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Chris Rock’s Take on Blacks in Baseball: Real Sports


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It could be that there is an instant gratification element at play here. Let's look at college athletes being drafted by the major league sports. The NFL and NBA draft players who head directly onto their teams (at least the first few rounds), but the baseball and NHL drafts have players who still have to hone their craft in the minor leagues (with very few exceptions) before making the rosters of their respective major league teams.

 

So you have a lot of kids from inner cities who might have a lot of athletic talent (and might start out playing a lot of sports) who realize that their surest ticket to fame and fortune are playing football and basketball, where they can be making millions of dollars in their early 20s. However, in baseball, and to a lesser extent, hockey (let's face it, there aren't many inner city kids who opt for hockey). They have to go through the minor league grind, before the very special few make it to the majors, and then don't really score the big bucks until around the age of 30.

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And the average MLB playoff game took 3 hours and 30 minutes in 2013. That's almost a full hour longer.

And the ONLY real reason games take that long are due to commercial breaks -- it's even more pronounced during the playoffs.

 

Players stopping to scratch themselves isn't the reason games are 3 hours long.  Players waiting an extra 4 minutes between innings to walk up to the plate so that the networks can get one more Viagra commercial in IS.  I remember going to games as a kid.   The inning switches were super quick, mostly due to the fact games weren't on TV....   

 

All the crap they are doing now is fluff, if they really want shorten games, they need to work with advertisers to find new ways for them to hawk their crap.

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Left leaning organizations with 90+% white audience:

NPR

Broadway

Womens studies and other political college majors.

Arty/edgy/lefty movies.

I appreciate what he's saying, and I love his comedy, but saying baseball fans being mostly white is like a tea party rally is dumb. Tell that to the republican hotbed where none of the players are black known as San Francisco. Leave political partisanship out of the conversation.

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Kids are on summer break when the nba finals are played. Not so with the World Series.

 

The whole late start stuff is meaningless.  Kids aren't going to get into baseball if the World Series starts two hours earlier. West coast adults won't like it.  Advertisers definitely won't like it.   

 

It's just how society is these days.  Instant information. Instant gratification.   Etc.  Baseball just doesn't appeal to many kids and cutting game times by 20 minutes and starting games two hours earlier isn't going to change that.   

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interestingly, the latin players play the game with more swagger and fun, especially in the DR and cuba.  Batters talk trash and watch their HRs all the time, and it's accepted.  The pitchers don't go on a headhunting spree for the most part, like they do in MLB.

 

like everything else, I blame whitey.

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