What’s stopping you, Frank, you should have plenty of money to open one.
The most diverse sport isn’t diverse enough?
Its all up to us because they can't. Presumably.
Who is Chris Rock?
Africans? Sure. Americans? Sure. African-Americans? Trouble.
This is a great society failure.
The more the black family was destroyed by the government the less fathers were around to be little league coaches for their kids. Less fathers equal less financially prosperous family’s. Less prosperous families equals less local and community taxes paid. Less local and community taxes paid means fewer ball fields and programs in certain neighborhoods.
It started in the early 60’s so the last generation who grew up with a father would of been major league ready in the mid 80’s.
I’m sure it has declined since then.
Quit voting for democrats, problem solved.
WDE anyway.
How do we get more white people in basketball? Serious question. My son plays and is frequently the only white kid in the whole league. Why? Culturr. I was taking him to college games sinve he was an infant. When he was 4 he decided he was going to play and was in the street playing on a neighbor’s hoop obsessively for hours at a time in the rain, snow and sleet. Now he is 6 and dominates the inner city kids (parents and coaches get pissed). He can beat most of the neighborhood kids that are 12 years old as long as it is a 10 foot rim to neutralize thr size disadvantage. We call him white chocolate.
It's a damn shame, but the kids in these black neighborhoods who could excel in baseball will never have a chance to develop their skills because there is no organic support system to allow them to do it. Things like a father playing catch with them in the back yard when they are 5 or 6 years old.
If a kid does not have the basic skills, including a love for the game by the time they reach high school, they will never have it.
It's not like football where a high school coach can take a big or fast freshman and train him to play in a short period of time. Baseball skills take a long time and many repetitions to master.
Blacks should stick to basketball and football where they excel, unless they can bat, throw, catch, run bases, pitch, and endure the down time. We’ve created the myth of the invincible black athlete, except it doesn’t apply to baseball.
I demand the NBA recruit in rural and suburban areas.
When the black communities want their kids to play baseball, they will play baseball. They have no problem playing basketball and football. You can’t legislate sport popularity.
Andrew McCutchen of the Pirates wrote about this as well. Baseball is the most diverse of the pro sports because in many places around the world it is the best path to riches for talented athletes. In the US, football and basketball are more lucrative so that’s where the best athletes go. Baseball in the US is mostly played by upper class kids.
Why is it, that a black guy that speaks Spanish isn’t black?
Last I knew MLB still had the RBI program to revive baseball in inner cities. I would think this would include blacks but I guess they need it to be only about them.
Why not put Private Schools in the inner cities so blacks can get an education so they can be something... like a doctor or an architect or a conservative talk show host...
There is one big problem with Thomas’ statement: If MLB put these things in the inner city, they would be robbed. Cubans and Dominicans behave themselves. Feral American blacks? Not so much.
Can’t get to the article. Keeps asking me to sign up and when I click “not now” I’m launched to some page where I can’t find a damn thing while ads keep popping up and rearranging the page. Hell, that’s exactly why I ignore The Blaze and Breitbart links. Frustrating...