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

ongoing by Tim Bray

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#worldcup #latestagecapitalism #baseball

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John Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁

@johnefrancis@cosocial.ca 1 hour ago

@timbray a lot less whining and.rolling around on the grass in minor baseball I bet.

Paul Turnbull

@Chigaze@cosocial.ca 1 hour ago

@timbray I’m not much of sports person but I’ve enjoyed watching key World Cup games at our local pub and we took some visiting family out see the Edmonton Riverhawks (West Coast League baseball) play. It was much as you described, lots of kids, socialization, and some great banter from the two Edmonton comedians and improv guys calling the game.

At the same, as you note, we’re often stuck receiving this entertainment from deeply questionable organizations. :/

Steve Hayman 🇨🇦

@shayman@cosocial.ca 3 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.