I have pretty much limited my watching of sports to one team, one sport, nothing in between. If they continue to politicize sports I will quit watching altogether.
Jim VH
3 years ago
I am done with sports. All have become political. They used to be an escape from the political world but anymore one by one they have caved. From protesting the flag/anthem to BLM. Also never forget when the so-called pandemic was in full swing these millionaire athletes were still playing collecting their millions while the grandstands were empty including the vendors and the saying was “we are all in this together” Total BS!
Wayne
3 years ago
The correct answer is not no, but Hell no!
Woody
3 years ago
It pains me to say it but it looks like I won’t be watching the Olympics either. I doubt they will throw the “anti Americans”, Americans off the team. Too bad, I haven’t missed one since the 60’s.
J Rea
3 years ago
I am a longtime baseball fan. I will not be watching the So Called All Star Game or the Home Run Derby. MLB decision to move the game from Atlanta to Denver was outrageous. If MLB wants to kick Georgia we dont have to join in.
Donna
3 years ago
I love baseball, but, they have become too political as have all the other sports!! I watched for entertainment not politics!!! NO I will not be watching!!!!
Bruce Hamilton
3 years ago
Not just no but hell no! I want nothing to do with the MLB, NFL or NBA!
If they want to be woke and political then I don’t need to watch or support their franchises!
Lew
3 years ago
No way!! Quite watching baseball since the primadonnas want on for World Series.
Jef Jepsen
3 years ago
I will only watch the MLB All-Star game if it is moved back to Atlanta.
Terry Baugh
3 years ago
We don’t watch MLB, NFL, or NBA at all anymore. They chose who they wanted to side with, so we chose to no longer have anything to do with them.
Dante
3 years ago
Absolutely not!! And I will not drink Coca Cola.
Sorry woke corporations.
Jim Williams
3 years ago
I am done with sports. All have become political. They used to be an escape from the political world but anymore one by one they have caved. From protesting the flag/anthem to BLM. The country that gave them the most is the one they hate and want to destroy. What about Latino and Asians. You doe see them destroying this country. Also stop buying from all Woke sponsors who fund and promote Wokeism.
Bill Davis
3 years ago
I used to be an avid sports fan, who loved watching MLB and the NFL. Not anymore! After all of the team and players political statements as well as the political displays on the field condemning all police officers in America as racist, I no longer watch or attend any games. They have lost a lifelong fan!
Scontroso
3 years ago
I am with Dante, Bill, Terry, and Bruce – I am sick of this stupid anti-American behavior by the athletes and the “woke” corporations
Linda Louden
3 years ago
I don’t even buy COKE products any more. This whole thing with MLB nosing into politics like this is just WRONG. Live and let live, honor God our Almighty Father and your path is guided with ease. I am 70, and never before have I seen and felt such unrest in this Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. ????????????????
JAMES BROWN
3 years ago
NO,NO,NO. I’m from Georgia. Love the Braves, hate what happened to my team.
Don’t drink Coke anymore, either.
Whochosewho
3 years ago
Our behavior and were we spend our money is a vote. Do not support extreme views by tacit approval. Tactics of the left, like boycotts, have to be answered with the same.
Bryan
3 years ago
I quit watching professional or college sports.
I became a firearms instructor and spend my time passing on my knowledge of the constitution, specifically the second amendment and the use of firearms.
Most of my classes are pro Bono or for materials only.
Crime and communism is taking over. You better prepare yourselves. There are two types of republicans in office, RINOS and cowards that are scared for their lives, careers and family for doing what is right for the country.
Soon we the people will have a choice, succumb or fight. The rule of law is lost and the legislature and the Supreme Court is full of cowards.
There is no leader in sight and we the people will be left to our own resources for survival. Better wake up and prepare yourselves. You are way behind if you start today.
Good luck!!
Jim F Ruddy
3 years ago
not a chance in hell that i would watch any MLB game especially the all star game
Dr Ken
3 years ago
No, what MLB did to Atlanta was wrong. The team, the ownership did nothing to warrant moving the game. Disadvantaged were those who have their income secondary to baseball being in town such as vendors, parking attendants, hotels, restaurants, etc. I have essentially lost interest in baseball and this predates MLBs screw up with the all star game. Today, it is a boring game, one of home runs or strike outs. Hit and runs, double steals, delayed steals, bunting, are all lost skills. Some teams have closers opening following by the usual starting pitcher.
BobA
3 years ago
When major league sports became political, I became gone.
Steven Keith
3 years ago
I stopped watching all major league and College sports one by one over the last three or four years. As each became “woke” and demonstrably became traitors to their own country, it was easy for me to decide what is really important.
Wine flu
3 years ago
The minute they took it away from Atlanta this year, I said no.
Pamela Brida
3 years ago
Once sports became mixed with politics and “making a stand or taking a knee” became a nationwide spectacle on the playing field or by the race track, etc., the usual fun and excitement of watching a sporting event and cheering teams or racers on to victory quickly became a thing of the past.
Georgia’s new election law is designed to protect serious, law-abiding, American voters from the overwhelming acts of fraud we all heard about or saw via security camera footage during the 2020 presidential election, in hope that it will never happen again in that state or anywhere else.
Voting to me is a privilege which I take very seriously and as a past victim of identity theft, I do not want to have to prove who I am when I go to the polls. When I moved to my new home five years ago, one of my first actions was to notify my county’s Board of Elections of my move to another district. I looked forward to signing the old-fashioned County Board of Elections registry book before casting my vote, which basically tells them that I am the same person who came into the polls four years earlier in my old hometown.
The Left is wielding an all out campaign to destroy America and everything good and right about this land, especially how spectator sports like Major League Baseball has always brought us together as a people, regardless of politics, race, religion, etc. This is all part of the larger “Build, Back, Better” scheme to take away our freedom and the American way of life and replace it with corporate-sponsored Communism.
Furthermore, there is nothing “Jim Crow 2021” about this new law which bumbling Biden recently declared. When the Left is challenged, they always invoke the evil spirit of racism-especially against black people- to come to their defense. This new voting law is a way to protect responsible Georgians-both black and white and every skin color in between-so that their vote will count!
par
3 years ago
I will watch some of the game – not all. Unfortunately, politics has squeezed into sports, especially basketball. Where most of the players are illiterate in m any ways.
Tim
3 years ago
I am an avid baseball fan who was turned off by MLB’s decision to move the game from Atlanta.
Peter Attanasio
3 years ago
I too have stopped watching baseball and other sports due to their political involvement and wokeness. All sports (and businesses for that matter) should stay out of politics!
Jim H
3 years ago
No, I’ve given up pro and college sports several years ago when the kneeling started. Management is afraid to enforce rules and regulations to avoid being called racist.
I hope ALL pro sports (not golf!) go belly up financially.
Hdrydr
3 years ago
Screw the “professional” dipsticks in “professional” sports. Why waste your time watching idiots play a children’s game? Are you too shallow or boring to find constructive things to do with your time? Viewership ratings help pay for these children to keep their money, homes, and “influence” over the ignorant masses.
Ash
3 years ago
Long time Braves fan. I will still watch their games but that’s all. The Braves did not cause this. No more Coke products for me. MLB players are the least political of all the pro players. Absolutely no nfl or nba for me and what is soccer?
Joe
3 years ago
I used to watch sports all the time. Since the kneeling and disrespect, for the country and the people who made them rich in the first place, I shut it all off and will never participate again. Shame on the owners of the team’s, allowing this behavior.
Ken R
3 years ago
As with most of the comments below, the merger of PC-ness into the realm of pro (and college) sports was the beginning of the end for my interest in all of them. I feel bad for the players who really have no say in this and just want to break into the leagues and play the sports they love, but until they (and by “they” I mean the very likely majority of pro athletes) take a stand and say “no more,” it’s only going to get worse. The professional athletes need a leader to step forth and refuse to play until the PC garbage ends and these leagues and their commissioners return exclusively to doing what the exist to do, ie, play their games and entertain us through competition, and nothing more. Until that happens, my time and my entertainment money, go elsewhere.
Albert McCabe
3 years ago
I stopped watching all pro and college sports when the kneeing for the National anthem started slso.
Mike A
3 years ago
We don’t watch any sports that lets players disrespect our Flag and the National Anthem or disrespect our Military. Right now only NASCAR is the sports to watch until they bend also.
K C
3 years ago
After the debacle of moving the All Star game out of Atlanta due to woke corporate crap, I am boycotting ALL MLB games, including the playoffs this year
David Heinzelmann
3 years ago
I have not watched a single pro game all year.
Alfredo J Rodriguez
3 years ago
I stopped watching long ago. when the players (millionaries and brats) had a contractual fight with the clubs owners (Billionaries and men above others). The game is only for the well to do or Corps. I can not afford the tickets.
David P Christopher
3 years ago
Stopped watching all professional sports
Chuck
3 years ago
Like all award shows. NO
John D
3 years ago
Where do I start with pro sports? Overpaid Prima Donna’s? Disrespectful to the nation. The politics of the moving of the All Starless game? As said below, the only sport I follow and watch on TV and pay for a ticket is NASCAR. (I don’t think the fans will tolerate the political BS. If they allow it, that fan base will quickly disappear.) Once an avid sports fan, I stopped watching. I’m not alone…..just look at the ratings. One final thought…..The bloated player salaries are supported by the advertising dollars of the large conglomerates. Who pays for that? We do, whether your’re a sports fan or not….everything you purchase has a bloated price created by the sponsors that support this nonsense.
Richard Letson
3 years ago
Pro sports is a bunch of “CRAP”.
Mike
3 years ago
I stopped watching all pro games when the players ( those who our kids look up to) act like fools. We have enough ungodliness as it is. We have made sports the god of this country, why do we pay millions to players who “play”.
John Jackson
3 years ago
No way no football, baseball, and absolutely no basketball that one I can say that I have never watched a game of basketball in my 68 years of life. If you want to disrespect my flag, my country, or my military there’s no place in my home, Heart, or my life for you ,or your propaganda it’s just that simple! Oh yeah and as far as the Olympics I haven’t watched it in years also I don’t need their political propaganda neither.
Aurule
3 years ago
Right now college football is all i watch… and i may stop watching that if the athletes get too political….
Athletes today don’t get! While the have the right to speak up…i have the right to not watch. These folks are gifted with a skill and are making millions playing a child’s game..well. NOBODY wants to hear their opinion we just to be entertained and enjoy their talent.
Former Indian Fan
3 years ago
i don’t watch any sports. They have become too political. Besides, I don’t like censorship. Long live Chief Wahoo!
Jerry H
3 years ago
I love baseball. But this is an exhibition. And the decision to move the game was an act of disgusting political and moral preening. It also hurt numerous Black businesses in Atlanta. You want to alienate half of America? Fine. Boycotting the All-Star game was an easy decision.
Steve Ridgway
3 years ago
Commissioner manford is a is a marxist..leftie..wimp. Baseball..my FAVORITE sport..cardinal fan…the wimp made a horrific mistake moving game out of atlanta….HUGE affect on many lives and businesses whom he could care less about…aka..wimp wrist biden!!!..WILL NEVER WATCH ALLSTAR GAME.i would really like to kick that selfish MARXIST in the n..s…
George
3 years ago
For love of country and respect for all that formed and fought for our country we refuse to watch cupcake organizations, that have no backbone. I and all my male cousins served for love of country and sense of duty. I, a white gringo, served under black Sargents, that to this day, I appreciate the comradeship that we had as fellow Americans. Cancel Culture is Crap (CCC). My dad rode empty train coal cars from the east coast to the CCC camps in Idaho. Don’t confuse the new CCC with Roosevelt’s CCC. (Civil Conservation Corps). Of course the cupcakes, with their head in the sand and deprived of history will never be Patriotic. It’s sad that the poor soles, who worked to be more successful monetarily then most of us, can be so ungrateful that they were able to do that because of equal opportunity. Yes we all in America have equal opportunity, but not equal outcome; which is the result determination and effort.
Carl
3 years ago
I forgot about moving the venue because of election politics. I was highly disappointed by that. But, that’s the league, not the players. In the games I have watched I have not seen the disrespect for the Country or the Flag mentioned in other comments, and as seen in other sports. Interesting to me because many MLB players are not US Citizens. As for the money, that’s all part of the market system. Are we only part-time capitalists; only capitalists when it suits us?
Sandra Lee
3 years ago
YO AMAC!! Fix your comment response + or – . Votes not registering. It happened in last week’s poll as well. Thanks
I have pretty much limited my watching of sports to one team, one sport, nothing in between. If they continue to politicize sports I will quit watching altogether.
I am done with sports. All have become political. They used to be an escape from the political world but anymore one by one they have caved. From protesting the flag/anthem to BLM. Also never forget when the so-called pandemic was in full swing these millionaire athletes were still playing collecting their millions while the grandstands were empty including the vendors and the saying was “we are all in this together” Total BS!
The correct answer is not no, but Hell no!
It pains me to say it but it looks like I won’t be watching the Olympics either. I doubt they will throw the “anti Americans”, Americans off the team. Too bad, I haven’t missed one since the 60’s.
I am a longtime baseball fan. I will not be watching the So Called All Star Game or the Home Run Derby. MLB decision to move the game from Atlanta to Denver was outrageous. If MLB wants to kick Georgia we dont have to join in.
I love baseball, but, they have become too political as have all the other sports!! I watched for entertainment not politics!!! NO I will not be watching!!!!
Not just no but hell no! I want nothing to do with the MLB, NFL or NBA!
If they want to be woke and political then I don’t need to watch or support their franchises!
No way!! Quite watching baseball since the primadonnas want on for World Series.
I will only watch the MLB All-Star game if it is moved back to Atlanta.
We don’t watch MLB, NFL, or NBA at all anymore. They chose who they wanted to side with, so we chose to no longer have anything to do with them.
Absolutely not!! And I will not drink Coca Cola.
Sorry woke corporations.
I am done with sports. All have become political. They used to be an escape from the political world but anymore one by one they have caved. From protesting the flag/anthem to BLM. The country that gave them the most is the one they hate and want to destroy. What about Latino and Asians. You doe see them destroying this country. Also stop buying from all Woke sponsors who fund and promote Wokeism.
I used to be an avid sports fan, who loved watching MLB and the NFL. Not anymore! After all of the team and players political statements as well as the political displays on the field condemning all police officers in America as racist, I no longer watch or attend any games. They have lost a lifelong fan!
I am with Dante, Bill, Terry, and Bruce – I am sick of this stupid anti-American behavior by the athletes and the “woke” corporations
I don’t even buy COKE products any more. This whole thing with MLB nosing into politics like this is just WRONG. Live and let live, honor God our Almighty Father and your path is guided with ease. I am 70, and never before have I seen and felt such unrest in this Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. ????????????????
NO,NO,NO. I’m from Georgia. Love the Braves, hate what happened to my team.
Don’t drink Coke anymore, either.
Our behavior and were we spend our money is a vote. Do not support extreme views by tacit approval. Tactics of the left, like boycotts, have to be answered with the same.
I quit watching professional or college sports.
I became a firearms instructor and spend my time passing on my knowledge of the constitution, specifically the second amendment and the use of firearms.
Most of my classes are pro Bono or for materials only.
Crime and communism is taking over. You better prepare yourselves. There are two types of republicans in office, RINOS and cowards that are scared for their lives, careers and family for doing what is right for the country.
Soon we the people will have a choice, succumb or fight. The rule of law is lost and the legislature and the Supreme Court is full of cowards.
There is no leader in sight and we the people will be left to our own resources for survival. Better wake up and prepare yourselves. You are way behind if you start today.
Good luck!!
not a chance in hell that i would watch any MLB game especially the all star game
No, what MLB did to Atlanta was wrong. The team, the ownership did nothing to warrant moving the game. Disadvantaged were those who have their income secondary to baseball being in town such as vendors, parking attendants, hotels, restaurants, etc. I have essentially lost interest in baseball and this predates MLBs screw up with the all star game. Today, it is a boring game, one of home runs or strike outs. Hit and runs, double steals, delayed steals, bunting, are all lost skills. Some teams have closers opening following by the usual starting pitcher.
When major league sports became political, I became gone.
I stopped watching all major league and College sports one by one over the last three or four years. As each became “woke” and demonstrably became traitors to their own country, it was easy for me to decide what is really important.
The minute they took it away from Atlanta this year, I said no.
Once sports became mixed with politics and “making a stand or taking a knee” became a nationwide spectacle on the playing field or by the race track, etc., the usual fun and excitement of watching a sporting event and cheering teams or racers on to victory quickly became a thing of the past.
Georgia’s new election law is designed to protect serious, law-abiding, American voters from the overwhelming acts of fraud we all heard about or saw via security camera footage during the 2020 presidential election, in hope that it will never happen again in that state or anywhere else.
Voting to me is a privilege which I take very seriously and as a past victim of identity theft, I do not want to have to prove who I am when I go to the polls. When I moved to my new home five years ago, one of my first actions was to notify my county’s Board of Elections of my move to another district. I looked forward to signing the old-fashioned County Board of Elections registry book before casting my vote, which basically tells them that I am the same person who came into the polls four years earlier in my old hometown.
The Left is wielding an all out campaign to destroy America and everything good and right about this land, especially how spectator sports like Major League Baseball has always brought us together as a people, regardless of politics, race, religion, etc. This is all part of the larger “Build, Back, Better” scheme to take away our freedom and the American way of life and replace it with corporate-sponsored Communism.
Furthermore, there is nothing “Jim Crow 2021” about this new law which bumbling Biden recently declared. When the Left is challenged, they always invoke the evil spirit of racism-especially against black people- to come to their defense. This new voting law is a way to protect responsible Georgians-both black and white and every skin color in between-so that their vote will count!
I will watch some of the game – not all. Unfortunately, politics has squeezed into sports, especially basketball. Where most of the players are illiterate in m any ways.
I am an avid baseball fan who was turned off by MLB’s decision to move the game from Atlanta.
I too have stopped watching baseball and other sports due to their political involvement and wokeness. All sports (and businesses for that matter) should stay out of politics!
No, I’ve given up pro and college sports several years ago when the kneeling started. Management is afraid to enforce rules and regulations to avoid being called racist.
I hope ALL pro sports (not golf!) go belly up financially.
Screw the “professional” dipsticks in “professional” sports. Why waste your time watching idiots play a children’s game? Are you too shallow or boring to find constructive things to do with your time? Viewership ratings help pay for these children to keep their money, homes, and “influence” over the ignorant masses.
Long time Braves fan. I will still watch their games but that’s all. The Braves did not cause this. No more Coke products for me. MLB players are the least political of all the pro players. Absolutely no nfl or nba for me and what is soccer?
I used to watch sports all the time. Since the kneeling and disrespect, for the country and the people who made them rich in the first place, I shut it all off and will never participate again. Shame on the owners of the team’s, allowing this behavior.
As with most of the comments below, the merger of PC-ness into the realm of pro (and college) sports was the beginning of the end for my interest in all of them. I feel bad for the players who really have no say in this and just want to break into the leagues and play the sports they love, but until they (and by “they” I mean the very likely majority of pro athletes) take a stand and say “no more,” it’s only going to get worse. The professional athletes need a leader to step forth and refuse to play until the PC garbage ends and these leagues and their commissioners return exclusively to doing what the exist to do, ie, play their games and entertain us through competition, and nothing more. Until that happens, my time and my entertainment money, go elsewhere.
I stopped watching all pro and college sports when the kneeing for the National anthem started slso.
We don’t watch any sports that lets players disrespect our Flag and the National Anthem or disrespect our Military. Right now only NASCAR is the sports to watch until they bend also.
After the debacle of moving the All Star game out of Atlanta due to woke corporate crap, I am boycotting ALL MLB games, including the playoffs this year
I have not watched a single pro game all year.
I stopped watching long ago. when the players (millionaries and brats) had a contractual fight with the clubs owners (Billionaries and men above others). The game is only for the well to do or Corps. I can not afford the tickets.
Stopped watching all professional sports
Like all award shows. NO
Where do I start with pro sports? Overpaid Prima Donna’s? Disrespectful to the nation. The politics of the moving of the All Starless game? As said below, the only sport I follow and watch on TV and pay for a ticket is NASCAR. (I don’t think the fans will tolerate the political BS. If they allow it, that fan base will quickly disappear.) Once an avid sports fan, I stopped watching. I’m not alone…..just look at the ratings. One final thought…..The bloated player salaries are supported by the advertising dollars of the large conglomerates. Who pays for that? We do, whether your’re a sports fan or not….everything you purchase has a bloated price created by the sponsors that support this nonsense.
Pro sports is a bunch of “CRAP”.
I stopped watching all pro games when the players ( those who our kids look up to) act like fools. We have enough ungodliness as it is. We have made sports the god of this country, why do we pay millions to players who “play”.
No way no football, baseball, and absolutely no basketball that one I can say that I have never watched a game of basketball in my 68 years of life. If you want to disrespect my flag, my country, or my military there’s no place in my home, Heart, or my life for you ,or your propaganda it’s just that simple! Oh yeah and as far as the Olympics I haven’t watched it in years also I don’t need their political propaganda neither.
Right now college football is all i watch… and i may stop watching that if the athletes get too political….
Athletes today don’t get! While the have the right to speak up…i have the right to not watch. These folks are gifted with a skill and are making millions playing a child’s game..well. NOBODY wants to hear their opinion we just to be entertained and enjoy their talent.
i don’t watch any sports. They have become too political. Besides, I don’t like censorship. Long live Chief Wahoo!
I love baseball. But this is an exhibition. And the decision to move the game was an act of disgusting political and moral preening. It also hurt numerous Black businesses in Atlanta. You want to alienate half of America? Fine. Boycotting the All-Star game was an easy decision.
Commissioner manford is a is a marxist..leftie..wimp. Baseball..my FAVORITE sport..cardinal fan…the wimp made a horrific mistake moving game out of atlanta….HUGE affect on many lives and businesses whom he could care less about…aka..wimp wrist biden!!!..WILL NEVER WATCH ALLSTAR GAME.i would really like to kick that selfish MARXIST in the n..s…
For love of country and respect for all that formed and fought for our country we refuse to watch cupcake organizations, that have no backbone. I and all my male cousins served for love of country and sense of duty. I, a white gringo, served under black Sargents, that to this day, I appreciate the comradeship that we had as fellow Americans. Cancel Culture is Crap (CCC). My dad rode empty train coal cars from the east coast to the CCC camps in Idaho. Don’t confuse the new CCC with Roosevelt’s CCC. (Civil Conservation Corps). Of course the cupcakes, with their head in the sand and deprived of history will never be Patriotic. It’s sad that the poor soles, who worked to be more successful monetarily then most of us, can be so ungrateful that they were able to do that because of equal opportunity. Yes we all in America have equal opportunity, but not equal outcome; which is the result determination and effort.
I forgot about moving the venue because of election politics. I was highly disappointed by that. But, that’s the league, not the players. In the games I have watched I have not seen the disrespect for the Country or the Flag mentioned in other comments, and as seen in other sports. Interesting to me because many MLB players are not US Citizens. As for the money, that’s all part of the market system. Are we only part-time capitalists; only capitalists when it suits us?
YO AMAC!! Fix your comment response + or – . Votes not registering. It happened in last week’s poll as well. Thanks