Wokeness and racial identity politics have no end. Nothing will ever satisfy the beast.
After the recent whining about the NHL, it’s MLB’s turn in the barrel.
No US-born Black players on expected World Series rosters – AP
What that means is that there will be black players, but not born in America. I blame systemic racism. And witches.
To be sure, Houston’s Jose Altuve and Philadelphia’s Jean Segura are among scores of Latin players helping keep big league rosters diverse.
But for the first time since 1950, shortly after Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color barrier, there project to be no U.S.-born Black players in this World Series.
Zero.
Zero sanity.
Jean Segura is black. Cristian Javier, Luis Garcia, Hector Neris, Rafael Montero, Framber Valdez, Martín Maldonado, and Yordan Alvarez are all black. They’re descendants of African people from Cuba and the Dominican Republic making them African American.
The Astros are one of the more diverse teams around. And have a ton of black players.
What’s the argument here? That MLB is discriminating against black players, but only from the United States? That’s a very confusing plot by whiteness.
“Okay guys, we’re gonna keep out black players from this country, but bring in a lot of Dominicans. That’s gonna confuse all the non-whites. And then we’ll swap it around. Everyone meet back at the clubhouse for mint juleps and mayo.”
This is an extended AP piece dedicated to complaining that the wrong kind of black players are in the World Series.
Houston and Philadelphia will announce their 26-man rosters several hours before Game 1 on Friday night at Minute Maid Park, where Dusty Baker, a Black outfielder for the 1981 champion Los Angeles Dodgers, manages the Astros.
This systemic racism is out of control.
Lapchick, lead author for his group’s annual reports on diversity hiring practices in sports, said Black players made up 7.2% of opening day rosters this year. That dipped from 7.6% last year and marked the lowest since study data was first collected in 1991, when 18% of MLB players were Black.
10% of players were black in 1962. Either we’re more racist now than we were in 1962 (which we are, but not in the way that wokes would admit) or maybe representation and diversity, and the entire artificial construct of systemic racism are poor ways of measuring racial harmony and tolerance.
Haven’t watched pro baseball since Gibson hit THE homerun. That said, sick of importing foreigners for any reason.
Sick of importing foreigners for any reason? What are we gona do depend on envious, resentful, mediocrities like you to make American baseball great again?
“Individualism recognizes that wealth is produced, not merely appropriated, and that man’s rise from the cave to the skyscraper demonstrates that life is not a zero-sum game — not where men are free to seek progress….
Government interference with free trade is un-American. Sacrificing one’s standard of living in order to subsidize inefficient domestic producers is un-American. The tribal fear of foreigners is un-American. Resentment at others’ success is un-American.
A patriotic American acts as a capitalist and an individualist: he buys the best, wherever it may be found.” – Objectivist philosopher Harry Binswanger
“‘Buy American’ is un-American” – by Harry Binswanger
https://www.capitalismmagazine.com/2019/05/buy-american-is-un-american/
That might hold as good economic policy if you’re not buying from an enemy state but fortunately and unfortunately other countries see things quite outside your frame of reference and the clock is ticking for your prosperity.
When China gets what they want they will probably liquidate their free markets in much the same way the middle class has been liquidated in America.
When power becomes the new currency you will be a museum relic. You should be much more concerned about social credit scores than free market platitudes at this stage. Of course you are not being the sort of two dimensional logic function that sneers at the imagined limitations of others.
A capitalist and an individualist does not do business with thugs and gangsters. He doesn’t do business with a communist slave-pen and its slave labor.
That America today does do business with communist slave-pens is a testimony not to American capitalism and individualism but a testimony to the ongoing collapse of America, American capitalism, and American individualism.
I should be much more concerned about social credit scores than free market platitudes at this stage? In other words I should abandon long-term thinking and long-term principles of freedom, liberty, and capitalism and be pragmatic and just look at the small picture, just fight collectivism and socialism in a piece-meal way, cut down a tree here and a tree there, and forget about the proliferating forest? Forget about platitudes (abstract thinking), act first, think later.
“[The Pragmatists] declared that philosophy must be practical and that practicality consists of dispensing with all absolute principles and standards—that there is no such thing as objective reality or permanent truth—that truth is that which works, and its validity can be judged only by its consequences—that no facts can be known with certainty in advance, and anything may be tried by rule-of-thumb—that reality is not firm, but fluid and “indeterminate,”. – Ayn Rand
“he buys the best, wherever it may be found” and please don’t tell me their quality is not the best since this is a price/vale determination
To Una Salus, in a free America, that is a capitalist America, if I were to enslave you and force you to grow carrots for me and I go sell them at the market and the citizens discover that the carrots are grown by my slave Una Salus, the moral thing to do would be for the citizens to report me to the police, arrest me, free you from slavery, return the carrots to you, sell off my property and give you the proceeds as restitution and compensation. The same moral-political principle applies between free nations and communist slave-pens.
Moral free nations do not trade with nations that are slave-pens.
Harry Binswanger’s article is speaking of free trade among free nations not trade of stolen goods or goods produced by slaves in a slave-pen.
“Harry Binswanger’s article is speaking of free trade among free nations not trade of stolen goods or goods produced by slaves in a slave-pen”
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Comment thread doesn’t allow me to respond to your previous post directly.
China is America’s biggest trading partner. You are naive if you think Harry Bingswonker wants to make a qualification for them. Very naive or disingenuous.
As an aside Bill Gates is meeting with Keir Starmer who is the leader of the Labour Party in the UK. Do you think he’s doing that for small business interests or free trade? I won’t go into this too much,
I just mention it because you might want to get your head out of the sand. To pretend we are going to get out of this by being ideal consumers is just nuts. We soon won’t even have that freedom.
These people are globalists. They do not care about America or free markets except as a means to and end. They are post-America and all of that. The last thing people need from Harry Bingswonker is a lecture on what it means to be patriotic. That is only an academic concern for him.
To Una Salus:
“Whom should you do business with?” by Harry Binswanger
Only saps continue to care about their home team when it is really the plaything of an international conglomerate and that is a significant part of the decline in professional sports.
And who could root for a Philadelphia team? I don’t care that the players are from all over the place, the Phillies represent Philadelphia, which is one of the scummiest, most criminal and most corrupt shitholes in America. The city of vote fraud and rats.
Houston is an OK city so I hope the Astros win although I won’t give a shit one way or the other. I just want the Phillies to lose.
“Buy American” is definitely patriotic and usually gets you a better product, with cars being a major exception. F paying foreigners and foreign governments if I can avoid it, unless I buy a Toyota, which I always do.
Yeah, Japanese engineering is different. I noticed that when we had a Honda, which lasted about twice as long as our American cars.
The Japanese Zero fighter was better than our planes for awhile, in early WW2.
Japanese automobiles used to be designed to be maintained efficiently and easily, American automobiles were designed to be assembled efficiently and easily. Now American automobiles are partnered a Japanese company(I think that started with Mitsubishi and Dodge in the 80s), so they are now much the same.
The A6M Zero had a wooden airframe, much of it in a single piece, that while light, hard to manufacture and easy to damage beyond repair. It was heavily armed, could climb and turn extremely well, but past the first year and a half of the war was relatively slow, and couldn’t power dive. It was also hardly armored at all, offering no pilot protection, without self sealing tanks, and would burn easily. American aircraft by then were big, fast, and heavily armored, with a high ceiling.
Chennault developed the successful US “boom and zoom” tactics we used throughout the war. They wouldn’t try to turn or climb with the nimble Japanese fighters. They would gain altitude advantage, dive in for a high speed firing pass, then zoom back up faster than even the enemy could follow, turn, and do it again. We also used four plane formations, two leads with wingmen, and they would weave with their faster aircraft so one could cover the tail of the other, the “Thatch Weave,” named for its’ creator.
I’m a bit of a WW2 aviation buff, lol, and military tech and tactics in general.
Yeah the Zero was lighter, faster and more maneuverable. Easy to blow up because of its thin fuselage, aluminum I think, but it was an effective plane. Mitsubishi, I think.
Hondas are good cares, comparable to Toyotas. You could put 300,000 miles on those things, no problem. A Toyota for sure and probably a Honda, too. Better to sell them after 150,000 and get one with less mileage, though.
Racists see racism behind every tree and under every rock.
And Caribbean blacks are blacker genetically on average than American born ones, so that’s another weird aspect of the white wokes who’re looking behind every tree and under every rock.
Yeah, did you see that guy who pitched a no-hitter (combined) today? A perfect example. All the physical equipment, plus psychologically stable, etc.
When I was a kid there was black pitcher on our team named Horace (we called him Horse) who threw the ball so hard and fast I couldn’t get my bat around in time during batting practice.
Actually, I find that a curious situation. In my generation, the black kids were the best baseball players, teams from my city won some national championships. First speculations that came to my mind is that the kids these days aren’t as motivated as they were when I was a kid, maybe they are more interested in the street thug life, getting stoned on various drugs, committing petty crimes, carjacking, engaging in drive-by shootings, etc. Wasn’t so much of that type of entertainment available to them in olden days.
The latin kids were always good at baseball for some reason, and highly motivated.
Of all the American sports I’ve played baseball is by far the most difficult to play. Basketball and football not so much. Intellectuals are often big baseball fans because of all the intricacy and subtlety of play and strategy plus all the numbers, statistics, and history that have to be kept in mind and weighed against each other. Thomas Sowell is a huge baseball fan with an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball, I love his articles on baseball.
Interesting question as to how a sport becomes popular or loses popularity over time. Baseball fever is huge among Latinos in the Caribbean countries and the Caribbean basin. It’s popular in Northern Caribbean Colombia but not at all in Southern Andean Colombia.
Baseball has lost it’s commanding position as America’s favorite sport to the more brutish, fast action, and simpleminded football and basketball maybe because American dumbed-down education has produced dumbed- down Americans. Americans now have a shorter attention span and demand fast action with violence to satisfy their dumbed-down brutishness.
Even boxing, the king of sports, has now been replaced in popularity with the more violent, more brutish, simpleminded, artless, wrestling and MMA fighting.
“Why Americans Love Baseball and Brits Love Soccer…er… Football” – David Papineau
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/why-americans-love-baseball-and-brits-love-soccer-er-football/
Football actually involves a great deal of strategy – probably as much or more as baseball – despite also involving strength, force, and speed. Coaches and players spend hours reviewing film of other teams (as well as their own games) in order to identify the opposing teams’ tendencies in specific situations and to review their own players’ performance.
In recent years baseball has also adopted statistical analysis to identify the tendencies of opposing batters and pitchers, resulting in – among other things – the dramatic shifts in positioning the fielders (soon to be outlawed or limited) based on a batter’s past tendencies. Pitchers have also gotten stronger and throw harder and faster, resulting in an overall drop in batting averages.
Sports used to be a way to escape poverty more than a career hope but now the white and latin kids know their mothers have always been full of crap when they’ve told them a career in professional sports is an unrealistic expectation. It isn’t. All the teens who excelled in our high schools had very good prospects of going pro but most didn’t pursue it. You should see some of the scrubs who went on to the majors that my brother played with. (He kept track of that stuff because he’s a sports fan.) Those scrubs weren’t even good as teens.
Yeah, I knew some who made it to the pros. Yankee center fielder, Dallas linebacker come to mind.
It seems all the American-born blacks are playing football and basketball. Must be more money there!!!
I don’t know about paychecks as preference but I do know one player doesn’t go up against an entire opposing team in those sports, as a batter does in baseball.
A return to the merit standard will see ethnic diversity, but not necessarily in proportion to population at all times.
Diversity is really just anti-whiteism. Western nations are much more racially diverse than all others. So what else can “diversity” mean?
Yeah. Actually, I thought about that problem once, and mathematically it is almost certain that a return to the merit standard would see ethnic diversity *not* in proportion to population.
Come to think of it now, maybe that is another reason the radical left is against merit.
Overall, Hispanics are now far more interested in baseball than American Blacks are. The rest follows.
I believe the Astros do indeed have 2 American born black players who are both on the DL right now. Dusty Baker is an American black man but i guess manager does not count.
I quit watching baseball when the NL got designated hitters but being a life long Reds fan i would like to see Dusty get his win.
The fact is that most American-born blacks gravitate towards basketball and football rather than baseball or soccer or hockey. This is not a matter of discrimination but personal choice. Nobody says there are too many blacks (or two few whites) in the NBA or NFL and use the racial disparity as a reason to demand “equity” of representation.
Everything is racist. Except crime. Race has nothing to do with crime.