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/Burto72 Milwaukee Brewers 14h ago

The fact that there is a war.gov website is kind of disturbing.

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u/grubas New York Yankees 12h ago

The entire ad is Fascist.  It's not fascist coded it's not fascist winking.  It's literally what you'd expect a character to turn on the TV to illustrate that this is a fascist government.

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u/lot183 Houston Astros 12h ago

I mean they are live streaming an execution. All the hallmarks

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u/grubas New York Yankees 10h ago

Live execution by firing squad of a dude who is in a wheelchair.  

Even the fucking British in 1916 thought people wouldn't like that!

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u/Vncredleader Pittsburgh Pirates 17m ago

Then again they still tied Connolly to a chair so he could "stand" for the firing squad. But I get your point