@wandilemkhonta2@MelK_Ed@Molonla63592885 Being the sport easiest for the lowest socioeconomic classes to access is different than it being the best sport. Aif you grow up with no resources, soccer is the sport. Creates lifelong fans because they played it. Requires the least amount of skill and fewest resources
@M_Gerber17@HornTakes@CWSOmaha It would be great to hold this on college campuses but a very small geographic section of the country cares enough about college baseball to create the feel you are talking about.
In order to not create extreme home environments, this is the only way and they do a great job.
@Respondertoall@dwwtiger901@PeteThamel No, in baseball they were almost all young and the good ones go out earlier. The best ones in baseball are trying to reclassify out of HS sooner.
The marginal athletes are the hold backs.
@Respondertoall@dwwtiger901@PeteThamel Not reclassify. Rejoin their peers back in their correct grade and stop playing down a grade.
NCAA shouldn’t have caved on this.
@Zythrst@BenIsBack123@cjmills82@notgaetti Yes, athletes are better today on an absolute scale but not because we’ve evolved that much. We train them earlier, more precisely and know how to fuel them better such that we can expand capacity and capability.
Old Ruth wouldn’t be good immediately today. Train him, likely so
@BenIsBack123@cjmills82@notgaetti Because in every generation, the best players get the best of their time. Food, conditioning, training, etc
Your position seems to be that previous athletes are inferior to those today. The largest difference isn’t physiological, it is environmental so you must adjust that piece
@TDmeechigan@DonBovair@DanClarkSports@MLB All directors want to sign talent. Talent is what plays in the major leagues. If you didn’t have a sliding scale, you weren’t doing your job.
@TDmeechigan@DonBovair@DanClarkSports@MLB You not doing it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen often. A lot of those guys you turned in with well below avg make up signed contracts.
@TDmeechigan@DonBovair@DanClarkSports@MLB Yes. Typically pretty easy to see that frustration. I don’t blame the father for wanting it for his son who probably worked really hard.
But, the pieces of 💩 line is useless - makes him look small.
@TDmeechigan@DonBovair@DanClarkSports@MLB Has nothing to do with morality. Sliding scales of talent and risk.
Quick search and you realize he’s talking about his kid who didn’t get drafted out of UNC.
@BBGreatMoments Funny to think the hitter was a catcher.
Also good to remember that the hitter was released almost immediately by the Twins in A ball for allegedly tipping pitches to opposing hitters.