The comments on this article are pretty disgusting/depressing
They just need to shut off the comments at FanGraphs. They haven't been good ever and they've reached a new low.
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Yeah. Pretty terrible. People troll there more and more recently.
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by Giant among Angels on Mar 17, 2011 9:08 PM PDT reply actions
ok so there are a lot of trolls
but really, is this chick serious?
Baseball is one of the few sports that a woman could theoretically play at the same level as a man.
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by TimLincecumIsGod on Mar 17, 2011 11:18 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
You left this comment in the wrong forum.
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by Johnny Disaster on Mar 18, 2011 8:46 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Yeah I quit reading after that
Dumbest thing I have read at fangraphs.
by BustaTheRippa on Mar 18, 2011 8:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Baseball is one of the few sports that a woman could theoretically play at the same level as a man.
I’m saying it. I’m serious.
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by Prussian Creole on Mar 18, 2011 8:53 PM PDT up reply actions
theoretically that’s a load of crap. women do not have the strength, speed, hand-eye coordination, or reactions to compete on near the same level as men. i’m sure there are plenty of women a ton better at baseball than me, but when you’re talking about the best of the best, a women has no chance of competing with a man. what on a baseball field is a woman ever going to be able to do near as well as a man?
maybe we’ll see some sort of gimmick where a woman with a knuckleball or some weird delivery is given a chance to pitch in the minors, but i don’t see it getting any further than that.
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by TimLincecumIsGod on Mar 18, 2011 10:44 PM PDT up reply actions
There have been a couple women who tried out the the indy leagues in recent history, but it hasn’t been pretty. Eri Yoshida, a Japanese knuckle-baller tried last season (knuckleballer w/ a fastball in the 60’s) and Ila Borders, who retired about 10 years ago (a more conventional ground ball control pitcher who topped out in the high 70’s). There were also a couple in the Negro Leagues and on early indy teams, but that’s about it. Unless there are some women out there with a 90+ MPH fastball, I don’t anything changing; no GM is going to take the double risk of a female player who gets by on a gimmick or guile (unless she’s the daughter of the GM). It’s not like there are many men getting drafted with sub-80 MPH fastballs.
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There could eventually be at least a few women who could "Annika" it up in the MLB
Meaning that while they would not be like MVP’s or Cy Youngs or anything, they could still hold their own against the tail end of the league.
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
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I don’t expect a woman to be the best player in baseball, but I’m pretty sure plenty could be good enough baseball players to play in the MLB. Step 1 of course is to stop discouraging them from playing.
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the mlb is probably something like the best 1000 baseball players in the world. there is no way the best woman is going to be better than any of the 1000 best men, men just have too many physical advantages in a sport where those advantages are what makes players successful.
as un-pc as it is to say, the two sexes have different physical and mental capacities with each sex having advantages in different ways. i’m not necessarily saying one sex is superior to another, but it’s silly to try to pretend that men and women are the same.
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by TimLincecumIsGod on Mar 19, 2011 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions
On the plus side
Those terrible comments have typically been attacked quite well. I mean, look at all the negative votes!
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"For over 100 years, the old men’s club meant something. So did cigars and hookers. Now it all means nothing because a bunch of ladder-climbing women are trying to reinvent MLB leadership."
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by marcello on Mar 18, 2011 12:11 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
i must of missed the part about the Giants
is it time yet?
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NEVER, EVER read comments from any story or blog. 99% of them are horrible. Don’t read at Fangraphs, sfgate, Yahoo, ESPN, ANY OF THEM.
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by Prussian Creole on Mar 18, 2011 8:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I forgot who said it
But some baseball writer said a few years ago that FO’s and ownership were the final frontiers in breaking down barriers of inequality (or in more specific terms, unequal opportunities). I’m a little optimistic that there will be significant process on these fronts in my lifetime but not overly optimistic.
I also find it interesting that (to my knowledge) Ng hasn’t expressed a similar disappointment in the lack of Chinese-American (or Asian-American, if you want to go more broadly) personnel in MLB FO’s on the baseball operations side of things. I think I can count all the ones on one hand.
And to finish off, I don’t think I’ve ever found Gallup polls to really be reliable. Just saying.
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
I been noticing
(here watching ST in Scottsdale for a week, watching practices and games) that great physical conditioning, terrific coordination, and hand-eye stuff are in short supply in a lot of these guys. (Check out Burriss’s errors yesterday in the game – yikes.)
What might women ADD to the game that we aren’t considering? The SS position, for instance. Scrambling, doing 360s/180s, flexibility, multi-tasking, making choices – these are things that women are also good at, and SS isn’t necessarily a position that requires tremendous throwing strength.
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by SituationalLefty on Mar 20, 2011 8:11 AM PDT reply actions
I think you underestimate how much arm is required to play short well
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
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