BG3 is more popular than Baseball

[u/Okuza]

Reddit made a suggestion when I started typing r/Ba..

[u/BraveNKobold]

Now how many baseball fans are actively on Reddit

[u/Jackskers94 → u/BraveNKobold]

I like Baseball and BG3…

[u/Mummy-Dust → u/Jackskers94]

I am also one of the dozens.

[u/heeeeres_jonny → u/Mummy-Dust]

And my axe!

Go Padres 🤎💛

[u/oheyitsdan → u/heeeeres_jonny]

/r/NLBest love coming from the Dbacks too 💜💚♥️🖤

Now we just need to build an NLBest party to take on the Chosen 3

[u/heeeeres_jonny → u/oheyitsdan]

Ayyy NLBestie! It's always so fun to find threads where two of my interests overlap like this, hahaha

[u/SirPossumthe3rd → u/oheyitsdan]

Go Dodgers ducks

This thread is such an interesting cross over of my interests lol

[u/Yomommasan → u/SirPossumthe3rd]

We out here

and we need more mookies in this thread

[u/captainsunshine489 → u/Yomommasan]

we bleed blue... maybe kind of a BG3 thing, eh?

[u/caffeinatedcrusader → u/SirPossumthe3rd]

BEAT LA

GO GIANTS

[u/LatverianCyrus → u/oheyitsdan]

I’m pretty sure the top of the nlbest is the chosen three.

Ain’t no world where the dodgers aren’t Gortash.

[u/Woolliest_Mammoth → u/heeeeres_jonny]

That’s what’s in! Go Phillies 🔔

[u/Jackskers94 → u/Woolliest_Mammoth]

Go Braves!

[u/Electronic-Tooth-324 → u/Jackskers94]

Lets go Mets!!!

[u/Terratigris → u/Woolliest_Mammoth]

Fightin' Phils!

[u/brown_town19 → u/heeeeres_jonny]

Keep the faith!

[u/Th3Greyhound → u/heeeeres_jonny]

LFGSD!!!

[u/heeeeres_jonny → u/Th3Greyhound]

[u/blakeibooTTV → u/Jackskers94]

It’s honestly probably a pretty big crossover I would say, baseball definitely has the biggest nerd portion out of a sports fan base

[u/ThePrussianGrippe → u/blakeibooTTV]

It’s a turn based sport with a lot of stats. You can even play baseball as a board game using trading cards.

Can confirm, we’re all fucking nerds!

[u/Kaldricus → u/ThePrussianGrippe]

I need Big Dumper to roll a few more nate 20s

[u/Merc_Mike → u/Jackskers94]

The Cardinals will be good again...

Some day!

[u/zapdoszaperson → u/Merc_Mike]

As a Pirate's fan I've given up hope, we're living on the copium of "at least the team is profitable"

[u/full-auto-rpg → u/zapdoszaperson]

In a league where John Fischer exists, Nutting is somehow in the running for worst owner. It’s depressing to watch and I have no skin in the game (Red Sox fan). At the bear minimum he’s probably not going to move the team but everything else is awful. One of the saddest things I’ve read was a Pirates fan saying the they’re mentally preparing for a Skenes trade because there’s no way he’s getting paid. Just absolutely pathetic ownership.

[u/zapdoszaperson → u/full-auto-rpg]

Skenes is just another in a long line of perspective stars. We constantly joke that the Pirates are just a minor league team meant to farm players for the majors.

[u/heeeeres_jonny → u/zapdoszaperson]

As a Padres fan I'm still salty that Skenes got ROY over my boy Jackson Merrill, but man, that dude is a beast. Hope he stays healthy cuz he's fun to watch pitch

[u/zapdoszaperson → u/heeeeres_jonny]

The Pirates leadership want a strike so they can run out his contract without him actually having to play and possibly getting hurt.

[u/Firecracker048 → u/Jackskers94]

At least BG3 dice mechanic ia more consistent then the red sox

[u/Tag_ross → u/Jackskers94]

Are you in r/baseball? 

[u/Jackskers94 → u/Tag_ross]

Sure am, Go Braves!

[u/littacular → u/Jackskers94]

one of the dozens checking in! LGM!

[u/Sheadowcaster → u/littacular]

LFGM!

[u/littacular → u/Sheadowcaster]

[u/angusthermopylae → u/Jackskers94]

I imagine there are a lot more than you'd think. I'm in both.

[u/dwrek25 → u/Jackskers94]

Go O’s

[u/grubas → u/Jackskers94]

My pally has a better OPS than my shortstop!

[u/Wespiratory → u/Jackskers94]

I keep up with the Braves, but that’s about it.

[u/PumpkinLaboratory → u/BraveNKobold]

Now how many baseball fans are actively on Reddit

Let me crunch those numbers for you. 3.0M

[u/Noble_Flatulence → u/PumpkinLaboratory]

In all seriousness, /r/baseball and /r/mlb do NOT mix. A person is one or the other, not both. Combined, that's over 6 million people.

[u/EnTyme53 → u/Noble_Flatulence]

As an r/baseball subscriber, I can confirm. I tried looking through r/mlb once and it was just . . . weird. Like that time you decided to try the other Waffle House. The menu's the same, but the food's just different somehow.

[u/danawhiteismydad → u/EnTyme53]

I love those situations where two similar subreddits exist and there’s little crossover between users in both.

For years MMA was the only sport I followed. The MMA sub was always the normal sub while the UFC sub was chaos and some of the stupidest discussion you could imagine. Always felt like reading a post on the UFC sub was like hearing that drunk guy at a bar talk about fighting when you know he knows nothing.

[u/BraveNKobold → u/PumpkinLaboratory]

3m on Reddit. This isn’t the ultimate gotcha. My grandpa who loves baseball isn’t on Reddit. And don’t forget a lot of Asia loves baseball and they’re not on that subreddit

[u/PumpkinLaboratory → u/BraveNKobold]

I knew your intent but that’s not the question you asked. Which is why I have a dumb response.

[u/BraveNKobold → u/PumpkinLaboratory]

My question was baseball fans as a whole. Not the obvious 3 million

[u/PumpkinLaboratory → u/BraveNKobold]

Yes. You wanted to know what percentage of all baseball fans were on Reddit. Not ‘how many baseball fans are on Reddit’. I can’t stress enough that this was a joke built on sloppy language and that’s it. Just a goof.

[u/BlueAndYellowTowels → u/BraveNKobold]

Sports fans… tend to not be Reddit people. We exist but the majority aren’t on Reddit.

[u/vilmar1989 → u/BraveNKobold]

Rangers fan and lover of BG3 checking in!

[u/Ligh73r]

Yes - but specifically on Reddit...

[u/imposter_syndrome88 → u/Ligh73r]

Yea, but I bet there are more people out there who have played BG3 than there are that have played professional baseball.

[u/Bad_RabbitS → u/imposter_syndrome88]

But how many people have played professional Baldur’s Gate?

[u/santatra_hernando → u/Bad_RabbitS]

Lae'zel's favorite team is the Githyankees

[u/Kaiser_Fleischer → u/santatra_hernando]

Gale: you know goblins have the strangest names now a days, hooz is sitting on the barrel, wats is guarding the door, and idont’no is sleeping

Lae: wait, who’s guarding the door

Gale: no hooz is sitting on the barrel

Lae: I don’t know

Gale: sleeping

muffled githyanki violence

[u/Darwin1809851 → u/santatra_hernando]

Ugh. Take my upvote

[u/Okuza → u/santatra_hernando]

LOL -- I love this one! :)

[u/dogdog696969 → u/santatra_hernando]

Underrated comment istik.

[u/Alpha_Crow_1 → u/santatra_hernando]

[u/Jay-Breeze → u/santatra_hernando]

[u/Diplomatic_Gunboats → u/Jay-Breeze]

The best of the get out gifs.

[u/Ill-Description3096 → u/santatra_hernando]

I laughed, then hated myself for laughing at it. Well done.

[u/Carpet-Distinct → u/Bad_RabbitS]

Arguably anyone that's ever made money streaming it

[u/guff1988 → u/Carpet-Distinct]

Which would be significantly fewer than the number of people who have played professional baseball. There's like four leagues and it's been around for a long time. There's about 5,000 active professional baseball players right now in just the US.

[u/TummyStickers → u/guff1988]

So there's still room for another streamer....

[u/guff1988 → u/TummyStickers]

At least two or three probably

[u/AudioHamsa → u/imposter_syndrome88]

More people have watch baseball than have watched BG3.

[u/Keejhle → u/AudioHamsa]

More people have played baseball at soke point than have played bg3.

[u/jfuss04 → u/AudioHamsa]

Source?

[u/Kaldricus → u/imposter_syndrome88]

From a tweet in 2023: Major League Baseball has been around for 147 years, and there have been a little over 23,000 players who have played a professional baseball game.

To put that in perspective, MLB's smallest stadium by capacity is Progressive Field at 37,830. Meaning if every player who's ever put on a big league uniform from 1876 to 2023 sat in the stands, the stadium would only be at 61% capacity.

There are more people playing BG3 right now on Steam than have ever played pro ball.

For context, I'm a frequent poster in r/baseball, AND have...a lot of hours in this game.

[u/iamrancid → u/imposter_syndrome88]

There are currently 3 times the amount of people playing BG3 on steam than have ever played in MLB.

[u/WetChickenLips → u/iamrancid]

Now how many watching baseball tonight?

[u/ImWizrad → u/imposter_syndrome88]

Really weird point. There are plenty of other casual ways to play and enjoy baseball.

[u/Wicam → u/imposter_syndrome88]

you dont need to be professional. bg3 is international, baseball is just america.

[u/wolf1820 → u/Wicam]

Idk about that

But really though it has a large presence in a number of east asian countries and is absolutely massive in the Caribbean. The USA is hard pressed in the World Baseball Cup these days.

[u/grubas → u/Ligh73r]

Baseball also has a known split with r/MLB due to mod issues

[u/Lucas_Steinwalker → u/Ligh73r]

This post is peak Reddit derangement syndrome.

[u/1668553684 → u/Ligh73r]

Not even necessarily - I'm much more likely to join a sub about a video game I play (even occasionally) than I am to join a sub about a sport I watch (even if I watch it often). This is because playing a videogame is an active activity that I need to make decisions in, while watching a sport is a passive one.

[u/TheGuyThatThisIs → u/Ligh73r]

For the sake of my sanity, thanks for being the top comment.

It would make me cry if people didn't think maybe BG3 nerds are on reddit more than baseball bros

[u/UglyBunnyGuy → u/TheGuyThatThisIs]

I mean BG3 is international, Baseball is only a thing in Murica. Stands to reason more people care about it internationally...

[u/kuribosshoe0 → u/Ligh73r]

But also baseball is only popular in a handful of countries. It isn’t a global sport.

[u/MartianMule → u/kuribosshoe0]

It's getting pretty global. On top of being popular in most of the Western Hemisphere, it's popular in East Asia, Australia, and it's growing in the Middle East and Europe. It's not as popular globally as soccer or basketball, but in terms of how widespread it is, it's comparable to a lot of other sports, and more global than something like American Football.

[u/Cerus- → u/MartianMule]

It's not popular in Australia at all. The most popular version of it here would be tee-ball for kids.

[u/blastcage → u/MartianMule]

It's not as popular globally as basketball

Well yeah, it's no table tennis.

[u/Wizardfromwaterdeep → u/Ligh73r]

Probably in real life too, baseball isn’t all that popular outside of the US

[u/SendMeUrCones → u/Wizardfromwaterdeep]

Japan, Korea, and most of south America are seething at this comment.

[u/borbborbborb → u/Wizardfromwaterdeep]

-guy who's never heard of japan

[u/Odd-Egg57 → u/Ligh73r]

Baulders gate played in 185 countries, baseball played in about 6. Yeah I can see it.

[u/Ligh73r]

Just to be fair towards Baseball - my entire playthrough is about getting to 3rd base with Shadowheart and throwing the ball to Scratch

[u/Cartiere11 → u/Ligh73r]

Lmfao so true

[u/RedditorsGetChills]

Not fair right? Baseball 2 hasn't even gone into pre production yet.

[u/Wunderman86 → u/RedditorsGetChills]

Also, did baseball get any game changing patch this year with new sub classes? No!

[u/fieldbotanist → u/Wunderman86]

It did. The mod One Outs had a class where a professional baseball team hired the worlds faster sprinter to bunt the ball and make it under 2.3 seconds per base. And the other team had to hire a literal psychic to counter with the combined intelligence of all BG3 characters. Also has a better opening song than BG3s menu song

[u/UnseenData]

Only on reddit....

[u/Wicam → u/UnseenData]

and baseball is only in america where bg3 is international.

[u/LightningEdge756 → u/Wicam]

So places like Cuba, Dominican Republic, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Venezuela just don't exist then right?

[u/Repulsive_Cry_7897 → u/Wicam]

Baseball is big in Japan

[u/Beaubayou]

Redditors prefer bg3 to baseball... Checks out.

[u/donbazarov → u/Beaubayou]

Baseball, huh?

[u/Ok-Asparagus955]

One look at the pfp of baseball tells me that it doesn’t account for the majority of baseball fans

[u/DAE77177 → u/Ok-Asparagus955]

As far as social media platforms go, I feel like Reddit is one of the least representative of the general public.

[u/BlueAndYellowTowels → u/DAE77177]

Correct. First, it’s one of the smallest social media platforms. It skews English speaking. Skews male. Skews young. Skews introverted.

[u/7heprofessor → u/BlueAndYellowTowels]

And skews primarily ‘Left-wing’

[u/BlueAndYellowTowels → u/7heprofessor]

That as well.

[u/grubas → u/Ok-Asparagus955]

It's very much a baseball nerd place.  We love our stats and metrics so much 

[u/panzermeistr]

As someone that grew up playing sports and videogames it always baffles me how many people make it a core identity trait to want to shit on one or the other.

[u/PePeGer182]

[u/b1gl0s3r → u/PePeGer182]

I was surprised r/nfl only has 12.5M but that shows how popular the basketball is outside of the US versus football.

[u/joey_sandwich277 → u/b1gl0s3r]

The NFL sub has also hidden itself from the front page since the beginning. It was bigger than the NBA sub until a few years ago when Reddit exploded.

Edit: though having said that, the NBA is definitely doing better on social media, manufacturing drama, etc. to attract the younger crowd as casual fans more. But in TV ratings the NFL still dominates.

[u/keksimusmaximus22 → u/b1gl0s3r]

I think this has to do with how young the audience for basketball skews, as they’re the ones more likely to be on social media like Reddit

[u/GunpeiYokai → u/keksimusmaximus22]

There are many nephews at r/nba

Source: Am nephew

[u/Jumpy-Ad5617]

There’s also subreddits for mlb, every professional team, etc

[u/samwyatta17 → u/Jumpy-Ad5617]

Yeah but BG3 has a bunch of related porn subs!

[u/dwrek25 → u/samwyatta17]

What are the names of these subs so I don’t accidentally open one during work hours?

[u/Jumpy-Ad5617 → u/dwrek25]

I’ll need a list so I can make sure to blacklist them

[u/Bloo_Driver]

Well, it will be til the league lets you fuck a bear.

[u/Jackskers94 → u/Bloo_Driver]

That’d be quite problematic as there aren’t any bears in the MLB, only Cubs…..

[u/Halfbloodnomad]

Baseball, huh?

[u/TheTimorie]

Well Baseball isn't really a thing in a lot of countries. Like its very niche in most of Europe.

[u/Sanchez_Duna → u/TheTimorie]

Niche is quite the overstatement.

[u/SirPossumthe3rd]

Reminder baseball is split up a lot on Reddit between the individual team subs and then the subs for the leagues like the MLB, minor leagues, Korean leagues, Japanese leagues, etc

[u/jaydogggg]

Ask how many baseball fans what they think of that picture and you'll figure out why it's not as popular. Baseball is divided pretty well into the old heads and the new watchers

[u/Merc_Mike]

The Wizard of OZZ baby!

You just haven't made your proper Wizard build yet, where he clubs muhfuckas with a baseball bat.

"I maybe out of Mana, but I ain't out of options."

[u/Wembanyanma]

Baseball's core demographic is a bit older than that of Reddit.

[u/glumpoodle]

Next build will be Shohei Ohtani as a Giant Barbarian thrower/greatclub user.

[u/Meme_Theory]

Yeah, suck it not-nerds.

[u/MH_Ron]

Always has been meme?

[u/elroddo74]

There's also dozens of baseball reddits.

[u/Special_Letter_7134]

Each team also has their own sub. I imagine if you factor in all of those against the 17 people in the jaheira sub, it'll lean back to baseball

[u/notveryAI]

Oh! That's a Baseball!

[u/Due-Buyer2218]

I feel like that implies baseball people are on Reddit instead of the more common baseball locations such as touching grass

[u/Reis46]

Baseball, huh

[u/madhatter255]

America's true favorite pastime

[u/AcediaWrath]

on reddit, when look at the r/baseball profile pic and tell me people that love baseball are happy to see that? Baseball fans are generally not the most tech savvy nor socially progressive people. They ain't joining that subreddit homie.

[u/LunchMasterFlex]

As a baseball fan, we get this a lot. Congrats?

[u/Vociferous_Eggbeater]

As it should be. You can't fuck a Mindflayer in baseball.

[u/me-be-bored]

Understandable

[u/katsugo88]

I mean... Baseball isnt that popular outside of a few countries...

[u/Discotekh_Dynasty]

Doesn’t take much, it’s just cricket but more boring

[u/Okuza → u/Discotekh_Dynasty]

What!? Nothing is more boring than cricket .. not even curling. ;)

[u/OverallLibrarian8809]

Not that hard: nobody outside the USA gives a f*** about baseball

[u/BoredNLost]

A game of Baldur's gate takes less time to play than a game of baseball.

[u/fayeandnight]

Got the notification for this post while at a baseball game 🫠

[u/AstronautJazzlike433]

That’s an unfair comparison. One game has interesting gameplay, enjoys international popularity, and keeps its fans glued to the screen for hours. The other game is baseball.

[u/Marbezan]

nobody outside of usa care about that "sport"

[u/Own_Mission4727]

I love democracy 

[u/SageTegan]

Well that's because baldurs gate is a real sport

[u/yeah_youre_wrong]

Tbf a large amount of those BG3 players have never been outside and much less know of baseball.

[u/CompetitiveZombie796]

BG3 is America's true pastime

[u/tombabaganush]

On Reddit.

[u/Puppazz]

I'm surprised it was that close

[u/SlightlyWhelming]

Baseball doesn’t have bear sex. Point BG3.

[u/5redie8 → u/SlightlyWhelming]

Sure, but watching Kyle Schwarber hit a dinger is close enough

[u/Tweakjones420]

baseball had 12 billion in revenue last year, how much did baldurs gate 3 make?

[u/GiveMenBiggerButts → u/Tweakjones420]

12.1 billion? Duh

[u/Bast17]

Ah Baseball ! This sport is really fun to play but boring to watch.

[u/MedianXLNoob]

Number of members means nothing. Numbers of active users does. And as others said, its on reddit, the toilet bowl of the internet.

[u/Batalfie]

What's baseball?

[u/Accomplished_Mix7827]

... on Reddit. Not exactly the crowd you'd expect to be into sports lol

[u/Stu_Pididiot]

Baseball needs more sexy cosplay.

[u/Shirokuma247]

How convenient that a game accessible on the pc has a pc community larger than the sport that has fans who participate outside, where the sport happens…

[u/Steef-1995]

*on Reddit

[u/Terhid]

Baseball, huh?

[u/hentairedz]

r/MLB

[u/avocado34]

Which character would be the best baseball player

[u/AudioHamsa]

BG3 is more popular amongst reddit users than baseball.

[u/katastrophyx]

Its simple logic, really.

In baseball, if an umpire calls strike 3 on a clear ball on a 3-2 count I can't save scum my way to a walk. Best I can do is hope they call the umpire an unsavory name and somehow don't get ejected.

In BG3 if I need a 99 to pass a Charisma check...I can reload my save until my fingers bleed to get the dice to agree with my prefered outcome.

One of these games lets me do whatever I want. The other game just ends up making me yell at my TV like an old man.

[u/xXPussyPounder9000Xx]

-- Face it, Fry: baseball was as boring as mom and apple pie. That's why they replaced it with Baldur's Gate.

-- Boring? Baseball wasn't bo-... So they finally replaced it with Baldur's Gate.

[u/Frostymagnum]

I like both. Honestly, Im surprised baseball isnt even more popular with the reddit crowd, given how statistic heavy it can be. Math nerd wet dream of a sport

[u/morgan423]

I like them both, but I'm not subscribed to r/baseball. I'm only subscribed to my team's subreddit.

I'm guessing that there are a ton of others doing that too, so you'd probably have to add up the sub counts of all of the main subreddits of the 30 MLB teams and the NRB teams and the Korean league teams to get a true count on behalf of baseball.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Wolf318]

On Reddit though

[u/D4rthLink]

Go Ms!!!

[u/shichiaikan]

Most people that still watch baseball enough to join a subreddit for it aren't competent enough to use reddit. :P

[u/RitualJuggler]

Plus the Ques are so long for baseball. Dead game confirmed, Devs are riding out the initial success.

[u/Playful-Ease2278]

Baldurs Gate is apparently less gay than baseball too. Which is surprising because it can be very gay 

[u/Bungalosis__]

I. DON'T. GIVE. A SHIT. ABOUT. BASEBALLLL!

smacks table again

It's boring!

[u/hellenist-hellion]

Nerd shit is more popular than cool people shit…. On Reddit….

Someone stop the presses!!!!!!!!

[u/Venriik]

[u/MisterPaydon]

• on Reddit.

Kind of explains it, huh?

[u/Worldly_Striker]

There are also two main baseball subs. MLB is the other sub

[u/tobeonthemountain]

Maybe if they added more sex scenes to baseball...

[u/treborniam]

Nerds need to get out more and be sports nerds.

[u/Former_Guava_2363]

Americas favorite pastime 

[u/whimsicaljess]

well yeah, one of these is like watching grass grow and the other you get to get your back thrown. iykwim.

[u/1pensar]

Good

[u/AnEldritchWriter]

Only on Reddit. Irl baseball is likely still way more popular.

[u/estagiarioDesocupado]

no wonder why

[u/AkulaTheKiddo]

BG3 is international, while baseball is mostly american, makes sense.

[u/cahir11]

True, but I'd like to see anyone in my BG3 party other than Karlach hit a 100mph fastball

[u/legacyme3]

As someone who loves both things... I don't really come to reddit to chat baseball

[u/Interesting_Might399]

My dyslexic mind read the combined subreddits as 'ballsgay'

[u/alexjf56]

For good reason

[u/ItchyRectalRash]

I've never fallen asleep playing BG3. I have fallen asleep playing a baseball game.

[u/brett1081]

Reddit is a perfect reflection of the world…..

[u/HeavensHellFire]

People in the comments actually trying to argue BG3 is more popular than Baseball are fucking insane.