01-28-2021, 10:44 PM
rjmacs wrote:
I'm not sure I follow your logic about Black Americans not playing baseball anymore as a result of political awareness/activism on the part of sports writers. Please explain how this has led to the downfall of baseball, more than the fact that the sport is slow, low-scoring, and largely a pitcher's game (which, to non-baseball-heads, makes for pretty boring watching).
Also, there's nothing wrong with starting to do the right thing at any time, regardless of how your predecessors acted. If your professional antecedents were racist, don't be racist. Consistency is not as important as equity.
They'd rather play Football and Basketball because baseball is too stodgy. Only recently have they allowed the players to have fun. In the Dominican, Cuba etc, those players talk a bunch of junk, flip their bats and have a bunch of fun. As soon as they get to the majors, then it's no, you gotta respect the game for no freaking reason at all.
The Tampa Bay Rays, who were ridiculously pressured to change their name from being The Devil Rays, can barely get a couple of thousand fans to come to their world series caliber team's games. They're thinking about splitting the season in Montreal. That's a bunch of teams now.
Only the fans of the two teams watch the World Series. Virtually every tv will be watching the Super bowl. Players want to have fun and not be judged about nonsensical things. The NFL didn't even used to let the players spike the ball after touchdowns. THEY CHANGED THE RULES. They wanted to remain popular.
When you have MLB baseball stopping fun activities, and denying badasses access to the Hall, they become less interested in that sport.
MLB loses most battles for two sport athletes despite paying way more money. Kyler Murray took the QB job for the Cardinals over the A's with their $400,000 signing bonus. Fortunately Mookie Betts chose baseball. Now he makes nearly half a billion dollars.
Check this out. Think about that stat. You know what that makes him? That makes him our daddy. One of the greatest ever to suit up. But if he broke one of MLB's precious non-rules, he wouldn't have gotten into the Hall. The best sport of them all is dying.
