FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for July 22, 2023

Jason you don’t strike me as much of a sport guy. And what you just said proves it.

Baseball strike, WGA (Writers Guild of America), Actors union. It must be disappointing when some people go on strike and so few care. Even more enlightening when they go on strike and so many are happy and relieved.

I couldn’t remember when I quit watching baseball. It was after one of the strikes or lockouts. The 70’s I think. Been watching college softball the past two years. Pretty exciting.

This was the strike where they should have insisted on a salary floor and cap. It is too out of control now.

Cute.

But baseball has many strikes in every game, and the players sometimes walk off too. /s

Introduce Jason to Sabermetrics. He’ll become a fan then.

I’ll always think of the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike as the one that cost the Atlanta Braves a World Series win.

Like Jason, many fans didn’t come back afterward. It took the Mark McGwire/Sammy Sosa competition to break Roger Maris’ single-season home-run record in 1998 to get people excited about baseball again.

I stopped watching about the time the players started spending more time adjusting their sponsored clothing than playing the game

I stopped watching professional sports as a teenager when I realized all they cared about was money – and with the multi-million contracts today – the average family cannot afford to go to a game – hard to teach “sportsmanship” to kids today with the pro’s being arrested for felonies all of the time -

Constant bickering so each side could make a bit more killed my love of baseball. Basketball and football seem to have edonomic matters under control.

Wouldja lookit that, I stopped watching baseball not long after this strike referenced in the strip. Not because it canceled the World Series, but because Roberto Alomar spit in an umpire’s face for calling him out on a close play

How about a double header?

Don’t forget not watching the foul shots

“I say, there’s something kinda ‘Ewwwwwww!’ about a kid whose never played baseball.” — Foghorn Leghorn

Roger’s deadpan in the last panel makes this one for me. Fun.

Who lost the 1994 Worlds Series? The fans.

His favorite part of the hockey games are the boxing breaks.