A-rod says baseball needs more African Americans

[FeverPitch2]

The answer here more than the expense, or whether or not the game is boring, is the racism.
The racism is why there are no brehs in hockey and it's the reason there are no brehs in baseball now.
The MLB didn't want the problems the NBA and NFL were having in the 90's and 2000's
AI's "Practice" speech would not have flown in MLB. MLB did not want a Malice at the Palace.
So they put their Black players on a tight ass leash and gave them the Jackie Robinson speech where you're expected to take the overt racial abuse from teammates, coaches, execs, and fans.
Black players said fukk that and signed up for football.
The final straw was when Little League did everything they could to stop the Chicago Jackie Robinson West Little League team from making it to the championship in 2014, then stripping them of the title once they won.

Disqualification of Jackie Robinson West Little League from the 2014 Little League World Series - Wikipedia

Black ppl chucked baseball the deuces after that.

 

[Actually6Foot3]

You posted an article from 2 years ago when an opposing pitcher felt a way about him flipping a bat. The reality is that younger fans never had a problem with that shyt. Older fans have and they've been getting phased out. Some players still feel a way about that stuff, but for whatever reason they were raised to treat baseball as a sacred cow (and even that shyt is starting to fade). I know. I watched Joba Chamberlain fist pump just for getting out of an inning and people didn't know how to take it. That was 14 years ago. Fans couldn't handle how a 22 year old could act that hyped up over a strikeout. Now you see that shyt all the time.


Home run dances you want?

I think the World Baseball Classic from a few years ago turned a lot of heads as to how other countries get down and it's loosened up how players are in America.


That's gone after this season (and it couldn't come sooner)

you saying that shyt like 2 years ago was 2 decades ago wtf

And nah they haven't they're still alive and well and dictating the sport. You don't even see MLB highlights across the popular sports IGs like House Of Highlights because the old heads of baseball want strict control of their IP. Meanwhile when a big play is made in the NBA or NFL it's plastered across every major sports media's social media seconds after it happens.

Hell, look at the top comment on this video:



"Judge knew it, put his head down and started running. Nothing in this guy's game is a "look at me." Very classy. Hope kids get to watch him for many years "


Boringggggggggggggggg!!!!!!!!!

The fact is MLB is becoming less and less interesting to young kids who will grow up to be adults that Pay greater attention to other sports leagues.

 

[MikelArteta]

Honestly baseball is a great sport for kids it’s literally the only team sport where everyone gets a chance. Everyone gets an at bat , if the ball is hit your way you get a chance to catch it.

even if you suck you get an at bat you suck in soccer you may never touch the ball, you suck in hockey you’re buried on the fourth line you suck in basketball you’re on the bench and may just get in at the end. I sucked or was average at most sports I played but even baseball even though I was like the bottom of the order I always got my 2-3 at bats

 

[tremonthustler1]

you saying that shyt like 2 years ago was 2 decades ago wtf

And nah they haven't they're still alive and well and dictating the sport. You don't even see MLB highlights across the popular sports IGs like House Of Highlights because the old heads of baseball want strict control of their IP. Meanwhile when a big play is made in the NBA or NFL it's plastered across every major sports media's social media seconds after it happens.

Hell, look at the top comment on this video:



"Judge knew it, put his head down and started running. Nothing in this guy's game is a "look at me." Very classy. Hope kids get to watch him for many years "


Boringggggggggggggggg!!!!!!!!!

The fact is MLB is becoming less and less interesting to young kids who will grow up to be adults that Pay greater attention to other sports leagues.

Because 2 years ago there was a big campaign by MLB called #LetTheKidsPlay. That’s why that incident was even a story. Tim Anderson was the face of that campaign and fans couldn’t understand why he got suspended a game for getting hit (it was about the shyt he said, turns out).

Who do you think wrote that comment about Judge’s HR? An old white guy. They’re not indicative of how the overall baseball fanbase feels about stuff like that and it shows.

MLB controls their content more but that’s also a product of them having the strongest app. Everything you need is there. And even they let people use the content. Jared Carrabis post clips all day. The NBA lets everyone (except Dawkins apparently) plaster all the clips you want, but the downside is that now less people watch their regular season games. The highlights used to get people to watch the games. Now they’re being used as a substitute for the game.

 

[MajesticLion]

even if you suck you get an at bat you suck in soccer you may never touch the ball, you suck in hockey you’re buried on the fourth line you suck in basketball you’re on the bench and may just get in at the end.

This depends strongly on the coach(es) involved here. US parents are nowhere near as fair-minded as Canadian parents pretend to be. The infighting you'll see over playing time, the attempts at lobbying...

Yunno what nevermind

 

[Master Teacher]

Baseball is really just an acquired taste. I don’t care how many baseball fields you build in inner cities. Baseball is a game fundamentally rife with little intricacies unique only to baseball; but, those things in themself are not as titillating or as exciting as other sports can be, regularly. Consequently, you have to have an appreciation of those intricacies to get the most enjoyment out of the sport, which leads back to it being an acquired taste.

That's bullshyt, the inner cities use to have baseball at the parks, the programs were cut, and most of the fields in the hood are abandoned

they wanted to push black kids into CTE ball

 

[hatealot]

With the way baseball setup I feel like it’s one of the easiest leagues to get into, could be wrong but I would rather my kid try baseball than football

It may be cheaper than football. I don't remember the cost my moms paid was too young to remember the actual bill.

 

[Master Teacher]

nikkaz out here doing roman cancels on the field, of course the game needs black players

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

I’m not sure I get what you mean

Out of all the major U.S. sports, baseball is the most dad/father-driven enterprise at the youth level.

Suburban rec little leagues can sometimes have 25 - 50 different teams in each town, operating at varying age levels (t-ball, farm, minor, major, senior).

Each of those teams usually has 3 to 10 dads serving as coaches, groundskeepers, scorers, umps, league managers. That translates to hundreds of dads making the league happen during the week for practices and weekend games. Moms/wives are there supporting with transit for the kids, pasta parties, after game pizza, brownies, juice boxes and constant cheerleading.

These dads pass on the cultural love of the game to the kids.

When fathers were strong in our communities, black baseball was at its strongest. When the community became matriarchal dominant in the 80s, baseball love disappears. There are other factors in play, but the gender and parental restructuring of Black families negatively impacted baseball appeal (and secondarily, boxing) more than the other sports.

I still love baseball the way my great-grandfather did when he would take my grandfather to the Polo Grounds to watch Negro League baseball.

My grandfather would take my dad to see the Mets at Shea Stadium. My dad took me to games at Shea.

The greatest all-around player ever, Willie Mays, came to the game like most, through his father Cat:

"Cat knew how to draw out the best in his son athletically and emotionally. He had already been doing it for years.

An above-average athlete, Cat recognized his son's coordination before anyone else. William Howard Mays, Jr., started walking at six months old, and he started chasing a ball around their house not long after. Cat had his son swinging at small rubber balls with tiny broomstick handles as a toddler.

Cat made baseball fun, and never forced Willie to play. Before they ever had a serious catch or practiced pepper for hours, sliding into makeshift bases was the preferred game in the cow pasture near their first Westfield home.

Father Mays began taking Willie to watch the Birmingham Black Barons at Rickwood Field at an early age, too. During one game, when Willie was five or six, Cat told his son he was a magician, according to Hirsch's biography, "Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend." Cat told the crowd to stand up, and the fans arose from their seats. He then told everyone to sit down, and the crowd followed Cat's orders. It was the seventh-inning stretch."

The final childhood summer of the Say Hey Kid

 

[Asicz]

Nelly played Minor League Baseball for Cardinals and SchoolBoy Q was college baseball prospect until he got,locked up but said he wanted to play football

 

[MikelArteta]

This depends strongly on the coach(es) involved here. US parents are nowhere near as fair-minded as Canadian parents pretend to be. The infighting you'll see over playing time, the attempts at lobbying...

Yunno what nevermind

yeah but for baseball everyone gets a turn esp house league

 

[broller]

Out of all the major U.S. sports, baseball is the most dad/father-driven enterprise at the youth level.

Suburban rec little leagues can sometimes have 25 - 50 different teams in each town, operating at varying age levels (t-ball, farm, minor, major, senior).

Each of those teams usually has 3 to 10 dads serving as coaches, groundskeepers, scorers, umps, league managers. That translates to hundreds of dads making the league happen during the week for practices and weekend games. Moms/wives are there supporting with transit for the kids, pasta parties, after game pizza, brownies, juice boxes and constant cheerleading.

These dads pass on the cultural love of the game to the kids.

When fathers were strong in our communities, black baseball was at its strongest. When the community became matriarchal dominant in the 80s, baseball love disappears. There are other factors in play, but the gender and parental restructuring of Black families negatively impacted baseball appeal (and secondarily, boxing) more than the other sports.

I still love baseball the way my great-grandfather did when he would take my grandfather to the Polo Grounds to watch Negro League baseball.

My grandfather would take my dad to see the Mets at Shea Stadium. My dad took me to games at Shea.

The greatest all-around player ever, Willie Mays, came to the game like most, through his father Cat:

"Cat knew how to draw out the best in his son athletically and emotionally. He had already been doing it for years.

An above-average athlete, Cat recognized his son's coordination before anyone else. William Howard Mays, Jr., started walking at six months old, and he started chasing a ball around their house not long after. Cat had his son swinging at small rubber balls with tiny broomstick handles as a toddler.

Cat made baseball fun, and never forced Willie to play. Before they ever had a serious catch or practiced pepper for hours, sliding into makeshift bases was the preferred game in the cow pasture near their first Westfield home.

Father Mays began taking Willie to watch the Birmingham Black Barons at Rickwood Field at an early age, too. During one game, when Willie was five or six, Cat told his son he was a magician, according to Hirsch's biography, "Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend." Cat told the crowd to stand up, and the fans arose from their seats. He then told everyone to sit down, and the crowd followed Cat's orders. It was the seventh-inning stretch."

The final childhood summer of the Say Hey Kid

 

[The War Report]

It's up to black fathers to instill the love the game.

 

[Still Benefited]

If we're being honest, brehs aren't interested because baseball is ridiculously boring.

I don't know if I've ever sat thru an entire baseball game in my life

Right,i liked Hardball as much as the next kid but still

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Eddie Murray was the man here as a kid. Only second to Cal Ripken. I played from kindergarten to 8th grade and my pops is still a big baseball fan. This city had all kinds of black little leagues programs. There were still a lot of black superstars in the league. Plus it was the only major sports in town for over a decade. I was only 3 when the Colts left so the Orioles was my favorite sports team. But no black kids play anymore

Honestly tho the O’s winning a World Series would mean more to me than the Ravens winning another Super Bowl

Eddie Murray was my guy for the longest even when he left town. That was until Ray Lew and Ed Reed started doing their thing in the 2000s .

But yeah seeing the O's bring one home would be dope. Too young to remember Thier last world series win but been fortunate enough to see the ravens do it twice