White Sox Dave, Captain Cons feud over toddlers at games

It started with a normal piece of crowd footage. During a Twins-Giants broadcast, the camera caught a fan in a Giants jersey carrying a toddler and some food back to their seats. The main Barstool account posted it Wednesday night with the caption "Mom of the year." That caption was sarcastic or sincere depending on who you ask, and within 8 minutes White Sox Dave had made sure everyone knew which side he was on.

The case is simple: the kid won't remember it, the parent is hauling "a 20 pound shit machine" around a stadium, and everyone in the section pays for it. "Zero enjoymentfor all parties involved." It's a classic WSD take, stated with total confidence and meant to make people mad. Whoever is in the clip is just a family at a ballgame, and the fight was never really about them. It was about the take, and it worked right away.

Cons

@CaptainCons

Leave it to the unmarried guy with no kids to critique how other people parent their kids Whether this raccoon-brained numbskull is right or wrong doesn’t matter. Nothing worse than the guy who thinks he knows everything about being a parent

whitesoxdave

@barstoolWSD

There is absolutely nothing good that comes from taking a kid this young to a sporting event Kid doesn't remember it Parent is carrying around a 20 pound shit machine that's gonna cry, annoying the parent and everyone around them Zero enjoyment for all parties involved

Captain Cons skipped the question of whether Dave was right and went after who was saying it. Calling Dave the "unmarried guy with no kids" and a "raccoon-brained numbskull," Cons said it didn't matter whether the take was right or wrong, because nothing is worse than someone who thinks they know everything about parenting. That's a clean dodge of the actual argument, but it's also the kind of dodge that plays great on the timeline. Dave didn't write a rebuttal. The reply was a single clip.

whitesoxdave

@barstoolWSD

@CaptainCons

Nobody should be surprised these 2 went at it. Dave and Cons have been Barstool's go-to rivalry for a while, and it keeps running because both of them will fight about anything. They were on the same show just 2 days earlier. On Tuesday's Dog Walk, the Barstool Chicago crew held a snake draft of things not worth overpaying for, with Cons joining on Zoom and Dave in the draft order.

Barstool Chicago

@barstoolchicago

“Welcome to the Dog Walk presented by Barstool Sports, Snake Draft Tuesday, joined on Zoom by Captain Cons, Large.” – Eddie

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As for the take, it has a real point buried in it. Plenty of parents would admit that a toddler at a ballgame is mostly about the parents wanting to be there. Cons has the better counter, though: the people who've actually hauled a diaper bag through a concourse get to decide if it was worth it. Expect this to come up the next time they share a mic, probably in front of Eddie, who will be thrilled to referee it.