Don’t take it too seriously. It was no more than a harmless flirtation. Worrying about things as trivial as this is what is killing the Democrat party and liberals in general.
well .. back to the good old "anti-social" ways ... "IN PERSON"
.. What a concept. What will they think of next ?? Marriages AND honeymoons by proxy ?? GET A FUCKING LIFE, GEORGE
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Well It worked for millions of years before all of these "anti-social" media, online "dating" shit popped up.
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Cheesy…but let’s be real, he only walked up to them because he wanted it as his introduction. They clearly don’t know anything about baseball and aren’t Braves fans. So, they are likely there to find guys as well..
Really? It’s very awkward for the woman if she’s not interested. It’s not cool and she shouldn’t be put in that position and yes I’d say the same if it were a woman asking a man out.
You should really try being a woman sometime. It might be eye-opening. It was an extremely controlling and creepy thing to do. I guess you just outed yourself as the creeper.
In the history of human language, there’s never been an instance of the phrase “Ligten up!” coming out of the mouth of a person who knows how to read the room.
This behavior, between the men in the booth & the reporter doing this on camera is coercive.
Horndog behavior should be kept private, obviously. Still, in full context, with all the hideous, nasty Nazi behavior occurring this is not a big deal. Pick up the flag on this one. 🤔
Kinda gross to be asking someone to give you their number on TV.
The general rule is: If the other person is either physically or socially prevented from being able to run away, do not ask them out or for their personal info, lest you prove yourself a creep.
Dreadfully inappropriate, I worked at an ABC affiliate in the 90s & if 1 of our sportscasters had behaved this way, he would have at least spent an hour being ripped by the news director & placed on probation, if he was lucky. If the audience backlash was wholly negative his ass would be gone.
Whoa Joe! Timeout for the inebriated quarterback.
Yikes, Yeah, I forgot that this had been a real thing.
Wasn't he the one who posed in nothing but a mink coat & a smile in Cosmo?
The middle of the 70s were such a blur to me.
Led Zep, KISS & Disco? I must have been dreaming.
It's unprofessional, for sure. However, the people here whining about how it was "coercive" are just demonstrating the extent to which their social life is confined to online spaces.
With all due respect, how is it that you feel that being put on the spot on live television in front of a national audience wasn't coercive? The power differential is enormous.
She wasn't being put "on the spot." She doesn't owe him, or his viewers, anything at all and if she can't see that, then she needs to work on her own sense of self-possession. Maybe you do too.
Telling someone to "fuck off" is always ok, any time, any place.
In that case, I misread the intention of your comment and will wholeheartedly apologise.
In the other contexts that this sentiment is being used in, people are also saying 'she could have just given him a fake number to be nice' in the same post as 'this wasn't coercive,' and, what...?
He probably didn't see it that way, we'll never know. But I know that you can give someone a fake number just to be polite. He's probably not gonna check while he's live.
I would. I would have a lot of trouble “ruining the good vibes” and disappointing [emasculating] a man in front of his friends after he planned a whole thing “for me.” I would feel scared and humiliated and pressured to say whatever got me out of the spotlight.
Sounds like something deeper here. I'd imagine it's quite scary or nerve-wracking, in some cases, proposing in a large, crowded venue. Maybe he's certain you'd say yes? Or if he's ready for marriage but you're not, then there's bigger fish to fry than something like a stadium proposal.
The reporter's colleagues were stupid for egging him on. The reporter was stupid for actually going through with the stunt. The poor woman was a victim who deserves an apology - because she was used as a prop in somebody else's sick joke.
He did it on live television in front of thousands of people. That's called coercion. It's a gigantic red flag that this guy will not respect boundaries.
Does it cross the line from “I wouldn’t do it” to “condemnation?” No. Would I disapprove if his bosses disciplined him? Not at all, in fact were I his boss, I might suspend him for two weeks.
Men need to step it up and make women feel wanted, respected and desired but not in a perverse manner and not with control or misogyny. Or they will be jacking it while the women continue to find love bumping fuzzies! Here kitty kitty! Just saying guys! 😂
I don’t know. On one hand, I understand the upset and how it seems coercive but on the other I know some people like big over the top pronouncements like this. I’m on the fence watching how it plays out. 🤷🏽♂️
Seriously? We were watching it live. It was funny, a joke played for laughs, and the women involved didn't in any way seem uncomfortable. The booth switched back to the cam showing the reporter chatting with the female fans more than once, showing an animated and friendly ongoing conversation.
Probably should stick to baseball. It would make me uncomfortable — I don’t want to embarrass anyone, but I don’t know anyone who gives out their number to strangers (on air?)
I always just said no, back in my college and dating days, if I did not want someone to have my number. I taught my daughter to just refuse, politely. I taught my son that no means no.
I'd say it's inappropriate behaviour from someone meant to be a professional TV personality, not to mention she was put under a lot of pressure with cameras on her and an audience watching, not cool...
Absolutely nasty. He's in a position of power over her and using that as coercion. He could've waited until he wasn't being filmed, or - get this - NOT DONE IT AT WORK BECAUSE THAT CRAP IS UNPROFESSIONAL AF
If your first interaction with someone is a clear demonstration that they will use the social pressure of thousands to get what they want from you, and you don’t see that as a red flag, you may want to take off your rose-colored glasses.
Did you just say no and excuse yourself?
Look, I get that there are bad situations with men (I have been subjected to it as well) but this just isn't that.
Why do you feel entitled to judge how I responded? That’s why it’s so uncomfortable. Now everyone gets to have an opinion on how you reacted and if you did it the right way.
You can see how she tries to lean away from him but is blocked by the railing and his hover hand. He has her cornered physically and socially. He may have thought it playful and innocent, but it’s that blindness to the problem that is part of what enabled a rapist to become president.
It may seem like a small thing when we have a madman in the White House, but this moment captures a small symptom of a larger systemic problem that enables predatory men like Trump and leads voters to turn a blind eye to it with “It’s just flirty fun. Boys will be boys.”
We have so many things to worry about in this country, big things like democracy and tyranny and the rule of law. This is so inconsequential and frankly, stupid.
Aside from being rather unprofessional, there's a power imbalance with a TV personality and puts her on the spot in the public eye. It's undue pressure. I hope she gave him a fake number.
Polite?
Respectful?
No coercion or pressure?
A bit unprofesional, but if in our current world this is what people choose to get upset about then either their priorities are wrong or they are in denial.
I don't think that you can just make snap judgements about the interactions between two adults with limited context or involvement. People are allowed to make their own personal mistakes. It's not like their hook up is going to ruin the country's geopolitical standing or destroy the earth's climate.
Again, that is true about almost everything. Most awful things that people do don't have the effects you said. Should we therefore not care about them? When a cop shoots an unarmed kid, should we not care? Because your logic says we shouldn't.
I actually think the bigger problem is when you equate the loss of a child's life by way of unnecessary gun violence to an extremely public hookup and expect an equal amount of outrage. I care about people being disappeared off the street without due process, not policing someone's relationship.
Okay... that sounds a lot more like projection and conjecture. Nobody besides those two adults knows the real context of that exchange, their motives, or their feelings, so until an actual crime happens I literally don't care.
Yeah. I don't. People are allowed to make mistakes. For all we know they could be looking back at this moment a few years from now while happily married with kids.
Just because their hook up doesn't conform to your ideal doesn't make it wrong. If they get hurt then by all means be outraged at that.
Not okay. Like public proposals on crowded room. No. It's putting pressure to the woman to say yes even if she wouldn't want to.
Because everyone is watching and cheering.
No bad here. Ridiculous got blow back! He got put the spot, turned it around, got a smart women’s #, handled it like a gentlemen! IF he calls she can say yes/no! This is a sniff of why we lost males in last election! We must wake up to how we constantly put men in no win positions and knock it off!
Speaking only for myself I don't care about incels and their fragile sense of masculinity. As a man, I'm happy to say buh-bye to these intellectually and morally pathetic dudes. Let them vote for somebody else who gives a fuck?
Girls are taught to be "nice" and "polite." Guys are allowed to be assholes and get away with it.
Ladies, it's time to take back our power. Utterly EMASCULATE him by saying, on live TV, that you would NEVER give him your number because he's a rude dickhead and you only date gentlemen.
I agree that he was way out of line, but the guys telling him to ask are equally wrong, maybe even more so because he probably wouldn't have done it if they weren't pushing him to do so.
Straight dating protocol is beyond my ken, but if it had been two guys, I would have recommended that he wait until he was off the air to ask the other guy out.
There isn't really any difference between the two. He should have waited until they weren't both being recorded. The only reason you would do this on camera is because you assume it would sway the answer they give you.
This could be a killer "How I met your mom" story.
Everyone just relax. Our opinions don't matter. His bosses do.
I hope he doesn't get fired for being...human.
None of us are perfect. If SHE had a problem, he'd be all over the web.
Yep. She flirted with him for a long time throughout the game. I was watching it live. She was clearly into him but all the pearl clutchers here just watch a clip and get their pitchforks out.
That's why in 2025 you learn the local police department non-emergency number and enter it into the phone instead of your real number. He's probably not the first dolt she's had to deal with.
Being outraged by everything is not exclusive to Democrats. Seems to me the MAGA crowd is outraged by our constitutional protections and wants to eliminate them. that's a bigger deal for sure, but the reporter in the story is a scumbag, and I think people should have the right to comment on that.
I don’t disagree. They’re evil. But that doesn’t mean I can’t think we lose winnable races because of the abuse of canceling people for silly reasons. See @alfranken.bsky.social
Agree with you on that. Where Democrats fall down is not explaining in ways ordinary people can understand the banality of evil. Sexist jokes spawn sexist behavior, and MAGA cancels people every day. Like trans people who most conservatives will never ever encounter. Ever. Cruelty is the point.
I wouldn't do it, but increasingly it seems like I'm out of touch for possessing respect and consideration for both myself and others, so what do I know?
RUDE. Creepy. Put her in an uncomfortable position. Sometimes people laugh to cover up unease. Looks like she gave it to him. I hope it was a fake one. This is why women choose the bear.
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.. What a concept. What will they think of next ?? Marriages AND honeymoons by proxy ?? GET A FUCKING LIFE, GEORGE
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Well It worked for millions of years before all of these "anti-social" media, online "dating" shit popped up.
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and this is crazy.
But here's my number,
so call me maybe.."
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Carly Rae Jepsen
Or
Network must pay $5 million in civil damages after giving her lawyer's phone number to horny reporter.
When it’s on live fucking tv, in front of a stadium of people, and HotShot’s bros in the booth egging him on, it’s abuse.
In the history of human language, there’s never been an instance of the phrase “Ligten up!” coming out of the mouth of a person who knows how to read the room.
This behavior, between the men in the booth & the reporter doing this on camera is coercive.
The general rule is: If the other person is either physically or socially prevented from being able to run away, do not ask them out or for their personal info, lest you prove yourself a creep.
if he is genuine, doing the asking off cam perhaps in private
Immature, insecure, coercive, abusive, toxic. I spent enough time on this juvenile and his creepy cohorts. NEXT!
Yikes, Yeah, I forgot that this had been a real thing.
Wasn't he the one who posed in nothing but a mink coat & a smile in Cosmo?
The middle of the 70s were such a blur to me.
Led Zep, KISS & Disco? I must have been dreaming.
Donaldo delenda est
Donaldo delenda est
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Don't hit people.
if he is genuine, doing the asking off cam perhaps in private
I agree, don't hit 👍🏻
Likely my paternal instinct kicked in
Telling someone to "fuck off" is always ok, any time, any place.
In the other contexts that this sentiment is being used in, people are also saying 'she could have just given him a fake number to be nice' in the same post as 'this wasn't coercive,' and, what...?
I don't know who needs to hear this, but "no" is a complete sentence.
This is not an attempted rape, you can put away the whistle.
The only people who need to hear that are on X and they can't read a complete sentence.
You can't have it both ways. You need to pick one.
“You’ve reached [my former HS] attendance office. How can I help?”
It just feels coercive when there are cameras and stuff around.
Does it cross the line from “I wouldn’t do it” to “condemnation?” No. Would I disapprove if his bosses disciplined him? Not at all, in fact were I his boss, I might suspend him for two weeks.
It isn’t cute
It’s coercive
Manipulative
Disturbing tone deaf to boundary time and place
The assumption someone is to be flattered and comply is telling.
But I’m a real ball buster
Look, I get that there are bad situations with men (I have been subjected to it as well) but this just isn't that.
Kinda seems old fashion cringe though. Like, if there was a spark between the two and the dude felt something was there - do it off camera.
It sounds live "overreacting" ...
In my guess, it was more planed like joke or entertaining or what ever ... make not thought fully trough it.
But it may be also seen different in American than in Europe.
More be alarmed about the circus in the White House ...
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Respectful?
No coercion or pressure?
A bit unprofesional, but if in our current world this is what people choose to get upset about then either their priorities are wrong or they are in denial.
Its toxic andddddd one of the underpinnings of all that is going on in the world
White supremacy comes in all flavors. Including this one
Just because their hook up doesn't conform to your ideal doesn't make it wrong. If they get hurt then by all means be outraged at that.
And projecting.
Please normalize flirting. This Neo-Puritanism has to stop -it scares away voters.
Because everyone is watching and cheering.
Maybe they'll get married in the future.
A Sinclair owned station ?
Ladies, it's time to take back our power. Utterly EMASCULATE him by saying, on live TV, that you would NEVER give him your number because he's a rude dickhead and you only date gentlemen.
No, just no!
Everyone just relax. Our opinions don't matter. His bosses do.
I hope he doesn't get fired for being...human.
None of us are perfect. If SHE had a problem, he'd be all over the web.
But it does work as proof that sexual preferences are what you’re born with, cuz I’d love to be a lesbian or bi right now.
Straight dudes are so fucking pitiful. You have to clockwork orange them to get them up to mid. 🤣
I'm so sick of this need to boogeyman men for doing basic shit like asking a girl out, and treating it like sexual assault.
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Share it with the guys in the booth.