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I just got finished watching a nauseating segment on Baseball Tonight. It might have aired earlier this evening as well. I hope someone else caught it because this was nothing less than the beginning of ESPN's full nuclear option attack on the racial makeup of Major League Baseball.
ESPN has discovered their "fluid hips" for baseball. And more.
In the segment, the detestable Buck Showalter was describing the "ideal" traits for baseball players. He repeatedly professed his admiration for Derrick Lee's "high butt" and Derek Jeter's "square face". He went on to detail how players that didn't conform to certain body shapes have no place in the major leagues and that scouts use these evaluations all the time.
Bullsh*t.
That's just what ESPN wants to happen. Major League Baseball has resisted the forced infusion of black athletes over the past decade because scouting and player development in baseball has reached the highest level of science and art possible. The best players always beat out the scrubs in baseball, because the long and vast development process rewards results above all else (certainly not "athletic potential"). Yes, occasionally an "athlete" will slip through and retain a starting spot on a major league roster. But that's because teams can't have everything they want at every position, and, sometimes, a "serviceable" hitter and fielder will suffice if the rest of the lineup is solid.
ESPN has seen how successful the "Recruiting Industry" has been in football at artificially removing whites from the sport at all levels, based solely on body appearances, even on the infamous phantom appearance of "Fluid Hips". So the "Worldwide Leader in Sports" had to come up with a set of rules that could be applied to the sport of baseball as well. Obviously, such rules are completely bogus and no actual scouts use them. But if the fake scouting industry, such as Rivals and Scout and ESPN, etc. can reshape the dialogue of appropriate scouting, they can subvert the traditional performance evaluations that the sport of baseball has used for more than a century to select their future stars. My guess is that ESPN's particular focus is on the college game, where coaches can claim meaningless "recruiting victories" by showing off their total "star haul". It's a formula which has decimated the ranks of white skill position players in college football over the past decade. I have no doubt that ESPN believes it would achieve similar results in college baseball.
Be on the lookout for this meme in baseball coverage among all the major sporting media. If this isn't stamped out quickly, it will become "common knowledge" that "men with blue or green eyes can't hit a baseball and are better suited as pitchers". Yes, that was actually one of Showalter's rules.
ESPN has discovered their "fluid hips" for baseball. And more.
In the segment, the detestable Buck Showalter was describing the "ideal" traits for baseball players. He repeatedly professed his admiration for Derrick Lee's "high butt" and Derek Jeter's "square face". He went on to detail how players that didn't conform to certain body shapes have no place in the major leagues and that scouts use these evaluations all the time.
Bullsh*t.
That's just what ESPN wants to happen. Major League Baseball has resisted the forced infusion of black athletes over the past decade because scouting and player development in baseball has reached the highest level of science and art possible. The best players always beat out the scrubs in baseball, because the long and vast development process rewards results above all else (certainly not "athletic potential"). Yes, occasionally an "athlete" will slip through and retain a starting spot on a major league roster. But that's because teams can't have everything they want at every position, and, sometimes, a "serviceable" hitter and fielder will suffice if the rest of the lineup is solid.
ESPN has seen how successful the "Recruiting Industry" has been in football at artificially removing whites from the sport at all levels, based solely on body appearances, even on the infamous phantom appearance of "Fluid Hips". So the "Worldwide Leader in Sports" had to come up with a set of rules that could be applied to the sport of baseball as well. Obviously, such rules are completely bogus and no actual scouts use them. But if the fake scouting industry, such as Rivals and Scout and ESPN, etc. can reshape the dialogue of appropriate scouting, they can subvert the traditional performance evaluations that the sport of baseball has used for more than a century to select their future stars. My guess is that ESPN's particular focus is on the college game, where coaches can claim meaningless "recruiting victories" by showing off their total "star haul". It's a formula which has decimated the ranks of white skill position players in college football over the past decade. I have no doubt that ESPN believes it would achieve similar results in college baseball.
Be on the lookout for this meme in baseball coverage among all the major sporting media. If this isn't stamped out quickly, it will become "common knowledge" that "men with blue or green eyes can't hit a baseball and are better suited as pitchers". Yes, that was actually one of Showalter's rules.
