As you probably know, recent studies show a major drop in the number of African American major league baseball players. There are less than 10% of all players being from the African American persuation. Everyone is making such a big deal out of it. But why? Does it matter what color they are? Do we care if not alot of taller people are playing? No. MLB needs to chill and just keep a watch on the total number of players in the game. There is still a good amount of players in the league. When thay number drops then you can call me and tell me that there is a problem. We all say you shouldn't care what color someone's skin is. So why don't we do that now? Does it really matter in the big picture? No. Players are players and people are people. The NBA doesn't care that there is a lack of white Americans playing basketball, does it? No. Does the NHL care if there are almost no players that are black. I think not. I really don't understand why Major League Baseball continues to worry about this issue. My only guess is if the number of blacks goes down out come the pro-black groups who start yelling and making living hell for baseball. And for those of you who argue that much of basballs renevue comes from African American communities; it doesn't. 65% of renevue comes from majorly white populated cities, 20% comes from mixed-cultured citites, but only 15% come from densly black cities. And just because they're not playing they are still watching. Almost half of baseballs viewings come from black households. We are not going to lose our billion dollar television contracts because we are losing black players. Just look at hockey, they have a 3.7 billion dollar new telvision deal and do you know why they can do that? Because they have foriegn markets. And guess who else does? Lets see here....ummm...it's....US! We televise to cuba, panama, japan, the dominican republic, puerto rico, jamaca, argentina, columbia, and the netherlands. Do those have something in common? They (with teh exceptions of Jamaca and Columbia) were all in the World Baseball Classic! We are getting so many foreign players that will make up for the decrease in African American players. So my moral for the story- JUST CHILL!
I'm just another guy with other opinions. If you like my style, go for it and read. If not, yell at me and I will yell louder. I'll throw the race card into your face. I take a hard look at sports and try to find the real meaning for NASCAR, which is just an advertisment for beer.
