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Posted on: April 16, 2024 at 13:33:00 CT
o'lineydisciple
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How does one explain the large number of players in the MLB that come from impoverished areas of Latin America?
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Exactly. Where’s the diversity in basketball?…
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tigerNkc
KC
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4/16 12:07:39
There are about 5 white guys that may be lottery pics in
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shorty
MU
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4/16 14:17:44
How would you go about requiring kids to play a sport they
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alstl
MU
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4/16 13:18:44
Baseball is not a sport for short attentions spans.
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shorty
MU
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4/16 14:29:35
Well, you could raise the stakes
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McMuffin
MU
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4/16 13:21:01
The movie poster looks better than the actaul movie.
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shorty
MU
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4/16 14:32:07
I used to live in North St Louis County - the ball fields
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alstl
MU
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4/16 14:05:16
The reason there is no black players is because to have
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XRob
MU
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4/16 13:02:01
Hand eye coordination has to start early to be eliite(nm)
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TigerFan92
STL
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4/16 17:09:40
Baseball tends to be a two parent household sport. (nm)
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shorty
MU
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4/16 14:18:45
those parents that push a 5-8 year that hard
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SabertoothTiger
MU
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4/16 13:27:35
Doesn't matter for most of them
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XRob
MU
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4/16 15:11:30
RE: Exactly. Where’s the diversity in basketball?…
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McMuffin
MU
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4/16 13:01:13
The best NBA players are white Europeans
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Columbian Gold
MU
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4/16 12:50:17
Its basically 1 guy, Jokic
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Joeboo
MU
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4/16 12:53:51
Luka has been the best player all season.(nm)
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shorty
MU
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4/16 14:19:30
I don't watch a lot of NBA but I think people basically
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lqf2b8
MU
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4/16 13:05:07
another Euro looks poised to take over, but
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Joeboo
MU
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4/16 13:22:21
where do we stand on Domantas Sabonis?
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lqf2b8
MU
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4/16 13:41:07
that info is useless without all of the relevant context.
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ZouDave
KC
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4/16 12:41:39
I think you goofed the numbers
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o'lineydisciple
MU
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4/16 13:30:59
yeah, I realized the flaw in that premise pretty quickly
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ZouDave
KC
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4/16 13:55:58
that last part is a little Jungle Georgian(nm)
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SabertoothTiger
MU
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4/16 13:25:10
broken clock, etc.(nm)
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ZouDave
KC
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4/16 13:27:31
I agree with you on your overall premise though. The
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SabertoothTiger
MU
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4/16 13:37:57
Half of white people are also female. (nm)
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haeffb
MU
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4/16 13:05:50
but what percentage of those white females are male? (nm)
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phrejd
KC
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4/16 14:16:35
yeah, I realized the flaw in that premise pretty quickly(nm)
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ZouDave
KC
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4/16 13:27:14
I think whites have shrunk from 80% to like 60%
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Joeboo
MU
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4/16 12:45:26
Technically latinos are white. So the number of whites in
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DHighlander
NWMSU
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4/16 12:56:24
Domicans are not white(nm)
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hefeweizen
MU
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4/16 12:58:20
The new white, lol(nm)
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meatiger
MU
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4/16 13:29:49
There was a link in the main article...
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ZouDave
KC
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4/16 12:55:39
probably the sport that most closely reflects US population
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Joeboo
MU
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4/16 12:57:15
I have a hard time believing elite black players
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Sal
CMSU
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4/16 12:22:21
Not many baseball fields in the projects (nm)
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TheWildcat
MU
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4/16 12:30:32
Baseball is year round now and expensive af(nm)
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hefeweizen
MU
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4/16 12:32:38
And has created insufferable baseball mom
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Eggs
MU
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4/16 12:47:12
I never had a problem spending the weekend at the ball field
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DHighlander
NWMSU
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4/16 12:55:07
Money always ruins stuff. Parents push kids and spend
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SabertoothTiger
MU
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4/16 13:51:58
They aren’t. Young blacks just don’t play baseball
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alwaysright
MU
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4/16 12:28:20
Wilding is more fun(nm)
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Diamond Dave
MU
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4/16 12:32:12
That's why MLB started the RBI program a couple of decades
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DHighlander
NWMSU
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4/16 12:32:08
On the hole(nm)
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hefeweizen
MU
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4/16 12:33:40
Maybe they just don't want to play baseball
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TigerNuts
KC
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4/16 12:25:51
I coach high school baseball
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Hickeytime
MU
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4/16 12:32:21
Costs are too high for inner city black kids to play.
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DHighlander
NWMSU
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4/16 12:44:00
maybe
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o'lineydisciple
MU
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4/16 13:33:00
Because the costs for them are not high. As someone said
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DHighlander
NWMSU
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4/16 13:40:26
Why are costs too high?
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KC rules
MU
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4/16 13:13:17
A decent bat will cost you a minimum of $200, a good glove
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DHighlander
NWMSU
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4/16 13:34:59
baseball is becoming the new golf/hockey/lacrosse
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Fire Marshall Bill
STL
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4/16 12:27:06
My buddy's kid plays. Just bought him a $450 bat
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Eggs
MU
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4/16 12:44:12
True, just a decent kids bat will run you a couple hundred,
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DHighlander
NWMSU
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4/16 12:42:00
I've seen more kids that quit from burnout after the
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SabertoothTiger
MU
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4/16 13:48:36
anyone that believes that is clinically insane
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Fire Marshall Bill
STL
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4/16 12:24:26
^^old angry white guy that watches Fox News all day^^(nm)
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Fire Marshall Bill
STL
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4/16 12:19:06
RE: ^^old angry white guy that watches Fox News all day^^(nm)
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hefeweizen
MU
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4/16 12:22:16
LMAO, forgot about that one
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Fire Marshall Bill
STL
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4/16 12:23:12