yea its true. in DR baseball remains as popular as ever, but basketball has been getting more and more popular too. Baseball just isnt exciting enough for this generation used to instant gratification.
Why are few African Americans playing professional baseball?
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yea its true. in DR baseball remains as popular as ever, but basketball has been getting more and more popular too. Baseball just isnt exciting enough for this generation used to instant gratification.
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
He's wrong about Puerto Rico.
Professor K.
rap game Paul Millsap
The best point he made is that there are Black players, but they aren't often that good now. I think about guys like Delroy Young, Lastings Milledge, Tim Beckham, etc, who had all the talent in the world but ended up busts and I wonder, not IF, but HOW MUCH were they sabotaged over the course of their development by random minor league hitting coaches or umpires or whoever who could get away with their prejudice at the lower levels without backlash. Nobody is gonna notice Ump calling a tighter strike zone or that the coaches are spending more time in the cages with that 19th round senior signee than their #1 overall pick when you're in Biloxi, Mississippi or wherever these backwood A/AA teams are. All they're gonna see is buddy only hit .225 and blame it all on him. That's not to say all these guys would be Bonds, but even a couple more Carl Crawford/Derrek Lee types floating around out there over the years would've made a tremendous difference
In The Zone '98
Superstar
Feels like it's too much of a white space for young black men to deal with
Rather play basketball football with people on your wave length
Rather play basketball football with people on your wave length
