r/baseball • u/_HGCenty Seattle Mariners • 14h 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 14h ago edited 10h 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/Cabanarama_ Philadelphia Phillies 13h ago

It blows my mind that there are people out there who watch commercials without pressing mute. Mute is the second most important button on the remote, behind Power.

(Most of these are still pretty obnoxious even on mute, though.)

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u/fid_a Seattle Mariners 12h ago

Sadly, when using an Apple TV, the only way to mute is the phone app remote or if you have a separate sound system and remote for that specifically. I even mute / ffwd the mid inning 2/3 screen ads but after a while I give up cause it’s exhausting to keep opening my phone app. But yeah, Muting is the way.

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u/CrabbingSkiff Baltimore Orioles 11h ago

That is unhinged and sociopathic.

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u/budmanthecubfan Chicago Cubs 8h ago

How the fuck did apple manage to make muting proprietary?

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u/aratingas Houston Astros 8h ago

The Apple TV remote has a mute button. I’m not sure what that guy even means? You obviously have to set it up once to connect it to the TV/sound system but after that it works fine.

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u/fid_a Seattle Mariners 7h ago

Eh, mine doesn’t but clearly others do:

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u/fid_a Seattle Mariners 7h ago

They added it eventually, it’s likely just a design decision to keep the grid on the remote as minimal and simple as possible and feedback said that a mute button was less helpful than a…microphone/Siri button? Who knows.

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u/aratingas Houston Astros 2h ago

Ah okay. I was staring at mine which does and didn’t think to look up the previous versions. Yeah, no mute is a weird choice.

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u/Low-Crazy-8061 Baltimore Orioles 7h ago

What? The Apple TV remote absolutely has a mute button

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u/fid_a Seattle Mariners 7h ago

Newer versions apparently do, but mine is like the two left options here. Fair point but it’s not worth an upgrade for my situation.