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This tactic was consistent across platforms, with the team deliberately making their comments accessible on multiple channels. While they haven't yet ventured into YouTube or TikTok with open comment sections, the pattern suggests that opening the comments is now part of a broader strategic overhaul.
Why Leave Comments Shut for Over Two Years?
For anyone familiar with social media norms, it's almost unheard of for a professional sports franchise, especially one of Major League Baseball's established teams, to keep comments disabled for over 665 days. Such extended silence is virtually unprecedented and points to a deliberate effort to control the narrative—limiting fan expression, suppressing dissent, and avoiding a direct confrontation with negative feedback.