Dienstag, 11. August 2020

Blaseball may be text-based but it inspires the best fan art in sports

Despite being off work and mostly offline the past fortnight, I couldn’t help but be caught in the cultural phenomenon that is Blaseball. It’s a browser game simulating a supernatural baseball league, where players place bets on teams like the Chicago Firefighters (motto: “We’re from Chicago”) and Charleston Shoe Thieves (“Your kicks are my kicks”), vote on rule changes, and pray that players like Jessica Telephone or Blood Hamburger aren’t struck by a peanut allergy or incinerated by a rogue umpire. While I wasn’t online to play last season, I did spent a lot of time cooing over fan art on Twitter. The fan art community is: very good.

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