Results gathered in response to an open question ("For a piece I'm working on: describe MLB's image in five or fewer words. If you feel like it, describe the other major leagues, too.")posted on @unlikelyfanatic on Monday, February 27th.
Generally Positive
Great way to spend afternoon.
The most poetic sport ever
Things I love: baseball, naps.
most beautiful perfect game ever
favorite
Youth movement of epic proportions.
Best league on the planet ...
new generation challenging white "guardians"
Longer the better, baseball rules
Heart wrenchingly beautiful.
beer drinkin', TV yellin'
Tradition, American, always there
good to drink to
more progressive than other sports
earnest
Could go on forever
abstract random cumulative suspenseful beauty
Generally Neutral
dull only to dull minds
Doing things the "right" way
Doing just fine without you.
focused on wrong issues
on while doing other things
Great game stuck in tradition
Background noise.
what you watch in summer
Historic. Maybe too historic? Steroids.
It's summer, so us again
the past, good and bad
Baseball played by professional athletes
Ain't broke. Don't fix it.
tryina fix what ain't broken
ain't broke, so don't fix.
Root Root Root For The Home Team
League needs to market players.
Poor job advertising top players
green grass, crack of batGenerally Negative
Too few black stars
sexist tryhard stonewalling shadowy embarrassment.
oh god not Tim tebow.
Experiencing joy is disrespectful
Aloof.
Long games. Really long season.
Manfred's ruining the game.
Old whites commodifying the young
MLB doesn't want your love.
White Nostalgia Disparaging Latinx Influence
poor minority development in US
Actively alienating young fans
It's my dad's favorite sport.
old like a mothballed blanket
not interested in women or growth
MLB: traditional and resistant,
Good old boys club
Old man yells at cloud
nostalgic. and not in a good way.
Mike Trout: only two MVP's
We can't market our stars.
Under-toasted Wonder Bread
Out-of-touch; entitled
let's sweat the small stuff
stuffy and old fashioned.
Trying too hard, stupid changes
148 years of terrible marketing
sport white people still dominate
culturally conservative
outsized obsession over little things
out of touch & overly capitalist
cloistered, bland, anachronistic, white, regional
Slow game for old fans.
Old-fashioned
stodgy
Yearning for the past
Get off my lawn.
out of touch with millennials.
corporate, closed-minded,disingenuous and reactive
game for old white men
old, boring, stuffy, pretentious
1992′s vision of the future
