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/MC_Micro_Penis Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago

For me the absolute darkest ads are from one of the casinos that advertises on spectrum. It will usually show a couple doing whatever, some kind of resort activity, then they will pass through a door that leads to a beautiful landscape where, incongruously, two slot machines are waiting. Of course, these days slot machines are basically designed with the goal of making us into drooling zombies, mashing on a button for hours on end in a diaper.

I think the tag line is the incredibly new-speak-esque "welcome to freedom".

Every time I see it I feel genuinely sad.

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u/AnotherUnfunnyName 9h ago

I also can't stand the current DraftKings rewards club ad read I have to skip over or listen to on most podcasts currently. I mean that kind of betting and the behavior of Draftkings is deplorable anyway, but this just seems so unethical. Getting rewarded for losing? They are kinda doing it anyway to keep milking their wales and addicts, but this is so blatant.