Why is a black baseball fan an
endangered species? When I was growing up the Mets were the thing and in 1986
we won it all with black players like Dwight Gooden, Darryl Strawberry, Kevin
Mitchell and Mookie Wilson. Back then 20% of all Major Leaguers were black guys
and back then you could talk to a black guy about last night’s game. Now a black
guy says,” What’s a Met?” Last year the San Francisco Giants won it all without
any black guys on the team. The closest
thing to a person of color in the stands was their mascot which is a bi-racial
seal. The team the Giants had to beat, the Saint Lewis Cardinals had no black
players either. Where did they all go? We all know that black people are the
best athletes in the world.
Saint Lewis is full of black
people. You tell me none of them play baseball anymore? The crowds attending
games are more than 90% white. Baseball is now about 2 black guys per team and
those 2 pore black guys have to pretend they like listening to country music
too. Stillman College founded in 1876, is one of the oldest black colleges in
America. Every kid there is black except for the 36 white guys on their baseball
team? Where did they find 36 white guys at Stillman anyway? Ok they have one
black kid and 35 white guys. At Howard
University known as the Harvard of black colleges, they just cancelled the
baseball team altogether. They still have volleyball, tennis and even Lacrosse
but no baseball. What is America without
baseball and all that work Jackie Robinson did to get black guys in the Major
Leagues?
Why? Some people say it is
because of money and that baseball is too expensive. Bull crap! People from the tiny poor third world country
called the Dominican Republic play it all the time in the dirt with sticks for
bats, diapers for gloves and Haitians for bases and they are great players. You
can’t tell me blacks can’t afford baseball when they are all buying Jordan sneakers
for $150 per sneaker. The problem must
be the game. You got the white haired white guy announcers and the old organ
music. Every new stadium is being built
in an old style to remind you of the 1920’s. The game is too slow and boring. Last year the
Mets played a half inning with no hits and it took more than 20 minutes. This
year they already had a 12 hour game that went into another day.
Baseball has a boring attitude.
When a guy scores a touchdown in the end zone in football the guy slams the
ball down and does something wacky to celebrate. When you score a home run just
run the bases as slow and nonchalant as you can in boring baseball. I blame it all on Fitty Cent when he couldn’t
even throw a decent first pitch to a game. Embarrassing! We don’t really need
baseball but baseball needs good black players again. Magic Johnson is a part owner of the Los
Angeles Dodgers and he was a black basketball player and he don’t even have a
black team. Little League participation has dropped by 20% since 1995. The
World Series viewership is down 50%. Of
the people that watch baseball on TV 5 out of 6 are white and their average age
is 53 years old.
Baseball is dying. If only you
can find a black father taking his kid to a park and tossing the ball around,
maybe there would be hope for blacks in the sport again. First try to find a black father taking
responsibility for their bare assed kids roaming the streets in the middle of
the night. The police look to arrest the mother and are lucky to find the 80
year old big Mama raising the kids. Maybe big Mama should learn how to play the
game. Ok, by now you are totally enrages and can’t believe these racist remarks
but I must admit that I stole most of them from Chris Rock a comic and Bryant
Gumbel a sports reporter who do they happen to be black. Do they play baseball?
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