Where Are You Posting From Now?

[Euclid]

The worst I've had in a ballpark to date.

Sour grapes?

[Dan]

Sour grapes?

Nope, posted that to IG stories when we were winning.

[aygart]

Sour grapes?

They were sweet

[Spoon]

The worst I've had in a ballpark to date.

Did you have the sausage?

[Dan]

Did you have the sausage?

Yes, flavor was fine, bun was weak, and it's just barely cooked.
Sausage and fries at Blue Jays games are 100x better.

[Dan]

Hyatt Regency Resorts World JFK

[Euclid]

They were sweet

If you're a Mets fan

[Dan]

Citi Field

LGB chants are still alive and well. Who knew?
Does this happen everywhere there's a Brandon?

[Dan]

The Ohel

[YitzyS]

Speaking of the Mets, Rabbi Yisroel Reisman once made a great joke:

He was saying that a boy once asked Rav Moshe Feinstein if he's allowed to daven that the Mets should win. Rabbi Reisman joked that it would apparently be a Tefillas Shav, because it's impossible for the Mets to win...

[EliJelly]

Speaking of the Mets, Rabbi Yisroel Reisman once made a great joke:

He was saying that a boy once asked Rav Moshe Feinstein if he's allowed to daven that the Mets should win. Rabbi Reisman joked that it would apparently be a Tefillas Shav, because it's impossible for the Mets to win...

Wow, how cultures are different. I don't think any Chassidish choshiva rov - which rav Reizman certainly is - have the slightest idea or knowledge of ballgames/teams. Not judging or denigrating him of course, just finding very interesting the stark difference in the two cultures towards sports and how it still haven't changed.

[YitzyS]

Wow, how cultures are different. I don't think any Chassidish choshiva rov - which rav Reizman certainly is - have the slightest idea or knowledge of ballgames/teams. Not judging or denigrating him of course, just finding very interesting the stark difference in the two cultures towards sports and how it still haven't changed.

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say. do you mean that Rabbi Reisman is a litvish choshiva rov, and that is why he knows, while a chasidish choshuv rov would not know?

If that is what you mean, it's probably true. But at the same time, you don't have to be so "out there" to know that the Mets have a reputation of losing. I am not at all a sports fan and I know that they have that reputation.

[Dan]

Wow, how cultures are different. I don't think any Chassidish choshiva rov - which rav Reizman certainly is - have the slightest idea or knowledge of ballgames/teams. Not judging or denigrating him of course, just finding very interesting the stark difference in the two cultures towards sports and how it still haven't changed.

Define aware of vs follow and define current events.

I'm pretty sure most other Chassidic Rebbes would put the Brooklyn Dodgers or Yankees in the same category as keeping up with the Kardashians.

And once again out of right field comes Chabad

And of course this famous story.
https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/95881/jewish/Fans-and-Players.htm
https://collive.com/the-rebbes-conversation-with-a-boy-about-baseball/#comment-1954469

Another baseball as a moshul story:
http://ascentofsafed.com/cgi-bin/ascent.cgi?Name=286-32

I don't think anybody asked the rebbe if they should follow sports or not.

They say that the Rebbe told leible groner a  mazal tov or something like that when the dodgers won

There's a story of stock when he skipped out on his chair chavrusa with the rebbe before the nesius to go to a dodgers game

[EliJelly]

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say. do you mean that Rabbi Reisman is a litvish choshiva rov, and that is why he knows, while a chasidish choshuv rov would not know?

If that is what you mean, it's probably true. But at the same time, you don't have to be so "out there" to know that the Mets have a reputation of losing. I am not at all a sports fan and I know that they have that reputation.

I will try to explain. Chassidim today struggle with the same problems than the rest of society. Be it internet, social media, extravagant lifestyles/indulgences and all the things which were almost non existent 30/40 years. I find it interesting that davka following sports which is certainly not as bad as the above and is more acceptable amongst litvaks, to the point that a famous esteemed choshiva Rov can joke about teams while giving a shiur, is still almost non existent amongst your average chassidish guy. Unlike women driving/men shaving etc. which are enforced through schools and are detrimental for shidduchim in chassidish circles, following sports isn't something that is even on most people's radar and they have zero interest for it, although it isn't something that can be enforced. Most people I know wouldn't be able to name sports teams besides for the Yankees and Mets (ok, some names might slip through by listening to the radio for  news and weather/traffic but usually it's a nuisance), let alone who has the reputation to win or lose. I'm not talking of those who are davka big tzaddikim, it's just as foreign and non appealing as following Tibetan rituals. 

[Dan]

Some people's sports is politics. What's the difference?

[Dan]

AA4722, 2A
7.5K BA still going strong, BH.

[EliJelly]

Some people's sports is politics. What's the difference?

Look at my above post. Following sports isn't necessarily worse than being fully into politics, it simply doesn't enter our world. Politics after all is legitimate news, it is about our government, it's covered in the frum papers, inevitably when you're open to it there will be those who'll get all caught up. 

[Dan]

Look at my above post. Following sports isn't necessarily worse than being fully into politics, it simply doesn't enter our world. Politics after all is legitimate news, it is about our government, it's covered in the frum papers, inevitably when you're open to it there will be those who'll get all caught up. 

Just funny to me that politics is OK but sports isn't.
Politics is far dirtier and much more likely to defile your intellect than sports.

But hey, everyone needs a hobby.

[Yehuda57]

it's just as foreign and non appealing as following Tibetan rituals.

The amount of Chassidim at Yankee Stadium begs to differ, as well as the "tell me" like hot line that used to provide Yankee scores in Yiddish

[yelped]

UA4722, 2A
7.5K BA still going strong, BH.

AA bumped you again?