• @random9
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    109 months ago

    Wait, who says baseball didn’t survive? DS9 had a baseball game, against the Vulcans nonetheless iirc, clearly they still know the game is and have teams that play it. Am I missing something?

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      139 months ago

      DS9 said baseball didn’t survive. Living holodeck version of Buck Bokai said as much to Sisko:

      BUCK: Well, that was baseball’s epitaph, wasn’t it. Nobody seemed to have time for us anymore. I could’ve played five more years if they hadn’t killed the game.

      SISKO: You were the best that ever played. I know. I’ve played with them all. I’ve got work to do.

      BUCK: Hey, Ben. It really meant a lot to me, how much you cared. That day we won that world series, there were only three hundred people in the stands.

      From If Wishes Were Horses.

      • @random9
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        79 months ago

        Hmm, I guess I have forgotten the exact dialog, as it was over 10 years ago since I watched that. I guess the implication is that it didn’t survive as a professional competitive sport? Because there definitely are teams that play it at least casually - and I went to check, it was indeed a Vulcan baseball team that challenged Sisco https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Logicians - so I’d argue it still has survived to some degree, no?

        • Flying SquidOPM
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          129 months ago

          The whole point of that episode was that Sisko and Solok had been competing with each other for years and Solok put together and trained a baseball team specifically to challenge Sisko.

          The one place that baseball was still regularly played by the time of DS9 was Cestus III, which is how Kasidy Yates knew about it. Her brother played baseball there.

        • Flying SquidOPM
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          39 months ago

          You know, I just had a thought. Maybe there were only 300 seats in the stands because he played for the London Kings and everyone in Britain was like, “why the fuck would we watch this American shite?”