So what you’re saying is that the users of /r/Baseball gave MLB express written consent to disseminate accounts and descriptions of the game.

“We were gonna do a thing, but then it seemed like people wouldn’t like it, so we decided to not do that thing.”

¹⁰⁄₁₀, no notes

Kudos on listening to feedback, it’s something so many brands seem to struggle with.

Honestly, as long as good highlights are posted quickly,  I don’t care where they come from / who gets the karma.

THANK GOD.

Unbiased, HIGH QUALITY highlights >>>>> karma farming redditors ripping from pirated streams.

I rarely look at the account posting something so I don’t even notice when it’s the official MLB account until someone in the comments points it out. That’s how it should be imo. Keep up the good work.

At least you’re not posting memes and/or replying to posts with memes like fast food brands on Tiktok.

It such a funny Reddit thing that people would complain about one account taking all the highlight karma lmao 95% of people don’t care who posts, I just want clear, high quality highlights that are uploaded quickly and the mlb account seemed to be the best at that.

Just as long as the mods also allow the Sportsnet broadcast highlights of the same plays for big moments cause it’s fun seeing how both broadcasts react to things.

if you are posting high quality highlights from the world series can you use the sportsnet broadcast featuring buck and dan as a source instead of fox

Setting aside the merits of this post, kudos to whoever wrote the copy on this. It’s nicely written. 

Inb4 this comment section now all agrees that the official account posting highlights is now bad actually. 

Keep up the good work

For the love of God please do not crop and pan-and-scan them so they fit on a vertical screen

Can you guys write normal titles for the highlights?

Half of the videos here end up with a title like:

“George Springer jumps on an 0-1 pitch from Dodgers starting pitcher Blake Snell to open the scoring for the Blue Jays as Alejandro Kirk scores from 2nd to make it a 1-0 ballgame in Toronto. Also Ernie Clement advanced to 2nd on a wild throw from Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernandez, who was born in the Dominican Republic and enjoys eating hot dogs”

Thank you. Glad to see the decision was reversed.

I posted something similar in the other thread but I find this attitude so refreshing in the modern TV landscape. Seeing a sport promote fan generated content and turn a blind eye to a licensing violation or two is so good for cultivating an engaged and active young fan base. Whether it’s Jomboy lipreadings or those MLB Weirdest Moments videos or whatever else, the MLB has a strong case to go against those reuploads of their content, but choosing to leave it be and sometimes even promote it is only a good thing.

Just saying. You never see nfl nba or nhl doing this kinda stuff. Baseball built different

Wow, all this over a hunk of karma

I don’t care who posts it, I just wanna see it

Please always post daily comment recap, I love it .

I’m a little confused and I don’t keep track of these things – are u/MLBOfficial’s posts regularly hitting the front page (of reddit)? If so, then hell yes, keep posting highlights. What an opportunity to raise MLB’s profile, and baseball’s profile in general.

If you guys don’t, some AI bot will, therefore W

just less ohtani highlights for the love of god

Hurray, bring on the terrible clips from karma farmers

Also, can the MLB youtube page go back to posting highlights of basically everything, like you used to before the Bangin’ Astros ruined it for everyone in 2019?

Huzzah 🎉

I’m glad you guys acted quickly with this. Fuck the karma farmers

The community can exist in the comments section or in other posts. I’m happy to always see high quality, timely highlights right where I expect them to go see and discuss on the subreddit. Fuck the users sad they are missing karma to not be able to post it. Thanks for doing it!

Can… you guys like… mentor the NHL on how to do fan relations?

Thanks for listening. Also to reply directly to this point:

We heard feedback that our account was dominating the front page

If it wasn’t you, it would be the same small number of Redditors with access to scripts bot posting all the highlights as quickly as they can dominating the front page.

Please consider using post titles that are more reddit appropriate. I think one reason your highlight posts received criticism to begin with is that so many are in all caps and are clickbaity. Other people who post highlights in this subreddit tend to use more descriptive titles, and all-caps post titles are rare on reddit.

Personally, I don’t care who posts highlights to this subreddit so long as the subreddit’s front page isn’t 80% highlights with all caps or clickbait titles. It makes the list of posts harder to parse, and relying so heavily on caps diminishes the impact of using caps. (Also, text in all caps is harder for some people to read and doesn’t work well with a lot of screen reader apps.)

Can you please post Blue Jays highlights from the SportsNet feed?

Damn I can’t believe this. Actual communication from a league?!

Thanks for being an upfront social team that’s flexible and open to feedback. You’re valued on this platform!

If you want the youth, end the blackouts!!

As long as the quality is good, titles are descriptive rather than baiting, I’m all for having the official highlight clips.
 
I think the “dominating the front page” criticism is a little bit off base. There’s still plenty of room for /u/’s to contribute with alternative angles, alternative commentary, fancam and such, if the mods allow it. It’s more a matter of the mods letting things that add value stay up, rather than blocking everything that’s 0.003 seconds behind the MLB highlights.
 
Fan contributors just have to switch focus to posting alternative value rather than trying to speed race at cost of lowering the value they bring (bad angles, truncation, low quality etc). There’s a place for both.

I think this is great. Thanks for listening to the feedback. I come to this subreddit to see the community reaction to news and highlights so the comment section is where I look for the real user engagement. Providing quick, high-quality clips is perfect for that.

I mean, as disappointed as I was with the original announcement, I’m even more pleased to see this willingness to change course when you realized how unpopular that announcement was.

Bring on the highlights!

I mean cool that you listen but it’s so strange that people cared. I just want to see good quality highlights quickly - I don’t give a damn who posts them.

Ug I wish the NHL was this cool

Man I thought this was the college football sub and was so excited, but this is a nice consolation prize

Can you make a statement on the sub: r/MLB? As in, officially denounce it so people aren’t fooled into thinking that sub is legit? Thanks

Thank god, honestly who gives a shit where the highlights come from. Just give them to me quickly and high quality so I can read other people’s comments about some crazy play that just happened because no one I know irl watches baseball

Kinda unreal to see our feedback being addressed so quickly

Thanks, Mr. Baseball clips company, glad to see you’re still staying

So long as we get highlights from all teams and not just the most popular teams I’m happy. A lot of times it feels we only see some team and I get that the more popular teams will get more upvotes but still want to try to see a little more from other teams and players not commonly shown.

As someone who works in social for a living, hats off to you guys for getting g this right

Absolute godlike win by MLB to keep the highlights going.

Thank you for listening, official hq highlights are very important.

One thing I’d like is for more clips of BP and dugout reactions that aren’t in the broadcast. If you want to add value, stuff that we don’t normally see would be great.

Other unique content would be welcome too, but I understand the social team could be spread too thin

Rare social media team W

Thanks for listening. Now let’s discuss a few other MLB things bothering us…

Can you guys please post highlights that include reaction and replays instead of cutting off immediately as the play ends?

Good on you for listening to your social analyst

-actual social analyst

¹⁰⁄₁₀ decision! Thank you mod team for listening!

For all the extra camera angles, etc. you could always post them in the comments on the automod comment that appears when you put [Highlight] in the title.

With that said, I don’t think anyone really looks at that, sadly. I’ve posted there vs regular comment and the regular comment gets way more interaction / upvotes.

Please stop adding exclamation marks and ALL CAPS TITLES!!!!! It makes the post titles annoying in the context of the sea of relatively normal post titles. Please just write something like “George Springer hits a 3-run homer in the bottom of the 7th”

As a Mariners fan I particularly appreciate this as we’re a unique example of how letting random fans be the primary source can be misused. For reasons I don’t think any of us understand, u/SeattleSporting has blocked a ton of Mariners flairs but is often one of the first to post highlights and so a large swath of our fandom doesn’t get to see or participate in our own big moments. Most people don’t even remember interacting with the guy they just one day stopped seeing Mariners highlights.

u/MLBOfficial remain the GOATs when it comes to social media involvement from sports organizations

We aren’t trying to be your exclusive highlights source - the mods here treat our posts like any other user, which we think is important

Wish u/NFL and the mods at r/NFL would take a page from this book…

Thank goodness, I’m glad that a few karma farmers didn’t kill something cool that this subreddit and MLB have going.

Just chiming in to say that I’m so glad you decided against making any changes! The official highlights have been a godsend with their speed and quality.

Hell yeah, thank you MLB.

I wish this mod team was the same one that mods over at CFB.

w admin

Whatever happened to the Eric Hosmer AMA?

Honestly just watch the highlights so read the comments lol

Idc who posts what as long as I keep getting photos and videos of my shobae thanks

highlights in the highest quality as quickly as possible.

yaaaaaay good thesis statement

Just try to improve your math, please

I personally was looking forward to the unique things that you were going to post. I think it’s more on moderator/community standards to have the highlights that get posted be high quality

We’re going to miss out on on-field content and behind-the-scenes stuff because we can’t trust users to properly clip FOX highlights

But obviously I’m in the minority so kudos to you for listening to feedback

I just like your content.

I have a suggestion. For Blue Jays highlights have more where we hear the Sportsnet broadcast. Having the full springer home run inning with Buck and Dan would’ve been great.

Can we get both? I also want content we don’t normally see.

hello admin do not post any sportybot clips

So a new flair that says, Beat the MLBofficial

Neat

I’m ambivalent. You post good stuff but this feels like a space for fans. Like, I enjoy the contributions, but I am concerned too much of the future baseball narratives would be dictated by the league.

If we want to shitpost or complain, I’d be concerned how much polishing the league would have over this sub.

Likely a good move. I do look forward to future stuff from the official account. Too much and it would feel “corporate”

If MLBOfficial is gonna post highlights keep the post titles neutral and formulaic. Like “SEA 3 - TOR 4: BOT 7 G. Springer 3 run HR” or “LAD 0 - MIL 1: TOP 4 8-6-2 Double Play” (I might have some of those details wrong but you get the idea).

And if they must keep doing the comment recaps, please pick comments that are less…milquetoast? Like I know they can’t pick super spicy comments since it’s an corpo account, but at that point I’d rather they just not do them.

All someone has to do is block the account if they’re not enjoying the content. It’s that easy.