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Literally just post everything you find interesting and upvote elsewhere

Yeah, I try to engage on the sports posts because there isn’t much going on in these comms. But I’m hopeful we can get some growth eventually

I like NHL and MLB. Both my teams are on the other side of the country, though. I cannot watch unless I pay out the wazoo. It ain't worth it. Plus, cable? No thanks. Can't afford it anyways, really. I used to listen to MLB radio at my old job with the AtBat app but they changed the subscription and it got too expensive.

Plus, it's just not accommodating to people like me. I mention liking a team and I get bombarded with questions like "who was the 2nd baseman during 1998?" Or "what's the current batting average for the designated hitter?" Or "who's the coach right now?"

Like I have to prove I'm a 'true fan.' I don't care about that. I see ball go fast, and get hit out the park, it is fun. I see a hockey player toss a puck across the ice, it is fun. I love games but I don't know who the developer is by name. Just the company. Dunno where the best loot chest was in the dungeons of Oblivion/Skyrim/whatever. I just enjoy things the way I enjoy them.

After work, I'd rather spend time reading or playing video games or playing an instrument. Watching ads on TV makes me want to pull my eyes out with a fork. Ads on anything.

Overall... expensive. Ad breaks. And sports fans are not a welcoming bunch. Communities for them are awful, and filled with the kind of men who don't realize it but have every stat memorized and have to belittle everyone about it to prove they're the highlander of sports. The one and only true fan. No thanks.

Maybe Lemmy has a decent amount of users who are more inclined to nerd stuff like Linux and frisbee? I don't care for sports or cars or other "cool" dude stuff. But I love computers and books and frisbee (which I don't get to throw nearly enough). This just got me thinking. I'm gonna actively try to get some friends together to toss the bee. In my forties. Like we were in our teens. Thanks for inspiring me.

Those sports are only played in one country though. The Kabaddi channels are not doing so well either.

Does anyone else feel like these national leagues have become just as disconnected from reality as any other hyper capitalist enterprise?

I want more hometown sports. I daydream about leagues funded by local communities, starring local talent, with smaller local crowds. Is there anyone else out there who would give much more of a shit if things were a little more close to home, reality-wise? Am I alone?

Guys getting paid literally hundreds of millions to play a sport is unrelatable. A local star making $300k and being a part of the community feels better to me. Seems like we should be able to afford a lot of those for the money we are spending.

I know next to nothing about sports or the business around them, but I know I remember summer nights with cheap hotdogs and minor league ball that seem to have evaporated as the wealthy accumulated. 🤷‍♂️

Counterpoint: as soon as sports and their related normies became popular and took over Reddit, it went to complete shit.

Yup I really want a nba sub please someone put in the work I'll like every post lol

Ewww keep that shit away from this space. We don't need brain-addled concussion-full roided up meatheads on Lemmy.

Same as they're not needed irl but I guess some of you all sniffed a little too much lead paint to agree.

This is a safe space for mathletes! We left our bullies behind in high school 🤓

Be the change you want to see. ~~Of your visible posts, 0 of them are in the communities you want to see active. The same goes for your last week or so of comments.~~ Sorry, I looked with an alt account that I did not think had anything blocked, but apparently it does so i did not see your posts in a bills community.

I am not a sports fan, but I have been loving watching the PWHL. So much so that I took over modding !womenshockey@reddthat.com I post the score of every game (granted this season there are only 6 teams). I have started to post video highlights, I also am cross posting to !hockey@lemmy.ca however the reception there is decidedly frigid. The community has about doubled in size since I started posting regularly.

Or we are all just a bunch of nerds with better things to do than watch the people who used to beat us up.

Crazy idea: use a bot? A lot of communities already do it to help with lack of folks where the techies dont regularly post. You can still get your news here and you will likely attract other folks like you (maybe tell them over on other places that we now have sports news). Just trying to help