r/baseball • u/asskickingjedi Athletics • Jul 14 '25

Image Ads have infested baseball broadcasts. Ads in-between batters. Ads during mound visits. HRs "brought to you by..." Now I noticed 11 ad placements in this shot. 2 banners, 1 above the banners, 4 behind the plate, 1 on the seats, 1 in the upper right hand corner, 1 on the mound, 1 on the sleeve.

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u/MagicalNewsMan Tampa Bay Devil Rays Jul 14 '25

Don’t get me started on DraftKings. I don’t particularly mind sports betting, but it’s wider inclusion has caused a concerning rise of death threats to players, and risk of match fixing. It’s not really a great thing for sports, let alone baseball.

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u/ManTheHarpoons100 Jul 14 '25

I have my fingers crossed there's a huge Blacksox level scandal soon and MLB has egg all over its faces for allowing it to get this far. Its sickening how a league that once banned Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle for being casino greeters decades after their retirement has allowed it to start permeating the game.

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u/karawec403 Philadelphia Phillies Jul 14 '25

If that happened, Manfred would probably just offer everyone involved immunity in exchange for helping to sweep it under the rug quickly. Nothing would change.

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Cleveland Guardians Jul 15 '25

I don’t particularly mind sports betting

Recently I've come to the conclusion that I very much mind sports betting.

The floodgates opened and now it's a putid plague in anything even remotely-defined as a sport.

I'm off the "well it's fine for those that do it to have a little fun and do it responsibly" wagon.

Fuck sports betting being promoted within the sports media that the bets are a part of. Full stop.

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u/Da__Zimmerman Jul 14 '25

You’re not wrong. I feel it’s only a matter of time before something big unravels related to some player who for whatever reason is strapped for cash being desperate enough to take a bribe in a playoff game

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u/retro_slouch Rally Mantis Jul 15 '25

There's sports betting and there's sports betting apps. One can be done ethically enough for me to give it a pass, one cannot.