fan my weekend and evenings after work would be consumed with sports. When sports got postponed due to covid, I decided to use the time I would normally be on the couch to exercise. Months later, I am in better shape and have no interest to tune back in to see these ingrates and their asinine protest. FOAD.

Posted by: IC at August 17, 2020 04:28 PM (a0IVu)

106 >>> I'm still alive you know. Drunk, but alive.

Posted by: Joe Namath

======

I walked into the gym last Friday and one of his commercials was on a TV. My first thought was that I didn't know he was still alive.

Posted by: Backup Slider at August 17, 2020 04:29 PM (1Xx0L)

107 But then, I can never tell if people are intentionally saying names wrong as a form of saying "Look how much I don't care!"
Posted by: Allie at August 17, 2020 04:26 PM (vmRc0)

You may be on to something there, Alistair.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 17, 2020 04:29 PM (H5knJ)

108 This situation shows who is in charge and it's not the players. The players are just stupid idiots who do as they are told and they have been ordered to disrespect the fans. If they had an ounce of intelligence there would be some locker room discussions and even rebellion. What is shocking is the conformity.

Posted by: Decaf at August 17, 2020 04:29 PM (4D+FL)

109 I can like baseball and hate MLB. I can enjoy football and hate NFL. I won't support those organizations by watching those games.

The XFL and Canadian League was pretty fun to watch. Minor League Baseball is just MLB's bitch.

I wish that alternative leagues would start springing up.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at August 17, 2020 04:30 PM (luzVb)

110 You can watch KBO (which I'm really enjoying) via ESPN (I'm getting it via HULU). The games are on in the early-early morning, but DVR takes care of that.

Posted by: Whee at August 17, 2020 04:30 PM (Lp+mt)

111 Have you ever had a girlfriend (or boyfriend) betray you to be intimate with another? You initially feel angry and broken-hearted, but when she offers you the opportunity to come back and once again shower her with affection, the only feeling you feel is revulsion. That is how I feel about Major League Baseball. They

written by somebody who is not familiar with the grudge fuck

Posted by: not so at August 17, 2020 04:30 PM (HALdu)

112 What the big sports leagues are doing to their fans --and to themselves nauseates me. But deep down I can see why the NFL and NBA are doing what they are doing even though I disagree.
The "hired help" is overwhelmingly black.

Not so in baseball. The majority of the players are middle class white guys, not all of whom attended college. I'm sure MOST of them lean Right. Most of the rest are players from Cuba, Venezuela , the Dominican Republic and Asia who are probably not attuned the political angle of BLM.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 17, 2020 04:30 PM (7ixfo)

113 World's Strongest Man

**********

Yeah, those guys have some gigantic balls!

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2020 04:30 PM (Fc5rx)

114 I guess I'm down to boxing and MMA until the SJW athletes screw that up.
Posted by: The Walking Dude at August 17, 2020 04:27 PM (cCxiu)

I stopped watching UFC when they went to ESPN.

Since I dumped cable about 9 months ago, I haven't really missed any of the sports networks.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 04:30 PM (Zz0t1)

115 All day I've been getting an ad with a naughty pic of Elizabeth Montgomery in the side-bar on the main page.

A quick Bing search reveals moar naughty pics of Elizabeth Montgomery.

So I got that going for me.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 17, 2020 04:28 PM (dfRN6)
+++++++++
Elizabeth Montgomery is one of the most beautiful women to ever appear on television. She's heart-stopping. And the episode of the Twilight Zone that she did with Charles Bronson was spectacular ("Two" - two people from opposite sides meet in the deserted aftermath of a brutal war).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2020 04:31 PM (hYcqw)

116 How can any fans respect players who do not have an autonomous thought between the lot of them? The players don't seem to react as people.

Posted by: Decaf at August 17, 2020 04:31 PM (4D+FL)

117 I got one word for sports fans - Hockey - mostly woke free and it always was better anyway
Posted by: Greg61

sure, but it is not a sport, kind of antifa icecapades

Posted by: not so at August 17, 2020 04:31 PM (HALdu)

118 Except for "opening day" (when teams painted BLM or some such bullshit)
on the back of the mound I've not seen a single leftist slogan at a
game. Am I just inured to this stuff? What have I missed?

Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden

After the first week of ratings, MLB went into damage control. Somebody realized they had screwed up...bigly. Now they are trying to just rescue the season.
It is failing.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2020 04:31 PM (axyOa)

119 I'm down to head back to the office on Wednesday. Today I ordered some breakroom supplies from Staples, and then heard disquieting news: that they have been diverting shipments, the few there have been, to the mail room, a good mile away from my office. And the mail people are short-staffed and can only deliver to departments once a week.

I've called Staples and spoken to a witless customer rep whom I could barely understand. She rattled off my regular shipping address and swore to me that my stuff would be delivered there tomorrow.

We'll see. I do NOT want to drive to the mail room, hunt for a parking place, and lug 4 cartons of water bottles back to my car.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 17, 2020 04:31 PM (rpbg1)

120 102 No one would go to the horse races if there was no betting.

The glue factory is the main reason we attend.

Posted by: Horses at August 17, 2020 04:31 PM (cCxiu)

121 It seemed like they felt pressure to have one day with BLM on the mound and yeah, it was icky. The next day it was "United" or something.

I have not heard anything about politics since. I am still watching baseball.

Basketball is another matter. They seem to be shoving it in your face more. No word on the NFL yet.

We will see.

Posted by: Tommy V at August 17, 2020 04:31 PM (GCivW)

122 North Korean Dictator Orders Dogs In Pyongyang To Be Confiscated (Probably For Dinner)

https://bit.ly/3kVg84s

If that picture is anything to judge by, Kim Jong Un hasn't missed many meals.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 17, 2020 04:31 PM (+y/Ru)

123 We are doing irreperable damage to our culture. Maybe we can rebuild them better after the leftists destroy them.

Posted by: iandeal at August 17, 2020 04:31 PM (f1aAg)

124 I quit watching/attending all major league sports after the third strike each (in my lifetime) and have found better uses for my time. Even before, they never invited me to occasional free parking or even one beer. So nah...

Posted by: Robert17 at August 17, 2020 04:31 PM (Pu/N8)

125 Leave Joe Namath alone!

Posted by: JackStraw at August 17, 2020 04:31 PM (ZLI7S)

126

Plenty of room down here in the end zone for ALL the SportsBall Leagues

Posted by: Zombie Jimmy Hoffa at August 17, 2020 04:31 PM (w9Wax)

127 Sportsball is dead. It committed suicide.

Posted by: USNtakim at August 17, 2020 04:32 PM (0OmEj)

128 It was no surprise when ESPN hosts revealed themselves as far-left wing about all.

But I have to say it was a surprise when some of the sportscasters who tried to pretend they were just regular guys or girls decided to go all-in on leftism this year. Dan Patrick, Petros and Money in LA are two examples. It's amazing that--after what happened to the NFL--they'd still commit suicide.

But they did--it's the age of Trump, after all, and he's the great unmasker.
What's fun is college footballl--the suits are desperately trying to destroy it, but several leagues saw it coming, and took action,
And now its coming to light that the Big -10 (who cancelled) has a lot of teams who are claiming there was no actual vote to cancel, despite what Dan Patrick reported. And the Big 10 commissioner's son is going to play for the SEC, even though his father is telling everyone in the Big 10 it's too dangerous to play.

Posted by: artemis at August 17, 2020 04:32 PM (AwPyG)

129 116 How can any fans respect players who do not have an autonomous thought between the lot of them? The players don't seem to react as people.
Posted by: Decaf at August 17, 2020 04:31 PM (4D+FL)

Thank the Players' Unions for that.

Posted by: Allie at August 17, 2020 04:32 PM (vmRc0)

130 Right on Buck. Me too.

Posted by: Abiss at August 17, 2020 04:32 PM (Y8DtA)

131 Posted by: Greg61 at August 17, 2020 04:18 PM (FvHZ4

Please see comment #63.

Thank you.

Posted by: rd at August 17, 2020 04:32 PM (+0uDE)

132 Meanwhile, in Australia, in the Australian state of Victoria, they're having an "outbreak" of Covid-19. The outbreak is pretty mild by rest-of-the-world standards (a mere hundreds of cases, not tens of thousands of cases as elsewhere).

But this new outbreak completely mystified the government, because BEFORE it even started they had imposed the most extreme quarantine rule of any jurisdiction in the world: All travelers entering Victoria state were REQUIRED to stay in prison-hotels for 14 days, to ensure that they were disease-free before being allowed to enter into the community.

And this forced quarantine was STRICTLY enforced -- all returning travelers all they crossed the border were escorted by police directly to the hotels, and armed guards kept them there. No exceptions.

So -- how in the world could there be an outbreak?

So the government commissioned a study,. They traced the DNA of every single Covid case in the state.The results were just published today. And they discovered -- OOOOOOPS - -that ALL the cases traced back to the prison-hotels, where infected travelers gave it to -- the guards and staff! :

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-53806500

So, by instituting this mandatory quarantine system, the Australian government actually CAUSED the outbreak, by setting up mass-infection petri dish nexus points.

If they had just let everyone go home and stay there separately, there wouldn't have been an outbreak.

Example #14723 of "Government intervention always makes things worse."

Posted by: zombie at August 17, 2020 04:33 PM (HEEq1)

133 quick Bing search reveals moar naughty pics of Elizabeth Montgomery.

So I got that going for me.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 17, 2020 04:28 PM (dfRN6)
+++++++++
Elizabeth Montgomery is one of the most beautiful women to ever appear on television. She's heart-stopping. And the episode of the Twilight Zone that she did with Charles Bronson was spectacular ("Two" - two people from opposite sides meet in the deserted aftermath of a brutal war).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2020

*
*

Agreed; EM was still lovely as an older woman.

Uh, Robbo . . . did you search "naughty pics Elizabeth Montgomery"? Asking for the usual friend, of course.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 17, 2020 04:33 PM (rpbg1)

134 >125
Leave Joe Namath alone!

Posted by: JackStraw at August 17, 2020 04:31 PM (ZLI7S)

Is he a hop head too?

Posted by: Muad'dib at August 17, 2020 04:33 PM (sjdRT)

135 I was thinking that what baseball really needs are owners like Marge Scott and Charlie Finley.

And George Steinbrenner.

They were all major league assholes in their own way, but I don't see any of them standing for this shit that's going on today.

But these college-educated numbers crunchers?
Fuck 'em.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 17, 2020 04:33 PM (7ixfo)

136

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 17, 2020 04:33 PM (rpbg1)

137 I started my career in journalism based on a MLB strike op-ed I wrote.

Posted by: Regular joe at August 17, 2020 04:33 PM (L9P9s)

138 The XFL and Canadian League was pretty fun to watch. Minor League Baseball is just MLB's bitch.

I wish that alternative leagues would start springing up.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at August 17, 2020 04:30 PM (luzVb)

Go onto youtube and search for lingerie football league. It is oddly compelling.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at August 17, 2020 04:33 PM (ZB2Pj)

139 Catch it!

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 04:22 PM (Zz0t1)

You rang?

Posted by: John Kasich at August 17, 2020 04:33 PM (uEbPt)

140 Buck, I was lifelong baseball fan. My dad, who passed away 20 years ago, taught me to enjoy the game in person and on the radio when TV broadcasts were rare. Growing up listening to Chuck Thomson and Bill O'Donnell call Orioles games on the radio, while in the car with my dad or playing catch (yes, it's "playing catch" - not "having a catch"!!) with my dad -- some of my most cherished memories. I also became a Dodgers fan because of the greatest baseball announcer ever -- Vin Scully.

My love for the game started waning with the shrinking of the strike zone. Then more so with the over-emphasis on analytics. Exit velocity and launch angle -- I get it, but enough already! IT's not a video game. Great hitters like Pete Rose, Rod Carew, Tony Gwynn, and my favorite Kirby Puckett -- they wouldn't even get a second look from scouts today.

But this baseball lover since the mid-70s is done after the stuff you mentioned. It's sad.

Posted by: Doof at August 17, 2020 04:33 PM (mZUr4)

141 I regret that I'm experiencing Schadenfreude over what I hope is the complete demise of all pro sports. To some small extent, I will miss football. I wish I felt nothing at all for any of it. Just absolute indifference.

Posted by: Old Dude at August 17, 2020 04:33 PM (LGXGf)

142 After the first week of ratings, MLB went into damage control. Somebody
realized they had screwed up...bigly. Now they are trying to just
rescue the season.

It is failing.

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Surely 7 inning games and runners starting on 2nd to start an inning will bring the die hards back.

Posted by: SH at August 17, 2020 04:33 PM (sX1BW)

143 Those in power rely on bread and circuses to keep the masses pacified.

And when the bread is moldy and the circuses are woke......?

Is there nothing the Left cannot mess up?

Posted by: WitchDoktor, 1.5 feet in the grave at August 17, 2020 04:34 PM (4k/Uz)

144 Boobs.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 17, 2020 04:34 PM (KnJdm)

145 >>> I'm boycotting mostly because of the strike zone box.

Literally the biggest piece of garbage technology since the implementation of instant replay, which I am partly responsible for, well kinda mostly responsible for, and for that I am sorry.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 17, 2020 04:27 PM (aKyD

=====

As a baseball purist, I whole heartedly agree re: the K-zone.

Question: since the zone is based on the hitter when in is his normal stance, do the broadcasters adjust the zone on the screen accordingly?

Posted by: Backup Slider at August 17, 2020 04:34 PM (1Xx0L)

146 Right on.

I used to be a bigtime baseball fanatic before the 1994 strike.

I started losing interest over time, I could either watch or not watch, but the passion was gone.

Now I just want the MLB to go away. Maybe a new league and new teams will replace it some day.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 17, 2020 04:34 PM (O4K4J)

147 If you're on twitter, give a follow to Clay Travis, who is literally the only big media sportscaster who was willing to call out the BS. Not surprisingly, he has over 700K followers, most in the last month or so.

Posted by: artemis at August 17, 2020 04:34 PM (AwPyG)

148 I haven't watched the NBA in at LEAST 5 years.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 04:28 PM (Zz0t1)

Who watches the NBA? It's not basketball. It's thugs carrying the ball to the hoop and a handful of guys shooting from the 3-point line. Plus, somehow no white guys from the US ever make it to that level. That's mainly because it is all one-on-one crap now with little teamwork.

Posted by: WOPR - Clown World Timeline Thinks This Timeline is Insane at August 17, 2020 04:34 PM (J70i0)

149 Google "Tom Hanks Greek citizenship" and you'll get some very strange search results.

Posted by: Max Power at August 17, 2020 04:34 PM (Hucnr)

150 Rick Monday would be in solitary confinement today.

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2020 04:34 PM (uEbPt)

151 North Korean Dictator Orders Dogs In Pyongyang To Be Confiscated (Probably For Dinner)

This will make a lot of Suburban Wine Mom's urge Trump to NUKE North Korea

Posted by: JoeF. at August 17, 2020 04:34 PM (7ixfo)

152 114 "I stopped watching UFC when they went to ESPN. "

Good for you. I dropped cable quite a while ago because of this nonsense but I still like to attend martial arts tournaments and watch the full contact fighting. So far, the only guys Ive seen on their knees were beaten into that position.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at August 17, 2020 04:34 PM (cCxiu)

153 Good for you for cancelling MLB... I have quit watching all professional sports for the same reasons.. and now.. with the college kids getting all sporty on the same notions.. I'm close to calling it quits on them as well.. they will learn the hard way....

Posted by: Silent at August 17, 2020 04:35 PM (CrU4U)

154 Uh, Robbo . . . did you search "naughty pics Elizabeth Montgomery"? Asking for the usual friend, of course.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 17, 2020 04:33 PM (rpbg1)
=====

Nope, the whole shebang. Because Nice Elizabeth Montgomery is a Good Thing, too.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 17, 2020 04:35 PM (dfRN6)

155 86
Dodgeball, with head shots totally legit -- that I'd watch.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 17, 2020 04:26 PM

Aim low.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 17, 2020 04:35 PM (NWiLs)

156 There's no crying in baseball.

-
Plenty of whining, though.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 17, 2020 04:35 PM (+y/Ru)

157

Americans making wads of money hating Americans who helped them get there.

Same for Hollywood.

If only we could do the same to the media. They just keep paying the douchebag talking heads.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette CBD=> foodthread at August 17, 2020 04:35 PM (rjE57)

158 Surely 7 inning games and runners starting on 2nd to start an inning will bring the die hards back.
Posted by: SH at August 17, 2020 04:33 PM (sX1BW)
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Don't. even. go. there.

Posted by: bluebell at August 17, 2020 04:35 PM (/669Q)

159 >>Is he a hop head too?

Joe was the antithesis of what the modern athlete has become. He was completely not politically correct and was entertaining as hell.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 17, 2020 04:35 PM (ZLI7S)

160 "Here, here!"

Or is it "Hear, Hear!"

Regardless, well said Buck -- my thoughts and feelings exactly about MLB specifically, and now all professional and amateur sports generally.

LOLGF!

Posted by: ShainS at August 17, 2020 04:35 PM (50aPq)

161 149 Google "Tom Hanks Greek citizenship" and you'll get some very strange search results.
Posted by: Max Power

What's strange about them?

He's now a Greek citizen. ANd I guess he kept his US citizenship too. Trying to find something weird here....

Posted by: zombie at August 17, 2020 04:35 PM (HEEq1)

162 I'm still alive you know. Drunk, but alive.

Posted by: Joe Namath

ya know, more than a few years ago, his wife decided that "she wanted to pursue her acting career" and split.

Leaving him with the kids.

And he turned into a Mr. Mom, making their lunches, getting them off to school and helping with their homework.

Broadway Joe turned into Mr. Mom !

Posted by: JT at August 17, 2020 04:35 PM (arJlL)

163 I just answered this Joe Biden Victory Fund mailing that got sent to me, and yeah, I think I'll leave my True Name on it. They had this "fill in the lines" section on "What issues matter most to you?" So I wrote in Big Letters, "What matters most to me is a senile life long liar with acute dementia who just chose the most prolific cocksucking whore in America to take over for him as soon as he is packed off to the nursing home!!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 17, 2020 04:36 PM (Kpl3J)

164 My revulsion/boycott refusal to consume now extends to the vast bulk of American culture. Our movies, our sports, our TV, our popular music, our news, our journals - all of it is destructive shit. The product sucks. It's message sucks. It's intent sucks. It's goals suck. It's outcomes suck.

------------------

The COVID lockdowns may even be good for the culture in that the kids are not exposed to the ravings of their lunatic teachers, the parents have much more control over what the children learn or rather not learn.

Posted by: Decaf at August 17, 2020 04:36 PM (4D+FL)

165 >The XFL and Canadian League was pretty fun to watch.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at August 17, 2020 04:30 PM (luzVb)

And the CFL 2020 season is now officially cancelled.

I don't care about sports at all but I kinda hoped that they could at least recoup some of their seasons, gates, etc. Any business coming back is generally a good thing.

Posted by: all doubt removed at August 17, 2020 04:36 PM (S2eH9)

166 And now its coming to light that the Big -10 (who cancelled) has a lot of teams who are claiming there was no actual vote to cancel, despite what Dan Patrick reported. And the Big 10 commissioner's son is going to play for the SEC, even though his father is telling everyone in the Big 10 it's too dangerous to play.
Posted by: artemis at August 17, 2020 04:32 PM (AwPyG)

----

The Big Ten players are revolting and demanding a season.

But our coach said he talked to 30 players and "all 30 for 30 said the Big Ten made the right decision."

Sure Coach Fleck, I agree totally with you, don't cut my career!

Posted by: rd at August 17, 2020 04:36 PM (+0uDE)

167 16 I got one word for sports fans - Hockey - mostly woke free and it always was better anyway
Posted by: Greg61 at August 17, 2020 04:18 PM (FvHZ4)

===============

Agreed!

Posted by: Doof at August 17, 2020 04:36 PM (mZUr4)

168 144 Boobs.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner

***

You know the rules...pictures or it's not happening.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2020 04:37 PM (axyOa)

169 Why has the Right not picked up on the benefits of lawfare?

If I am on a red state baseball team, I request to wear an "All Lives Matter" patch on my uniform. When they refuse, I ask why the MLB front office allows RACIALLY EXCLUSIONARY patches on my required uniform, but will not allow neutral slogans.

After, they offer up same lame rationale, sue for tens of millions of dollars of future lost earnings due to a hostile workplace on one of the explicit items (race) for which you are not permitted to discriminate. Presumably, my red state team is not in a marxist run federal district and my lawsuit is allowed to proceed normally.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 17, 2020 04:37 PM (tkyK5)

170

One thing about soccer (outside the US), many still do the sign of the cross and thank God before and after a match.

But, it's turning too. #soon

Posted by: artisanal 'ette CBD=> foodthread at August 17, 2020 04:37 PM (rjE57)

171 The 94 baseball strike got me watching motorsports. Since '94, I've watched way more golf and racing than anything else.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 17, 2020 04:37 PM (cMxuh)

172 Rick Monday would be in solitary confinement today.
Posted by: ... at August 17, 2020 04:34 PM (uEbPt)

Where have you gone Rick Monday?
Our nation turns it's lonely eyes to you

Posted by: JoeF. at August 17, 2020 04:37 PM (7ixfo)

173 BTW, has no one here damned MLB for the Universal DH rule this year? Even if they cut all the other crap, I might still boycott just over that!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 17, 2020 04:37 PM (dfRN6)

174 I wonder what impact the bullshit will have on the value of major league franchises. Why would anyone want to buy a big league team?

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 04:37 PM (dmOwh)

175 Lifelong Braves fan since the Chief Noc-a-Homa days.

Now, baseball is dead to me.

Posted by: dantesed at August 17, 2020 04:38 PM (88xKn)

176 I got one word for sports fans - Hockey - mostly woke free and it always was better anyway
Posted by: Greg61 at August 17, 2020 04:18 PM (FvHZ4)

hockey is fun, yea
so fun to watch in person

Posted by: artisanal 'ette CBD=> foodthread at August 17, 2020 04:38 PM (rjE57)

177 There is professional cornhole competition on the TV now, maybe I'll watch that.

I never imagined I would utter those words in that order.

Posted by: Javems at August 17, 2020 04:38 PM (+N0R/)

178 161-He's now a Greek citizen. ANd I guess he kept his US citizenship too. Trying to find something weird here....
That means Mr Big Hollywood star is still liable for US tax on his income. The dumbass is most likley liable for Greek tax too. Yep..Top. Men.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at August 17, 2020 04:38 PM (cCxiu)

179
I loved going to Safeco Field, now T-Mobile Park, to watch the Lou Piniella Mariners of 92 to 02. Great baseball (finally!), star players (The Kid, Edgar Martinez, Jay Buehner, Randy Johnson, Ichiro, etc) and all, but the real star was the new stadium itself.

Could see the field of play and the bigscreen nearly anywhere from the stadium, and walking around after sitting in the seats for an inning or two was my standard fare. Great views, and most importantly, people watching and mingling. Always a great view of Puget Sound on the 300 level on the 3rd base side. And the barbeque vendor, on that 300 level at the end of the 3nd base side, best BBQ pork in the stadium.

I even went during the Bavasi and Zurincek years, because the baseball was truly terrible, but the experience was still top notch. Finally stopped going the last two years. I can drive 30 miles south to Tacoma to see AAA baseball, for about a quarter or a third of the cost.

But MLB baseball? No longer. I haven't watched a single inning this year of the fake baseball.

I can't ever see spending my money to support people that obviously hate me. That's just dumb.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 17, 2020 04:38 PM (sy5kK)

180

FUCK BLM/MLB with a sideways flaming pineapple wrapped with rusty barbed wire and soaked in SF bloody AIDS shit.

Posted by: Samwise Dongthump at August 17, 2020 04:38 PM (d6DSt)

181 Surely 7 inning games and runners starting on 2nd to start an inning will bring the die hards back.
Posted by: SH at August 17, 2020 04:33 PM (sX1BW)

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I'm so old I remember when we used to bitch about the designated hitter

Posted by: fixerupper at August 17, 2020 04:38 PM (nw6Hr)

182 I gave up on MLB when the Expos moved south.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 04:38 PM (dmOwh)

183
Neither football, basketball, or baseball want me as a paying fan. It is obvious by the way they insult me every time they walk onto the field of their taxpayer provided stadiums, and call me names for providing them a millionaires lifestyle in return for them playing childrens' games.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 17, 2020 04:22 PM (kA3Cp)

You heartless bastard! Do you have any idea what regular maintenance for a Bentley Mulliner Bacalar costs?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 17, 2020 04:38 PM (EGyGV)

184 The Mets are such geniuses they decided to take the game's most talented radio announcer in Gary Cohen and stick him to rot for eternity on their stupid TV channel in 2006. What a waste.

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2020 04:38 PM (uEbPt)

185 @103

I don't like anything that obstructs the plate and I don't need help with calling balls and strikes when I am looking directly at the plate from behind the pitcher.

If they think umps need help then do away with umps all together and let the computer call balls and strikes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 17, 2020 04:39 PM (aKyD8)

186 168
144 Boobs.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner

***

You know the rules...pictures or it's not happening.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2020 04:37 PM (axyOa)

Haley Atwell

https://tinyurl.com/yymdwll2

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 17, 2020 04:39 PM (KnJdm)

187 Sports as a big national common denominator are gone. Not going to watch again ever. Ever. I'm done with it all. Sportsball killed the golden goose.

Posted by: USNtakim at August 17, 2020 04:39 PM (0OmEj)

188 wouldn't it be something if the silver lining to all this misery was:
The expulsion of leftists from sportsThe destruction of the teacher's unionsSchool Vouchers
The destruction of big pharma

Posted by: artemis at August 17, 2020 04:39 PM (AwPyG)

189
BTW, has no one here damned MLB for the Universal DH rule this year?
Even if they cut all the other crap, I might still boycott just over
that!
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Like a government program it is destined to stay forever.

Like an AK Court decision, gone will be any bulkhead preventing people from saying it is time to stop letting catchers hit ... eventually you get to 9 defenders and 9 hitters. Might as well be football then.

Posted by: SH at August 17, 2020 04:39 PM (sX1BW)

190 I'm still alive you know. Drunk, but alive.

Posted by: Joe Namath

He got sober after his disastrous drunk interview with Suzy Kolber on Monday Night Football. I saw that live. Kolber earned by respect for how she did.

Posted by: WOPR - Clown World Timeline Thinks This Timeline is Insane at August 17, 2020 04:39 PM (J70i0)

191
But MLB baseball? No longer. I haven't watched a single inning this year of the fake baseball.

I can't ever see spending my money to support people that obviously hate me. That's just dumb.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

Concur.
It is a beautiful venue.
I will miss it.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2020 04:40 PM (axyOa)

192 I like the cardboard cutouts in the stands. Reminds me of archery practice.

Posted by: wth at August 17, 2020 04:40 PM (v0R5T)

193 I gave up on MLB when the Expos moved south.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 04:38 PM (dmOwh)
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Hey! That move helped them win their first World Series!

Not that it matters anymore. Sigh.

Posted by: bluebell at August 17, 2020 04:40 PM (/669Q)

194 Posted by: Samwise Dongthump at August 17, 2020 04:38 PM (d6DSt)

Don't be so hasty. Lengthwise has its advantages.

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2020 04:40 PM (uEbPt)

195 I believe the NHL has only had a few kneeling incidents. Why would Scandis and Russians care?

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 04:40 PM (dmOwh)

196 Same feelings here. I was going to buy the MLB package this year. My Tigers haven't been watchable for a while. Anyway, that giant middle finger to America was all I needed to see. Fuck all of them.

Side note. Just wait until the NFL season kicks off. Then we will truly see some anti American bullshit. Plus weekly middle fingers to the fans.

It will take a few years for them to realize there are not an infinite number of fans. And when they do have that moment of clarity....delicious.

Posted by: Montesquieu's Big Idea at August 17, 2020 04:40 PM (8FfnY)

197 Guns

Posted by: josephistan at August 17, 2020 04:40 PM (Izzlo)

198 Yup. My old man was a Bronco fan even before I lived in Denver, as he'd been out here in the 70s and became a fan. We moved here as a family in the early 90s, as the Broncos were fielding one of the all-time great NFL teams, so unsurprisingly, I picked up the habit.

I watched them every week for 23 seasons until they decided it would be cool to shit all over people like me. Stopped cold, then and there, and haven't been back.

A big part of the value in sports is a shared experience. In a country with very little of that, it filled a niche. They decided to join in the rest of society's schismatic breakdown, which was likely inevitable. But join in it they did, and they chose cultural Marxism and racism, and they'll just have to carry on without me.

But, I can't be the only fan who's saying "fuck you, then." I just had less patience than most last time around, and am hoping this latest foray into Communist agitation will cause significant financial harm to the various leagues as more fans abandon them.

It probably won't happen, though.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 17, 2020 04:41 PM (/nZod)

199 Greetings:

I watched the NHL game last evening, Philly and Montreal. The NHL is still kind of temperate compared to the other leagues. They have a charm that talks about inclusion and some billboards up in the stand that promise "We skate for Equality" and "We skate for Black Lives". The camera people seem to avoid that latter contribution relatively effectively.

Richard Reaves seems to be their celebrity player of color. I'd like to ask him, "If Black Lives Matter, do Black Crimes Matter ???"

Posted by: 11B40 at August 17, 2020 04:41 PM (evgyj)

200 After the first week of ratings, MLB went into damage control. Somebody realized they had screwed up...bigly. Now they are trying to just rescue the season.
It is failing.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2020 04:31 PM (axyOa)

Yeah, they had painted BLM on almost everything that would hold still. Right down to the bases.

I'm surprised some ad exec didn't notice MLB is BLM backwards. Maybe they did and there's a warehouse full of retarded jerseys, caps and t-shirts waiting for the landfill.

Posted by: clutch cargo at August 17, 2020 04:41 PM (8B6Ng)

201 I thought most of those provocative pictures of Elizabeth are supposed to be fake

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2020 04:41 PM (OjZpE)

202 TV News? Gone from our home.
HBO? Gone from our home.
Pro Sports? Gone from our home.
We watch ME TV, Adam 12, Dragnet, Lucy... All the old time reruns with Patriotic American Themes.
Keep America Great!

Posted by: dc at August 17, 2020 04:41 PM (u0crE)

203 >>He got sober after his disastrous drunk interview with Suzy Kolber on Monday Night Football. I saw that live. Kolber earned by respect for how she did.

Did you ever read the site Kissing Suzy Kolber? That was one funny place.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 17, 2020 04:41 PM (ZLI7S)

204 Dodgeball, with head shots totally legit -- that I'd watch.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 17, 2020 04:26 PM (nGRtn)

should try aussie rules football. it's essentially smear the queer with the ball from grade school with a ref and some goal posts...

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 17, 2020 04:41 PM (8D42x)

205 gave up on MLB when the Expos moved south.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 04:38 PM (dmOwh)
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Hey! That move helped them win their first World Series!

Not that it matters anymore. Sigh.
Posted by: bluebell at August 17, 2020 04:40 PM (/669Q)

Yes yes it did. And I had felt a slight sense of caring.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 04:41 PM (dmOwh)

206 I like the cardboard cutouts in the stands. Reminds me of archery practice.
Posted by: wth at August 17, 2020 04:40 PM (v0R5T)

The cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 17, 2020 04:41 PM (7ixfo)

207 Natham defined Cool.
And he got more pussy than Frank Sinatra.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 17, 2020 04:41 PM (9TdxA)

208 I'm still too much in love with baseball, but the sport that really turns my stomach is the NBA. Those slogans on the backs of the jerseys and the BLM on the courts is stomach churning. Leave the SJW stuff outside of the court/ballfield.

Posted by: Brull at August 17, 2020 04:41 PM (dMH8j)

209 @184

Such staggering geniuses are the Wilpons that they made the rotunda entrance to their new stadium an homage to another ball club and a player who never played for their team.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 17, 2020 04:42 PM (aKyD8)

210 I believe the NHL has only had a few kneeling incidents. Why would Scandis and Russians care?
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 04:40 PM (dmOwh)
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Someone here described watching a game where a Canadian player knelt for the American anthem, then hastily stood up for the Canadian one. That makes me angrier than any American kneeling, for some reason.

Posted by: bluebell at August 17, 2020 04:42 PM (/669Q)

211 Hockey's not immune.

Last week the Stars had guys taking a knee during the anthem.

So, F'em.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 17, 2020 04:42 PM (EERbD)

212 believe the NHL has only had a few kneeling incidents. Why would Scandis and Russians care?
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 04:40 PM (dmOwh)
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Someone here described watching a game where a Canadian player knelt for the American anthem, then hastily stood up for the Canadian one. That makes me angrier than any American kneeling, for some reason.
Posted by: bluebell at August 17, 2020 04:42 PM (/669Q)

Maddening I agree.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 04:43 PM (dmOwh)

213 156 There's no crying in baseball.

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Plenty of whining, though.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 17, 2020 04:35 PM (+y/Ru)

Yelling and kicking dirt, too.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 17, 2020 04:43 PM (NWiLs)

214

Where's Reggie Jackson psych programmed to kill the Queen when you need him?

Posted by: Samwise Dongthump at August 17, 2020 04:43 PM (d6DSt)

215 The best thing about hockey is the announcers have no time to talk about any garbage, woke or otherwise. TV sounds just like the radio. Before wokism, I found announcers the most tiring thing in sports, and have done for my entire life.

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2020 04:43 PM (uEbPt)

216 Uh, Robbo . . . did you search "naughty pics Elizabeth Montgomery"? Asking for the usual friend, of course.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 17, 2020 04:33 PM (rpbg1)
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Nope, the whole shebang. Because Nice Elizabeth Montgomery is a Good Thing, too.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 17, 2020

*
*

A good thing. The DDG uncensored image search for that phrase gave me results that were . . . unexpected.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 17, 2020 04:43 PM (rpbg1)

217 Someone here described watching a game where a Canadian player knelt for
the American anthem, then hastily stood up for the Canadian one. That
makes me angrier than any American kneeling, for some reason.

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Canadians know in the end, their true allegiance is to America.

Posted by: SH at August 17, 2020 04:43 PM (sX1BW)

218 167 16 I got one word for sports fans - Hockey - mostly woke free and it always was better anyway
Posted by: Greg61 at August 17, 2020 04:18 PM (FvHZ4)

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Agreed!
Posted by: Doof at August 17, 2020 04:36 PM (mZUr4)

There's been kneeling, and the NHL has gone in on BL

Posted by: josephistan at August 17, 2020 04:43 PM (Izzlo)

219 Actually, I don't think Joe could light a fire in a dumpster at this point . . .

Posted by: SMOD at August 17, 2020 04:43 PM (RVjrl)

220 Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden at August 17, 2020 04:17 PM (2y4NB)

That they allowed it in the first place is enough for me. Fuck 'em.

They showed us how they feel; how can I ignore that just because they hide it now?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 17, 2020 04:44 PM (hIjeP)

221 do you have any links to these transgressions? I will look them up but some link to the players calling Americans racist would be interesting.

I have often said I am now down to the PGA Tour and PBR. I wan't to see what the Cowboys do in the NFL because everyone knows their owner does not buy this stuff. But even that team knelt, but not for the anthem. My assumption is Jerry will be forced by the league and the players to bend the knee in one way or the other. Either way, they are part of the NFL, and the NFL only wants to divide and destroy their fans.
Golf Digest and some other rags excitedly pointed out that a golfer openly supports BLM. The man's name is Kirk Triplet. He was a nothing when he was a something. He is 58 and plays the Senior Tour/Champions Tour. He was always a journeyman at best.

I don't hold this against golf because these guys are independent contractors. When counting all the tours, you have several hundred guys in the US alone. But Triplet is the ONLY won to come out in support of Marxism. He is very much the exception that proves the rule.
One last thing. Triplet has a black son. He might believe there is a real problem than needs to be fixed. I will give him that, though I don't think much of his comprehension skills.

Posted by: Quint at August 17, 2020 04:44 PM (VQsGS)

222 121 It seemed like they felt pressure to have one day with BLM on the mound and yeah, it was icky. The next day it was "United" or something.

I have not heard anything about politics since. I am still watching baseball.

Basketball is another matter. They seem to be shoving it in your face more. No word on the NFL yet.

We will see.
Posted by: Tommy V at August 17, 2020 04:31 PM (GCivW)

Tommy V, I'm with you. Baseball has pretty much ignored all the BS, just as golf has. Basketball is dead to me forever; it's obvious that they don't want me to watch, so I'm happy to oblige them. I suspect football is going to be too woke to watch this year, too, but we'll see.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 17, 2020 04:44 PM (jK8Z7)

223 203 >>He got sober after his disastrous drunk interview with Suzy Kolber on Monday Night Football. I saw that live. Kolber earned by respect for how she did.

Did you ever read the site Kissing Suzy Kolber? That was one funny place.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 17, 2020 04:41 PM (ZLI7S)

Every writer there turned out to be a massive Left Wing Woke-ster, though.

Posted by: Allie at August 17, 2020 04:44 PM (vmRc0)

224
The 94 baseball strike got me watching motorsports. Since '94, I've watched way more golf and racing than anything else.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Indy 500 this weekend. No fans in the stands.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 17, 2020 04:44 PM (aKsyK)

225 Major League Baseball Baseball is systemically racist

Posted by: SMOD at August 17, 2020 04:44 PM (RVjrl)

226 156 There's no crying in baseball.

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You must not be familiar with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Posted by: SH at August 17, 2020 04:44 PM (sX1BW)

227 I took the money I'd normally spend on hockey tickets, NHL.tv, etc and bought a new Alienware.

Gaming is a little less stressful than watching millionaires SJW their way through games.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, 1.5 feet in the grave at August 17, 2020 04:44 PM (4k/Uz)

228 Hockey's not immune.

Last week the Stars had guys taking a knee during the anthem.

So, F'em.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 17, 2020 04:42 PM (EERbD)

2 players did. Haven't done it since, but yes.

Pissed me off greatly. I haven't watched one Stars game yet. Just saw yesterday they're 2-2 in the series.

Tyler Seguin and Dickenson or whatever. They can both be traded in the off-season as they've been WOEFULLY non-existent the whole season.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 04:44 PM (Zz0t1)

229 It would be nice if the result of this was a general collapse of major league sports as a massive entertainment industry and a return to its working class roots. No more multimillionaire players and billionaire owners, no more stadium deals, no more witless play-by-play accompanied by cheesy graphics.

Yeah, a man can dream.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 17, 2020 04:45 PM (OeBYn)

230 Such staggering geniuses are the Wilpons that they made the rotunda entrance to their new stadium an homage to another ball club and a player who never played for their team.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 17, 2020 04:42 PM (aKyD

Despite fantasies to the contrary, the Wilpons are going to be in Mets fans lives forever. They're like Nosferatu or some shit.

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2020 04:45 PM (uEbPt)

231 Hey John Podesta's on FOX, I wonder how that foreign country consulting work is going for him?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 17, 2020 04:45 PM (aKyD8)

232 Some people are saying golf / PGA is only sport left but golf was the first Anti-Trump sport out there. They broke their contract with Trump to play a tournament at his course.

Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 17, 2020 04:45 PM (nAJ3K)

233 They showed us how they feel; how can I ignore that just because they hide it now?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 17, 2020 04:44 PM (hIjeP)
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Amen. I know I'll never get my apology.

Posted by: bluebell at August 17, 2020 04:45 PM (/669Q)

234
Dodgeball, with head shots totally legit -- that I'd watch.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 17, 2020 04:26 PM (nGRtn)

should try aussie rules football. it's essentially smear the queer with the ball from grade school with a ref and some goal posts...
Posted by: SturmToddler at August 17, 2020 04:41 PM (8D42x)

Australian Rules Football Rule #1: No Weapons

And watching the refs are almost as much fun as watching the carnage on the field

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 17, 2020 04:45 PM (EGyGV)

235 the cardboard cut outs have to the the lamest thing in the history of lame things.

Posted by: artemis at August 17, 2020 04:45 PM (AwPyG)

236 He got sober after his disastrous drunk interview with Suzy Kolber on Monday Night Football. I saw that live. Kolber earned by respect for how she did.

Did you ever read the site Kissing Suzy Kolber? That was one funny place.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 17, 2020 04:41 PM (ZLI7S)

That's funny. Joe earned more respect from me than Suzi did. ;D

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 04:45 PM (Zz0t1)

237 197
Guns

Posted by: josephistan at August 17, 2020 04:40 PM (Izzlo)

Picked up a Savage 30-06, recently. Finding ammo at decent prices is getting ridiculous.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 17, 2020 04:45 PM (KnJdm)

238 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 17, 2020 04:41 PM (/nZod)

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My dad bleeds Silver and Black, and I kinda inherited that when he took me to my first Raiders game when I was five back in the mid-70s, when we lived at NAS Alameda.

After 40+ years, I was done in 2017 after the kneeling shit started.

Posted by: SMH at August 17, 2020 04:45 PM (RU4sa)

239

I wish more horse racing was televised.

Then I could ignore that too.

Posted by: Samwise Dongthump at August 17, 2020 04:46 PM (d6DSt)

240 The teams can't get their slave labor provided merchandised gear from China unless they have the players kneel. It's in the contract.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 17, 2020 04:46 PM (kA3Cp)

241 Mr. Throckmorton, I wholeheartedly agree. The watering down of the game has been disheartening for years now, the cancellation of the World Series caused me to stop watching for awhile, then the Rangers hired Ron Washington, and it was so great to see someone actuall stressing fundamentals here.

I am now completely done with them, the NFL, and the NBA. Ice Hockey is all that's left.

Posted by: Happy at August 17, 2020 04:46 PM (bH0uL)

242 they sucked Soros' dick. let Soros pay them

Posted by: x at August 17, 2020 04:46 PM (nFwvY)

243 Tyler Seguin and Dickenson or whatever. They can both be traded in the off-season as they've been WOEFULLY non-existent the whole season.
Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 04:44 PM (Zz0t1)

And yet they probably prefer to play in the U.S because they can be anonymous between games.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 04:46 PM (dmOwh)

244 Aussie Rules is Gaelic Football played with a rugby ball on a cricket pitch.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 17, 2020 04:46 PM (9TdxA)

245 should try aussie rules football. it's essentially smear the queer with the ball from grade school with a ref and some goal posts...
Posted by: SturmToddler at August 17, 2020 04:41 PM (8D42x)

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Hah!

I dont think youre allowed to call it that anymore.

Hell, you not even alliwed to sit "Injun style" anymore. Its criss cross applesauce now.

We are a nation of whiney imbeciles.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 17, 2020 04:46 PM (nw6Hr)

246 They showed us how they feel; how can I ignore that just because they hide it now?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor

what she said

Posted by: not so at August 17, 2020 04:46 PM (HALdu)

247 The real question is which Black Deaths Matter.

Posted by: Bernell Trammell at August 17, 2020 04:47 PM (uEbPt)

248 I am not boycotting, but honestly I'm just not into it this year.

I mean, WTH, if the Indians win the World Series this year and nobody even gets to go to the games how would that not be the ultimate screw job? I actually hope they don't have a good year this year.

So no. I'm not watching.

Posted by: logical not fanatical at August 17, 2020 04:47 PM (C3mZT)

249
And I am not a huge baseball fan like some, but I did used to watch the Rockies. Til now. It may make a difference to you if you truly love the sport, but pimping for BLM and Antifa in even one game is too much for me. That's the stand they took. May as well have painted a hammer-and-sickle on the mound. Fuck 'em, I say.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 17, 2020 04:47 PM (/nZod)

250 @230

They haven't figured how to wring out every last dime from the organization yet.

They do have a good scam going with insuring ball players they know won't ever play a full season(s).

They probably made money on the Cespedas debacle.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 17, 2020 04:47 PM (aKyD8)

251 Why is it that kneeling, traditionally a sign of respect, loyalty, or submission, is suddenly a sign of rebellion? Is it just that Krappernick and his toadies don't understand the original meaning of the action?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 17, 2020 04:47 PM (rpbg1)

252 Someone here described watching a game where a
Canadian player knelt for the American anthem, then hastily stood up for
the Canadian one. That makes me angrier than any American kneeling,
for some reason.

Posted by: bluebell at August 17, 2020 04:42 PM (/669Q)

That was the first game of the Chicago/Edmonton series, in Edmonton (only Edmonton and Toronto are hosting NHL games); there was an entire pre-game ceremony devoted to wokeness. The player was a Filipino-Canadian player from the Minnesota Wild team. He gave a speech, knelt for the US Anthem, and stood up for the Canadian anthem (he was the only one to kneel). Each of the Blackhawks and Oilers have a black player who is also Canadian, and they stood beside each other with their hands on each other's shoulder.

Posted by: Vendette at August 17, 2020 04:47 PM (/N/PP)

253 If they really believed in what they are spouting, there would be a salary cap of $100K per player, so the money distribution would be more equitable.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 17, 2020 04:47 PM (kA3Cp)

254 >>> should try aussie rules football. it's essentially smear the queer with the ball from grade school with a ref and some goal posts...
Posted by: SturmToddler at August 17, 2020 04:41 PM (8D42x)

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I would love to see some millionaire NFL receivers play that sport, just to see how they handle it.

Posted by: Backup Slider at August 17, 2020 04:47 PM (1Xx0L)

255 156 There's no crying in baseball.

-
Plenty of whining, though.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 17, 2020 04:35 PM (+y/Ru)

Yelling and kicking dirt, too.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 17, 2020 04:43 PM (NWiLs)
........

And spitting. Lots of spitting. And ball scratching.

Posted by: wth at August 17, 2020 04:48 PM (v0R5T)

256 The sports leagues can go all-in on woke now, because when their viewership craters, they can blame COVID. Expect flag-wrapped walkbacks next year. Do not be fooled.

Anyone who still watches any professional sports is a Paolo of the highest order.

Posted by: Innagaddadavida at August 17, 2020 04:48 PM (hpbeA)

257 247
The real question is which Black Deaths Matter.

Posted by: Bernell Trammell at August 17, 2020 04:47 PM (uEbPt)

The ones that are politically exploitable by the left.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 17, 2020 04:48 PM (KnJdm)

258 Still waiting to hear kapernicks excuse for making money off the backs of Chinese slaves.

Posted by: Pliney at August 17, 2020 04:48 PM (nzKWW)

259 I was really proud that baseball didn't go the way of kneeling last year. I guess they got the memo when George Floyd's death happened that they'd better get on board or else.

Posted by: bluebell at August 17, 2020 04:48 PM (/669Q)

260 My opinion for decades of big time sportsball is:
Pampered sociopaths playing for bloated plutocrats/ethics free colleges in front of crowds of drunken yahoos.

Fuck 'em.

Posted by: Vlad the impaler, whittling away like mad at August 17, 2020 04:48 PM (d6mdH)

261 Ice Hockey is all that's left.
Posted by: Happy at August 17, 2020 04:46 PM (bH0uL)

The Flyers removed the Kate Smith statue and no longer play her version of God Bless America. A few kneelers also have showed up. They have infiltrated every sport.

Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 17, 2020 04:48 PM (nAJ3K)

262 The handyman literally spent all of today powerwashing the deck and the front railing. Jesus.. I'm sick of listening to that damn thing!
But..he also tightened everything up so tomorrow the staining begins. At least that's quiet.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 17, 2020 04:48 PM (dUJdY)

263 Professional Sports = Rich People Chasing Balls. It stopped being interesting to me a long time ago.

Posted by: I Have Questions at August 17, 2020 04:48 PM (+v+zN)

264 Why is it that kneeling, traditionally a sign of respect, loyalty, or submission, is suddenly a sign of rebellion? Is it just that Krappernick and his toadies don't understand the original meaning of the action?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 17, 2020 04:47 PM (rpbg1)

Agree entirely. I kneel before God. Kneeling denotes submission and honor.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 04:48 PM (dmOwh)

265 Yes, I fully expect the Army - Navy game to be woke as hell this year.

Posted by: SMH at August 17, 2020 04:49 PM (RU4sa)

266 Not a baseball fan, but enjoy the game in person when I have gone.

HUGE football fan though, and I am just sick and disgusted by all of the woke shit. They have lost me as a spectator and fan.

Get woke, go broke.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at August 17, 2020 04:49 PM (SRRAx)

267 Odd. I tuned in on the opening day for the Cubs (vs. the Brewers) and, outside of the idiotic BLM logo on the mound --- which I wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't been looking for it and which has not reappeared since--- there was no problem.

None of the Cubs knelt. NONE. To be sure, the only Am-black regular they have is Jason Heyward and he refused to diss the flag and anthem.

None of the Brewers knelt either, which is a bit more surprising since they have more Am-blacks.

But I do remember that night we switched on ESPN to check out a West Coast game. Dodgers at Giants, IIRC. Turned it off within 5 minutes.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 17, 2020 04:49 PM (M/9m0)

268 The sports leagues can go all-in on woke now, because when their
viewership craters, they can blame COVID. Expect flag-wrapped walkbacks
next year. Do not be fooled.

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If the walk-backs are flag-wrapped, take it as a victory. But that doesn't mean you have to go back.

Posted by: SH at August 17, 2020 04:49 PM (sX1BW)

269 Why is it that kneeling, traditionally a sign of respect, loyalty, or submission, is suddenly a sign of rebellion? Is it just that Krappernick and his toadies don't understand the original meaning of the action?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August

The nice thing about that is that they have shown that kneeling is in the deal for them. They find living on their knees and alternative.

Posted by: not so at August 17, 2020 04:49 PM (HALdu)

270
After 40+ years, I was done in 2017 after the kneeling shit started.
Posted by: SMH at August 17, 2020 04:45 PM (RU4sa)

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Cmon. Be honest. It was a decade of getting your asses kicked by the Chiefs that did you in....

Posted by: fixerupper at August 17, 2020 04:50 PM (nw6Hr)

271 He got sober after his disastrous drunk interview with Suzy Kolber on Monday Night Football. I saw that live. Kolber earned by respect for how she did.

she has my respect for being able to emphasize every single word she says. it's not easy to be that annoying.

Posted by: x at August 17, 2020 04:50 PM (nFwvY)

272
The minimum MLB salary is $563,000 for 2020, before proration or adjustments for Covid.

The minimum NFL salary was $585,000, but I think was upped by $90,000 in the recent new CBA agreement between owners and the player's union.

Most players are in their 20's.

Now, you really are feeling sorry for them, aren't you?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 17, 2020 04:50 PM (sy5kK)

273 Fall is a wonderful time to be in the woods, sighting the gun in for hunting season.

Posted by: Auspex at August 17, 2020 04:50 PM (uvUaL)

274 Jill Biden's ex-husband: Jill and Joe met on a blind date? Yeah, no. They had an affair.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at August 17, 2020 04:50 PM (iydjf)

275 I took the money I'd normally spend on hockey tickets, NHL.tv, etc and bought a new Alienware.

Gaming is a little less stressful than watching millionaires SJW their way through games.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, 1.5 feet in the grave at August 17, 2020 04:44 PM (4k/Uz)

Ashes of Creation, giddyup!

Posted by: artisanal 'ette CBD=> foodthread at August 17, 2020 04:50 PM (rjE57)

276 Thanks for the details, Vendette. Even the hand on the shoulder thing is too much for me. Respect the flag and the national anthem. Hug it out some other time.

It's like Jerry Jones and the linked arms instead of kneeling last year. Ridiculous.

Posted by: bluebell at August 17, 2020 04:50 PM (/669Q)

277
That was the first game of the Chicago/Edmonton series, in Edmonton (only Edmonton and Toronto are hosting NHL games); there was an entire pre-game ceremony devoted to wokeness. The player was a Filipino-Canadian player from the Minnesota Wild team. He gave a speech, knelt for the US Anthem, and stood up for the Canadian anthem (he was the only one to kneel). Each of the Blackhawks and Oilers have a black player who is also Canadian, and they stood beside each other with their hands on each other's shoulder.
Posted by: Vendette at August 17, 2020 04:47 PM (/N/PP)

Your Prime Minister DID BLACKFACE MULTIPLE TIMES.

Fucking idiot.....

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 04:50 PM (Zz0t1)

278 remember that Kaepernick started out by sitting for the anthem.
I think they realized that didn't play well, and so they turned it into kneeling, instead.

Posted by: artemis at August 17, 2020 04:51 PM (AwPyG)

279 HEY! IT'S ENRICO PALATZZO!

Posted by: George Will's Punchable Face at August 17, 2020 04:51 PM (6MoD2)

280 Listening to https://rsbnetwork.com/ ... Trump should be landing in Oshkosh in approx 20 mins.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at August 17, 2020 04:51 PM (Dhht7)

281 A smart Jerry Jones would make the Cowboys the most anti-woke team in the country - going so far as to sacrifice the season in honor of the flag. Live up to the moniker America's team. But I don't think he will.

Posted by: SH at August 17, 2020 04:51 PM (sX1BW)

282 272
The minimum MLB salary is $563,000 for 2020, before proration or adjustments for Covid.

The minimum NFL salary was $585,000, but I think was upped by $90,000 in the recent new CBA agreement between owners and the player's union.

Most players are in their 20's.
================

Half will be broke by the time they are 40.

Posted by: Pliney at August 17, 2020 04:51 PM (nzKWW)

283 The NBA? Fuck them. They are literally supporting Black Bloc and AntiFa. Literal enemies is the state

Posted by: Montesquieu's Big Idea at August 17, 2020 04:51 PM (8FfnY)

284
It's like Jerry Jones and the linked arms instead of kneeling last year. Ridiculous.
Posted by: bluebell at August 17, 2020 04:50 PM (/669Q)

They all linked arms and knelt at the same time.

FUCK Jones. I panted my Dallas Cowboys Special Edition pickup after that.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 04:51 PM (Zz0t1)

285 Why is it that kneeling, traditionally a sign of respect, loyalty, or submission, is suddenly a sign of rebellion? Is it just that Krappernick and his toadies don't understand the original meaning of the action?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Because of the venue and the object. One is supposed to stand at attention for the flag, not kneel. You do not submit to the flag, or genuflect. You stand at attention, of your own power, and look it in the eye because it's right.

That is why they knelt. Not in respect or submission, but in defiance because it was the wrong thing to do and they know it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2020 04:52 PM (hYcqw)

286 Your Prime Minister DID BLACKFACE MULTIPLE TIMES.

Fucking idiot.....
Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 04:50 PM (Zz0t1)

No arguments about his retardation from me.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 04:52 PM (dmOwh)

287 Looking around not seeing anything on Millie Weaver, was supposed to be booked at 2pm, maybe to soon?

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2020 04:52 PM (OjZpE)

288 One word - Goon

World's best hockey movie.

Posted by: SnakePlizzken at August 17, 2020 04:52 PM (qPMuh)

289 Surely 7 inning games and runners starting on 2nd to start an inning will bring the die hards back.
Posted by: SH at August 17, 2020 04:33 PM (sX1BW)

They make it so easy to hate them. All-Star Game determining home field advantage, can't block the plate, muthaf*cking challenges... ugh.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 17, 2020 04:53 PM (hIjeP)

290 It was a decade of getting your asses kicked by the Chiefs that did you in....

*snort.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 17, 2020 04:53 PM (dUJdY)

291 A smart Jerry Jones would make the Cowboys the most anti-woke team in the country - going so far as to sacrifice the season in honor of the flag. Live up to the moniker America's team. But I don't think he will.
Posted by: SH at August 17, 2020 04:51 PM (sX1BW)

He's already caved. "Things have changed."

He'll let them kneel, kill whitey on the sidelines, rape young children.

For the country.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 04:53 PM (Zz0t1)

292
He got sober after his disastrous drunk interview with Suzy Kolber on Monday Night Football. I saw that live. Kolber earned by respect for how she did.

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Well, Anderson Cooper did the best he could with Kathy Griffin, and I honestly felt bad for him. I mean, it's got to suck if you're a raging queen like him to have a female all over you like a cheap suit. But then I remembered it's Kathy Griffin, so it'd probably be even worse for a straight guy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 17, 2020 04:53 PM (/nZod)

293 I bet I won't miss those $11.50 beers and $7 hot dogs either. The last free tickets I got cost me $60 when you figure in the buddy that gave it to you doesn't pay for parking and that first beer. That's baseball.

I quit the NFL because my buddies take the whole Sunday to get wasted in an asphalt parking lot win or lose. I'm done with that on Saturday for college ball and the chicks are cuter.

Posted by: DanMan at August 17, 2020 04:53 PM (XTiHL)

294 I started doing other things during the Covid lockdown and I have noticed that there are others that are doing the same. I got my son a fishing rod for his birthday and there were very few rods and gear on the shelf. I know it is the end of the season, but I have to wonder if more people have found something else to do with there time.

Posted by: Picric at August 17, 2020 04:53 PM (nonGu)

295 The Washington Football Team's new President majored in racial grievance studies and got his doctorate . When Snyder decided to go woke he went full blast.

Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 17, 2020 04:53 PM (nAJ3K)

296 The NBA makes more money broadcasting in China than in the US. And, they get their merchandise for free in Chinese slave labor camps. They couldn't care less for what Americans think. Other than getting US taxpayers to pay for their arenas, where they insult the country.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 17, 2020 04:53 PM (kA3Cp)

297 So that was a federal phone smashing case? ....or did they say what she's really being charged with? /s

Posted by: Pliney at August 17, 2020 04:54 PM (nzKWW)

298 Boobs.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 17, 2020 04:34 PM (KnJdm)

Guns
Posted by: josephistan at August 17, 2020 04:40 PM (Izzlo)

Condiments

Posted by: wth at August 17, 2020 04:54 PM (v0R5T)

299 Fucking idiot.....
Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 04:50 PM (Zz0t1)

And I suspect any fucking he does is NOT heterosexual.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 04:54 PM (dmOwh)

300 Thank you, Sir!!!

Posted by: KungPow at August 17, 2020 04:54 PM (65VEA)

301 Watching or listening to baseball on a summer night has been a habit of mine for most of my life. I tuned in to the Covid-delayed opening weekend and was so offended by what I saw that I haven't tuned in again. In fact, I canceled my MLB-TV subscription and requested a refund this past week.

Preach it, brother.

That's exactly my experience as well. I watched Opening Day but haven't watched since, canceled my MLB.TV subscription and received my refund last week.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 17, 2020 04:54 PM (YqDXo)

302 Trump should be landing in Oshkosh in approx 20 mins.
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at August 17, 2020 04:51 PM (Dhht7)

B'gosh!

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 04:54 PM (Zz0t1)

303 270
After 40+ years, I was done in 2017 after the kneeling shit started.
Posted by: SMH at August 17, 2020 04:45 PM (RU4sa)

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Cmon. Be honest. It was a decade of getting your asses kicked by the Chiefs that did you in....

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Be fair. They got their asses kicked by EVERYONE for a decade.

Posted by: George Will's Punchable Face at August 17, 2020 04:54 PM (6MoD2)

304 238 My dad bleeds Silver and Black, and I kinda inherited that when he took me to my first Raiders game when I was five back in the mid-70s, when we lived at NAS Alameda.

After 40+ years, I was done in 2017 after the kneeling shit started.
Posted by: SMH at August 17, 2020 04:45 PM (RU4sa)

=====================

I used to be a die hard Raider fan too. Adopted them as a kid because of their uniforms and their badassery. Then the Colts left Baltimore and I stayed a Raider fan for a long time. Even through the horrible years of the mid 2000s. I soooo wanted them to trade away the 1st pick that they wasted on Jamarcus Russell. They coulda traded down and taken Joe Thomas. Loved ya Al Davis, but you sucked at GM-ing in your latter years.

Posted by: Doof at August 17, 2020 04:54 PM (mZUr4)

305 This is pretty much where I'm at. I'm not boycotting mlb/nba/nfl, I'm just not really that interested in watching them and rooting for my teams.

Posted by: Where are my ping pong balls? at August 17, 2020 04:54 PM (m3XFr)

306 >>I started doing other things during the Covid lockdown and I have noticed that there are others that are doing the same. I got my son a fishing rod for his birthday and there were very few rods and gear on the shelf. I know it is the end of the season, but I have to wonder if more people have found something else to do with there time.

Boat sales are setting records.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 17, 2020 04:55 PM (ZLI7S)

307 298 Boobs.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 17, 2020 04:34 PM (KnJdm)

Guns
Posted by: josephistan at August 17, 2020 04:40 PM (Izzlo)

Condiments
Posted by: wth at August 17, 2020 04:54 PM (v0R5T)

Sammiches.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 17, 2020 04:55 PM (NWiLs)

308 Why is it that kneeling, traditionally a sign of respect, loyalty, or submission, is suddenly a sign of rebellion? Is it just that Krappernick and his toadies don't understand the original meaning of the action?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 17, 2020 04:47 PM (rpbg1)
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It's truly bizarre. Almost hilarious.
Krap's point was not to stand --- because we stand for the flag/anthem out of respect.

But then he kneels????!!!!??? As you say, that's a sign of worshipful submission.

What an idiot.
If he had a brain, he would have just sat down.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 17, 2020 04:55 PM (M/9m0)

309
I took the money I'd normally spend on hockey tickets, NHL.tv, etc and bought a new Alienware.

Gaming is a little less stressful than watching millionaires SJW their way through games.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, 1.5 feet in the grave at August 17, 2020 04:44 PM (4k/Uz)

Yeah, that's what my nephew thought. He's a pretty serious mid-level pro gamer complete with yootoob channel. Made the mistake of mentioning that he was a Trump supporter on one of his gaming forums.

They went through his tweets for years, to find a couple from 8 years or so ago *when he was a minor* that were well, racially problematic (which is actually common among the sniper community he's part of).

He got savaged, and his team told him that if he wanted to stay, he'd have to do a yootoob vid apologizing for his past tweets AND for being a Trump supporter. They bargained down to him doing the apology only for the tweets, so he did the video.

They kicked him out of the team anyway. Cocksuckers.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 17, 2020 04:55 PM (EGyGV)

310

Require good grades like they used to in college ball (Duke used to). Yes, they will take "recreation" and cheat, but the rules could be stricter.

Require salary caps in pro ball.

Otherwise it will never be fixed.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette CBD=> foodthread at August 17, 2020 04:55 PM (rjE57)

311 MLB decided it wanted to be part of the 2020 culture wars? Fine. I am happy to let the ungrateful, America-hating MLB players get a taste of being cancelled. That;s how the culture wars work, right?

When I canceled MLB.TV I said, "Yeah, BLM. But now you know WMM - white money matters, too."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 17, 2020 04:56 PM (YqDXo)

312 commenter j, do you ever not complain, piss and moan ?

Posted by: mayate at August 17, 2020 04:56 PM (ND961)

313 Loved ya Al Davis, but you sucked at GM-ing in your latter years.
Posted by: Doof at August 17, 2020 04:54 PM (mZUr4)

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Yep.

To his credit, he despised the NFL.

Posted by: SMH at August 17, 2020 04:56 PM (RU4sa)

314 This photo was from during the anthem DURING the campaign in 2007:

https://tinyurl.com/y3a2h42a

This has been headed our way a long while. But we had nothing to fear and all that.

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2020 04:56 PM (uEbPt)

315 And watching the refs are almost as much fun as watching the carnage on the field
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

********

"Hey! That guy is dressed like my butcher!!"

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2020 04:56 PM (Fc5rx)

316 Would Rick Monday save the US Flag today? I would like to think yes, but not sure.

Posted by: Picric at August 17, 2020 04:57 PM (nonGu)

317 288 One word - Goon

World's best hockey movie.
Posted by: SnakePlizzken at August 17, 2020 04:52 PM (qPMuh)

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Good movie. Modern day SLAP SHOT.

Youngblood is also a dang good hockey movie.

Posted by: Doof at August 17, 2020 04:57 PM (mZUr4)

318 106 >>> I'm still alive you know. Drunk, but alive.

Posted by: Joe Namath

======

I walked into the gym last Friday and one of his commercials was on a TV. My first thought was that I didn't know he was still alive.
Posted by: Backup Slider at August 17, 2020 04:29 PM (1Xx0L)

Joe has quit drinking a few years ago, I believe.

Glad he is sober. And selling insurance on TV, nothing wrong with that.

And my hero in SB III. I was always an AFL guy, through and through.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 17, 2020 04:57 PM (sy5kK)

319 Stafford's wife had to make a creepy confession this week just to get back in the SJW's good graces. And to get Matthew off the hit list.

Things are more Marxist here than China 1966.

Posted by: Auspex at August 17, 2020 04:57 PM (uvUaL)

320 Lifelong Braves fan since the Chief Noc-a-Homa days.

Now, baseball is dead to me.

Posted by: dantesed

1977 Atlanta Braves bumper sticker.

"GO Braves! And take the Falcons with you!"

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at August 17, 2020 04:57 PM (luzVb)

321 Something that enfuriates me is the fact any player tweeting support for Trump is instantly denounced as divisive.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 04:57 PM (dmOwh)

322 One of thing that annoys me is how just saying blm is purposely racist in itself, and most of the country doesn't even recognize it.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 17, 2020 04:57 PM (r+sAi)

323 302 Trump should be landing in Oshkosh in approx 20 mins.
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at August 17, 2020 04:51 PM (Dhht7)

B'gosh!
Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 04:54 PM (Zz0t1)

Should be a great overall event.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 17, 2020 04:57 PM (NWiLs)

324
Good movie. Modern day SLAP SHOT.

Youngblood is also a dang good hockey movie.
Posted by: Doof at August 17, 2020 04:57 PM (mZUr4)

Miracle on Ice gives me goosebumps every time.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)

325 302 Trump should be landing in Oshkosh in approx 20 mins.
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at August 17, 2020 04:51 PM (Dhht7)

B'gosh!
Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 04:54 PM (Zz0t1)

It would be really cool if he came in on some experimental home made gyro copter or something. Or better yet, a back mounted jet pack.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 17, 2020 04:58 PM (Kpl3J)

326 I too quit MLB after the 94 strike. Gave up the NBA about the same time and the NFL probably 2002. Never was a NHL or NASCAR fan. Also gave up the local SF Giants A farm team in 2003.

I do watch a nephew play pro baseball for an independent league in the mid West but it's likely his last year playing.

So I haven't really given a fuck about whiny millionaire s for minimum of 18 years.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 17, 2020 04:58 PM (IYZ+m)

327 Gaming is a little less stressful than watching millionaires SJW their way through games.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, 1.5 feet in the grave at August 17, 2020 04:44 PM (4k/Uz)

I built a new rig right before the covid hit. Went way overboard on the specs. But, WTH, no one else seems to want my entertainment funds these days.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 17, 2020 04:58 PM (1ISKN)

328 I started doing other things during the Covid lockdown and I have noticed that there are others that are doing the same. I got my son a fishing rod for his birthday and there were very few rods and gear on the shelf. I know it is the end of the season, but I have to wonder if more people have found something else to do with there time.

Boat sales are setting records.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 17, 2020 04:55 PM (ZLI7S)

so have those above ground pools

and any kind of floater, including kayaks. Anything to get on the water and away from people.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette CBD=> foodthread at August 17, 2020 04:58 PM (rjE57)

329 Looking around not seeing anything on Millie Weaver, was supposed to be booked at 2pm, maybe to soon?
=====
She's out on bail already.

Robbery, obstruction, evidence tampering.

Posted by: google at August 17, 2020 04:58 PM (DplW7)

330 oh, and bud light can go fuck themselves too. their sports is back on commercial with the implied lesbians grilling is the ONLY couple shown. i guess hetero women don't like sports? is that what they're saying?

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 17, 2020 04:58 PM (8D42x)

331 280 Listening to https://rsbnetwork.com/ ... Trump should be landing in Oshkosh in approx 20 mins.
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at August 17, 2020 04:51 PM (Dhht7)
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I watched parts of his MN rally. It was pretty good, hitting the talking points while also doing a little ad -libing but not too much. Had a decent sized crowd, not too big, cheering and laughing with him.

It was good to see him on the campaign trail.

Posted by: WisRich at August 17, 2020 04:58 PM (G0vdT)

332 Re: The european mass pedophile only getting 7.5years in jail.

The Euro dude who killed 50+ or so kids at the camp also got 7.5 yr sentence. Works out to something like 3 months per murder.

Posted by: doesky2 at August 17, 2020 04:59 PM (CCZvo)

333

Boats
RV's
Above ground pools

rec for the family

Posted by: artisanal 'ette CBD=> foodthread at August 17, 2020 04:59 PM (rjE57)

334 One of thing that annoys me is how just saying blm is purposely racist in itself, and most of the country doesn't even recognize it.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 17, 2020 04:57 PM (r+sAi)

It's not hard to discern that BLM is a Marxist organization that gives not a single fuck about black lives.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 04:59 PM (dmOwh)

335 Jason Heyward and he refused to diss the flag and anthem.

And this is a big reason why it breaks my heart that I'm done with baseball. I'd say a huge number of them don't approve of it.

I wish there was some way they could start a new league all together, completely separate from MLB.

I miss the game so much. Such a huge part of my life since I was 3 years old.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 17, 2020 04:59 PM (hIjeP)

336 Tebow laughs.

Posted by: Infidel at August 17, 2020 04:59 PM (R4aZ2)

337 wouldn't it be something if the silver lining to all this misery was:
The expulsion of leftists from sportsThe destruction of the teacher's unionsSchool Vouchers
The destruction of big pharma

Posted by: artemis at August 17, 2020 04:39 PM (AwPyG)

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Only if Trump wins re-election, if he loses so do we all.

Posted by: Decaf at August 17, 2020 04:59 PM (4D+FL)

338 I heard Namath relatively recently on the Howard Stern show. He was very articulate. My main takeaway was he was no fan of OJ Simpson.

Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 17, 2020 04:59 PM (nAJ3K)

339 Something that enfuriates me is the fact any player tweeting support for Trump is instantly denounced as divisive.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 04:57 PM (dmOwh)

They're stopping the possibility of a Preference Cascade which without their intimidation would have happened by now.

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2020 05:00 PM (uEbPt)

340 313 Loved ya Al Davis, but you sucked at GM-ing in your latter years.
Posted by: Doof at August 17, 2020 04:54 PM (mZUr4)

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Yep.

To his credit, he despised the NFL.
Posted by: SMH at August 17, 2020 04:56 PM (RU4sa)

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The feeling was certainly mutual! That happens to guys who sue the league constantly! Haha

Posted by: Doof at August 17, 2020 05:00 PM (mZUr4)

341 2 Trump should be landing in Oshkosh in approx 20 mins.

************

Overall that seems like a good decision.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2020 05:00 PM (Fc5rx)

342 My main takeaway was he was no fan of OJ Simpson.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 17, 2020 04:59 PM (nAJ3K)
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Then or now?

Posted by: bluebell at August 17, 2020 05:00 PM (/669Q)

343 Loved having a hotdog n beer at the park. The last couple years stopped seeing mlb and started watching minor league only. Now won't even go back to watching minors. Maybe high school, but then no beers....ugh

Posted by: Pliney at August 17, 2020 05:00 PM (nzKWW)

344 And this is a big reason why it breaks my heart that I'm done with baseball. I'd say a huge number of them don't approve of it.

I wish there was some way they could start a new league all together, completely separate from MLB.

I miss the game so much. Such a huge part of my life since I was 3 years old.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 17, 2020 04:59 PM (hIjeP)

MLB and the NFL are 2 monopolies legal and supported by the US Government.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 17, 2020 05:00 PM (Zz0t1)

345 Nail in my head, from my creator
You gave me life, now show me how to live

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 17, 2020 05:00 PM (NWiLs)

346 I'm surprised some ad exec didn't notice MLB is BLM backwards.

I disavow all knowledge of that particular incident and had nothing to do with it.

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - who still wants a pony at August 17, 2020 05:00 PM (HaL55)

347 I have not heard anything about politics since. I am still watching baseball.

Basketball is another matter. They seem to be shoving it in your face more. No word on the NFL yet.

We will see.
Posted by: Tommy V

They may not be pushing it as on Opening Day (huh?) but it is still out there. A lot of "new" fan sites push aspects of "woke" and BLM ideas on the fans (baseball).

Of course the NBA is about 97% African-American, and is the most woke league in America. It's been woke, and has been "woke" for quite a while. It is actually HARD to watch a game. As in, I am not watching, but if you happen to skip across it, it almost hurts to watch.
The NBA will be fine with its TV contracts and endorsements, and a lot of people will forget. But I don't watch it anymore.

Ditto the NFL; about 70% African- American, and getting "more" woke all the time. As someone cogently stated, this doesn't start on Draft Day. A lot of college players are "woke", and it is an open secret in college locker rooms. It will spill out on the field in the near future for college football, and probably high school football too.

If someone (player) wants to speak their mind, they are free to do that. But I resent the obnoxious "taking the knee" nonsense.

This asshole Joey Votto that plays first base for the Reds (my team for most of my life), from Canada, decides he's "woke" and takes the knee on "Opening Day".

Screw that looser. I am done with that BS.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet at August 17, 2020 05:00 PM (vcOmj)

348 It would be really cool if he came in on some experimental home made gyro copter or something. Or better yet, a back mounted jet pack.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 17, 2020 04:58 PM (Kpl3J

Doing the Ironman three--point landing.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 05:01 PM (dmOwh)

349 140 Buck, I was lifelong baseball fan. ........while in the car with my dad or playing catch (yes, it's "playing catch" - not "having a catch"!!)

YES! PLAYING CATCH!!!

Effing Kostner and his screenwriters screwed up an entire nation by "having a catch" in Field of Dreams.

Effing Hollywood, ruining the American way of life, for decades.

I had a bad feeling about this, even way back when.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 17, 2020 05:01 PM (sy5kK)

350 In Joe Biden's bio (and in Jill's) they claim they first met on a blind date in 1975, after Joe saw her photo on an ad in an airport and told his brother she was the kind of woman he'd like to date, and his brother gave Joe her phone number.

Jill's ex-husband claims that both he and Jill worked on Biden's first senate campaign in DE in 1972. The ex-husband (Bill Stevenson) says that he was suspicious of something going on between Jill and Biden when Jill didn't want to go to New Jersey with him to meet Bruce Springsteen (whom Stevenson was booking to sing at his music club in DE) in the summer of 1974. Stevenson says Jill told him that she had stuff to do, including looking after Joe Biden's motherless sons (his wife had recently been killed in the car accident, which happened in Dec. of 1972).

Stevenson also says that he and Jill had done some of the 1972 senate campaign work for Joe Biden from the kitchen of the Biden family home.

So Jill was a woman who had worked on Biden's 1972 senate campaign, who had babysat his kids after his wife died, and who had been in the Biden family home doing campaign work in the 1972 campaign, according to Jill's then-husband Stevenson. But both Biden and Jill claim that they didn't meet until 1975.

Stevenson (who had married Jill in 1970) asked Jill to move out of their home in the fall of 1974, after he found out from his mechanic about a minor auto accident Jill and Biden had had in Jill's car, while Joe was driving it.

When I first read the ex-husband's account, I assumed that Biden and Jill had lied about when they met to hide the fact that "decent" Joe Biden was having an affair with a married woman. But now I'm wondering if they were hiding something else too, like maybe the fact that they started their affair right after Biden's wife died? Or maybe even before she died?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 17, 2020 05:01 PM (k4dH2)

351 No more MBL for me either. I'd gladly spend my time and money elsewhere. Even if they came to their senses and understood that the "woke" people will not keep them afloat I'll never return, I'll never forgive them.

Posted by: Wicklow at August 17, 2020 05:01 PM (uH65w)

352 one fun thing about College football might be watching all the big name recruits jumping from the Big 10 and Pac 12 over to the SEC and any other leagues playing. Pac 12 and Big 10 are gonna be crap leagues for a decade after sitting out a season.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 17, 2020 05:01 PM (Kpl3J)

353 Get that kneeling down pat assholes. When the Burning Times come you'll certainly get a chane to kneel.

At the edge of a ditch.

Briefly.

Posted by: Vlad the impaler, whittling away like mad at August 17, 2020 05:01 PM (d6mdH)

354 327
Gaming is a little less stressful than watching millionaires SJW their way through games.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, 1.5 feet in the grave at August 17, 2020 04:44 PM (4k/Uz)

I built a new rig right before the covid hit. Went way overboard on
the specs. But, WTH, no one else seems to want my entertainment funds
these days.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 17, 2020 04:58 PM (1ISKN)

Just ordered my next ten year rig today. I-9, 128 GB Ram, M2, etc. Decent enough video card to play DayZ, if I wanted to.

Current rig was built in 2009.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 17, 2020 05:02 PM (KnJdm)

355 Tebow v.2 is Trevor Lawrence, the quarterback from Clemson.

Good guy, doesn't care if the evildoers want to destroy him

Posted by: artemis at August 17, 2020 05:02 PM (AwPyG)

356 Overall that seems like a good decision.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2020 05:00 PM (Fc5rx)

A new wrinkle in the campaign.

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2020 05:02 PM (uEbPt)

357

When Trump wins again, what will they do?
Stand on their heads and spin like a top?

They can train for cirque du soleil(who filed for bankruptcy in rl) and it won't do a thing.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette CBD=> foodthread at August 17, 2020 05:02 PM (rjE57)

358 Trump landed is oshkoch.

Posted by: Infidel at August 17, 2020 05:02 PM (R4aZ2)

359 341 2 Trump should be landing in Oshkosh in approx 20 mins.

************

Overall that seems like a good decision.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2020 05:00 PM (Fc5rx)

HAH! I beat you to the clothing pun!
*victory dance*

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 17, 2020 05:02 PM (NWiLs)

360
Overall that seems like a good decision

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ISWYDT.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 17, 2020 05:02 PM (nw6Hr)

361 'I canceled my MLB-TV subscription and requested a refund this past week.'

Pray that more sports fans follow your example!

Posted by: gp, aka Mr. Tact at August 17, 2020 05:02 PM (qpX6U)

362
Some people are saying golf / PGA is only sport left but golf was the
first Anti-Trump sport out there. They broke their contract with Trump
to play a tournament at his course.

Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 17, 2020 04:45 PM (nAJ3K)

True, and they moved that tourney to Mexico. I doubt that was a coincidence. But they have sponsors too and we can see what sponsor can do, just check out the Redskins/Washington Football Team.

They did a survey a couple decades back and the players self identified as Republicans by a rate of well over 80 percent. Today, with so many foreign players, and young players who came out of the lefty school system, I would guess that number is no better than 70 percent R.
But at least when you are watching it, you don't see the Kow Towing. The media wants to sew racial division but it never works. They will always be angry at Tiger for not getting down for the cause way back when. They always harass Harold Varner III with questions about being black on tour. For the most part he doesn't play along. This new guy Cameron Champ is getting press from some promoting him as African American. He did have a black grandfather and the rest white. Just look at a pick of the guy. The press will always push golf because they hate it as elitist. USA today has a horrible reporter that only goes to The Masters to ask loaded questions about race and sex. She could not give a damn about the golf itself.

Posted by: Quint at August 17, 2020 05:03 PM (VQsGS)

363 Something that enfuriates me is the fact any player tweeting support for Trump is instantly denounced as divisive.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 04:57 PM (dmOwh)

Aubrey Huff was told he was purposely not invited to the Giants' 2010 (?) World Series anniversary event because of his support for Trump.

The owners are all in on this. Some, anyway.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 17, 2020 05:03 PM (hIjeP)

364 Tom,

It couldn't happen to a better-deserving bunch of woke idiots.

Posted by: artemis at August 17, 2020 05:03 PM (AwPyG)

365 Professional Darts are fun to watch. Probably the only sport that provides a side table to hold the competitors beers. Had one player I followed, an American of Asian descent, that drank scotch out of a sealable cup. If you have ever played competitive darts you know warming up involves alcohol.

Posted by: Javems at August 17, 2020 05:03 PM (+N0R/)

366 Have not watched MLB to any extent since the '90's.
Get Woke
Get Fucked
Go Broke

Posted by: The Man from Athens at August 17, 2020 05:03 PM (hVbLi)

367 In a bid to revitalize the USPS, @aoc proposes a national progressive penpal program to boost stamp sales.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 17, 2020 05:04 PM (9vnup)

368 It's like Jerry Jones and the linked arms instead of kneeling last year. Ridiculous.
Posted by: bluebell

nothing will ever surpass Jimmy and Jerry running off the field arm in arm after their first victory.

in preseason.

Posted by: x at August 17, 2020 05:04 PM (nFwvY)

369 Trump should be landing in Oshkosh in approx 20 mins.

************

Overall that seems like a good decision.

Hope security is buttoned-up.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at August 17, 2020 05:04 PM (luzVb)

370 My spelling sucks. Going to bed.

Posted by: Infidel at August 17, 2020 05:04 PM (R4aZ2)

371 349 "Have a catch"

YES! Who the f*ck says this. I hear it on TV and in movies and it makes me want to go postal.

Posted by: Innagaddadavida at August 17, 2020 05:04 PM (xIIrB)

372 I built a new rig right before the covid hit. Went way overboard on the
specs. But, WTH, no one else seems to want my entertainment funds
these days.

Turns out that gaming computers are perfect for music production. If anybody has a slightly used gaming laptop, contributions to Casa Backwardio Studios are always accepted.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - who still wants a pony at August 17, 2020 05:04 PM (HaL55)

373 Chuck, Nanzi and the NY AG all out to sue President Trump and Postmaster General because mail in voting is a constitutional right oir something.
You could see this crisis coming a mile away

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2020 05:04 PM (OjZpE)

374 123 We are doing irreperable damage to our culture. Maybe we can rebuild them better after the leftists ~~destroy them~~ are exterminated.

Posted by: Vlad the impaler, whittling away like mad at August 17, 2020 05:04 PM (d6mdH)

375 HAH! I beat you to the clothing pun!
*victory dance*
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 17, 2020 05:02 PM (NWiLs)

---

This is what comes to mind when I hear Oshkosh:

https://oshkoshdefense.com/mrap/

Posted by: SMH at August 17, 2020 05:05 PM (RU4sa)

376
My hope for Trump's rally: he announces the unveiling of his black-budget Trump Dungeons, and that his Orangeshirts are filling them with Congressmen and judges as we speak.

*fingers crossed"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 17, 2020 05:05 PM (/nZod)

377 349 140 Buck, I was lifelong baseball fan. ........while in the car with my dad or playing catch (yes, it's "playing catch" - not "having a catch"!!)

YES! PLAYING CATCH!!!

Effing Kostner and his screenwriters screwed up an entire nation by "having a catch" in Field of Dreams.

Effing Hollywood, ruining the American way of life, for decades.

I had a bad feeling about this, even way back when.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 17, 2020 05:01 PM (sy5kK)
===========================
LCD -- good to cross paths again! Been a while since we commented on each other's comments. I hope all is well!

I will never refer to PLAYING CATCH as "having a catch". Thanks for backing me up!!!

Posted by: Doof at August 17, 2020 05:05 PM (mZUr4)

378 The Biden family has a sordid history.
Would you be surprised to learn that Hunter fucked Dr Jill? That the first wife was the one who was drunk?

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 17, 2020 05:05 PM (9TdxA)

379 If it weren't for my beloved LSU I wouldn't watch any sports at all.

I have no doubt, however, that they too will ruin things, so I guess at that point I'm done, and can be ear-tagged and released back into the wild.

It's really hard to believe these leagues can't see how badly they're alienating their fan bases (which are largely conservative, since most liberals weren't athletes growing up), but there you have it.

In the end, they have every right to say and kneel and disrespect all they want. Unfortunately for them, I also have every right to flip them off and move on to more interesting pasttimes.

Posted by: Blacksheep at August 17, 2020 05:06 PM (8/DeP)

380 Some people are saying golf / PGA is only sport left but golf was the

first Anti-Trump sport out there. They broke their contract with Trump

to play a tournament at his course.

Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 17, 2020 04:45 PM (nAJ3K)

Since then I only watch The Masters, British Open and the US Open. None are PGA events.

Posted by: Javems at August 17, 2020 05:06 PM (+N0R/)

381 'He replied, "Oh yes. That again."'

And then, on his data-entry screen, he probably ticked the box labeled 'Hates the designated hitter rule,' instead of the box labeled 'Angry about being called a racist.'

Posted by: gp, aka Mr. Tact at August 17, 2020 05:06 PM (qpX6U)

382 The SEC has announced the opening games schedule for Week 1 (Sept. 26)

Alabama at Missouri
Florida at Ole Miss
Georgia at Arkansas
Kentucky at Auburn
Mississippi State at LSU
Tennessee at South Carolina
Vanderbilt at Texas A&M

They will announce the full football schedule tonight at 7PM.

I fear that Saban's 6th NC will come with an asterisk.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 17, 2020 05:06 PM (yQpMk)

383 Did you ever read the site Kissing Suzy Kolber? That was one funny place.

KSK was great - their Rex Grossman "Fuck it, I'm gonna throw the ball down the middle" piece was seriously funny. And "Tahmmy from Quinzee", the stereotypical racist Boston sports fan.

But the main guy there ("Big Daddy Drew") was the woke asshole that ruined Deadspin when it got bought by Gawker.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 17, 2020 05:06 PM (ZGrMX)

384 I watch Hockey -99% woke-free. Playoffs are good so far this year. Toronto rick does a thing about announcing the attendance at the game = zero and did a shout out to the fans in attendance - Showed three big air fans in the seats.

Posted by: Archer at August 17, 2020 05:06 PM (gmo/4)

385 Trump should be landing in Oshkosh in approx 20 mins.

************

Overall that seems like a good decision.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2020 05:00 PM (Fc5rx)

By gosh, there he is!

Posted by: LASue at August 17, 2020 05:07 PM (Ed8Zd)

386 Dodger fan since 1974.
Done with it all.

Fuck them.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at August 17, 2020 05:07 PM (jWe5r)

387 .....When I first read the ex-husband's account, I assumed that Biden and Jill had lied about when they met to hide the fact that "decent" Joe Biden was having an affair with a married woman. But now I'm wondering if they were hiding something else too, like maybe the fact that they started their affair right after Biden's wife died? Or maybe even before she died?
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 17, 2020 05:01 PM (k4dH2)

dude , DUDE ! OCTOBER SURPRISE !

Posted by: runner at August 17, 2020 05:07 PM (zr5Kq)

388 I swear it's like I'm invisible sometimes.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 17, 2020 05:08 PM (NWiLs)

389 384 I watch Hockey -99% woke-free. Playoffs are good so far this year. Toronto rick does a thing about announcing the attendance at the game = zero and did a shout out to the fans in attendance - Showed three big air fans in the seats.

Posted by: Archer at August 17, 2020 05:06 PM (gmo/4)

==============

We Caps fans beg to differ about the playoffs being good this year! Lol

Posted by: Doof at August 17, 2020 05:08 PM (mZUr4)

390 Since then I only watch The Masters, British Open and the US Open. None are PGA events.

Posted by: Javems at August 17, 2020 05:06 PM (+N0R/)

you can watch the PGA that happened last week I think. The PGA is not the PGA Tour, they are separate entities and have no relationship.

Posted by: Quint at August 17, 2020 05:08 PM (VQsGS)

391 388
I swear it's like I'm invisible sometimes.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 17, 2020 05:08 PM (NWiLs)

Use your powers for good.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 17, 2020 05:08 PM (KnJdm)

392 liar, liar, pants on fire !

Posted by: runner at August 17, 2020 05:08 PM (zr5Kq)

393 God Bless the SEC

Posted by: artemis at August 17, 2020 05:08 PM (AwPyG)

394
388 Who typed that?

Posted by: SaltyDonnie at August 17, 2020 05:08 PM (i6shs)

395 203 >>He got sober after his disastrous drunk interview with Suzy Kolber on Monday Night Football. I saw that live. Kolber earned by respect for how she did.

Did you ever read the site Kissing Suzy Kolber? That was one funny place.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 17, 2020 04:41 PM (ZLI7S)

Funny as all get out!

Back in the day when Deadspin was still a must read. They too, were funny...side splittingly funny.

Posted by: browndog at August 17, 2020 05:09 PM (BgMrQ)

396 Effing Kostner and his screenwriters screwed up an entire nation by "having a catch" in Field of Dreams.

"Having a catch?" WTFF? Who wrote that. And more importantly, who didn't notice it?

That's what you do with Jarts. With your leg.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - who still wants a pony at August 17, 2020 05:09 PM (HaL55)

397 They have went thru the Ball & Kerr canning section like Sherman thru Atlanta.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2020 05:09 PM (KUNWw)

398
Picked up a Savage 30-06, recently. Finding ammo at decent prices is getting ridiculous.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 17, 2020 04:45 PM (KnJdm)

I saw some soft point 150's and 180's on line a couple of weeks ago at non-crazy prices, but that was then. This is now. Lucky Gunner and sgammo.com.

Best of luck.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 17, 2020 05:09 PM (sy5kK)

399 I see the mooch put on her white girl hair to praise Biden being a decent man guided by faith.

Posted by: Jaimo at August 17, 2020 05:09 PM (EVJ0V)

400 @386 - And it really is a shame. 150 years of baseball history, flushed down the john over something this stupid. It meant so much to me when I was young, but now I couldn't care less.

Posted by: Blacksheep at August 17, 2020 05:09 PM (8/DeP)

401 Use your powers for good.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 17, 2020 05:08 PM (KnJdm)

As AtC likes to say, my good is a good.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 17, 2020 05:09 PM (NWiLs)

402 I was a HUGE baseball fan growing up as a kid and young adult. The '94 strike damaged that love, the rampant steroid abuse put it on life support, and this America Sucks! campaign finally finished it off. I'm done.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 17, 2020 05:10 PM (HmZuC)

403 I swear it's like I'm invisible sometimes.

--

I know how that goes.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, 1.5 feet in the grave at August 17, 2020 05:10 PM (4k/Uz)

404 We Caps fans beg to differ about the playoffs being good this year! Lol

Posted by: Doof at August 17, 2020 05:08 PM (mZUr4)

Hey, I'm a Rangers Fan. We didn't even get in.

Posted by: Archer at August 17, 2020 05:10 PM (gmo/4)

405 When will Nazi Pelosi finally get eaten by worms?

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 05:10 PM (dmOwh)

406 If it weren't for my beloved LSU I wouldn't watch any sports at all.

I have no doubt, however, that they too will ruin things, so I guess at that point I'm done, and can be ear-tagged and released back into the wild.

It's really hard to believe these leagues can't see how badly they're alienating their fan bases (which are largely conservative, since most liberals weren't athletes growing up), but there you have it.

In the end, they have every right to say and kneel and disrespect all they want. Unfortunately for them, I also have every right to flip them off and move on to more interesting pasttimes.
Posted by: Blacksheep at August 17, 2020 05:

UT was supposed to play LSU for its big non-conf. away game this year. I hope they reschedule. I was really looking forward to it.

Posted by: LASue at August 17, 2020 05:10 PM (Ed8Zd)

407 OAN had about that Portland man getting kicked in the head and being still unconscious. The guy who kicked him is clear in the video I saw, will never be arrested for it.

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2020 05:10 PM (OjZpE)

408 One problem, of course, is that most people have no idea what the BLM movement is really about.

Some LIVs do have good instincts --- they see the anthem-dissers, they see the rioters, they know BLM is more than "black lives matter."

But there are plenty of LIVs who think it's all about black lives matter --- and hey, who but a scoundrel would disagree?!?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 17, 2020 05:10 PM (M/9m0)

409 The SEC has announced the opening games schedule for Week 1 (Sept. 26)

Alabama at Missouri
Florida at Ole Miss
Georgia at Arkansas
Kentucky at Auburn
Mississippi State at LSU
Tennessee at South Carolina
Vanderbilt at Texas A&M

They will announce the full football schedule tonight at 7PM.

I fear that Saban's 6th NC will come with an asterisk.
Posted by: Grump928(C)

Mike Leach stuns the NCAA and Mississippi State goes undefeated.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2020 05:10 PM (axyOa)

410 But now I'm wondering if they were hiding something else too, like maybe the fact that they started their affair right after Biden's wife died? Or maybe even before she died?
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 17, 2020 05:01 PM (k4dH2)

------------

Seriously??? THATS what pisses everbody off???

Posted by: Felt up 12 year old girls with fagrant hair everywhere.... at August 17, 2020 05:11 PM (nw6Hr)

411 393 God Bless the SEC
Posted by: artemis at August 17, 2020 05:08 PM (AwPyG)

Securities Exchange Commission? Where do they come in to all this?

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 17, 2020 05:11 PM (NWiLs)

412 Thanks for this post. About time some body says something about this. MLB is discusting.

Funny thing. I love baseball, as a player and a coach. Watched the golf tournament on espn (almost never watvh) and went to bed. When I awoke and turned the tv on there was Korean baseball. Half American players and half Korean players. It was awesome. All baseball no politics. Wonderful play. Somewhere between AAA and major league.

Posted by: Redenzo at August 17, 2020 05:11 PM (E7vND)

413 398

Picked up a Savage 30-06, recently. Finding ammo at decent prices is getting ridiculous.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 17, 2020 04:45 PM (KnJdm)

I saw some soft point 150's and 180's on line a couple of weeks ago
at non-crazy prices, but that was then. This is now. Lucky Gunner
and sgammo.com.

Best of luck.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 17, 2020 05:09 PM (sy5kK)

PP 168s or 180s were decently less than $1/rd, as I recall, but I was looking for something with a bit better quality brass for reloading, and even SG had stuff running about $1.50+/rd., which is insane to think about for 30-06.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 17, 2020 05:11 PM (KnJdm)

414 we should not have expected it to go otherwise when the Right failed to do anything about the rot in the universities.

This should have been addressed after the fall of the soviets. We should have had a truth and reconciliation event and turned out the fucking commies out of education.

But, no. lEt'S HaVe A cOnTrAcT wItH aMeRIcA~!! DERP!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 17, 2020 05:11 PM (S+F2a)

415 403 I swear it's like I'm invisible sometimes.

--

I know how that goes.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, 1.5 feet in the grave at August 17, 2020 05:10 PM (4k/Uz)

Eh, it happens. But it's still irritating.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 17, 2020 05:11 PM (NWiLs)

416 404 We Caps fans beg to differ about the playoffs being good this year! Lol

Posted by: Doof at August 17, 2020 05:08 PM (mZUr4)

Hey, I'm a Rangers Fan. We didn't even get in.
Posted by: Archer at August 17, 2020 05:10 PM (gmo/4)
=====================

So we'll both save money by not buying championship stuff. The 2018 Cup run for the Caps really ate into my kids' inheritance! Haha

Posted by: Doof at August 17, 2020 05:12 PM (mZUr4)

417 HAH! I beat you to the clothing pun!
*victory dance*
Posted by: Insomniac

*********

Yes you did. My heart sank just a bit when I scrolled up and saw that.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2020 05:12 PM (Fc5rx)

418 401
Use your powers for good.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 17, 2020 05:08 PM (KnJdm)

As AtC likes to say, my good is a good.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 17, 2020 05:09 PM (NWiLs)

Debauchery is a good, too.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 17, 2020 05:12 PM (KnJdm)

419 Have you seen Barron lately??? He makes Trump and Melania look short!

Posted by: lin-duh en fugue! at August 17, 2020 05:12 PM (UUBmN)

420 Thanks, @382. Funny how all that turned out. Poor Missouri added LSU and Bama to their schedule. Not sure how that's power matching but whatever.

Posted by: Blacksheep at August 17, 2020 05:12 PM (8/DeP)

421
That the first wife was the one who was drunk?

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 17, 2020 05:05 PM

so much this

all this play for the sympathy card "poor Joe's first wife died in a drunk driving crash", carefully omitting the fact that she was the one who was drunk & ran the stop sign

IIRC, the other driver involved actually had to sue biden to get him to stop telling the story

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 17, 2020 05:12 PM (eg5Lq)

422 I swear it's like I'm invisible sometimes.

--

I know how that goes.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, 1.5 feet in the grave at August 17, 2020 05:10 PM (4k/Uz)

Eh, it happens. But it's still irritating.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 17, 2020 05:11 PM (NWiLs)
I'm more invisible than you are.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 05:12 PM (dmOwh)

423 Debauchery is a good, too.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 17, 2020 05:12 PM (KnJdm)

Quite. Which is what I was hinting at. Subtly. Because I'm subtle.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 17, 2020 05:13 PM (NWiLs)

424 He'll let them kneel, kill whitey on the sidelines, rape young children.

For the country.

Jerry and the local authorities have let some of that stuff go for decades.

Posted by: Where are my ping pong balls? at August 17, 2020 05:13 PM (m3XFr)

425 We Caps fans beg to differ about the playoffs being good this year! Lol

Posted by: Doof at August 17, 2020 05:08 PM (mZUr4)

Hey, I'm a Rangers Fan. We didn't even get in.
Posted by: Archer

Wait until Seattle stops burning the city long enough to Release the Karen's!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2020 05:13 PM (axyOa)

426 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at August 17, 2020 05:13 PM (GIeIM)

427 Trump should be landing in Oshkosh in approx 20 mins.

************

Overall that seems like a good decision.

Hope security is buttoned-up.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at August 17, 2020 05:04 PM (luzVb)

Belt and suspenders.

Posted by: LASue at August 17, 2020 05:13 PM (Ed8Zd)

428 I wonder if they will drag Barron out for the last evening

Posted by: Jaimo at August 17, 2020 05:14 PM (EVJ0V)

429 @409
I wouldn't be surprised if Mike Leach saw this coming from a mile away, and that's why he moved into the SEC. He's no dope
And Miss State is where the big 10 commissioner's son is playing. Heh.

Posted by: artemis at August 17, 2020 05:14 PM (AwPyG)

430 Trump up.

Posted by: WisRich at August 17, 2020 05:14 PM (G0vdT)

431 425 Wait until Seattle stops burning the city long enough to Release the Karen's!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2020 05:13 PM (axyOa)
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{Snort!}

Posted by: Doof at August 17, 2020 05:14 PM (mZUr4)

432 Wait until Seattle stops burning the city long enough to Release the Karen's!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2020 05:13 PM (axyOa)
Their NHL team should have been called the Karens.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 17, 2020 05:14 PM (dmOwh)

433 This post would be better with more boobs

Posted by: Yo! at August 17, 2020 05:15 PM (GIeIM)

434 BLM has a manifesto they profess to be fighting for. It's radical, and is expressly against the nuclear family.

The irony is that the dramatic increase in Black illegitimacy to over 70% is the most significant driver in why most Blacks don't advance. More than median 80 to 85 IQs. But let's call it Systemic Racism.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 17, 2020 05:15 PM (9TdxA)

435 But now I'm wondering if they were hiding something else too, like maybe the fact that they started their affair right after Biden's wife died? Or maybe even before she died?
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 17, 2020 05:01 PM (k4dH2)

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Seriously??? THATS what pisses everbody off???
Posted by: Felt up 12 year old girls with fagrant hair everywhere.... at August 17, 2020 05:11 PM

I know, right?

Posted by: Tara Reade at August 17, 2020 05:15 PM (Ed8Zd)

436 317 288 One word - Goon

World's best hockey movie.
Posted by: SnakePlizzken at August 17, 2020 04:52 PM (qPMuh)

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Good movie. Modern day SLAP SHOT.

Youngblood is also a dang good hockey movie.

==============

Eva: I can't really talk right now. That's why I was texting you.

Doug Glatt: I'm sorry. I'm such a moron. So you saw my headbutt, huh?

Eva: [whispering] Yeah, you fucked him up.

Doug Glatt: Are you at the library?

Eva: No, um. My boyfriend got home a few days ago.

Doug Glatt: Why did you text me then?

Eva: I dig talking to you. And now I'm thinking about you. And sometimes I sleep with that Angus the Highlander doll.

Doug Glatt: There's nothing weird about that. It's official.

Eva: Yeah, Doug. I know. Fuck. I'm a bad girlfriend, Doug.

Doug Glatt: Well, I mean, all we did was make out.

Eva: I'm a slut, Doug. I'm horny a lot. I sleep around. That doesn't bother you?

Posted by: SnakePlizzken at August 17, 2020 05:15 PM (qPMuh)

437 406
If it weren't for my beloved LSU I wouldn't watch any sports at all.

UT was supposed to play LSU for its big non-conf. away game this
year. I hope they reschedule. I was really looking forward to it.

----

Hope you made it to last season's game in Austin, that was fantastic fun.

Posted by: sharksauce at August 17, 2020 05:15 PM (DFZnL)

438 When the Yankees took a knee I was done forever.

Posted by: Iblis at August 17, 2020 05:15 PM (8d6YF)

439 You nailed it OB.
At work a few days ago, a Yankee fan asked me if I, being a Red Sox fan, was going to watch the upcoming series.
I told him baseball is dead to me now, and most of my family, full of die-hard Yankee fans, feel likewise.
He said "Well they must not be real die hard fans then"
I then had to explain to the idiot that there are things much more important than rooting for your team, like respect for your flag and your country.

Posted by: Ricky Roma at August 17, 2020 05:16 PM (2Ia/C)

440 DJT on live at OAN

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2020 05:16 PM (OjZpE)

441 Eh, it happens. But it's still irritating.

Who said that?! Is someone here?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 17, 2020 05:16 PM (yQpMk)

442 Effing Kostner and his screenwriters screwed up an entire nation by "having a catch" in Field of Dreams.

Yeah I never understood that one. First time I heard it I was like.. uh what?? Sounds stupid. That aside it's still one of my favorite movies.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 17, 2020 05:16 PM (dUJdY)

443 The most pleasurable part of cancelling is getting to tell the person on the phone why you're doing it. I've thought that multiple times about rags like the New York Times - wishing I had a subscription just so I could call to tell them why they're losing me forever as a customer.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall when the big dogs of the MLB meet next month to review their August subscription numbers and see the line item illustrating how many fans they lost forever due to their newly "woke" state.

Posted by: Another_F-ing_Karen at August 17, 2020 05:16 PM (KhImm)

444 But deep down I can see why the NFL and NBA are doing what they are doing even though I disagree.
The "hired help" is overwhelmingly black.

I don't see why they cave to those dumb asses. Is there a shortage of black guys who want to play professional sports in this country?

They could all be replaced in a day, if one were so inclined. Just announce open tryouts in major cities. You'd probably get thousands of guys trying out.

OK, maybe they wouldn't be quite as good (then again, maybe they would). But what makes sports interesting isn't so much the level of play but the competition. In some respects, it's more fun to watch who aren't the very best, because it adds a bit of uncertainty even to routine plays.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 17, 2020 05:16 PM (YqDXo)

445 it may be good for America to move away from some of the prostituted sports arenas ... and away from other prostituted mega-Korpse. More attention to youth sports, perhaps with less attention to the concept of going to The Show ... (but they should still keep score, and have winners and losers, not everyone gets a trophy.)

Posted by: illiniwek at August 17, 2020 05:16 PM (Cus5s)

446 I'd love to be a fly on the wall when the big dogs of the MLB meet next month to review their August subscription numbers and see the line item illustrating how many fans they lost forever due to their newly "woke" state.
Posted by: Another_F-ing_Karen at August 17, 2020 05:16 PM (KhImm)

When I canceled MLB.TV and requested a refund, I also canceled the automatic renewal for next season. And told them why.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 17, 2020 05:17 PM (YqDXo)

447 nood... like 10 minutes ago.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 17, 2020 05:17 PM (S+F2a)

448 OT: I spoke to a friend out of state today who is obviously a Karen. She is convinced that we just need another HARD lockdown for X amount of time to get rid of the Chinese Lung Flu.

And if that doesn't get rid of it, well, we just need to lock down HARDER again and again and again, because we're not being vigilant enough. Not wearing masks and leaving the house and doing normal things is akin to murder. As for "Sweden," well, they're just exceptionally clean people, and really, can you believe their stats?

Sigh. This sh*t won't EVER go away. We'll be wearing masking when we're in a casket.

Posted by: shibumi, awaiting SMOD at August 17, 2020 05:17 PM (ZCiJZ)

449 >>Hey, I'm a Rangers Fan. We didn't even get in.

But we did get Alexis Lafreniere. Pretty nice consolation prize.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 17, 2020 05:18 PM (ZLI7S)

450 Alexei Koseff@akoseff
Replying to @akoseff
"Today we are anticipating substantially greater need for energy," @GavinNewsom says, about 4,400 megawatts short of what the state needs. That's a ten times greater shortfall than Saturday. "We failed to predict and plan these shortages and that's simply unacceptable," he says.

-
Trump's fault!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 17, 2020 05:18 PM (+y/Ru)

451 My main takeaway was he was no fan of OJ Simpson.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 17, 2020 04:59 PM (nAJ3K)
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Then or now?
Posted by: bluebell at August 17, 2020 05:00 PM (/669Q)

Both. He worked in the MNF announcer booth with OJ.

Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 17, 2020 05:18 PM (nAJ3K)

452 In some respects, it's more fun to watch who aren't the very best, because it adds a bit of uncertainty even to routine plays.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 17, 2020 05:16 PM (YqDXo)

Which is why watching amateur sports from pee-wee up to minor is just as entertaining. For the love of the sport and entertainment, I'd rather go to a HS game.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 17, 2020 05:18 PM (KnJdm)

453 Noodus Portlandia

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 17, 2020 05:18 PM (rpbg1)

454 Barron's probably 7 feet tall by now

Posted by: artemis at August 17, 2020 05:19 PM (AwPyG)

455 378 The Biden family has a sordid history.
Would you be surprised to learn that Hunter fucked Dr Jill? That the first wife was the one who was drunk?
_______________

I don't know if they tested the first wife's BAC, but the cop who responded to the accident scene said that it looked like she had run the stop sign (or the light, I forget what it was) at the intersection. The truck driver was tested, and he was not drunk or drinking.

Mrs. Biden had three small kids in the car and was coming home from Christmas shopping. The boys were probably fighting in the back seat, and she got distracted or turned to look at them and didn't realize she needed to stop.

It was sad what happened, but for Joe Biden to slander and disparage that poor truck driver, who himself suffered depression and trauma from the accident his entire life, was despicable. And if Jill Biden's ex-husband's account is accurate, Biden was bopping the married Jill even as he was giving interviews and making speeches about how grief-stricken and hopeless he was over his wife's death.

But remember, Trump is the sleazy, unprincipled character and Biden is the guy who has always been decent and honorable. (Although how anybody could believe that when Biden has a con-man, grifter, whore-monger son like Hunter is a mystery. Where do people think Hunter learned to behave the way he does?)

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 17, 2020 05:19 PM (k4dH2)

456 448. Seriously I have given up on liberal nutbag friends. I don't have that much time left and I'm not wasting it on idiots.

Posted by: Jaimo at August 17, 2020 05:21 PM (EVJ0V)

457 Hey does anyone else remember how there was no talk about shutting down anything until the NBA canceled? I remember seeing Cuban's stunned look Courtside. Then after that all the shutdowns cascaded? I've been wondering if their ChiCom masters gave them an order

Posted by: Iblis at August 17, 2020 05:23 PM (8d6YF)

458 LCD -- good to cross paths again! Been a while since we commented on each other's comments. I hope all is well!

I will never refer to PLAYING CATCH as "having a catch". Thanks for backing me up!!!
Posted by: Doof at August 17, 2020 05:05 PM (mZUr4)

*trying to figure out how to display the 'thumbs up' emojie.*

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 17, 2020 05:23 PM (sy5kK)

459 I'm down to watching one sport these days. Golf. So far, I haven't seen any Woke shenanigans in the tournaments I've tuned into. The commercials are Woke as hell, but I never watch those anyway.

I stopped watching the NFL when the kneeling stuff first started a few years ago and haven't gone back since and don't plan to. I've been a baseball fan my whole life and the opening day crap this year disgusted me as well. I'm done and not going back. I was also a huge NASCAR fan for many years. The BLM car and Noosegate ended that this season. Haven't watched since and not going back.

I used to like tuning into sports to relax. It does make me kind of sad that this is where we are. However, I definitely don't need them and it's not a sacrifice for me to walk away from them. I can and have easily filled my leisure time with other activities.

Posted by: Biergood at August 17, 2020 05:24 PM (FQWHA)

460 Just have to do what Lord Humongous say and - Just walk away.

Done with all professional sports. Overpaid douchenozzles that do not know shit.

Posted by: WYFMIFM at August 17, 2020 05:25 PM (h4Aeo)

461 Hunter never earned an honest dime in his life. His first job out of law school was at over $300k to be a strategist at credit card giant MBNA. Papa Joe got legislation passed to make it harder for consumers to use bankruptcy to get out of credit card debt. Debt that kicks up to 22.5% when you get into trouble. Legal loansharking.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 17, 2020 05:25 PM (9TdxA)

462 "They escaped communist Hell-holes, became multi-millionaires in the United States, and have a fan base that loves them and has made them rich. In return these communist refugees disparage this country, dishonor the flag, and call me a racist."

Pfft. Here. Hold my Vuvuzela.

Posted by: Major League Soccer at August 17, 2020 05:25 PM (HhXSr)

463 When I was in college, I remember my friends from Long Island calling it "having a catch".
In upstate Central NY, I had never heard it before.

Posted by: Ricky Roma at August 17, 2020 05:29 PM (2Ia/C)

464 John Rocker was right.

Posted by: KGB at August 17, 2020 05:31 PM (2jEn3)

465 Being a St. Louisan, the Cardinals are nearly a religion here, and I was happy to join the flock. I haven't even checked the scores this year. They can suck my dick.

Posted by: Jeffersonian at August 17, 2020 05:38 PM (yX3gx)

466 My last refuge is IMSA and the WEC (European sports car racing). I can only think of one case where a commentator made a political jab during the broadcast. I used to watch the NFL every week (played fantasy FF). No longer, and I don't have any strong feeling to watch MLB either, especially after the Sox did their BLM crap.

Posted by: Mainah at August 17, 2020 05:38 PM (DxMgH)

467 I had hoped that James Earl Jones' speech from Field of Dreams would restore my faith, but like the country, baseball is dead.

Posted by: Eve at August 17, 2020 05:45 PM (L5yo0)

468 I'm old enough to remember when the NBA played no defense for 45 minutes.

Who knew those were the 'golden years'? Now 'defense' is what happens when Lebron blows a dunk all by himself.

Posted by: East Bay Jay at August 17, 2020 05:53 PM (Lg/Uq)

469 I don't know that it's hate. It's worse. It's a lack of understanding what they are doing means. And how much of an insult it is.

And they don't care because so many of them are not citizens and those who are are motivated by money.

They don't see what it will cost in the future. If they do they again don't care.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 17, 2020 05:54 PM (H5Y9p)

470 I was a Yankee fan back in '94.

Don Mattingly was my favorite player at the time, and I really wanted him to get a World Series ring. The Bombers were on a tear that year, and I thought that this could be the time that it happened for him.

After the lockout that shortened the season, I was done with baseball. Turned down World Series tickets when the Yankees finally had that run of great baseball, didn't even watch after 9/11.

From that point in '94, it was easy to cut sports from my life. First baseball, then the Knicks, then football. Hardly watch anymore, so with everyone now cutting sports out I just don't care.

I thought about taking my son to a ballgame, first in Los Angeles, now back on the East Coast, so he could at least have that memory with me.

Looks like we're coming up with other memories.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 17, 2020 06:09 PM (6xA3t)

471 I have no desire whatever to watch any major sport at this point and don't anticipate that changing in the future. Eff 'em all.

Posted by: William White at August 17, 2020 06:13 PM (5FRbo)

472 I've been a fan for life and visited 34 different major league parks. I'm done. Have not watched one pitch since they came back. Joins the NFL, which I haven't turned on since Kaperprick started the antics. Been done with NBA for decades. Lots more time for spouse, grandkids, and life.

Posted by: Bruce at August 17, 2020 06:13 PM (LH9uE)

473 It's especially great that we're being castigated for our sins and our "privilege" by a bunch of drunk-driving, wife-beating multi-millionaires.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at August 17, 2020 06:40 PM (H3MF8)

474 South side Chicagoan 61 years
Used to go Bulls games Pre Jordan when they drew 4000-5000 a night unless the great Celtic teams Bird Parrish DJ Mchale, 76ers Dr J, Charle Barkley or Lakers Magic , Karrem Coop were in town. After Jordans third year they priced me out. I couldn't name 5 NBA palyers no
Hawk always out of my price range. back then owner wanted an "Exclusive club". Never televised home games.
Was always a Browns fan for some reason but the 85 Bears were fun to watch. Gave up football a while back . Kneeling , politics and showboating and dancing after every play was a big turn off.
Baseball will be the hardest to give up Fondest memories were my Dad taking my brother and I to Sunday doubleheaders to Comisky so we would get our moneys worth. Nothing beats seeing a major league baseball field for the first time!
Now they all seem like cheap whores and sellouts .The Strikes, steroids , cheating scandals , constant bickering between owners and players in off season and now players backing BLM
Fuck em all~!

Posted by: Lars Pilsen at August 17, 2020 06:49 PM (4JWMQ)

475 Die hard Mets fan here. We opened on the Friday and none of the Mets or Braves knelt but they did have BLM on the mound. It was gone the next day and replaced with the Ford logo. The next day was Gieco which leads me to believe that was the actual intention. Sweet sweet ad money.

I did email two days before Opening Day and told them to keep politics out of baseball or I'm cancelling MLB TV and never buying anything else again. You would think they'd have looked up my account by my email and see how much I buy per year (a lot) but I never got a response.

Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling are national treasures!

Posted by: DaninTexas at August 17, 2020 06:55 PM (b6s6c)

476 Update from ToreSays:

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1eaJbzPqqBYJX

Posted by: Braenyard at August 17, 2020 07:00 PM (SpZxj)

477 "After the lockout that shortened the season"

It wasn't a lockout. The fucking MBLPA went on strike. August 12, 1994.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at August 17, 2020 07:02 PM (jWe5r)

478 I agree completely. Screw em all.

Posted by: Jack at August 17, 2020 07:27 PM (MN2VM)

479 I've watched it a tiny bit, but birthing liked i did last year, or that i assumed I would have while jonezing for it through March/April/May.

Just 5 minutes ago on Facebook I noticed a post from my hockey team bowing down to the real racists, as they pointed out how they have to do more to make up for their sins and give miter opportunities to minorities, ignoring the fact hockey spent millions in the 90s and on to try and get minority fans into the sport and they were just ignored. So now they have to again bow down and give jobs to people who don't want to watch their sport or be a part of it, just so they can join the wokeness brigade.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 17, 2020 07:46 PM (nQa/k)

480 I'm depressed in that I cannot boycott these clowns. For some reason, the only sports that interest me are the ones I participated in. So how much TV time do judo and lax get?

If I'm already not watching something.....what do I do?

Posted by: Richard Aubrey at August 17, 2020 07:57 PM (kvDZa)

481 "that's how cancel culture works right?"

We need to do more than that. They want to bring their politics into our living rooms? Fine, we bring our politics into their living rooms.

The peaceful majority are irrelevant (google her speech). Cancelling your love of MLB is only ceding terrain in the culture war. It's like saying "well I never liked Atlanta to being with, you can have it".

What we need to be challenging is the fact that this PCBS has gotten into sports and entertainment to begin with . Would you put up with a White Priv Lecture to get your burger at the drive thru? No, you would be outraged at the audacity of the imposition.

Posted by: Fen at August 17, 2020 08:02 PM (TNHVJ)

482 "So now they have to again bow down and give jobs to people who don't want to watch their sport or be a part of it, just so they can join the wokeness brigade."

Careful now. Because it sounds like you are saying we shouldn't bow down - that always draws out the cucks, reminding them of their NRO impotence, with their taunts of "you go first, keyboard commando"

Posted by: Fen at August 17, 2020 08:05 PM (TNHVJ)

483 I mean, the marxist end game is a Social Credit System where you can't buy or sell if your Woke Value isn't sufficient.

They don't want you at the restaurants or movie theaters or sports games. Boycotting to send some kind of message is really just speeding that along for them.

Not that I think we shouldn't boycott them anyway, but we need to do more than that. We need to make it painful to go woke.

Posted by: Fen at August 17, 2020 08:11 PM (TNHVJ)

484 I grew up a mile from Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, four stops up on the #4 line. For years I would bleed pinstripes, but they can all GF from now on.

It was bad enough when we came back to NY to visit and our first trip to the new Yankee Stadium in 2010, only to pay $55 a ticket for the cheapest seats. The BLM shirts and kneeling was the last straw. GF Yankees and ALL MLB!

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Posted by: kam ray at August 17, 2020 09:38 PM (D9E0b)

486 Feel the same way about the NBA. Sorry, I'm over it. Thanks for the memories, but we're effectively done with pro sports. Why watch a league filled with people who hate my country and would hate me if they knew who I was. I'm out. F*** off.

Posted by: James B.D at August 17, 2020 10:16 PM (82tHm)

487 I actually decide to put on some of the Yankee vs Red Sox game, as the Yankees have always been pretty pro-usa and pro-law enforcement, and was surprised to see during the 7th inning stretch, where they play God Bless America, most, if not all, players were standing with their hats or hands over their hearts, and while sure most kneeling was during the national anthem, you'd think any protests would happen during this even more patriotic song, but everyone seemed to be showing respect.

I think on a player level in baseball there always been a much more patriotic nature, possibly because many do know how well they have it here, and it was much more of the MLB heads pushing the blm nonsense because they want some of that money the black community spends on sports. You have a few people who will completely bow to blm, but it won't be like the overwhelming numbers the nba and nfl have, due to their lockerroom culture of crime and stupidity.

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