[crunk]

Obviously, the U.S. government and MLB have come to the conclusion that playing baseball should be included among those “jobs Americans won’t do.”

This is a few months old, but I thought it was interesting given the outrage over the latest shamnesty bill. Our national pastime being outsourced? Good or bad? What say you?

[SteveMcKing]

Get a ball and start a team in your neighborhood. Get to know people around you.

To hell with professional sports, packed stadiums, and their all-around price gouging.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

“what say you?” posts when the ink on your terms of use agreement isn’t dry is usually taken to be suspicious....

[L.N. Smithee]

Our national pastime being outsourced? Good or bad? What say you?

It's crap. Whoever wrote this isn't really a fan of the game.

Fact of the matter is that baseball is on the outs among African-Americans and has been for years. It's not MLB's fault black kids would rather play basketball and football, and find baseball boring. OTOH, in the Dominican Republic, baseball is the entry way out of a country where life is in-between Cuba and Haiti. All-Stars and Hall of Famers have been coming out of there since the mid-60's.

Personally, I don't understand why people who complain about the slowness of baseball don't embrace hockey, in which the action is constant. Even football action only happens a few seconds at a time -- three hours to watch guys knock each other down for sixty minutes?

[Sonny M]

The reason baseball academys are not built in the US, and are built overseas is that players in the United States are draft eleigible while players overseas can be signed as International Free Agents.

Its why Puerto Rico no longer draws the same interest from Major League Baseball as it used to. After puerto rican players became draft eligible, the academys stoppped being built or invested.

For a better understanding, think of it this why, why invest time, and money and instruction on developing a ballplayer, when there is a high percentage chance that another team will draft and sign that player, keep in mind that IFA's operate under different rules then draft eligible players in America.

This article is so centered on race, and immigration, with its populist touch, that ignored facts and left out valubale due dilligence and research that would have more accuratly explained the facts of this issue.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Yet, for all of Commissioner Bud Selig’s interest in diversity in MLB, there are scant African American patrons in baseball stadiums nationwide.

...and Barry Bonds has been such a good "ambassador" to the game.

[Osage Orange]

Welcome to FR

[Osage Orange]

When you reply to a post..........you will count some slight coup.

Until then...you will be known as a troll/drive-by wanna be Freeper..............

Your play.........

[justiceseeker93]

What's the big deal about this article? She's only talking about visa changes for a few (mostly Dominican) minor league players. Hardly affects American society adversely the way illegal immigration does.

So far as I know, there's no special quick path to American citizenship for foreign professional athletes - unless Selig and crew manage to have something sneaked into the new immigration bill now being debated in Congress.

If you want to talk about the hypocrisy and fraud of Schmucky Selig and his gang, you can write a whole book about it, and immigration would be only a small part.

What else do you expect from a bunch of lefty Dummycrats?