Throughout the years, Major League Baseball has become known for being unbelievably strict when it comes to the sharing and publishing of its highlights on social media.
Despite the fact that baseball is a sport that consistently loses its grip on the interest of young sports fans, the higher-ups of Major League Baseball have still yet to adapt, as they ceaselessly hunt down anyone and everyone who tweets highlights or clips from their own personal Twitter accounts.
By contrast, the NBA doesn’t bother anyone who’s voluntarily helping them grow their own game through social media and it’s worked like gangbusters, as NBA highlights blanket Twitter during the season, which only further fosters the sport’s growth.
Baseball, almost as if they’re trying to be an out-of-touch-with-the-times parody of themselves, has chosen the alternative route and hands out DMCA notices like they’re being paid per complaint.
And last night, when one of the biggest moments of the baseball season happened, Major League Baseball was unable to tweet highlights of the epic Juan Soto go-ahead 8th inning hit.
— MLB (@MLB) October 2, 2019
— MLB (@MLB) October 2, 2019
As for why they weren’t able to tweet out their own highlights, apparently, Twitter was broken last night and wasn’t allowing users to upload videos, which served as much-needed punishment for a professional sports organization that’s more concerned with protecting their precious media property than they are with growing a sport that desperately needs it.
Following their epic come-from-behind 4-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers, the Nationals will kick on the National League Division Series on Thursday went they head to California to take on the Los Angeles Dodgers.
[h/t Barstool Sports]
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