r/baseball • u/_HGCenty Seattle Mariners • 11h ago

Players Only Dodgers' Alex Call blasts controversial Sydney Sweeney ad

https://www.thebiglead.com/dodgers-alex-call-sydney-sweeney-novig-commercial-soft-porn/

Since the last post about this got deleted because it contained a X screenshot, hopefully this one actually stays for comment.

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u/Three_Froggy_Problem Chicago Cubs 11h ago

It seems like Call doesn’t care so much that the ad is advertising gambling and just doesn’t like that it features a woman without enough clothing on.

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u/AerieElectrical3546 Boston Red Sox 11h ago

that IS a problem though, there’s no reason for advertisements that run on “family friendly” sporting events to be so sexualized.

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u/Hour_Health_4593 Milwaukee Brewers 11h ago

Got it, my “family friendly” gambling addict ads will put Sydney Sweeney in a Turtleneck

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u/Microwave1213 11h ago

So what, nobody is allowed to point out one problem becuse another problem also exists? 

Let’s put it this way: one of these ads is a lot more attention grabbing and harder to explain to an 8 year old. I’ll let you guess which one that is. 

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u/Reevoo12 11h ago

Yeah I agree. it's easy enough to say to my kid "don't listen to those idiots, gambling is dumb". Wtf am I supposed to say to him about the naked woman? The best I've come up with is "that was weird. Why was she naked?" Neither of us had an answer.

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u/pickleparty16 Kansas City Royals 10h ago

Yikes

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u/cman1098 Atlanta Braves 11h ago

Gambling way worse than nudity. Wtf are you on, I want some.

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u/Microwave1213 11h ago

I think what you should actually want is better reading comprehension skills. 

I’m not saying that gambling is worse than nudity. I’m saying that an ad that features nudity is more likely to catch the attention of young children. 

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u/cman1098 Atlanta Braves 10h ago edited 10h ago

And nudity is a human experience. Gambling is not. Nudity is much easier to explain than gambling. I disagree with your premise completely. 8 year olds move on easily. Normalizing nudity much less of a big deal than normalizing gambling. And that 8 year old is getting indoctrinated whether he or she realizes it or not.

You are saying nudity is worse to have in ads than gambling, not to mention she is covered scantily so she isn't nude.

She is wearing sports equipment as clothes; isn't that funny? How hard is that to say.

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u/T_Stebbins Seattle Mariners 8h ago

nudity in isolation is, sure. But just blatant nudity in the services of making people gawk at your sports gambling ad is to me, disgusting. It's not tasteful, or artistic or human at all, it's just the most caveman way of getting people to look at the tv. And I think that's part of the revulsion to the ad. If you want people to pay attention to your ad, try a little bit and make it funny or interesting instead of just haha look at these big tits

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u/Microwave1213 10h ago

  You are saying nudity is worse to have in ads than gambling

Yes. Good job. 

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u/cman1098 Atlanta Braves 10h ago

And it's not even nudity but now its your reading comprehension that needs work. Nudity isn't allowed. She is covered.

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u/Microwave1213 10h ago

So your entire argument is based on semantics..? Would it make you feel better if I said ‘hyper sexualization of the body’ instead of nudity? 

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u/cman1098 Atlanta Braves 10h ago

Why is she dressed with sports equipment like that daddy?

"It's funny"

"Why isn't she covered more daddy?" "Some people like it."

'i still don't understand daddy" "you will when your are older"

Like grow up. Gambling destroys lives. "Nudity" is something you and I do every day. I know having to parent your child is a nightmare. Sexual acts creates families, gambling destroys families.

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u/Microwave1213 10h ago

First of all, porn addiction and unhealthy sexual ideology is far more rampant in today’s society than gambling addictions. 

Secondly, that made up conversation is so far removed from reality that I have to assume you don’t actually have kids, thereby making this conversation moot. 

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u/LordElrondHubbard1 Seattle Mariners • Brooklyn Dodgers 10h ago

Thats an incredibly stupid take. Explain to me then why alot of European countries can have straight up fill frontal nudity on broadcast tv and they dont seem to have the issues youre claiming come from showing stuff like that on TV. Let's be honest you only give a fuck because its Sydney Sweeney.

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u/Microwave1213 9h ago

I could not possibly care less about Sydney Sweeney. I don’t know anything about her or any of the controversies that she’s apparently a part of. 

I do, however, know with absolute certainty that hyper sexualized ads like that lead to more porn addictions than regular gambling ads lead to gambling addictions. 

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u/LordElrondHubbard1 Seattle Mariners • Brooklyn Dodgers 9h ago

Again why does Europe seem to not have an issue with this when alot of European countries actually allow full frontal nudity on TV? Could it be parents there arent as lazy and inept as Americans, so they actually talk to their kids about this shit instead of burying their head in the sand an pretending it doesnt exist?

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u/K20BB5 Philadelphia Phillies 10h ago

Learn to read bozo 

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u/cman1098 Atlanta Braves 10h ago

Learn to parent scrub lord.

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u/pickleparty16 Kansas City Royals 11h ago

The gambling one is much more problematic than tits.

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u/Microwave1213 11h ago

Okay, you’re allowed to think that. It doesn’t really change anything that I said though. 

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u/pickleparty16 Kansas City Royals 10h ago

I think nudity is easier to explain than gambling. You can think its much harder, and that's your opinion.

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u/Reevoo12 5h ago

For me it's not nudity in general that's hard to explain. It's the sexualization being used to promote something...which also happens to be gambling in this case so I guess we don't even have to choose!

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u/ADAWG10-18 10h ago

You can also mute the volume very easily.

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u/Danimal_House New York Mets 5h ago

How does muting it change anything?

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u/ADAWG10-18 4h ago

If you mute a gambling ad its really easy to ignore the gambling message of it.

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u/Danimal_House New York Mets 4h ago

…have you not seen the ad? The audio is not the major focus there

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u/kemmack 11h ago

You’re insane if you think gambling isn’t more of a problem with young men right now

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u/Microwave1213 11h ago

Okay let’s agree that you’re right. 

We can also agree that a naked Sydney Sweeney is a lot more attention grabbing than a standard gambling ad, yes?

So then we should all be able to agree that hyper sexualized ads that steer young men toward gambling is even worse than a standard gambling ad, no?

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u/fatcowxlivee Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago edited 2h ago

Nah don’t do that. The statement about the gambling ad featuring a half naked woman is called out for having a half naked woman.

Aka it’s signaling “hey my kids are okay seeing gambling, but I draw the line at boobs!”

So if Novak or whatever their name is pulls Sydney Sweeney from the ad and shows a normal gambling ad then Call won’t have a problem.

That’s where the problem is.

I’m not even mad at Call I’m moreso mad that barely any athlete, especially those with kids, have called out the degenerate gambling ads by Draftkings and the likes for most of this decade.