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Remember getting a new mitt for your birthday or chirstmas? Man. It was a ritual trying to break those things in. All the old timers had their secrets. Once you got it broke in the way you liked it man it was heaven. Then you always had your lucky bat too.
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Another one of those classic genius posts, sure to generate responses. You log on the next day to see what your witty gem has produced to find no one gets it and 2 knotheads want to stick their dicks in it... Well played, sir!!Comment
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I don't get all this talk of College baseball... most kids are scouted/recruited out of high school and few ever see a college campus.
I think twona summed it up best on the first page of this thread. There's no place for inner city kids to develop their skills. Secondly... blacks in baseball don't get the glamor lifestyle played up like football & basketball athletes receive... so there's a lack of cultural draw. Why's no one crying about the lack of Asians in baseball? The Japanese seem to love the sport...
NASCAR has had a similar program/committee crap for increasing the minority presence in the sport... they also struggle to land very few Hispanics, Asians and Blacks. I think a big part of it is social-economic based for early skills development... most minorities learn how to steal cars... not drive them."If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”Comment
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I'll bet you would have sided with the sheet wearing sisterfuckers who protested Jackie Robinson when he joined the Major Leagues, or who sent death threats to Hank Aaron when he was about to break Babe Ruth's record.....
Seriously, you want to defend that mentality?"Dear ****** Henry,
You are (not) going to break this record established by the great Babe Ruth if I can help it. ... Whites are far more superior than jungle bunnies. . My gun is watching your every black move."
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Elvis helped write the fucking letter.
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No, I disagree with that.
Yes, they may be scouted and/recruited out of high school, but even if they are drafted by a MLB team, unless they're drafted pretty high, say in the first 10 rounds or so, most high school kids do not sign with their drafted team, and instead take the college scholarship. The money offered in those low draft picks are relatively peanuts. We're mostly talking about studs who are lucky enough to have that scholarship(s) as a backup plan.
And this ties back to the topic.... IMO it's just a much more difficult path, as compared to basketball or football, for any kid, regardless of color, to make it to the pros in baseball.
And that is the reason.Eat Us And Smile - The Originals
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"We are part of the, not just the culture, but the geography. Van Halen music goes along with like fries with the burger." - David Lee RothComment
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Also, college baseball doesn't get nearly the media attention that college football or basketball do, so it's not like the college baseball players have their names out there like the Heisman Trophy winner, or the kid that scored the winning basket at the Final Four, or whatever.Eat Us And Smile
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"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
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Eat Us And Smile - The Originals
"I have a very belligerent enthusiasm or an enthusiastic belligerence. I’m an intellectual slut." - David Lee Roth
"We are part of the, not just the culture, but the geography. Van Halen music goes along with like fries with the burger." - David Lee RothComment
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