Oh, really?
Ball clubs hire the best players they can find. They don't care if they are from Minnesota, Michigan or Venezuela.
It’s PR to counter the Robinson movie. Transparent, pandering, shameful.
Waiting for the NBA to study the decline in white basketball players.
There don’t seem to be a lot of White Anglo players anymore as well, are they going to study that?
Single A ,Double A , AAA then pros
Three years of NCAAF then pros
One year of NCAAB then pros
What is the hardest route to a multi-million dollar contract?
That is why 5’9” African American athletes try to become an NBA point guard instead of a MLB second baseman.
Who knew?
Let’s talk about basketball....
I’d say its because we don’t do little league the way we used to and if blacks go to college, they go to schools that don’t put much emphasis on baseball in their sports programs.
I know there are some damn fine black players out there.
Also are black latin American players considered black or latin American?
No white members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Just saying.
In other news, the NBA is creating a committee to study the decline in Caucasian-American players.
In fact, if it's like the NFL or NBA, blacks are already overrepresented compared to their percentage of the general public, which according to the discrimination industry is enough to virtually prove racism when the cleat is on the other foot (minority of interest underrepresented), so where's the cries of discrimination against whites? Hmmm? Crickets.......
I heard Rush (I think) today griping about this. He noted that no-one was ever doing any study to see why orientals aren’t in any of these sports.
-PJ
The NHL has a good balance.
What’s to blame. How about liberal land use planning that forces developers to build on small lots within cities so there is not room to play baseball because the land is too valuable for sports fields.
You can put about 20 basketball courts in the space it takes for just one baseball field if you include the foul territory area. Maintenance cost for an outdoor basketball court is next to nothing while a baseball field can be very expensive to maintain.
Is anyone still wondering why so many people say we need a new commissioner? Better yet, no commissioner! But, especially, no one related to the Selig family!
I would like to see a commission study why Blacks are dramatically over represented on TV and the movies.
How does 12% equate to maybe a third, and among professionals such as Dr.s, Scientists, Judges etc. I would guess it is closer to 70%. Actually judges is a strange one. It is almost all Black females.
I really could care less.
This whole thing about tracking percentages of races in what is moronic and offensive and quota offensive.
So what if percentages go down. Since when is there a requirement they only go up? Good grief.
How about examining how to get more whites back in the NBA?
This is such a myopic, narrow, zero-tolerance zero thought knee jerk way to think you’re measuring “fairness”. It’s idiotic.
Nobody in the stands freaking cares. Screw the quota people. that’s all they care about anyway. Let em pound sand. Blacks by population percentage are well over-represented on most sports teams people watch.
God. This whole planet is freaking moronic. It’s like libtards are going for the full court press on all issues to drive regular people nuts.
It’s time to get everyone’s nose out of everyone else’s business, and every freaking greedy hand out of everyone else’s wallets. government hands and taker’s hands.
Oh, really?
Blacks are not playing baseball as much because there are more opportunities in other sports, esp football and basketball
Football has bigger rosters and more top league jobs, while basketball provides a lot of good paying jobs outside of the NBA...many players are in Euro and Asian leagues making big bucks