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/BalzacTheGreat Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago edited 8h ago

All the sports betting ads, ED ads, pharma ads, the Hegseth fascist military ads, the unhinged political ads, it’s all fucking enough already. 

EDIT: I'm glad we can all agree on something, flairs notwithstanding.

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u/bantha42 Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago

Kind of insane the 180 we did on gambling as a society seemingly overnight.

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u/RogueModron Milwaukee Brewers 10h ago

I'm guessing there was some policy or policies that were quietly dismantled.

You ever wonder why televangelism and the associated scams got big in the 80s? Like why specifically then? There used to be a law that television stations had to give up a few hours of air time on Sundays (or it may have been the weekend) for cheap/free religious programming, that wasn't allowed to profit from this. Reagan did away with that. So the wolves swooped in and started in with the prosperity gospel and made tons of money on it.

This is obviously a paraphrase and honestly it's half-remembered from when I read the excellent book Sleepwalking Through History by Haynes Johnson about the Reagan years, but it's correct in the broad strokes.

The point is, it's usually some small and boring policy change that has huge consequences.