Post by @timbray@cosocial.ca

In which I attend, 9 days apart, a World Cup match and a minor-league ballgame, enjoy both, and feel kind of guilty about that enjoyment: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/10/Summer-Sports

#worldcup #baseball #latestagecapitalism

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Inside a large stadium, most of the soccer pitch is covered by huge flags with curved edges being held horizontally by many people; meanwhile, two lines of people are separately walking around a circular graphic in the center of the field. One line is dressed in white, the other red.

A photo of a baseball diamond, some fans visible, trees behind the outfield advertising-covered fence, dusky sky above the trees. The pitcher is just in the process of releasing the ball. Painted on the grass behind home plate: Canadians

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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦

@shayman@cosocial.ca 2 hours ago

@timbray I enjoyed reading this and share many of the same sentiments.

Haven't been to the World Cup, but I have been to some pricey Olympic events, Canada/Russia '72, Canada Cup '87 ... and also some extremely minor-league baseball. (Still around in Ontario, not officially connected to MLB - recently grandly renamed to the "Canadian Baseball League".)

And of course I love the CFL.

somehow the lower-level it is, the more I enjoy it — the fans are making roughly the same as the players.