Comments on: Pay-for-play hits baseball’s recruiting leagues

By: roux

roux — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:29:26 +0000

MLB is turning to south and central America for it’s players. Why? Because American youth baseball is a joke. There are almost no leagues that the average parent can afford. Too many of these teams are not teaching kids the fundamentals. Just ask the college coaches.

By: Wade

Wade — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:44:36 +0000

BFD

By: batterup

batterup — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:05:49 +0000

…It looks like they are making progress in firing scouts. All they have to do now is blackball them so they never work in the industry again.

Vashta.Nerada on February 23, 2009 at 4:01 PM

The scouts are friends/ex-players/ex-coaches… It is doubtful that they would be blackballed. The DR players should be part of the draft but that too is unlikely to change. They should also be subject to the same PED testing as our high school and college players. You think the PED problem is bad here – it’s nothing compared to the DR. Of course scouting isn’t what it used to be either. Gone are the days of a scout hearing about a kid and going to his high school game. Nowadays the boys (and girls in softball) go to showcases, and MLB “camps”. These things are expensive, and makes it hard to nearly impossible for a poor kid (or a kid whose parents won’t schlep them all over) to get seen.

No one cares about baseball, it’s not a real sport.

VolMagic on February 23, 2009 at 4:15 PM

You have no heart ;) Baseball V. Football.

By: mchristian

mchristian — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:52:47 +0000

The best ball out there is played by kids in city leagues and they deserve our support. The rest of them, not so much.

By: whitetop

whitetop — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:25:08 +0000

Our new national pastime is scamming Caribbeans.

By: ScottG

ScottG — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:21:11 +0000

CONgressman: “Look, baseball is corrupt!!!!”

Press: “It’s an outrage!!! This requires in depth study.”

CONgressman: “Whew! Dodged a bullet there!”

By: right2bright

right2bright — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:14:10 +0000

Right2bright, your comment suggests you care quite a bit and are, rather, frustrated with the lack of access to the average Joe.

Would you care to talk about it?

Ace ODale on February 23, 2009 at 4:11 PM

Sure, buy me a couple of gin and tonics and I will tell you all about it…
Not access to the average Joe (I had Lakers season tickets for years), but the corruption does bother me, apparently it doesn’t bother you.

By: faraway

faraway — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:49:19 +0000

Ban Bud.

Ban any baseball player when my belt won’t fit around one of their thighs.

By: mikepatr

mikepatr — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:37:08 +0000

I’m shocked. People keep pouring money into tickets to see these hooped-up primadonnas that are too damned lazy to walk over and sign autographs for kids at the games. I say piss on ‘em. They don’t get my money…. ever.

By: gatorboy

gatorboy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:34:37 +0000

it’s freakin’ entertainment people! give it up with the steriods BS already. And the parade of congressional hearings on baseball!! Freakin’ basebal??!! The economy is falling apart and these idiots in DC find it necessary to drag in independent contractors and arbitrate the nuances of how the sport may or may not be tainted by ‘roids.

Count me out of those that lose sleep pondering how ‘pure’ baseball is. I go to a game – for me, steroids actually enhance the game since I’ll see more home runs, hits, better pitching, you name it.

When is the last time that CONGRESS dragged in a hamberger-flipper and grilled him on his use of steroids at the gym?

Government run afoul of the people.

it’s all entertainment now… just like ancient greece

By: robblefarian

robblefarian — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:34:14 +0000

I haven’t watched a single MLB game since the strike of 1994. I don’t miss it.

By: Ampleforth

Ampleforth — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:33:12 +0000

The fact that baseball survives is a testament to the greatness of the sport. Major League Baseball and the Players’ Union has done all they can to destroy the game, but they can’t do it.

I keep wondering when the baseball community is going to wake up and realize that Bud Selig is bad for the sport. Look at all the trouble that has developed and come to light during his tenure as commissioner. It’s awful.

I love the sport but have retreated to watching the minor leagues and college baseball, even though NCAA uses aluminum bats. I haven’t been to a MLB game since 2002. I won’t go this year, either. The Majors are dead to me.

By: dedalus

dedalus — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:26:15 +0000

Mercy4Me on February 23, 2009 at 4:11 PM

Yes. Tickets + parking + concession stand = too much. Better to play sports than watch them.

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By: VolMagic

VolMagic — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:15:39 +0000

No one cares about baseball, it’s not a real sport.

By: txaggie

txaggie — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:12:52 +0000

I feel the same way jencab. I love baseball but the players are getting the idea that they matter more than the rest of the team.

By: Mercy4Me

Mercy4Me — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:11:45 +0000

Abandon Pro-sports, who can afford to go anyways? The idiots play a GAME for tons of dough. Most of the IDIOTS can’t speak proper English or read it for that matter. ONLY IN AMERICA!!!

People are losing their homes and cars and jobs and those people make millions for what?????!!!!! Where is the Libtard outrage!

By: Ace ODale

Ace ODale — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:11:33 +0000

Sorry, but the last thing I care about is sports

Right2bright, your comment suggests you care quite a bit and are, rather, frustrated with the lack of access to the average Joe.

Would you care to talk about it?

By: jencab

jencab — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:08:24 +0000

My favorite sport is going down the tubes. SOS!

By: TheSitRep

TheSitRep — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:08:06 +0000

Enough already!
seriously, Rome is burning.
Oh, but did you see Kate Winslet’s dress last night?

I did not!

By: rbj

rbj — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:07:05 +0000

Apparently steroids and other illegal PEDs have been going on in baseball for over 40 years:

http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2009/02/20/history-lesson-3/

A worldwide draft has been advocated by some.

By: dedalus

dedalus — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:02:01 +0000

The steroid problem is much worse for MLB’s bottom line. It prevents the league from marketing itself around many of the big stars of the past 20 years. The guys who would normally be Hall of Famers and living legends–except for the roids taint.

MLB has to get the league clean and hope that some of the younger talent can start putting up numbers that are historically significant, so that every achievement isn’t viewed with skepticism about juicing.

By: right2bright

right2bright — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:01:44 +0000

Sorry, but the last thing I care about is sports, where the athletes are over paid…there contribution to our economy is at best suspect.
Athletes are greedy, owners are greedy, the professional organizations that oversee them are greedy…and the public is foolish for throwing money at them.
We’ve had athletes raping women, destroying dogs, abusing drugs, taking enhancing drugs, beating women…Owners asking for the public to support their billion dollar habit, owners moving in the “mid of night” to make a better deal…management turning their back on steroid use and the indiscretions of their players…jacked up prices, jacked up food, refs and umps “fixing games”, athletes shaving points…professional sports are more worthless then ever.

By: Vashta.Nerada

Vashta.Nerada — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:01:30 +0000

Baseball faces a much worse scandal in its international farm-league system

I don’t know that it is worse – what is more damaging than having millions of kids see that cheating is the path to success? All sports leagues do a disservice by allowing players who used steroids to remain in the game and by not purging their record books to remove stats that were acheived via cheating.

It looks like they are making progress in firing scouts. All they have to do now is blackball them so they never work in the industry again.

By: WashJeff

WashJeff — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:00:59 +0000

Don’t incriminate my White Sox, Blago roots for the Cubs!!!

Please don’t bring up Obama rooting for the White Sox!