Posted on 10/25/2005 5:01:38 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
What's wrong with just getting the best players, period.
Joe Morgan was dismayed to find that there were so many blacks in these sports. "There must be some way to get more whites to fit the quota. It sends the wrong message." Yeah, right. Joe Morgan, once a racist, always a racist.
``There's a perception among African-American kids that they're not welcome here, that baseball is not for inner-city kids,''
unfortunately if baseball players came out on the playing field wearing some gangsta style uni's and flashing a lot of bling bling the inner city kids would elevate in droves towards the sport. sorry joe morgan, but your statement shows that you are still of the ted and hillary plantation mentality.
JMHO
Sounds like a perfect opportunity for Jesse Jerkson to blackmail MLB.
Is there a similar outcry to get more whites and hispanics into the NBA?
Funny I don't recall the NFL ever mentioning this as a problem. If African Americans want to play there's nobody stopping them from trying
9% is in line with the proportion of blacks in the general population. If the black athletes with skills in 2 sports choose against baseball, there's nothing to be done there. I'm no expert, but my guess is that it takes a long time to get to big money in baseball. A star basketball player very rapidly gets to the big paydays. Ditto in football. The free market is working in its mysterious ways.
I've watched the first two games and five 1/2 innings of game 3 of the World Series up to this point, and I hadn't noticed that the Astros didn't have any black players on their roster. But then, I guess this is the type of thing that you'd notice only if you were actually looking for it, as Morgan apparently was.
I think Williams meant to say that he couldn't care less. By saying that he could care less, he's not indicating where his present level of caring is on this matter, other than to say that it's not at zero.
Yes, college football and college basketball are revenue sports almost everywhere. College baseball makes money at some schools although at many others it does not.
I did not notice it until I saw this article. So stick it Joe.
Is there a similar outcry to get more whites and hispanics into the NBA?
How about the NFL? Hey Joe, check out the starting defense for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
The QUOTA system simply doesn't work. People just don't FIT into quotas, when the "job" REALLY is based on performance, even if those quotas are mandated.
That just life and Joe Morgan wants it both ways.
That just ISN'T life. But it IS reverse racism.
Why don't we stop worrying about these ridiculous quotas?
Perhaps African-American males are spending more time in their youth with BOOKS instead of BALLS. That MIGHT be why there are fewer of them in sports like baseball. Since the income of African-Americans HAS risen, the source of that rise in income (home ownership, etc.) MIGHT be due to its male memebers getting MORE education, better jobs, etc. That is, those male members MIGHT be spending LESS time playing basketBALL, footBALL and basebaLL.
Is that such a bad thing for African-American males?
I don't think so.
The conclusion is possible in a world without a racist mentality. However, according to this article, somehow MLB is to blame and it must "do something." THAT is a racist mentality.
Hey, if the shoe fits.....
Besides, in beisball African-American males are competing with Hispanic American boys, all gazillion of'em, playing beisball like African-American boys play basketball.
Since MLB recruits, that is OUT-SOURCES, abroad where beisball is almost a religion, no one should be SO surprised about the, er, changing color of beisball.
Uh oh. Williams is just asking for a nasty note from Jesse Jackson reminding him of his responsibility as a leader in the "community" to demand more preferences. ;)
That is flat-out false. There are several black players on the Astros WS roster. While there may not be any African-Americans, there are four African-Dominicans, all of whom look to be to some degree of the Negro race:
L to R: Ezequiel Astacio, Wandy Rodríguez, José Vizcaíno, Willy Taveras
I bet those Dominican Astros must be laughing uproarously at the stupid gringos who think that the fact that they speak Spanish means that they aren't black. Wait until Ezequiel Astacio tells his buddies back home that he apparently became a Caucasian when his plane landed in Houston!
I think the last World Series team without any black players was the 1953 Yankees.
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