Jason Kelce doesn’t like baseball or the Blue Jays
As his future sister-in-law might say, you need to calm down
The less-charismatic Kelce brother (we’re sure you can guess the one we mean) has become known for having a little outburst every now and then.
Around this time last year, Jason Kelce was recorded using a homophobic slur and smashing the phone of a person who approached him outside Penn State’s Beaver Stadium. He later apologized, but his hotheadedness had become apparent. (His homophobic slur was in response to the other guy using a homophobic slur. Great group of people you’ve got over there.)
More recently, on an episode of Jason’s popular New Heights podcast, which he co-hosts with the Kelce brother we like a lot more now, the former NFL player went on a rant about, of all things to be angry over in 2025, baseball.
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Travis said he’d enjoyed watching the “absolutely epic” World Series and that “both teams had their shining moments.” Jason disagreed. “You’re telling me I’m supposed to get excited about a Canadian baseball team and a team that just spends more money than anybody else? Who the fuck cares about either?” (His latter point was that the LA Dodgers had the highest payroll this year.)
Um, weren’t you also an overpaid pro athlete until you retired after losing a Super Bowl? And haven’t you since parlayed that into a $100-million podcast deal?
After some reasonable debate, Jason flew off the handle and started screaming about how “baseball sucks.” We’ll echo sports broadcaster Hazel Mae, who replied, “Wow. What a disappointing comment.”
Everyone is entitled to their sports opinions (we certainly have ours), and we’re still fans of Jason’s future sister-in-law, but that MAGA-coded “Canadian baseball team” remark was weirdly aggressive. We suggest therapy—or stealing a play from Davis Schneider and touching some grass.
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
