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/m1k3e 11h ago

I really hate all of the gambling ads, tbh. I don’t like how MLB (and even Derek Jeter of all people) have sold out to these gambling/prediction companies. It cheapens the game and normalizes gambling to younger generations.

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u/RogueModron Milwaukee Brewers 9h ago

I don’t like how MLB (and even Derek Jeter of all people) have sold out to these gambling/prediction companies.

Shame used to exist, and a sense of public decency. Now money = winner, so no one fucking cares.

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u/the_cave_allegory New York Yankees 9h ago

Shame used to exist, and a sense of public decency. Now money = winner, so no one fucking cares.

Well said. It does seem like in just the past few years, money has become everything. Whereas before, it was everything, but shameful to openly declare it so.

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u/draw2discard2 5h ago

Mays and Mantle were briefly banned for working for casinos in retirement.

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u/Cambot1138 Milwaukee Brewers 10h ago

Simple! Just call it trading!

Then it's all good. Hell, trading sounds responsible.

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u/GSDFanatic New York Yankees 6h ago

Gambling is a genuine addiction for people and seeing guys that are worth hundreds of millions of dollars pushing this shit is really pretty disgusting. 

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u/theREALMVP San Francisco Giants 9h ago

Same, and Ive been wondering just how much a gambling company can get away with when it comes to these ads. The actual online ads are wayyy more provocative than the TV ads.

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u/giziti Chicago Cubs 8h ago

I really think we need to make gambling ads like tobacco ads -- you can't do them.