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    The Giant
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    Why are there no black players anymore in major league baseball?

    Last night I was watching the games on the MLB package.

    Eight screens at a time. It's a beautiful thing.

    Anyway, as I'm watching I'm noticing there aren't hardly any black players anymore. I do a little research and find out only about 7% of the players are black.

    Where have the Willie Mays gone? The Hank Aaron's? The Barry Bonds?

    Where have they all gone?

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    They run the NBA now

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    Good observation but the answer is more black people are racist and think baseball is for whites

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    Baseball is too applie pie for them,
    not ghetto enough.

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    I watched an interview with some black guy last year and he said that the number of black players in the Baseball is declining because it is a sport for the rich. Chris Rock said that it isn't "hip" enough for black people to play anymore.

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    chicks don't dig the long ball anymore, they dig the running QB

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    They would dominate but most do not play

    Game too slow for them

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    Game dominated by Hispanics and whites.

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    They just like bouncing the ball, not hitting it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kermit View Post
    That's funny. I was thinking of Chris Rock talking about why there are no blacks in hockey.

    "They don't want to be around white people with sticks."

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    Is Cespedes considered Black?

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    cause the RBI programs in the inner cities are dead

    kids all wanna play basketball

    should tell them that baseball has no salary cap

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheMoneyShot View Post
    Is Cespedes considered Black?
    No, Cuban. The 7% figure is for Afro-Americans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kidcudi92 View Post
    cause the RBI programs in the inner cities are dead

    kids all wanna play basketball

    should tell them that baseball has no salary cap
    This.

    And the fact that it's more expensive to play (you need glove and cleats for yourself minimum), is sadly another reason.

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    Baseball season in high school usually overlaps with track & field. The good athletes usually run track

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    Quote Originally Posted by daneblazer View Post
    Baseball season in high school usually overlaps with track & field. The good athletes usually run track
    Very true, which career-wise is as dumb a decision as you can make.

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    Use to love playing Baseball,30 bucks for the summer,they supply the uniform

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    Easier to rap

    Track and field is a joke in the northeast for high school athletes. Real sports worth a damn are football, basketball, soccer and baseball in that order

    Track and wrestling are for the kids that got cut from basketball, soccer or baseball

    No one gets cut from football, wrestling or track anyone can walk on.

    If any kid was exceptional they'd get recruited by the private schools
    Last edited by shadymcgrady; 05-26-17 at 06:51 PM.

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    Played bases alot growing up. My kids don't even want to touch a bat. Sad

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    Laker I heard Hockey is pretty expensive to get your kids into.

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    Doesn't have anything to do with money. Kids used to play stickball with bottlecaps. That is all it takes.

    Dr. J and Michael Jordan. Blacks kids started identifying with the NBA in the 70s and drifted away from baseball. Then they started dominating the NFL in the 70s. Blacks are also really good at basketball it turns out.

    Baseball is a boring game, especially now that it takes 3:30 to play a game when they used to last as little as an 1.5 to 2 hours. Basketball and football are easy to learn and not boring to watch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by packerd_00 View Post
    Laker I heard Hockey is pretty expensive to get your kids into.
    It's insane how much that shit is packer

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    Quote Originally Posted by packerd_00 View Post
    Laker I heard Hockey is pretty expensive to get your kids into.
    It is but it's good cause then you don't see any ghetto idiots there. It's really time consuming. Tournament every weekend.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kidcudi92 View Post
    It's insane how much that shit is packer
    Is that right,yeah some mate of mine,was saying you have to buy all the equipment yourself,they don't supply anything.

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    Blacks can't hit small balls

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    Another small reason there are fewer blacks in baseball is the focus on one sport now. As an example, Patrick Mahomes was a projected second-round draft pick as a baseball pitcher. But he decided to play QB at Texas Tech. He was going to play both sports but wound up playing just football.

    Tony Gwynn was the starting point guard at San Diego State and Kenny Lofton was starting PG for Arizona. These days probably neither of those guys would even play baseball.


    Randle-El was a major league prospect but just played football. Patrick White the QB at West Virginia was rated higher than Carl Crawford coming out of high school and never played college baseball.

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    Maybe with the negative publicity involving football and head injuries, more blacks will give baseball a second look. Football chews you up and spits you out, you can make guaranteed money in baseball and play for a while... not sure why that isnt lucrative enough for young blacks. Maybe too much minor league ball and grinding for them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seaweed View Post
    Good observation but the answer is more black people are racist and think baseball is for whites
    seaweed i use to like you but i now i hate you

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    Hard to believe now that Deion Sanders and Bo Jackson played both MLB and NFL in the same season. Wow, those guys were good. Both said that their favorite sport was baseball.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    Last night I was watching the games on the MLB package.

    Eight screens at a time. It's a beautiful thing.

    Anyway, as I'm watching I'm noticing there aren't hardly any black players anymore. I do a little research and find out only about 7% of the players are black.

    Where have the Willie Mays gone? The Hank Aaron's? The Barry Bonds?

    Where have they all gone?
    do you want to see mor eblack players in baseball?

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    too much ghetto white guys in baseball. Better to avoid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wikkidinsane View Post
    too much ghetto white guys in baseball. Better to avoid.
    Agreed. Also too many eses..

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    Quote Originally Posted by wikkidinsane View Post
    too much ghetto white guys in baseball. Better to avoid.
    wikki, you know if Lil Wayne came out with a track called "rounding dem bases" that percentage would jump to 20% overnight

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    Quote Originally Posted by unde0087 View Post
    wikki, you know if Lil Wayne came out with a track called "rounding dem bases" that percentage would jump to 20% overnight
    Maybe not overnight but would have an effect on the youths lol

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