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chasing a tennis ball down the street hoping to catch it before going into the gutter is quite the fond memory of my youth.
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Have one white kid and let him be the pitcher.
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it's unfortunately not on the radar for a lot of white kids either. My favorite part (other than the Ichiro section) of Ken Burns' 10th Inning was the very beginning when it was playing the National Anthem and showing all the kids playing ball in the streets of the DR. It made me imagine what it must have looked like in the 1930's or whatever when the ONLY game kids really played in America was baseball. It looked just like those old pictures of kids playing streetball in Brooklyn.
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y'all leave Hockey out of this...
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It pretty clearly involves more skill. You can get your foot in the door (so to speak) with raw athleticism in sports like football and basketball, but baseball requires a strong skill base that has to be built up over age (with rare exception). What's the saying? The hardest thing in sports is to hit a 95 MPH fastball or something? Don't know if it's true, but wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it was. Hitting a round ball with a round bat solidly I think is absolutely the hardest "basic element" of any major pro sport. People across the world can make the same shot Kobe makes using the same size ball and the same size hoop.* But how many can hit an 85mph pitch? Very few. *I get why the comparison to what Kobe does on an NBA court and what we do in pickup games is faulty...
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The culture certainly has some to do with it, but I don't think it's as negative a force as some out there think. Since doing the RBI stuff in Jackson I've never gotten the vibe that they dislike baseball, they are just indifferent to it. A lot really do like it though and jump at the opportunity to play. Some of you Illinois guys would probably be surprised at the decent amount of Cubs fans among the kids. I don't think the positive effect of WGN can ever be overstated as regards the Cubbies. The same goes for the Braves and TBS.
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Baseball is a difficult game to just be jumping into when you are 15 or 16. I'm sure it goes a long way to have been playing a sport like basketball in your youth if you want to be a good basketball player, but there is something about baseball that sets it apart. I suppose it has something to do with what a mental game it is. I'm having a hard time clarifying exactly what "that" difference is, but I'm sure most of you get what I'm referring to. Although maybe that is just me showing my baseball prejudice since it's the only game I've ever really played, but baseball is just a hard game to pick up when you are older.
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they have room to play in those countries. finding playable fields to practice on that aren't five miles outside the city is a problem for the kids around here.
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No, because nobody is worried about that. Why? What's the difference? Because other than a few outliers like Steve Nash, watching white people play basketball is boring.
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Love RBI. I started last year asst. coaching a Jr. RBI team (8-12 yo) in Jackson. We had several teams that played all summer and it was really a lot of fun to see them come along with each practice. With RBI, there is only a $10 entrance fee to play the summer and even that can be waived. Also, if a child doesn't have equipment but wants to play then obviously we get him some gear via donations or some of the funds that RBI has. The Sr. RBI (13-18) was really competitive and there were some great ballplayers with a ton of potential among those guys. Several of them ended up getting scholarships to JUCO's and some other local schools. We selected a team of 15 from the Sr. league to go play at a regional that was in Little Rock last year. We placed second behind a team from Houston. Also, we are having an MLB Scout Day tomorrow which should be fun.
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I think their complaint was about the Braves iirc
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In the early/mid 2000s I thought they should have been named the Houston Honkys. yeah they did have a ton of white starters back then: Bags, Bigs, Ensberg, Ausmus, Everett, Kent, Berkman, Oswalt, Clemens, Pettitte, Wade Miller, Lidge I'm pretty sure at one point during that time they didn't have a black guy on their 25 man roster. we only have one right now (I'm assuming you mean African-American)
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If we're taking this seriously for a moment, what about something like the Houston Bandits, Renegades, or Outlaws? It'd be a counterpoint to the rival Rangers.
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They've averaged 12th in attendance the past 10 years. The Houston-metro area has around 6 million people and Minute Maid is a terrific place to watch a game, so yeah they'll be fine with attendance.
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In the early/mid 2000s I thought they should have been named the Houston Honkys. yeah they did have a ton of white starters back then: Bags, Bigs, Ensberg, Ausmus, Everett, Kent, Berkman, Oswalt, Clemens, Pettitte, Wade Miller, Lidge
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Confucius say one must first learn how to pronounce name before negotiating contract
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Houston Hombres
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Yeah, this makes little sense to me. It would be like me -- a white dude -- not wanting to play in Seattle or Denver. Perhaps he is afraid of a Commie hit squad taking him out...
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I point you to the Darvish example and what we offered him... They appear to not be willing to overpay for FA or non-MLB talent (Japan, DR etc...). Do we know how much we offered Darvish? It could have been a mere 250 bucks less than the Rangers for all we know.
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haha Why would he have an issue playing for the Marlins? Too close to Cuba or something?
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just came across this list of all the Cuban defectors that made it to the bigs. http://www.cubanball.com/defect.html some notables: Yuniesky Betancourt Jose Contreras Aroldis Chapman Livan and Orlando Kendry Morales Rey Ordonez ALEXEI!!!!! Ramirez
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Known Liar&Cheater Ryan Braun Caught Lying&Cheating Again
OleMissCub replied to ctcf's topic in General Baseball Talk
that statement originated from some dude's blog http://www.terezowens.com/more-on-ryan-brauns-herpes-situation/ -
Tigers sign Prince - 9/214 - Heyman
OleMissCub replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
is that logo on his pants for real? looks like a photoshop -
Tigers sign Prince - 9/214 - Heyman
OleMissCub replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
He's kind of cute, in a gross fat kid kind of way. http://sabrenoise.com/files/2011/10/pan.png -
Tigers sign Prince - 9/214 - Heyman
OleMissCub replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball