Healthy criticism? an indiscriminate venting of anger!Over-the-top SNS terror, players earnestly asked for it
Aug 20, 2025
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The Korea Professional Baseball Players Association issued an appeal to professional baseball players on the 20th to refrain from making malicious comments and to create a healthy cheering culture.
The Korea Professional Baseball Association expressed serious concern about the excessive behavior of some senseless people on social media of domestic professional baseball players and said, `We hope that they will refrain from doing so.' The Korean professional baseball is facing an unprecedented boom, with 10 million spectators approaching for the second consecutive year since last year, especially this year, with rosy predictions that it may break through in the shortest period of time. I know very well that this is based on fans' interest in professional baseball and their affection for the cheering team and players, and all Korean professional baseball teams are making every effort to show the best play by continuing a strong ranking fight without giving up until the end of the season.
Recently, indiscriminate criticism has continued through personal SNS of players. The players' association asked for restraint in these areas. The association said, `However, such motivated efforts may have been misunderstood by some. Or it may be a simple excessive expression of some ignorant people's crooked fan sentiment, but there are growing concerns that the recent senseless actions on professional baseball players' SNS have already gone too far.
Then 'This can never be called a healthy criticism or a reprimand with love, but it is just an irresponsible venting. And such an act done inadvertently is shrinking professional baseball players and further bruising the entire Korean professional baseball team.
The Korea Professional Baseball Association said, `I dare to say that the cheering culture of Korean professional baseball fans has established itself as a unique and original cheering content that is not comparable to all sports around the world, and this is a part of the K-culture made up of the passion and excitement of professional baseball fans. We earnestly appeal to professional baseball fans to participate in the preservation and development of such a proud cheering culture and efforts for the better growth of Korean professional baseball. The Korea Professional Baseball Association will also work hard to develop a healthy cheering culture in Korean baseball based on its role as a bridge with fans.'
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
