NIÑO'S CORNER: Stop Letting Sports Run Your Life and Your Country
It’s not just a distraction. Watching the game makes you an active participant in the undoing of America’s social fabric. Turn off the sports, and live a healthy life that promotes family, financial independence, and community growth.
President Donald Trump was on to something this week when he urged a boycott of Major League Baseball.
“We have more people than they do. We don’t use the power of the people, you know. The people should boycott those companies that all of a sudden are so righteous,” he told Newsmax.
The power of the people does need to be put to good use. That’s exactly right.
But don’t just think of this like a boycott. The MLB, NBA, and NFL aren’t going to shed any tears or even notice a hit to their bottom line even if tens of thousands of people stop tuning in to their programming.
Last year’s World Series saw its worst ratings ever, but nearly 10 million people still watched. Is the MLB more or less woke now than it was a year ago? You don’t have to be a sports junkie to know the answer. Everyone knows about the All-Star game being moved out of Atlanta, Georgia, after that state slightly adjusted its election rules to include an ID requirement.
It’s the latest example of corporate grandstanding against any modicum of conservative advancement in the culture. So, no, turning off the game isn’t about pressuring these sports leagues to change their ways. It should be about improving and expanding upon Georgia’s modest step in the right direction.
Imagine the opportunity cost for the individual, the family, the community, and the whole country, all because of the social inertia that plumps millions of Americans down on their seats for ball games week in and week out.
One study found that in 2019, about a quarter of American adults spend one to three hours a week on sports. Not playing sports. Watching, listening to, or reading about them. At the low end, that’s nearly 100 million hours per week wasted on just one part of mass consumer culture.
America’s pastime used to be baseball, but even watching it today doesn’t do anything for nostalgia’s sake. Like Boy Scouts of America, the institution is rotten, but that doesn’t make games of catch or camping trips any less a good idea than they were a generation or two ago. Quite the opposite.
Now more than ever it’s vital for Americans to build up institutions and personal habits that imbibe virtue into their families and communities. That’s the only way to counteract the blob of managerial elites in the media, academy, government, and even increasingly in the military and police, who accelerate the Woke Left’s anti-white, anti-Christian, and anti-American agenda.
Instead of passively gazing upon men in numbered jerseys accomplish great feats while your own neighborhood descends into mediocrity, commit that hour or two every week to positive action.
Put extra effort into getting married and starting a family, against all odds. Or at least get your finances straight so that you may be in a position to lend a hand to those around you already struggling to raise their family.
Another option is to thrust yourself into the community through a church or some civic organization that isn’t completely marched through by the Left. Embrace a role that from the outside seems limiting or even subservient, but which will help you grow and discover inner-strengths you didn’t know you had.
Exercise, lift weights, increase your endurance and physical skills to further serve those around you. Study history, economics, philosophy, or religion. Your choices are innumerable.
Just a couple months away from sports, or any other passive and wasteful habit, will give you a fresh perspective. You’ll look back and recognize the degeneracy in today’s professional sports and professional spectatorship.
Call it out when you see it on TV and also within your own life. Only when both are addressed will real progress be made.