Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Why is College Baseball so White? Where are Black players in the College World Series?

But where are the Black guys?
I've been trying to find some time to respond to Steve Sailer's article on why more white American's aren't in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Basketball has long been a sport that Black people have excelled in (recall that Pistol Pete Maravich - another generations Jimmer Fredette - called his teammates a "bunch of niggers" because they refused to pass him the ball as a rookie for the Atlanta Hawks) and some could say, dominated.

Since sports offer Black people one of the only opportunities to provide positive examples for members of their community to a world that wants little to do with them otherwise, it's vital that this pipeline of good will continues to produce positive results.

One man is responsible for this more than any: Sonny Vaccaro. People forget that the NBA was looked at as a ghetto, a league of Black thugs that no corporation wanted to invest in and promote back in the 1970s and early 1980s.

All that changed with Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan:
Now Nike wanted to try again. In 1979, Knight had met John Paul “Sonny” Vaccaro, a basketball maven who pitched a groundbreaking idea: The company would sign endorsement deals with college coaches who, in turn, could turn their players into billboards for the brand.
“I was charmed by Sonny,” Knight would say. “After that, we gave him all the room he wanted.”
As successful as the college venture had been, Knight knew the big money was in the surging pro game, where Larry Bird and Magic Johnson had vaulted the league’s popularity. Both players, however, wore Converse.

The men at the meeting were following Nike’s well-worn path of thinking far outside the box. With most of the NBA’s top players already locked up to Converse, Nike officials thought they should gamble on a rookie, a fresh new face for the league.
As this New York Times article makes clear, corporations such as Nike and Reebok pay big bucks to shuttle Black middle school and high school athletes all around the country to showcase their talents in AAU basketball games. Treated like Gods by companies hoping to find the next Michael Jordan (thus, the next basketball player to endorse Nike shoes and get inner city Black kids to spend $140 on shoes that only government handouts can help them afford), these Black athletes pay nary a dime to showcase their skills to college coaches across the land:
It's this kind of treatment that brings Vaccaro grief from the critics. It's also an indication of how much is different from the day he signed Michael Jordan for Nike and changed marketing forever. Sonny barely knew Jordan until right before the 1984 draft. But once MJ morphed into Air Jordan, it became Sonny's job to find the next great salesman. By the late '90s, sneaker companies were inviting 14-year-olds to their camps and travel teams.
Vaccaro is one of the people most responsible for the state of college basketball and the thug mentality that is pervasive in both the collegiate and professional ranks today. He has tried to clean-up his image by fighting on behalf of Black kids who have no business going to a university other than their ability to dribble a basketball or shoot a jump shot:

Over time, Mr. Vaccaro developed a knack for befriending other talented prospects — like Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers — guiding them to stardom and then signing them to endorsement deals. In the 1990s, he helped unleash the so-called sneaker wars in which the shoe companies fought over younger and younger prospects, sponsoring entire teams and flying them to tournaments.


Many saw Mr. Vaccaro as an advocate for young athletes, many of them poor and black, in search of a better life through sports. Other reviled him as the personification of a system that uses young basketball players to generate millions of dollars for the shoe companies and the N.C.A.A. but subordinates education to dreams of endorsement deals and N.B.A. careers.
Now ask yourself this: if you are a white parent, already taxed to death to pay for welfare, EBT cards, Section 8 Housing, and other amenities that go disproportionately to subsidize Black people (not to mention the unbelievable bucks spent to escape the Black Undertow and insulate your children in Whitopia's for "the good schools"), why would you subject your young son to playing a sport that is dominated by Blacks and have them travel around the country with primarily Black AAU teams?

You wouldn't. The best young white athletes these days play baseball (and play quarterback in football), because the cost of fielding a traveling team is greater than a team of eight Black kids from the hood.

White families drop big bucks to have their child play traveling baseball, with games all over the country. That gets expensive to follow and support, a cost barrier that single Black females (72 percent of Black children don't have a father living with them) with a net wealth of $5 can't overcome.

This is why baseball is no longer a sport with a big Black presence. It has nothing to do with racism, unless you believe that Nike and Reebok are racist to perceive that only Black kids can play basketball and are worthy of easy exploitation.

Tonight, South Carolina and the University of Florida will compete in game two of the College Baseball World Series. Unlike college football, where 'special admission' status ensures that Black athletes intellectually incapable of gaining acceptance to these schools on their own merit and earn a dubious "academic" scholarship, college baseball is a sport for white people.
The best white athletes play baseball

Look at any college baseball team and you'll see a reflection of what the university really looks like (both Florida and South Carolina are overwhelmingly white), as opposed to college football and basketball teams that normally have some of the only Black males on the campus playing for them:

In 2005, the most recent year for which figures were available, only 35 percent of players drafted were high school players, down from 56 percent when the draft started. And only about a quarter of drafted high school players now sign with a team, compared to about 70 percent of college players who are drafted.
In 1965, about half of drafted high school players signed, compared to 55 percent of college players who were drafted.

But baseball is not considered a revenue sport in college, as football and basketball are. Full scholarships are very rare for baseball. More often two or three players will share a scholarship. 

It takes a certain amount of economic resources for a baseball player to go to college and whites, on average, have higher incomes than blacks in the U.S. So for a black athlete that needs financial assistance to attend college, it makes more sense to try for a football or basketball scholarship. This is a big reason why college baseball teams have even a lower percentage of black players than does the major league, said Solomon.

"A Division 1 football program can give out 85 scholarships, and baseball teams only 11.7," said Solomon. "If you're an African American kid and you need help to go to school, do the math."
Major League Baseball is making a push to try to get more black athletes interested in playing the game. May 1 will be the first anniversary of the opening of the Urban Youth Academy in Compton, Calif., near Los Angeles.

Has the NBA ever opened up a camp in a Whitopia hoping to attract more white Americans to the game?

In the 2009 College World Series, only four percent of the players were Black.This is what happens in collegiate athletics when the Black Underclass isn't subsidized as it is in basketball and increasingly football.

SEC Football, which was once segregated, could look like College Baseball if Black athletes were not granted special admission to the schools so that their pathetic grades and low SAT/ACT scores wouldn't be usurped by their athletic dexterity.

Take a look at this link which shows the number of Black players for the SEC schools in baseball, plus fan support:

The under-representation of African-Americans in college baseball is evident. African-American athletes make up only 4.5% of all National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) baseball players. They are a shrinking percentage of Major League Baseball players. A focus group was established to identify specific sociological issues which were perceived to influence the under-representation of African-Americans in collegiate baseball. Additionally, information from the observation of SEC baseball games during the 2006 season was used to quantify the social pattern. Data from the "traditionally black" Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) and the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) were also collected during the 2006 season. For the Southeastern Conference (SEC), fan attendance was less than 1% African-American and the player participation rate was 1.91 per team during the 2006 season. Additionally, none of the SEC head or assistant baseball coaches were African-American. The focus group determined that the reasons for the decline in numbers were related to (1) lifestyle factors, (2) competition from other sports and social opportunities, and (3) the absence of African-American role models in baseball. The authors propose that Title IX legislation and the influence of sports media were primary factors in the change.

African-Americans in College Baseball

The under-representation of African-Americans in college baseball is an obvious yet perplexing picture in athletics today. African-American athletes are more than equitably represented among many of the most popular collegiate spectator sports; however, their near absence in college baseball appears to be more than coincidental. Questions arise as to whether the educational system, the social system of athletics, and/or federal legislation have been responsible for the reduction in the number of African-American baseball players in America.

Only 4.5% of all National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) baseball players were African-American during the 2004 season. This includes all divisions, in addition to the historically African-American colleges and universities. On the contrary, 42.0% and 32.3% of NCAA basketball and football players, respectively, were African-American in the 2003-2004 academic year (Bray, 2005).

When specifically examining one of the perennial collegiate conference baseball powers, the Southeastern Conference (SEC), only 4.2% of 2006 roster players were African-American, as noted in Table 1. The twelve universities that make up the SEC represent states with an average African-American population of 20.8%.
The majority of Black athletes playing college basketball and college football have no business attending classes and representing these institutions. College baseball - with limits on scholarships - shows what all sports should look like:


Perhaps the biggest challenge was simply making it as far as he did. In 2003-04 – the most recent data compiled by the NCAA – only 6 percent of the nearly 9,800 Division I baseball players were black, compared to 25 percent in all sports combined. Whites made up 84 percent of the baseball rosters.
And the total number of black baseball players has fallen from a five-year high of 649 in 2001-02 to 598 last year.

"It's sad, because I remember when I was this age, there were a lot of guys getting opportunities to go," said Harold Reynolds, a two-time All-Star during his 12-year career in the majors and currently an analyst for ESPN's baseball coverage.

As expected, basketball and football are much more equitable. Half of the men's and women's basketball players were black, and 44 percent of the football players.

"I think it's a reflection of the fact that there aren't any African-Americans at the lower levels of baseball," said Richard Lapchick, the director of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida."If baseball is going to be seen as the national pastime, you would hope it would reflect the diversity of the country."

According to Lapchick, the number of black players in the majors this season is down to 9 percent, the lowest figure since the late 1970s.

The reason more white people don't pursue basketball is because white parents are smart enough to realize that their children probably will enjoy the company of other white children in their communities, instead of traveling all around the country playing for a team where they would be the token white.

Plus, AAU basketball is heavily subsidized - at least at the highest levels - by Nike, Reebok, Adidas, and other sporting companies. They promote inner city (Black athletes) kids and fly them all over the country in hopes that they will be the next star NBA player who will help sell shoes made cheaply in China to Black kids in America for $140. It will be these shoes that will adorn the feet of Mahogany Mobs. 

 Travel baseball is very expensive and Black families (or, Black mothers who rely on the government) can't pay these expenses. This is why Black families put all their eggs in the basketball basketball as a way to escape.

Sailer is right to point out that white families also invest heavily in soccer and increasingly lacrosse, sports that Black kids go nowhere near.

But college baseball shows you what sports would look like if athletic scholarship weren't given out to the lowest academic qualifiers.

Black kids playing collegiate sports aren't being exploited; for 99 percent of these kids, the opportunity to play college football or basketball represents their only chance for a decent life. If they fail to take advantage of this opportunity, it is only their fault.


Put simply, the best white athletes are pursuing sports outside of basketball, because they will have the opportunity to be around their friends. These white athletes normally excel at high school football as well, but have a better opportunity to make an impact in baseball.

Just ask Peyton Hillis about why that is.




51 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why is College Baseball so White? Where are Black players in the College World Series?

Answer: E'body be racis' again't de black man.

Anonymous said...

Paul,

Excellent article. Your research is very good. The reasoning is sound. It explains a lot.

DWLs have been building up steam about baseball. They will point to systemic and structural racism and claim there's "manipulation" going on. Your research shows there's manipulation alright, just not in the direction that the DWLs and ESPN clowns think it is. These behind the scenes distortions have bent sports for decades. Thanks you for highlighting these nearly invisible gravitational fields.

And as far as MLB, doesn't the heavy hispanic participation actually make it "look like America"? An America where blacks are the #3 minority? The DWLs should be getting what they want, which is the dreaded and illogical proportionality formula.

And by the way, I used to love basketball. Before I had children (pre 1984) I envisioned my future kids playing the sport. Then the world changed. By the time my oldest was old enough to start youth ball it was clear the sport was lost to white people in my county and state. My time teaching and coaching in a an inner city high school proved to me basketball is no sport or culture for whites.

Artist

Anonymous said...

Lacrosse, swimming, hockey, motorcross! Anything that requires participants to spend money is a white sport.

Anonymous said...

I've always thought white people had better hand-eye coordination than black people. HEC is essential in Baseball, and playing Quarterback.

Black Quarterbacks never seem to be as accurate as whites, and of course, they call the 3-point line the "whiteboy line" for a reason.

And if you've ever gone shooting with black people, you know they have trouble hitting targets.


As a side note on HEC, Ted Williams once entered a fly fishing competition on a lark. He had never done it before, and had to cast his line into a hoolahoop. He ended up winning. Some white people have an ungodly amount of HEC.

Anonymous said...

Whites can play any sport and do it superbly. It's just whites are particular about who they play with.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous 12.00pm
Yes,I believe you are correct about white/black HEC.

I know this site is STBPDL and is overwhelmingly,indeed ,intrinisically an American site.
But,as a European,with little interest in US sports,I am not alone in finding your College/Professional system to be something of a mystery.How did it it evolve?.And why?.Perhaps Paul you could do a post on this to explain to European readers.There are more than just me.

By the way,I play Darts as hobby but I'm not very good.It is however the ultimate in HEC.Several white Americans have been very succesful.
No blacks ever.From anywhere.

Anonymous said...

Not sure what AAU basketball tournaments you go to, but there are plenty of white kids playing. I know -- I sponsor eight teams in my program, virtually all white. Now, are the players evaluated fairly? Not always. Do they have to go the extra mile? Usually. At the same time, they're often at an advantage because their team play is often at odds, and successful against, the playground variety ghetto teams. Hordes of white kids still flock to the tryouts, and we produce white Division I basketball players every year.

Anonymous said...

I've always thought white people had better hand-eye coordination than black people. HEC is essential in Baseball, and playing Quarterback.

I can go along with that. I've been involved in industrial construction all of my adult life and the number of black crane operators,machinists,welders,and millwrights is very,very small. I have only seen a half a dozen black crane operators in my life,that I can recall offhand,and of those,only one I would trust to run the crane if I was on the other end of the lift and had to do the flagging and load setting.

Shooting??? I honestly can't say,because I can't recall ever seeing a black man or woman on a range where I was shooting,with one exception,and that time I left before they started. But any kind of clay pigeon shooting,metallic silhouette shooting,benchrest shooting,etc. are almost completely devoid of blacks,in my experience. I can remember one time in the service when I was a range safety;I was making an attempt to explain basic ballistics and shooting techniques to a black guy. I might as well have talked to a fence post for all the good it did.

Incidentally,for those who are still young enough to chase after women,an afternoon at the range-IF it's an outdoor range where conversation is possible-is a very nice way to spend an afternoon getting acquainted. She gets to make noise,break things,and then let someone else clean up the mess,and most women pick up shooting very quickly if they have even mildly competent instruction. ( This gets back to the hand/eye coordination-I think that women have measurably higher hand/eye coordination than men have,on average,and it translates into giving her a chance to do something well when trying it for the first time. )

Anonymous said...

Agree-- excellent reasoning and superb research. I grew up watching the Boston Celts and loved following college football. I stopped caring about any of it years ago precisely because of the reasons given. I've never been athletic but I enjoyed the drama of a "Hoosiers" (the movie)-style sporting challenge. I've been in Australia for the last ten years and the sporting life here has been uncorrupted so far. There's no huge money and it is all much more rooted to the community. Civilized and very, very white. The way it should have stayed.

Ex-pat

Anonymous said...

I can't agree about whites having better HEC than blacks, because of the number of highly skilled black jazz musicians over the last 90 years. To give just one example, watch Victor Wooten play the electric bass.

Discard said...

Anon at 1:25 PM: I don't think that women have better hand-eye coordination, but better fine motor skills. They generally can't throw a ball, but look at their handwriting and their needle arts. And if their not afraid of burns, they make great welders. I taught my mom to MIG weld in the horzontal position in about 15 minutes, I shit you not.

I've also been told that teaching women to shoot is easy, because they have no preconceptions picked up from movies. They pay closer attention to instruction and do as they're taught.

Anon at 1:49 PM: Playing music requires no hand-eye coordination. It doesn't even require eyes.

Anonymous said...

Hey Anon @ 1:43:

You could have posted a link to Victor Wooten instead of making me google his name in a separate window ... douche bag. And Victor Wooten sucks with all his disjointed, jump-discontinuous noise. I would sooner listen to a farting contest.

The Senior Engineer

Anonymous said...

Playing an instrument really isn't about HEC, it's about feel.

Hell, watch people go off on their instrument, they usually close their eyes.

Anonymous said...

Paul, IMO, you have omitted the single most significant reason that blacks don't play baseball:

Fathers.

I played Little League as a kid, and every team had 3 or 4 fathers that coached. Learning how to field a ground ball, or hit the cutoff man, or a proper batting stance and swing, or turning a double-play, or pitching...these things had to be TAUGHT.

In contrast, many kids become phenomenal basketball players just by playing pick-up games with their friends, even without coaching.

A neighborhood without fathers is highly unlikely to even have any sort of organized baseball league.

Also, because baseball provides less opportunity for acts of individual celebration (such as a slam-dunk, or end-zone dance), negroes find it less appealing.

Anonymous said...

"I've always thought white people had better hand-eye coordination than black people."

Possible, but I doubt it.

In all of the studies that contrast white and black athletes, I've never read any support for this.

Of course, if you've ever seen Obama throw a baseball or hit a golf ball...

Anonymous said...

"I can't agree about whites having better HEC than blacks, because of the number of highly skilled black jazz musicians over the last 90 years. To give just one example, watch Victor Wooten play the electric bass."

This has the familiar ring of Diarrhea-Logic.

Anonymous said...

At Anon. June 28, 2011 4:15 PM

Proof again, HEC has no relevance when referring to black musicians, Ray Charles played the piano and he was blind.

Anonymous said...

I can play drums to tool in the dark, no HEC required.

Anonymous said...

Have any of you ever heard the phrase "hitting a baseball with a bat is the hardest thing to do it sports"

Agree or Disagree?

Anonymous said...

Another point about black people and HEC....

Have you ever noticed how prone black people are to have lazy eyes?

I've always wondered about that, whether it's genetic or comes from years of getting into fights.

I took a couch over to goodwill the other day, the black guy who took it hand TWO lazy eyes.

Anonymous said...

To learn baseball you need a dad to play catch with or to pitch to you to hit. Basketball just takes a ball and a hoop.

Anonymous said...

"Have any of you ever heard the phrase "hitting a baseball with a bat is the hardest thing to do it sports"

Agree or Disagree?"

If not the hardest, definitely one of the hardest.

Anonymous said...

"To learn baseball you need a dad to play catch with or to pitch to you to hit. Basketball just takes a ball and a hoop."

Agreed.

Anonymous said...

Anon at 1:25 PM: I don't think that women have better hand-eye coordination, but better fine motor skills. They generally can't throw a ball, but look at their handwriting and their needle arts. And if their not afraid of burns, they make great welders. I taught my mom to MIG weld in the horzontal position in about 15 minutes, I shit you not.

Thank you-"motor skills" is a better term. Women are definitely better than men at certain jobs-needle work being one of them. And this is just me,but I think they have a better natural ability than men have at keeping track of three or four different things at one time-most likely because they're hardwired to watch kids,and sometimes more than one kid at a time.

That,to my way of thinking,translates to being able to keep track of breathing,sight picture,trigger pull and the like,simultaneously,which means they tend to be damned good shots if they decide it's fun and they enjoy it.

And there's a reason I'm engaging in thread drift here-the day may come when those girls need to be able to shoot.

As for the lack of black baseball players,I really have no explanation,since I'm not much of a fan of watching activities that I don't do myself. The point about lack of fathers seems to be a very good explanation to me. As do most of the other explanations,for that matter.

Anonymous said...

Obama sucks at golf and threw a horrible first pitch when he had to do so. It didn't even go over the plate.

Bush on the other hand threw a strike.

Marmaduke said...

Anon at 5:36, Ticks and Leaches FTW....

Anon at 5:52, While it does take some skill for basketball then just a ball and hoop, the patience and coaching that whites (and latinos) display in baseball is something blacks will never have....

Anonymous said...

"Obama sucks at golf and threw a horrible first pitch when he had to do so. It didn't even go over the plate."

LOL That was my point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP4keCkYHYU

Anonymous said...

As has been noted, playing a musical instrument does not require eye-hand coordination. It can be done by blind people.

For the nit-wit who criticized the poster offering this comment, the one who stated that "he needed a link" because he "didn't want to look up" the subject? This is an example of someone who desires to be spoon-fed information because they are too lazy to do a bit of research on their own. I hope this comment was not made by a white person. But many whites are just as lazy as blacks, it would seem.

Anonymous said...

@ Anon 5:52

"Basketball just takes a ball and a hoop."

If basketball took just a ball and a hoop, why can't most white men jump? Surely "Superwhitey" should be able to do this most "simple" of sports, given his alleged athletic prowess, as you all claim...

Anonymous said...

Obama, the White Sox fan who never heard of Podsednik, Iguchi, Dye, Konerko, Everett, Rowand, Pierzynski, Crede, Uribe, Contreras, Cotts, Jenks, etc., had the camera not show the plate so nobody could see if it were a strike or not at home on tv on another occasion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-ftnSTu-CM

Here is his Washington effort.

Anonymous said...

"If basketball took just a ball and a hoop, why can't most white men jump?"

This non sequitur is a classic example of negro logic.

Diarrhea, you have no idea how obvious you are, I find it hilarious.

Anonymous said...

White people can jump but I have no problem admitting that blacks in America have more leaping ability. They were bred for strength after all.


White people are simply the best combination of athletic ability and intelligence.

Anonymous said...

To our European friend at anon 1:17, I'm curious, what brings you here to this site? How does our American brand of diversity compare to yours?

What is your country?

I visited Ireland in 2007 and had the good fortune to visit my relatives and see my grandfather's home on a remote cliff in Donegal. My cousins were very curious. What's it like to live with the "coloreds" they asked. They were under the impression that blacks make up 50% of the population of the US. Obviously the influence of the media.

I also noticed the Irish in general are quite frank and honest discussing race and ethnicity. Reminded me of the US 40-50 years ago before we Americans were muzzled by white guilt and PC.

As to how our sports have evolved into their present state, that's a great question which would take a huge essay to describe. I would say since baseball (MLB) is the oldest professional sport that dates from the time before college sports became a big deal it developed it's own system of minor league instruction. There are scouts in every region looking for talent. They traditionally sign high school players but as the article states this has changed in recent years. Now more college players are signed.

Football first became huge as a college game in the late 19th century. The professional league (NFL) started around 1920 and was dwarfed by the college game. It remained small for decades. It found itself in the 1950s and was aided by the advent of TV. Supposedly, it was always integrated to a small extent. But it draws it's player from the college game. Every year there is a draft and the pro teams pick players from the college ranks and sign them to stupendous contracts. Because of the physical nature of the game it's considered impossible to draft an 18 year old.

Pro basketball (NBA) loosely followed the model of football, although gifted high school players do get drafted and have become successes. See LaBron James and Moses Malone.

Sports has always been an arena of racial conflict and civil rights activism which is why Paul writes on it so much. Sports provides an avenue for us to be constantly subjected to race talk. The integration of baseball is perhaps the prime mythology of American civil rights. It out ranks President Truman's 1947 order to fully integrate the military. While football had no one signal moment of integration like baseball, it instead offers many other stories like the Bear Bryant Alabama/USC game in 1970, the breaking of the color line by the upstart American Football League in the 1960s, and many other stories. Today it seems like football is trying very hard to re-invent the quarterback position to suit the black skill set. However, in the professional game a black quarterback playing black QB style has never won the Super Bowl.

Someone stated that hitting a baseball is the most difficult single action in American sports. Conversely, playing QB in the NFL is the most mentally demanding position in team sports.

Artist

Anonymous said...

"Surely "Superwhitey" should be able to do this most "simple" of sports, given his alleged athletic prowess, as you all claim..."

Similarly, negroes should be able to swim.

But if we compare white basketball players to black swimmers...

Well...

It might be better if we compared black swimmers to double-amputees...

Or maybe to boat anchors.

Diarrhea, aren't you banned?

Discard said...

I understand that all the fastest sprinters in the world come from East Africa. It's just human biodiversity. They got big strong butts good for leaping, and Whites got big strong brains good for thinking.

Anonymous said...

At Anon. June 29 2011 3:12AM

"As has been noted, playing a musical instrument does not require eye-hand coordination. It can be done by blind people."

"For the nit-wit who criticized the poster offering this comment, the one who stated that "he needed a link" because he "didn't want to look up" the subject? This is an example of someone who desires to be spoon-fed information because they are too lazy to do a bit of research on their own. I hope this comment was not made by a white person. But many whites are just as lazy as blacks, it would seem. "

The research was done in the end. What's wrong with demanding a link, MOST people who post offer links??? And if Dezi is to make a claim, shouldn't she ESPECIALLY offer a link? Stop the nit-picking, you're the one being lazy because you couldn't even come up with ANY relevant explanation at all to refute D's post.
Before calling others lazy, try and come up with some sensible rebuttal please!

Anonymous said...

The NCAA only allows baseball teams to have 11.7 scholarships? That's absurdly small.

Anonymous said...

"I understand that all the fastest sprinters in the world come from East Africa."

West Africa.

The physiological facts, known to all specialists in the area are: Compared to whites, blacks have narrower hips, which gives them a more efficient stride. They have longer legs, which makes for a longer stride. They have a shorter sitting height, which provides a higher center of gravity and a better balance. They have wider shoulders, less body fat, and more muscle. Their muscles include more fast twitch muscles, which produce power.

Anonymous said...

"What's wrong with demanding a link, MOST people who post offer links???"

There is nothing wrong with requesting a link.

Diarrhea is just angry that her argument has been refuted (obliterated).

Discard said...

Some of us are not computer adept enough to make links.

Anonymous said...

Yes. The research was done. But only after some major whining, and then only after calling the original poster a douche bag. So my original comment stands. The guy was lazy to complain that he needed a link for something so obvious. And not only was he lazy, but he was rude and obnoxious. Finally, let's have a little perspective, for crying out loud. Pointing out that someone is lazy (and a whiner) is not in the same league as calling someone a douche bag. Good grief!

As far as the college baseball world series goes, watching was really enjoyable, especially observing civilized looking young men engaged in serious competition.

Anonymous said...

There is no skill involved in jumping, nor in flapping large lips to make "music"

Anonymous said...

You overlooked a huge factor in the equation. Baseball has a substantial minor league system. Dumb blacks play minor league baseball instead of college baseball. They don't have that option in basketball and football.

That's why college baseball is whiter than professional baseball.

Anonymous said...

I think you missed the mark. Your thesis is that Blacks dominate basketball but not baseball because White parents are encouraging their children to be athletes in non-Black sports like baseball.

Blacks dominate two professional sports: NFL and NBA. Blacks are not well represented in the other two popular professional sports in America: NHL and MLB. Why is that? What is it about football/basketball that accounts for large Black representation? What is it about hockey/baseball that accounts for small Black representation?

How does the NBA and the NFL obtain new players? The football and basketball farm system is universities and colleges. Thus, the universities are in control, more or less, of who will become a pro football/basketball player.

How does the MLB and NHL obtain new players? Hockey and baseball use minor leagues as a farm system. Thus, minor league teams are more or less in charge of who will become a pro baseball/hockey player.

What is the agenda of a minor league team? To produce quality players who will go on to be professional athletes.

What is the agenda of colleges and universities? To produce college graduates who will be productive members of society...and to produce athletes that meet their utopian view of the world.

The reason so many Blacks are in the NBA/NFL and not in the MLB/NHL is because of the farm systems they use. If you implemented a minor league basketball or football system (and thus removed this power from the universities), you would see a clear change in the demographics of those sports.

And conversely, if the NHL and MLB were to eliminate their minor league teams and go strictly with college players, you would see Blacks dominate these sports.

Anonymous said...

You're all racist pricks. Never seen anything so bad in all my days in Scotland. Its all about upbringing mates! All you Americans care about is each others races! Well fuck off ya bunch of cunts!

Anonymous said...

You're all racist pricks. Never seen anything so bad in all my days in Scotland. Its all about upbringing mates! All you Americans care about is each others races! Well fuck off ya bunch of cunts!"

Easy for you to say that, Mr. Naive Scotsman. How many underclass blacks are living in your neighborhood, Mr. Naive Scotsman? How many third-world immigrants are living in your neighborhood, Mr. Naive Scotsman? How much in taxes do you pay to sustain lazy non-White grifters that are collecting welfare benefits, Mr. Naive Scotsman?

Let's see what you have to say after you have lived in any American city with a majority black population. My recommendation to you would be Detroit, Michigan.

In fact, if you actually did move to Detroit, you might then end up just like Greg McNichols, an Australian expatriate/landlord. Greg McNichols was shot dead by a Detroit-native black man who was the father of a female deadbeat tenant whom Greg McNichols wanted to evict for non-payment of the rent. This was despite the Detroit-native black man being the recent sole winner of a multi-million dollar lottery prize. Instead just offering to pay his daughter's back rent, which was only about a thousand dollars or so, this Detroit-native black man opted to murder the White Australian landlord instead, and then drive away from the scene.

Lottery winner accused of shooting Aussie dead in row over rent

Anonymous said...

At Anon. at July 24, 2011 5:44

Sounded like a typical, dime-a-dozen, lefty rant. Not too difficult to come across similar rants every day in the West. What’s the big deal? You don't know anything and obviously have deep ingrained biased opinions regarding this matter.
Use of the " RACIST "label coupled with the "Outraged" attitude often displayed by sheltered useful idiots of the Left has become your trademark. Instead of sifting through comments, read the stories and reflect on it for a while instead of dismissing what we denounce as rubbish. But since you appear too intellectually lazy to do so, then refrain from posting an over emotional & sanctimonious platitude.

Posting a comment full of shallow name-calling just reinforces the fact that you showed no effort at debating what you're implying.

Anonymous said...

this must be the radical wing of the Log Cabin Republicans.

Anonymous said...

If you really do your research, you will see that the majority of people on welfare, ebt etc. are whites. Its funny how black people dominate in sports which are more physically demanding (football, basketball, even track! - look at kenyans and ethiopians) Baseball requires virtually no skill. Theres pitching and batting....thats it? Anyone can run and catch a ball. And you guys are right, white people are paticular with whom they play with because they are intimidated by our level o skill in other sports

Anonymous said...

You are a complete idiot. If you want to talk about murders, look at all the serial killers and horrendous murders of the last 2 decades. Mostly whites! Manson,btk, bund! You fucking dumbass. White folk are always on the news for snapping and killing their whole families. Look at all the child rapists! I bet 80% are white u idiot!

Anonymous said...

The stupid is strong in this one! Dont be mad because we dominate all the physically demanding sports. Wtf is baseball?! A joke no one watches that shit.