For the majority of Major League Baseball, the 2025 season opened with a bang on March 27, as Opening Day brought its usual fanfare following a long offseason.
Technically, the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers opened the season with the Tokyo Series on March 18–19. However, March 27 was the officially recognized Opening Day for the rest of the league.
But baseball isn’t for everyone. Its slower pace still turns off some sports fans, especially those more drawn to the NFL or NBA.
Baltimore Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey, well known for his unfiltered takes on social media, wasted no time stirring the pot on one of baseball’s most sacred days.
Ravens CB Marlon Humphrey Calls Baseball “Boring”
Calling baseball “boring” has become as much a cliché as it is a criticism, but that didn’t stop Humphrey from jumping into the conversation.
On Opening Day, he took to X to take a shot at MLB and its fans.
Baseball so boring lowkey…It’s the only sport where people show up late/planning to leave early on purpose.
— marlonhumphrey.eth (@marlon_humphrey) March 27, 2025
While MLB has made strides to improve the pace of play — most notably through pitch clock rules — the reputation still lingers. In 2024, the average game time was 2 hours and 37 minutes per nine innings, the league’s fastest since the mid-1980s, according to Baseball America.
Still, MLB faces ongoing challenges when it comes to marketing its stars and improving accessibility for fans. On Opening Day, a nationwide outage of MLB TV left many subscribers unable to watch games — fueling long-standing frustrations with blackouts and streaming availability.
Humphrey, for his part, seems more interested in trolling fans than weighing in on the sport’s structural issues.
He’s coming off one of the best seasons of his NFL career, earning First-Team All-Pro honors for the first time since 2019. In 16 games, he recorded six interceptions, 67 tackles, two forced fumbles, and allowed just a 60.9 passer rating in coverage.
The Ravens finished eighth in PFSN’s 2024 Defense+ rankings in Zach Orr’s first year as defensive coordinator.
“All season, the Ravens were the NFL’s best run defense. Baltimore ranked first in yards per rush allowed (3.6) and second in rushing success rate (66%) during the regular season,” wrote PFSN’s Sterling Xie.
Baltimore has been relatively quiet this offseason, though the team did sign veteran corner Chidobe Awuzie to pair with Humphrey and first-round pick Nate Wiggins in the secondary. The Ravens have won back-to-back division titles but have yet to reach an AFC Championship Game in the Lamar Jackson era.
If Humphrey and the Ravens fall short of a title again in 2025, baseball fans will likely have his Opening Day jab locked and loaded for a return shot.