Here’s what’s up, it is 2024 and it’s summer. Look outside and notice what you hear and see, most likely it’s nothing. Children do not do the same things as children did 40-50 years ago. It’s not just black children not playing baseball as much it’s children period. Children of today don’t come outside to play anymore. Other than organized adult supervised baseball fields are empty. There’s no non adult supervised sandlot baseball, no Strike-Em-Out, no 500, basketball courts that are brand new are empty an no non adult supervised sandlot football, thrown in the sport of hockey too. There was much more physical activity of different types that kids just don’t do anymore. Baseball does have a much more difficult route to the professional level than other sports no doubt.
Baseball is that sport where you have no shortcut. The fundamentals are so important, you can't fake them. Natural talent will only get you so far, or your foot in the door/on the teams. Also, inner cities don't priortize the sport like they used to. I had friends that played on travel teams, much like you see basketball or soccer. Basketball & Football is where the money is.
@@spenser6353 yeah something that probably comes into play. Baseball along with hockey are the few sports with a minor league system where you have to progress through
@@michaelpowell9152 Kyler has the 6th highest contract in the league in terms of guaranteed money at $190 million. Baseball contracts are fully guaranteed. $190 million would be the 23rd largest contract in baseball. Juan Soto will almost certainly get over $500 million guaranteed this offseason, probably over $600 million. Baseball contracts are bigger at the top end of the market, but Kyler probably reasoned that he was more likely to gain a top contract as a #1 overall QB than by getting drafted by the A's at #9. Plenty of top 10 MLB draft picks never even make it to the majors.
Key reasons : FATHERS ! My Dad taught me Baseball, us as Black people and families have less Real Fathers in the household teaching the game. Patience, coordination, etc. takes time in the yard or park together.
@@SmartDave60theres the same amount of players in the MLB. Less popular isnt even a point in this convo... lol. We talking about % of black players. Less popular doesnt even make sense
@@chrisjudd6 90% of the reason is that they prefer basketball & football because baseball is seen as a white/Hispanic sport. The theories are for the people who don't want to accept the real reason.
So true. I played baseball until about 13 years old. I saw and heard the sound of my friend getting hit in the eye by a throw after our pitcher pick up a bunt and threw it hard at close range to my buddy at 1st base. I was done after that practice.
We really needed Rob Parker for this topic. From what I've heard from some about African-Americans and baseball, MLB made a concerted effort back in the late 70s early 80s to draw down the percentage of AA players. The peak percentage of AA players came back in 1974 when 26% if the league was AA. We already know that when AA are 15-20% of anything they feel as if we have taken over. Remember in the 70s the NBA felt like they were getting too black. Some white fans of the NY Knicks had started to refer to the team as the N-wordbockers. For those who don't know Knicks is short for Knickerbockers. Maybe MLB was trying not to become an African-American league.
Has nothing to do with mlb not wanting black players. Black kids are just not interested in the sport. I’m sure the nba and nfl want more white players but that doesn’t stop black kids from playing football and basketball
MLB stop funding black American public schools back in the late 90s and put their resources towards the Carribean majority public schools in black communities got rid of there baseball program
NO Baseball ACADEMIES in the USA like in Latin America. The MLB can fund academies in LA countries but not here in the US? Really, what is the problem? The commish & MLB could fund academies in all 50 states if THEY wanted to and or in black communities . The MLB does not want to and the powers to be are happy to keep the MLB the hue that it is predominantly . Hockey and MLB are kept the way they are to give the feel that they are sports for those who are non white. Please stop with the skill set, look at the Latin American players with African blood, they are definitely skilled. Look at all the past American born black players when in ‘81 that the percentage was the highest, those blacks were surely skilled enough to play baseball. Plus, the contracts are guaranteed in the MLB so that would benefit black players the most out of all sports. So, the benefits are there for more black players to play and participate in baseball.
But these kids nowadays don't have the patience to go thru the minors to get a big contract also baseball and hockey don't market their stars and they don't promote their stars
@@SmartDave60 popular doesn’t necessarily correlate with dollars and revenue is up in baseball. Besides in Latin America it is super popular. In New York the Dominicans take mad pride and it shows on the field.
One game in playoffs for baseball can take hours on end with not much happening. A coach can put in a left hander to pitch to one batter and then put in another to pitch to someone else. That’s happens regularly and in real time because of the throwing warmups and the coach walking to the mound it can take 20 minutes to face 2 batters. There’s nothing about that that’s exciting but to win it’s strategic and smart
My brother's they took it away from us. Most of you are not old enough to understand this back in the 70's the only sneakers we had or could afford was what they called Chuck Taylor's Converse made from a canvas materials. All these shoe companies started sponsoring the Caribbeans with equipment and baseball fields meanwhile in the 70's they said our taxes are not paying enough to have the appropriate equipment at our recreation centers across the country. I'm 62 yo these people keep playing crafty cancel against us.
Parents aren’t sending kids outside. Playing outside was the* option prior to video games & cell phones. Hell cartoons didn’t come on tv until 2:30 in the afternoon.
If you’re good at baseball, you’re probably good at other sports and if you’re good enough to be a professional, who wants to slug through the minor league for 5 years before you get a shot at an actual payday
Baseball in general is less lucrative and is far more difficult to get onto a major league team. I’m sure prospective athletes and parents prefer other sports that are easier for they’re kids to get into and more of a chance to make to bank.
There was a time when people had patience though. You couldn't watch a kid make millions from twitch streaming. Very few kids will sign up to the grind when there are much easier and faster ways to become a millionaire.
We have a game called Rounders in the UK. Very similar to Baseball and is great fun to play.... keyword there, Play. I did forget Mexico love their Baseball
Baseball isn't instant gratification. You don't go immediately to the major leagues. Unlike basketball and football. That's the main reason why black youth don't play baseball.
The main reason AAs don't play is because MLB wanted it that way. Baseball was the number one fan sport for AAs for the majority of the last century. We did not just quit liking the sport for no reason.
@@beaujac311 I refuse to believe that if there was a Willie Mays Ken Griffey Jr or a Barry Bonds like talent or a Dwight Gooden type pitcher who wants to play the MLB. They would be welcomed with open arms. Despite MLB racist history. They aren't going to commit financial suicide if they could market the sport to a broader audience!
@@spenser6353trying to get to an elite level like a college scholarship or an NBA pursuit has become expensive and time consuming. The days of discovering the country kid shooting shots at a milk crate on the side of the barn or the inner city kid shooting hoops on a rusted rim in the park, are over. Today it's about travel teams, expensive and exclusive camps, academies, and prep schools. High school basketball isn't as important as was in the past. These things start at a very early age. Unless you're an elite talent, those things are very expensive coming out of a pocket of a parent. They also take personal time invested by the parents who has to do the extensive traveling and transporting of kids.
the interest in baseball has fallen with everyone, not just black people due to the game itself. i love baseball. however, there is too much homework involved to follow the sport. do we know or care who is the all time leading rebounder? what was johnny unitas quarterback rating?
The convo is about black kids because black people are naturally more athletic and it’s interesting to see why they don’t play a certain sport. It’s okay to be left out of one conversation
@@aliyahjohnson3302 That's an important part. You don't have to be fast or quick or jump high to excel in baseball. In fact, you can be slow and still be great. It's almost all hand-eye.
@@greggibson33 ehh you don’t have to be, but hand eye is a part of athleticism lol. There’s a reason super athletes like prime, Bo, bob hayes, etc we’re also good at baseball even tho they didn’t play it alot
@@aliyahjohnson3302 Ehh... hayes wasn't even close to the big leagues. Bo is amazing, but better at football than baseball. Once again, you (meaning any race in general) don't have to run fast or jump high to be a great baseball player. It's been proven literally 100s of times. Your argument was underwhelming.
Maybe because most the athletic white kids all veer towards Baseball as they have such small chances to break in to the other major sports like Basketball and Football
You have to be taught baseball early and be motivated to do it by a parent or older sibling. Unlike football and basketball, you can't just walk on the field and play being athletic, tall, strong or fast. It takes a lot of training and failure to become great at baseball. I remember dudes on the hs football or basketball team just bc they were tall or just big, fast or strong.
For people getting upset because they are saying it's boring doesn't make sense and you telling them that it's not boring to them it's boring they don't get excited about baseball there are many things that are exciting for some and boring to others what's wrong with people having their own opinion?
Baseball games are slow and long. The analytics revolution has removed a lot of the dynamism of the game (fewer balls in play, less action on the basepaths, more strikeouts and HRs, etc.). Baseball hasn’t been popular in the national consciousness since the steroid bubble got burst with McGwire, Sosa, and Bonds. Basketball and football are more popular and have lower barriers of entry. The pathway to big paydays for elite athletes is more direct in basketball than in baseball - play on an NBA roster at 19 and sign a lucrative extension at 22 or 23 without toiling in the minors. Being like Steph Curry or Anthony Edwards is more appealing than being the next Mookie Betts. Basketball is more easily consumed in highlights, shorts, and reels in the secondary social media market.
Baseball being slow cannot be the reason. Come on that's weak. The game has been played the same way when all the black stars were there. Is definitely interest. I just want my son to be constantly learning and exercising through sports. If the elementary soccer and football season wasn't running at the same time he would have definitely been doing soccer too. There ain't no black polarizing Stars. Even if it's only a couple they got to be smashing. Who's leading the MLB in steals right now? Who's the modern day Rickey Henderson or Vince Coleman?
Times have changed on top of the fact the majority of black communities aren’t playing baseball period. And of course Chris Broussard found some way to mention Lebron James lmao. Lebron didn’t play baseball and has nothing to do with it. Yes Kyler Murray was an elite baseball player who happens to be a QB in the NFL.
@@josiahandre_ wrong, he was talking about specializing in sports and said a super athlete who can excel in multiple sports. The part had zero to do with fanfare. Lebron never had a Major League Baseball option like Kyler Murray. The conversation is about baseball, again Lebron has nothing to do with the conversation. His little media fan boys always find a way to include him and yea it’s annoying.
@@josiahandre_ your a LBJ fan and wrapped up on emotions. I’m saying mentioning LeBron in a baseball conversation is silly. It’s not that difficult to comprehend. I clearly stated his fanboys in the media try force him into everything.
They asking a question they already know the answer to. Its just not an exciting sport. Also, you have to suffer in the minors for 5 years before you get paid.
We don't want to race. That is literally a rich person sport. You bigotry won't let you understand the conversation. Black people don't want to at boring baseball. We do not care!!! We don't want to race a car either. Stop letting your emotions about "other issues" cloud the conversation. They are asking what happened. Don't be triggered
MLB needs to help communities with equipment costs at least, you need black players to get black viewers. Nobody cares how many japanese people in japan watch games.
I think the MLB dropped the ball when years ago they try to go after the Japanese players instead of going in these hoods to try to find young black talent and look at the tv ratings when the black kids from Chicago and the young black female pitcher from Philadelphia were in the little league world series the ratings were thru the roof it took a jealous white coach to messed that up
Wow what an idea !! Look at all of the NFL and NBA players that are multi sport athletes heck if I had the money I would star a separate league and get the marketing and promotion i.ll bet u it would rival the MLB
@@ttttggggg636 African Americans are not playing baseball. There are a lot of Black players from Latin América and the Caribean in MLB. Or only African Americans are Black?
We don't care about baseball. Wouldn't have enough to even have a League. You can keep your baseball. Lol its baseball season now and all people talking about is when does football get here 😂
You always come back to baseball is expensive nobody can get a glove or a bat. But AAU an Pop Warner are the most expensive sports to play as a child an black always seen to play in those sports so stop with baseball is expensive. It is an interest factor.
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I’m from Los Angeles when I grew up in the 60s-80s every park from LA to Long Beach had Baseball leagues. Now soccer or nothing
Here’s what’s up, it is 2024 and it’s summer. Look outside and notice what you hear and see, most likely it’s nothing. Children do not do the same things as children did 40-50 years ago. It’s not just black children not playing baseball as much it’s children period. Children of today don’t come outside to play anymore. Other than organized adult supervised baseball fields are empty. There’s no non adult supervised sandlot baseball, no Strike-Em-Out, no 500, basketball courts that are brand new are empty an no non adult supervised sandlot football, thrown in the sport of hockey too. There was much more physical activity of different types that kids just don’t do anymore.
Baseball does have a much more difficult route to the professional level than other sports no doubt.
Baseball is that sport where you have no shortcut. The fundamentals are so important, you can't fake them. Natural talent will only get you so far, or your foot in the door/on the teams. Also, inner cities don't priortize the sport like they used to. I had friends that played on travel teams, much like you see basketball or soccer. Basketball & Football is where the money is.
Baseball players make more money than football players. But you can make it to the nfl faster
@@spenser6353 is that why Kyler Murray chose the NFL over MLB🤷🏾♂️
@@michaelpowell9152 probably didnt want to go to minors for a few years
@@spenser6353 yeah something that probably comes into play. Baseball along with hockey are the few sports with a minor league system where you have to progress through
@@michaelpowell9152 Kyler has the 6th highest contract in the league in terms of guaranteed money at $190 million. Baseball contracts are fully guaranteed. $190 million would be the 23rd largest contract in baseball. Juan Soto will almost certainly get over $500 million guaranteed this offseason, probably over $600 million. Baseball contracts are bigger at the top end of the market, but Kyler probably reasoned that he was more likely to gain a top contract as a #1 overall QB than by getting drafted by the A's at #9. Plenty of top 10 MLB draft picks never even make it to the majors.
It took me to get in my late 20’s for me to grow an appreciation for the sport and my father played and taught me but I just took to football
Key reasons : FATHERS ! My Dad taught me Baseball, us as Black people and families have less Real Fathers in the household teaching the game. Patience, coordination, etc. takes time in the yard or park together.
The game is less popular overall.
@@SmartDave60Agreed...it also doesn't help that you need 18 people to play a actual baseball gm. Versus 2 for 🏀 & 4 max for 🏈.
@@SmartDave60theres the same amount of players in the MLB. Less popular isnt even a point in this convo... lol. We talking about % of black players. Less popular doesnt even make sense
@@MRkriegs baseball is less popular with Blacks and with Americans in general.
@@SmartDave60 question: why I'd baseball less popular with black players?
Smooth brains in the comments: because it's less popular...
🤣🤣🤣
Some of my best pastime was watching the little kids play mini league baseball
They're not playing it because they prefer other sports. No big deal. Don't make something out of nothing.
Of course. But there are reasons and theories.
@@chrisjudd6 90% of the reason is that they prefer basketball & football because baseball is seen as a white/Hispanic sport. The theories are for the people who don't want to accept the real reason.
Most football and basketball players I know didn't play baseball because they were scared of getting hit by the ball. Lol
That's why Cam Newton quit baseball in high school lol
@@alphadog3586😂😂Wow!! Did he get hit or was he just scared of getting hit?
Boyz in the hood ain't scared getting shot but they scared of baseball.. yea ok
@@eugenecaldwell9619 he said he was scared of getting hit lol
So true. I played baseball until about 13 years old. I saw and heard the sound of my friend getting hit in the eye by a throw after our pitcher pick up a bunt and threw it hard at close range to my buddy at 1st base. I was done after that practice.
Artificial intelligence has taken over , black youths today rather play nba 2k than baseball
We really needed Rob Parker for this topic. From what I've heard from some about African-Americans and baseball, MLB made a concerted effort back in the late 70s early 80s to draw down the percentage of AA players. The peak percentage of AA players came back in 1974 when 26% if the league was AA. We already know that when AA are 15-20% of anything they feel as if we have taken over. Remember in the 70s the NBA felt like they were getting too black. Some white fans of the NY Knicks had started to refer to the team as the N-wordbockers. For those who don't know Knicks is short for Knickerbockers. Maybe MLB was trying not to become an African-American league.
26% were Alcoholics Anonymous?
@@greggibson33 My name is greggibson and I am an alcoholic.
@@beaujac311Go get some help dude blacks are just not good athletes outside of the zone basketball 🏀 and football 🏈
Okay so what did they do specifically?
Has nothing to do with mlb not wanting black players. Black kids are just not interested in the sport. I’m sure the nba and nfl want more white players but that doesn’t stop black kids from playing football and basketball
MLB stop funding black American public schools back in the late 90s and put their resources towards the Carribean majority public schools in black communities got rid of there baseball program
Do you think black kids actually like baseball? Most kids I talk too think it’s a corny sport
@@spenser6353 kids today yes. Back in the 80s 90s black American kids played baseball starting in little league
@@eugenereeves418 I used to play in the 80s in the school yard. But those days are gone
I've raised 2 sons with a 10 year age gap & they both said baseball was boring at around the same age of 10.
Were they both HONESTLY any good?
If they were good at the game, I doubt they would think it was boring
@@zvbx no, they were trash, just like their sorry daddy lol
Baseball is the hardest sport in USA … it’s easier to play football and basketball.. because if u can’t hit you suck
@@alvaro209209 or can’t pitch…PERIOD!
NO Baseball ACADEMIES in the USA like in Latin America. The MLB can fund academies in LA countries but not here in the US? Really, what is the problem? The commish & MLB could fund academies in all 50 states if THEY wanted to and or in black communities . The MLB does not want to and the powers to be are happy to keep the MLB the hue that it is predominantly . Hockey and MLB are kept the way they are to give the feel that they are sports for those who are non white. Please stop with the skill set, look at the Latin American players with African blood, they are definitely skilled. Look at all the past American born black players when in ‘81 that the percentage was the highest, those blacks were surely skilled enough to play baseball. Plus, the contracts are guaranteed in the MLB so that would benefit black players the most out of all sports. So, the benefits are there for more black players to play and participate in baseball.
So MLB has a racist cabal somewhere scheming to keep black players from entering the league? Genius idea for a novel. Thanks.
So MLB has a secret, evil cabal scheming to keep black players from entering the league. Great idea for a novel. Thanks.
So MLB has a secret, evil cabal scheming to keep black players from entering the league. Great idea for a novel. Thanks.
But these kids nowadays don't have the patience to go thru the minors to get a big contract also baseball and hockey don't market their stars and they don't promote their stars
So MLB has a secret, evil cabal scheming to keep 'certain' players from entering the league. Great idea for a novel. Thanks.
Gotta correct Chris's data about Black fathers in the home. As of 2023 that number had gone up to 59.5%
Big papi said he wasn’t black😂
According to Dominicans, there are no black people there. They dark as night but no black people there.
Like bra look in the mirror 💯you just speak Spanish
@@Dipset415 Exactly.
He’s Caublanasian like Tiger Woods!😂
@@Dipset415have you seen him the last decade or so? When he looks in the mirror now he kinda got that Micheal Jackson thing going on now
They are playing 🏀 and 🏈, baseball requires the lack of gratification deferment.
Dude! It's boring
Baseball is less popular period in the United States.
What’s causing that?
@@SmartDave60 popular doesn’t necessarily correlate with dollars and revenue is up in baseball. Besides in Latin America it is super popular. In New York the Dominicans take mad pride and it shows on the field.
@@pcakebakermen1 I’m talking about diminished interest.
Baseball was king. Now it’s NFL.
What happened?
The main reason is nobody wants to spend five years in minors , and long road trips. When going straight to Pros in basketball, and football.
That must've hurt when Ephraim played football on the hardwood.
One game in playoffs for baseball can take hours on end with not much happening. A coach can put in a left hander to pitch to one batter and then put in another to pitch to someone else. That’s happens regularly and in real time because of the throwing warmups and the coach walking to the mound it can take 20 minutes to face 2 batters. There’s nothing about that that’s exciting but to win it’s strategic and smart
You can't do that in the major leagues anymore. 3 batter minimum plus they introduced a pitch clock last year.
My brother's they took it away from us. Most of you are not old enough to understand this back in the 70's the only sneakers we had or could afford was what they called Chuck Taylor's Converse
made from a canvas materials. All these shoe companies started sponsoring the Caribbeans with equipment and baseball fields meanwhile in the 70's they said our taxes are not paying enough to have the appropriate equipment at our recreation centers across the country. I'm 62 yo these people keep playing crafty cancel against us.
I wonder if anyone ever asked Deion Sanders about this. 🤔🤔
Parents aren’t sending kids outside. Playing outside was the* option prior to video games & cell phones. Hell cartoons didn’t come on tv until 2:30 in the afternoon.
If you’re good at baseball, you’re probably good at other sports and if you’re good enough to be a professional, who wants to slug through the minor league for 5 years before you get a shot at an actual payday
Why do you necessarily have to be good at other sports if you’re good at baseball?
“Many of us are great athletes”
It’s hilarious whenever Chris talks like his Division 3 ass was a spectacular athlete!😂
😂😂😂😂
Still higher than most of us
We were too busy playing football and basketball, baseball is boring, black American kids are idolizing LeBron and Lamar Jackson.
Baseball in general is less lucrative and is far more difficult to get onto a major league team. I’m sure prospective athletes and parents prefer other sports that are easier for they’re kids to get into and more of a chance to make to bank.
But baseball has always been slow.
There was a time when people had patience though. You couldn't watch a kid make millions from twitch streaming. Very few kids will sign up to the grind when there are much easier and faster ways to become a millionaire.
Baseball player is a complete athletic person, baseball is the best
They should be. That's where the guaranteed 💵💵💵 is
Basketball is guaranteed as well
Its a about marketing and promotion the stars
it's just a boring sport
Ephraim is so mellow.
Baseball isn’t a boring sport. Everyone love to play baseball. Parents just refuse to keep them in it and let the develop
Rather watch the grass grow than watch Baseball!... are America and Japan the only countries on earth that care about Baseball?
South Korea, Mexico, Cuba, PR, DR, El Savador, Venezuela, Taiwan, etc
It's more global than you think
We have a game called Rounders in the UK. Very similar to Baseball and is great fun to play.... keyword there, Play. I did forget Mexico love their Baseball
Baseball isn't instant gratification. You don't go immediately to the major leagues. Unlike basketball and football. That's the main reason why black youth don't play baseball.
The main reason AAs don't play is because MLB wanted it that way. Baseball was the number one fan sport for AAs for the majority of the last century. We did not just quit liking the sport for no reason.
@@beaujac311
We can agree to disagree!
U sound stupid
@@keithgupton9349 You can disagree, but there have been many articles and studies written about this subject.
@@beaujac311
I refuse to believe that if there was a Willie Mays Ken Griffey Jr or a Barry Bonds like talent or a Dwight Gooden type pitcher who wants to play the MLB. They would be welcomed with open arms. Despite MLB racist history. They aren't going to commit financial suicide if they could market the sport to a broader audience!
Basketball is just as expensive now. Its a rich kids sport with the exception of a few kids.
How? You just need a basketball
@@spenser6353Tfse no you don’t
@@Timmyware-nb6ni I played basketball on a milk crate when I was a kid
@@spenser6353 I misspoke I thought he said baseball
@@spenser6353trying to get to an elite level like a college scholarship or an NBA pursuit has become expensive and time consuming. The days of discovering the country kid shooting shots at a milk crate on the side of the barn or the inner city kid shooting hoops on a rusted rim in the park, are over. Today it's about travel teams, expensive and exclusive camps, academies, and prep schools. High school basketball isn't as important as was in the past. These things start at a very early age. Unless you're an elite talent, those things are very expensive coming out of a pocket of a parent. They also take personal time invested by the parents who has to do the extensive traveling and transporting of kids.
Always has to bring lebron up I think bubba chuck was way better in all the sports
What are y'all talking about
Mookie Betts
Aaron judge
Giancarlo Stanton
Devin Williams
Andrew mccutchen
That’s two…..
the interest in baseball has fallen with everyone, not just black people due to the game itself.
i love baseball. however, there is too much homework involved to follow the sport.
do we know or care who is the all time leading rebounder?
what was johnny unitas quarterback rating?
The convo is about black kids because black people are naturally more athletic and it’s interesting to see why they don’t play a certain sport. It’s okay to be left out of one conversation
@@aliyahjohnson3302 That's an important part. You don't have to be fast or quick or jump high to excel in baseball. In fact, you can be slow and still be great. It's almost all hand-eye.
@@greggibson33 ehh you don’t have to be, but hand eye is a part of athleticism lol. There’s a reason super athletes like prime, Bo, bob hayes, etc we’re also good at baseball even tho they didn’t play it alot
@@aliyahjohnson3302 Ehh... hayes wasn't even close to the big leagues. Bo is amazing, but better at football than baseball. Once again, you (meaning any race in general) don't have to run fast or jump high to be a great baseball player. It's been proven literally 100s of times. Your argument was underwhelming.
@@greggibson33 aww little white boy in his feelings
Maybe because most the athletic white kids all veer towards Baseball as they have such small chances to break in to the other major sports like Basketball and Football
Baseball is no longer America's pastime.. nfl and nba are now
You have to be taught baseball early and be motivated to do it by a parent or older sibling. Unlike football and basketball, you can't just walk on the field and play being athletic, tall, strong or fast. It takes a lot of training and failure to become great at baseball. I remember dudes on the hs football or basketball team just bc they were tall or just big, fast or strong.
For people getting upset because they are saying it's boring doesn't make sense and you telling them that it's not boring to them it's boring they don't get excited about baseball there are many things that are exciting for some and boring to others what's wrong with people having their own opinion?
That father point was irrelevant to this conversation lol
Why is it always about race come on that’s all you black people think about ?
Because black players were more fun to watch not boring cookie cutter athletes
No it's what you think about because you upset about a discussion.
@@itsjob595 what if white people said the same thing about the nba you guys would be screaming
@@meanguy111black players were not more fun than white your statement is why this country is divided you have a black supremacy mentality
@@jessesarabia5060they have that conversation a lot about why there aren’t more white American nba stars. You must not be paying attention
Baseball games are slow and long. The analytics revolution has removed a lot of the dynamism of the game (fewer balls in play, less action on the basepaths, more strikeouts and HRs, etc.). Baseball hasn’t been popular in the national consciousness since the steroid bubble got burst with McGwire, Sosa, and Bonds. Basketball and football are more popular and have lower barriers of entry. The pathway to big paydays for elite athletes is more direct in basketball than in baseball - play on an NBA roster at 19 and sign a lucrative extension at 22 or 23 without toiling in the minors. Being like Steph Curry or Anthony Edwards is more appealing than being the next Mookie Betts. Basketball is more easily consumed in highlights, shorts, and reels in the secondary social media market.
The high was in the mid- 1970s when it was 27% black players in the MLB.
They need to kill this topic..
Correct answer.
Why?
You can go elsewhere
@@badafinkoify Yes, you can.
I love it here. Y'all the ones bothered
Money 💰
Baseball is slow paced and boring
So why was it so popular with African-Americans? Baseball was the most popular sport in the African-American community up through the 1980s.
@@beaujac311 because the pace of other sports increased and the style of other sports became more fun
@@aliyahjohnson3302 Well why did the white guys continue to play such a boring sport if that was the case?
@@beaujac311 they don’t dominate most other sports, it’s not a rocket science
@@beaujac311
No it wasnt lol. Basketball and football. Stop. It was on 18% in the 80s
Baseball being slow cannot be the reason. Come on that's weak. The game has been played the same way when all the black stars were there. Is definitely interest. I just want my son to be constantly learning and exercising through sports. If the elementary soccer and football season wasn't running at the same time he would have definitely been doing soccer too. There ain't no black polarizing Stars. Even if it's only a couple they got to be smashing. Who's leading the MLB in steals right now? Who's the modern day Rickey Henderson or Vince Coleman?
Part 2? We didn't care about Part 1.
You did
@@pglanville Weak.
Clearly you do
Sit down and shut up
Times have changed on top of the fact the majority of black communities aren’t playing baseball period. And of course Chris Broussard found some way to mention Lebron James lmao. Lebron didn’t play baseball and has nothing to do with it. Yes Kyler Murray was an elite baseball player who happens to be a QB in the NFL.
Lebron was a good example though, with the fanfare. If u hate hearing lebrons name just say that 😂
@@josiahandre_ wrong, he was talking about specializing in sports and said a super athlete who can excel in multiple sports. The part had zero to do with fanfare. Lebron never had a Major League Baseball option like Kyler Murray. The conversation is about baseball, again Lebron has nothing to do with the conversation. His little media fan boys always find a way to include him and yea it’s annoying.
@@straight_NoChaserI was thinking about the last video, fair point. But why does hearing lebrons name bother you so much?
@@josiahandre_ your a LBJ fan and wrapped up on emotions. I’m saying mentioning LeBron in a baseball conversation is silly. It’s not that difficult to comprehend. I clearly stated his fanboys in the media try force him into everything.
Baseball and Soccer on the same bs. The price and travel in both of those sports makes no sense. Plus baseball is slow.
Soccer should be the cheapest sport to play. You only need a ball
They asking a question they already know the answer to. Its just not an exciting sport. Also, you have to suffer in the minors for 5 years before you get paid.
Unless you’re a special talent like Ken Griffey jr. He was in the majors at 17 years old
@spenser6353 Yes. There aren't many Krn Griffeys. Guys like Kyler Murray who excelled in baseball, and Patrick Mahomes, made the right choice.
Maximum Effort is all you can ask for
Also, NASCAR needs to provide race cars for black communities.
We don't want to race. That is literally a rich person sport. You bigotry won't let you understand the conversation. Black people don't want to at boring baseball. We do not care!!! We don't want to race a car either. Stop letting your emotions about "other issues" cloud the conversation. They are asking what happened. Don't be triggered
Once again chris mentioned lebron james! 🤣🤣
I never heard Lebron played baseball
MLB needs to help communities with equipment costs at least, you need black players to get black viewers. Nobody cares how many japanese people in japan watch games.
Bruh I don't think the MLB is begging for black viewers especially with the sport being global and the best players being international
I think the MLB dropped the ball when years ago they try to go after the Japanese players instead of going in these hoods to try to find young black talent and look at the tv ratings when the black kids from Chicago and the young black female pitcher from Philadelphia were in the little league world series the ratings were thru the roof it took a jealous white coach to messed that up
Man, this was one of the most moronic takes I’ve read in a while. You’re superbly ignorant, jr.
Maybe they should start their own league 🤔
THE POINT IS BLACKS AREN'T PLAYING BASEBALL, WHAT WOULD THEIR OWN LEAGUE SOLVE?
@@ttttggggg636 😅Truth
Wow what an idea !! Look at all of the NFL and NBA players that are multi sport athletes heck if I had the money I would star a separate league and get the marketing and promotion i.ll bet u it would rival the MLB
@@ttttggggg636 African Americans are not playing baseball.
There are a lot of Black players from Latin América and the Caribean in MLB.
Or only African Americans are Black?
We don't care about baseball. Wouldn't have enough to even have a League. You can keep your baseball. Lol its baseball season now and all people talking about is when does football get here 😂
It will always be about race with them. In 100 years a similar conversation will take place.
Until reparations are made then that's what it will be. Lame ass.
It's a matter of perspective. Hockey makes football and basketball look slow and boring.
Why isn’t hockey more popular than basketball and football?
You always come back to baseball is expensive nobody can get a glove or a bat. But AAU an Pop Warner are the most expensive sports to play as a child an black always seen to play in those sports so stop with baseball is expensive. It is an interest factor.