Mr. Enigma
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Jabee is talking about Laynce Nix on the Phillies, ya dinguses.
You're getting your Nix's confused.That didn't happen (and I do like Nix)
Yeah, I got you. Just saying, it wasn't an effective troll when you're just reminding me how awesome the franchise is.Referring to the clutchiness of the Braves in the playoffs.
Interesting discussion on MLB on XM right now regarding blacks in the MLB. A few people have called in to say that baseball is considered a "white" sport by urban youths. I'd never really heard of that.
Yeah, I guess I always assumed it was because it's slow and a baseball field is sort of expensive and specific to maintain.
Jabee is talking about Laynce Nix on the Phillies, ya dinguses.
You don't even need a field, just enough open space, which itself I'm sure is a precious commodity. I was going to mention something about the equipment necessary, but kids have been playing ball with sticks and anything round for generations. I think baseball just got a little less sexy somehow, and it's snowballed ever since. I always wondered if Melvin was trying to poke at that dynamic by putting together a team that had as many American born black players as the '08 Brewers, if it was chemistry-driven, or entirely coincidental.
I imagine it was entirely coincidental but I did find it humorous, at the time, that race baiter Eugene Kane went on a tear about how awful it was that the Brewers were so lily white dotted with hispanics a mere few weeks before they fielded a team with the most African American starters in baseball.
I don't really understand the handwringing personally. Are there a lot of black commentators demanding more blacks in the soccer league? Is there a league of Asians furious that there are no Asian pro bowlers? Why no white outrage about the disproportionate makeup of the NBA?
Why does it need to be "fixed" in the first place? For whatever reason black kids don't want to play baseball. Why should anyone try and socially engineer them to do so?
Jabee is talking about Laynce Nix on the Phillies, ya dinguses.
You're getting your Nix's confused.
Baseball isn't part of black culture.
Doesn't mean it won't change in the future, but that's the case now. There's nothing to "fix". NBA and the NFL are more popular.
What is a part of "black culture"?
Mo Vaughn considered valuable?
Interesting discussion on MLB on XM right now regarding blacks in the MLB. A few people have called in to say that baseball is considered a "white" sport by urban youths. I'd never really heard of that.
Select baseball is expensive and like 90% white. You can't become good at baseball just by staying at the playground like you can in football and basketball.
Select baseball is expensive and like 90% white. You can't become good at baseball just by staying at the playground like you can in football and basketball.
Puig is still slaughtering the baseball. I wish a Dodgers outfielder would get hurt so they'd just call him up already.
Kinda weird how "urban youths" dug baseball for 100 years, though and it only became an outdated, slow white person's game in the last 20 years or so.
Of course, it HAS stayed popular in places like NY and STL. Huh. Now why would that be?
Kinda weird how "urban youths" dug baseball for 100 years, though and it only became an outdated, slow white person's game in the last 20 years or so.
Of course, it HAS stayed popular in places like NY and STL. Huh. Now why would that be?
Kinda weird how "urban youths" dug baseball for 100 years, though and it only became an outdated, slow white person's game in the last 20 years or so.
Of course, it HAS stayed popular in places like NY and STL. Huh. Now why would that be?
lolJabee is talking about Laynce Nix on the Phillies, ya dinguses.
Yeah, this theory only works if the country doesn't have a vast history aligned with baseball at the youth, high school, and travel level.I'm pulling this out of my ass a bit and doing so on the fly, dangerous territory in this type of discussion but:
Baseball broke the color barrier over a decade before some of the SEC schools started allowing blacks on the field. Baseball has always been a sort of more northern centered sport, while football more southern, at least in dominance. I wonder if some of the reasons that "black culture" was more into baseball for a time was because of that perception and as that fell away a bit, the culture shifted away from baseball for some reason.
Eh, I kind of lost steam halfway through that theory.
Watching Gomes is never not hilarious.
Jenny Dell >>> Hazel Mae
And to make matter worse Atlanta lost to them. That season should've been ours.... :-SF would have crushed the Phillies that season. Good job screwing that up.
I think young Boston men loved her simply because they had never seen a non-white woman before.
Yeah, this theory only works if the country doesn't have a vast history aligned with baseball at the youth, high school, and travel level.
Baseball is second only to Football in the state of Georgia. People love 'em some batting and pitching.
I don't buy into the "baseball is expensive" part of the discussion. That absolutely works for tennis and golf, but I think it suffered more from basketball absolutely exploding in the '80s, followed shortly by football.