The END of MLB Champagne Celebrations?

The END of MLB Champagne Celebrations?

Here’s Brody Brazil. If you want to leave a voicemail, it’s quite simple to do 247 anytime you’re ready at 8334 Brody. I literally listen to every single message and then I get to play back and respond to the very best ones. Hi Brody, it’s Jeff from Vanise, California. I want to hear your thoughts on all those wild champagne soaked celebrations every team has that makes it to the postseason once they clinch a postseason birth. To me, they are very painful to watch. Back in the day, we only had to witness the beer guzzling and champagne being sprayed on the ceilings and the walls of the clubhouse or poured over players and reporters heads when a team won a World Series. But now, 12 teams go into a wild alcoholic celebration and pour champagne on each other and spray it all over the room just for clinching a postseason birth. Even though four of those teams are going to be very quickly eliminated in the wild card series. That’s true. Then we go through it again when six of those teams clinch first place in their division. Then again for each of the teams that win the wild card series and again for each division series winner and again for each of the league champions and then again for the team that wins the World Series. These celebrations seem pointless for the 11 teams that go home disappointed especially for the 10 that don’t even make it to the World Series. As a fan this is very painful to watch. Even the players are given even though the players are given goggles most of them choose not to wear them and you can see the champagne burning their eyes. Yeah, many of us have children, little leakers in some cases. See their heroes guzzling bottles of alcohol, pouring it over each other’s heads and on reporters, which is kind of a bad influence on these young boys who may think it’s okay to behave this way when they win a championship. And as painful is as it is to see the team you root for doing this after they’ve won, it’s even more painful to watch if you’re a fan of the losing team sort of rubbing salt in the wound. It’s a terrible look for baseball. Another thing, when a team clinches a postseason birth before the regular season is over, very often they have another game to play the next day. Sometimes even a day game after a night game. Yeah. Most of the players may still be hung over from their champagne cell soap celebration the night before, which could affect their play the next day. Several of these teams that clinched a playoff birth still have a chance to clinch first place or a higher seed or a buy. So, they still have to play a meaningful game the next day. Brody, what do you think of Major League Baseball? Do you think Major League Baseball should ban these Wild Beer and Champagne Silk celebrations or maybe limit them to just the team that wins the World Series? What do you think, Jeff? Thank you for the call. That’s very thoughtful the way that you put all of this. I mean, all the different angles. You said you didn’t like it, but then you also gave me all the reasons why you’re not a fan of this. Um, let me just say that personally, I would never participate as a media member in any kind of champagne uh celebrations. Oh, no. I you know what it does? It still does sting my eyes. Like when I look at that, it makes my eyes start to water. I distinctly remember this. It was almost 20 years ago. So I’m going to explain this. I’m I’m going to explain all of this in just a second. The A’s were in the playoffs. They just beat the Minnesota Twins in the 2006 ALDS. They’re advancing here to the ALCS. They did it in their home clubhouse of the Oakland Coliseum. Look at Frank Thomas and Milton Bradley. That was Nick Swisser, by the way, who douseed me with alcohol there. Joe Blandon, Rich Harden, I can name all the names. Boy, that’s pretty incriminating right there, isn’t it? Like I I pulled out the archive video. And it’s kind of sad that in all my years, all my years of covering baseball, I only got to do one of these. I only I was in the studio a lot, too, in all fairness. So, I I covered a lot of these celebrations from the studio with our people inside the clubhouse. But I understand the point, the question, and maybe the criticism of should we really still be doing this in 2025 and beyond? Now, again, this was in 2006. I’m not here to make excuses, but times were a bit different maybe back then. Have we evolved past the point of needing to do this or should we still be doing this? I understand the tradition of, hey, we only pop champagne. We only do these celebrations if we win the championship. That’s the last day of the baseball season. We’re the last ones. We’re the last ones standing. I get it. Versus, okay, we pop champagne to clinch a playoff spot. We pop champagne to clinch the division. We pop champagne to get to the next round and the next round. But let me just say this. Here’s what I understand from the player side of this. The baseball season is so long and it’s such a grind and there is so much weight on your shoulders. And I’m not saying, “Oh, well, free pass to do whatever you want when you win.” But I mean, if you understand the relief, the release, and the stress that’s coming off the shoulders of these players now, should we be televising this? Does this need to happen in the public view? Like, we we’ll get to that. We’ll get to that. I promise. But from just understanding, should we be celebrating these milestones of clinching a playoff spot, getting to the next round, advancing, whatever it is, winning the West, uh you name it. Yes, I think that you should. I think baseball teams should take the time and the opportunity to your point about well what about the next day? Typically the celebrations are very toned down if there still is more on the table, right? If the team has just won anything and everything they can win for right now and there’s a day off tomorrow or whatever, then they’re going to just do what they want. But I also understand that point too of what about the next day and not showing up. I admittedly see this all very different when you just saw me there getting dowsted with champagne by Nick Swisser. Or was that? No, that was champagne. Yeah, still stinks. There was champagne and beer in there, right? Um I admittedly see this different when I was 25 years old at that time. Yeah, I was 25 back then. Uh versus 44 right here, right now. I’m a dad now. To the point of the call, my 8-year-old son, like imagine if he were watching that and saying, “Is that like what I’m supposed to do when I turn uh hopefully 21 or after?” And I mean, think about even a like a hockey dressing room. There’s a lot of They don’t do this in hockey. It’s a baseball thing really. Uh but you’ve got a lot of players that are 18, 19, 20 in the NHL. So, how does that situation go? Uh I admittedly see this different as a father, as an older adult versus 25. I I plainly, and I don’t want to be the old man shouting at clouds. I’m not telling you we should stop doing this. I’m not saying that yet. And also, in fairness, what are we talking about here? We talk about alcohol and and we’re talking about light beer. We’re talking about Kors Light. I’m pretty sure the mountains were blue in that in that clubhouse and champagne, right? There’s no hard alcohol. There’s no illicit drugs going on. There’s nothing that that’s like this is as simple as it gets. And it literally is just like Coors Lights and whatever champagne is is on uh available and in the buckets iced up. So, I’m we’re they there are some boundaries. There are some limits here. It It has not escalated. By the way, I think Did you see anybody with goggles in ‘ 06 back then? They were just starting to come in fashion like to put the ski goggles on because the champagne hurt your eyes. Like your eyes are super bloodshot. By the way, what I’ll never forget was driving home that day. Like I didn’t consume any any of that. Like I didn’t drink champagne. What I did keep was a champagne cork. I still have it in the other room from that actual celebration. One of the only things I’ve ever kept, by the way, in covering sports. I was I smelt like alcohol and I hopped in my car. I think I had a Toyota Tacoma back then. Driving driving driving back maybe back to the studio after that and I’m thinking wait I’ve got a 45mile drive here. 40 mile drive. If I get pulled over the CHP officer is going to say what you what did you do? Like how much did you drink? And in reality zero but I had champagne all over me. So I I remember driving thinking is this is this a good idea? Should I have broughten a change of clothes or should I have burn burned the old clothes or threw them in the back of the truck? Anyway, didn’t think that one out. I didn’t didn’t know that was going to happen. Didn’t actually expect it. Anyway, this is going to happen in professional sports, in baseball. Let’s let’s is let’s keep it isolated on baseball. This is going to happen. But why do we feel the need to televise it? If you really think about it, and actually I’ve always thought this, why do we do interviews always in the locker room situation? you know, so here’s a room where players are going to change. They’re going to be naked. They’re going to be, you know, this is their office space and we need to do this here. There’s a media room. There’s a separate room. We can have the scrum around other people. We can bring them in in an orderly fashion. Do we really do we need the media to be doing this type of work? And do we need to be showcasing this in the most private space? Like if there was an office changing work uh changing room uh at your work and HR did all their meetings in the office changing room, you’d be like, “What? It doesn’t make any sense. But do we like Again, there’s two parts of this. Should this happen versus do we need to show all of it? I mean, fans seem to love it. They get the most amazing and electric quotes because the players are feeling really happy and as loose as they ever will. And maybe they’ve just guzzled down a few quarts lights too quickly. But does that present the wrong image to who’s watching? I get it. Here’s what I’m here’s what I’m going to say. All of this has now become too ingrained in sports culture and baseball culture. the routine aspect of, hey, we want something. We’re going to pop bottles. We’re going to, you know, drink champagne, pour it on each other, spray it around, and and drink Kors Lights or whatever. I can’t say that I’m necessarily against it. I I now see it differently and I understand it. Is it the most responsible thing? Do I do I feel like I need to have a chat with my son at some point about what are you watch He’s never seen one of these before. Well, partially because we haven’t watched a little baseball lately and we don’t really have a team uh at this point, but he’s never really seen this. So, how do I explain what’s going on here? And how do I make sure that responsibly? And imagine if he were 18, like 10 years older. How do I navigate this? So, I I understand that. I don’t know. I I guess maybe I don’t really have a full conclusion on this. I don’t And that’s okay. I get both sides of it. Here’s here’s probably the best way to put it. We should be thinking about this a little bit differently now. It’s not mandatory. It’s not required. It’s something to consider. Do we really need to keep doing this? Let me know what you think in the comments section down below. Also, while you’re there, thumbs up. If you’re new here to the channel, appreciate you finding me. 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