And it’s not even true though, at least as it relates to the Nats. I work for the DC government, and grew up in the MD suburbs. TONS of my colleagues are huge Nats fans, and going to games during the season is not expensive at all. Sure, the World Series is outrageously expensive, but that’s an absurd fact to base the…

As a Nats fan that was at the game, if you asked me which I’d rather have, a Nats win or a “lock him up” chant shouted at Trump, I would’ve gone with the chant. It was a beautiful moment, and far more important than baseball. Fuck that guy. 

He literally said the poor calling “might not have made the difference in the game”. And the ump was terrible for both teams, but the Robles call was EGREGIOUS and would’ve brought the tying run to the plate, while earlier in the game the ump missed an obvious strike three/out three call on Correa that would’ve ended…

Correa also got a ball called on an obvious third strike that should’ve been out #3, which he then turned into a two run blast to go up 4-0. The umps have been terrible all series, and last night may have been the worst showing yet. 

I’m half expecting tweets today blaming those of us who booed him for the Nats loss. “Tough game for the Nats, but what can you expect when the fans are so hate filled and unsupportive! Their negativity during the game clearly demoralized the team!” Except Trump doesn’t know what demoralized means. But you get the…

We weren’t booing him. We were saying BooooRump. 

I was there, and I think the crowd handled it perfectly. Can you imagine if Trump was able to say something like “of course THAT crowd booed me! They booed are heroes in uniform!” Instead, we booed the shit out of Trump, cheered the hell out of the heroes, and then immediately went into a Lock Him Up chant. It was a…

Are you seriously arguing for a non-profit sports league? This may be the dumbest comment I’ve seen on this site, which is saying something. If you’re arguing that these rich guys shouldn’t set out to make money then go for it- but argue for some pro-social use of the money instead! Tell these entitled rich guys to…

I love how all the comments pointing out this obvious fact are in the greys. And I say that as someone who is outraged that NCAA players aren’t paid. But that doesn’t mean that those of us who agree with that point should deliberately overstate our case and ignore obvious facts. 

“Schoolteachers don’t say “I make $40k per 3/4 of a year.” Nope. That’s their yearly salary for that job, regardless of spring, summer and winter breaks.”

Way less than half a year. Looks like 10 weeks or so of work. It’s not “professional athlete in one of AMERICA’S four major sports league” pay, but that’s a silly comparison for a league like this. The players will make what any regular person in America would consider good money for that time period. It won’t make…

Precisely. If you frame this as “this one guy doesn’t feel like the base pay offered is a good opportunity for him given the other options he has available” then it’s a perfectly reasonable analysis. Framing it, as Chris does, as an indictment against the league as a whole and some shining example of capitalism’s…

“It’s a complete farce.”

Exactly. I’m sure SOMEONE will mention some of this at some point during the pre-game broadcast, but the whole point of having an entire pre-game show is so that you can cover all of this long before they swing it to Buck and the actual gameplay crew. 

He’s a sports announcer. Isn’t explaining things to the audience literally his job description?

Yup. The first sentence is normally so masturbatory and filled with lines that Ratto clearly thought would prove to everyone just how clever he is that he might as well attach his signature after every period. 

You sound like the white plaintiffs in every affirmative action case complaining about how if it wasn’t for those dang minorities they’d definitely have gotten in to the school of their dreams. 

Magnanimous comments such as yours embiggen all of us.

I’ve seen a whole bunch of folks sharing AOC’s questions of him on social media claiming that she’s really sticking it to him, but it’s always nonsense like what you’re describing. One person I know was pointing out how ridiculous it was that he didn’t know the exact date that in interaction happened when AOC asked…

Thank god SOMEONE seems able to recognize that what happens in April and May in baseball is utterly meaningless, and that the Nats of the past 5 months have been the best team in baseball. The people who are absolutely SHOCKED at what the Nats are doing here simply have not been paying any attention the whole year and…