“Keep the politics away from my sports,” the angry comment reads. “I just want to watch a ball game.” “If I wanted to pay attention to politics, I’d pay attention to politics. I watch baseball to get away from politics.”
Anyone who has paid attention to sports has seen a comment like this. Indeed, many of you readers have typed a comment like this. They are not inherently good or bad, ban-able or laudable; rather, they are simply statements of opinion—a widely held one at that.
Furthermore, this opinion is easy to empathize with. Politics is, by its nature, often messy and combative and ugly.