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/CarneDelGato Cleveland Guardians 10h ago

You know, I get that the ads are super sexual, and that parents are concerned. Like, your kids should be able to watch baseball.

But the thing I find most offensive is that she says, “No betting on wars. Or death.” Umm, yeah, I’d rather explain sex than that. 

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u/archimago23 Boston Red Sox • Indianapolis India… 9h ago edited 7h ago

My brain has been incorrectly processing “or death” this whole time. It sounds to me like she’s saying “or ducks,” and 1) I knew that was incorrect, but 2) betting on ducks sounds like something I could legit get into

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u/CoastalMatchaFreak New York Yankees 7h ago

Her sexy baby vocal fry is dialed up to eleven in that commercial. “Or duckth…juthst you…hot cakesth…and sthportssss!”

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u/CarneDelGato Cleveland Guardians 9h ago

I too can get behind duck prediction. I'll start working on an app. It'll be called "Ducks to Ducks."

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u/countingouttime San Francisco Giants 7h ago

I had to rewatch it over 5 times to figure out what she was saying. She pronounces it really weird, like “duths”

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u/draw2discard2 5h ago

They say you know you have hit rock bottom when you are betting on ducks...

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u/BusinessWatercrees58 MLB Players Association 7h ago

You'd be amazed at my many parents would rather explain war and death than sex.

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u/yankeenate Texas Rangers 9h ago

It is much more unhealthy to shield your kids from the existence of death than sex.

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u/CarneDelGato Cleveland Guardians 9h ago

Not the existence of death, betting on death.

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u/yankeenate Texas Rangers 7h ago

So they crossed the red line by explicitly stating that things you disapprove of (betting on wars) are not allowed on their site?

They should have agreed with you silently?

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u/wokenupbybacon New York Yankees 5h ago

If you follow the throughline of the original comment, it is pretty clear that they do not want to have to explain to children that people bet on wars and death because they happened to hear that in a random commercial while watching baseball.

Whether the company is or isn't allowing it isn't the point of issue being discussed.

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u/CarneDelGato Cleveland Guardians 7h ago

Sort of bold to say that a sports betting website and I agree. Sure, it's technically the truth, but it leaves out a fuck ton of context.