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/jdbolick Baltimore Orioles 11h ago

Who is that ad supposed to target? The people who crow about patriotism are too busy at their keyboards to serve.

The people who actually join the military want a job with benefits.

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u/sentry_chad Kansas City Royals 11h ago

There’s a fresh batch of 18 year olds every year

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u/jlrc2 Chicago White Sox 9h ago

Those batches are getting smaller every year as well, so the armed forces will need to get an increasingly high percentage of them to sign up if they want to maintain their numbers.

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u/galacticdude7 Detroit Tigers • West Michigan W… 8h ago

It's almost as if something happened 18 years ago that ruined the economy and made people not want to have kids

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u/jlrc2 Chicago White Sox 7h ago

Yeah that was definitely a metaphorical kick in the nuts although it seems like there are other things at play too

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u/HudsonMelvale2910 Philadelphia Phillies 5h ago

Uhg, my first thought was “What happened in the late 90s?”