Three Reasons I Hate Baseball
Just like the National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Baseball (MLB) is so irrelevant to me now. During the 2024 MLB season, I have watched a sum total of zero pitches. Here are the three reasons I hate baseball.
Pirates
I’m a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. So, I have to endure season to season, game to game, inning to inning misery. I have never seen incompetence at the pro level like the Pirate’s management team. They must be destroying the team on purpose. Nobody can be this awful. Except Biden of course.
When the Pirates are highlighted on DK Pittsburgh Sports, I usually crack open the story and at least read part of it. I barely know any of the player names. The team is a patchwork of nobodies. And, I have no idea where they dreg them up from. Rowdy Tellez? Jared Trioli? Michael Taylor? Are you kidding me? These guys aren’t striking fear in any other team.
I highly doubt I will ever see the Pirates in the World Series for the remainder of my life. In fact, I highly doubt I will ever see the Pirates in a meaningful playoff game for the remainder of my life. Why does Major League Baseball permit owners like Bob Nutting to persistently put out a bad product like the Pirates?
The Strike
Because the millionaires and billionaires could not reach a labor agreement in 1994, they cancelled the World Series. Prior to that, I usually watched some playoff games and World Series games. I genuinely had interest in following baseball despite my woes about the Pirates. But, when the players went on strike for 232 days and they cancelled the playoffs and World Series, I vowed I would never watch baseball again. Not only did I not watch it again, I didn’t even follow it in any way.
It wasn’t just this one strike by the players. There were multiple strikes and work stoppages before this strike. It seemed like every four or five years, the players would strike. It got me very frustrated, and the cancellation of the World Series drove me over the edge.
The All Star Game
So, I did have a little return to baseball after many years. The Pirates had some young talent at hand. Then, in 2021, Major League Baseball moved the All Star Game out of Atlanta because the league opposed Georgia’s new voting law. So, major league baseball decided it was now about politics instead of baseball. For what little feelings I had to return to being a fan, this idiotic decision took all of those feelings away. It isn’t about baseball anymore.
Conclusion
Baseball killed itself. A perennial loser in the Pirates with no hope for the fans. Constant labor battles between two sides who have more money than any of us will ever see in our lifetime. And, a sports league that holds politics above the game. Never mind the length of games and rule changes that take away the essence of the tradition of the game. Major League Baseball is not salvageable. The current commissioner, Rob Manfred, is a complete disaster. He is a horrible manager and a more horrible marketer. Maybe one day, baseball will get it right. Until then.
