Japan's first female professional baseball player
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No comments? I would love to see more women into baseball instead of softball. Ultimately if there are to be women major leaguers, it would have to be a women's league, though there are some women who could compete with the men, and so they should be allowed to.
Do they make pitchers hit over there?
Having no bat could make her career short.
But I am all for it both here and there. If anyone has the skills, they should be allowed and encouraged at the highest levels. I hope she does well.
I like woman's ice skating in the Olympics, but don't see the need for a lesser classes such as separate woman's professional basketball or golf, etc..
Having no bat could make her career short.
But I am all for it both here and there. If anyone has the skills, they should be allowed and encouraged at the highest levels. I hope she does well.
I like woman's ice skating in the Olympics, but don't see the need for a lesser classes such as separate woman's professional basketball or golf, etc..
Originally Posted By: TallPaul
No comments?
What do you want us to say? Down with men, up with women?
No comments?
What do you want us to say? Down with men, up with women?
Originally Posted By: MarginCalled
Originally Posted By: TallPaul
No comments?
What do you want us to say? Down with men, up with women?
I have to resist cracking a joke about that, because it violates forum rules.
Originally Posted By: TallPaul
No comments?
What do you want us to say? Down with men, up with women?
I have to resist cracking a joke about that, because it violates forum rules.
Originally Posted By: mechtech2
Do they make pitchers hit over there?
Having no bat could make her career short.
But I am all for it both here and there. If anyone has the skills, they should be allowed and encouraged at the highest levels. I hope she does well.
I like woman's ice skating in the Olympics, but don't see the need for a lesser classes such as separate woman's professional basketball or golf, etc..
Don't know if they have DH over there. I do think that the separate woman's professonal league would allow more women to play.
Do they make pitchers hit over there?
Having no bat could make her career short.
But I am all for it both here and there. If anyone has the skills, they should be allowed and encouraged at the highest levels. I hope she does well.
I like woman's ice skating in the Olympics, but don't see the need for a lesser classes such as separate woman's professional basketball or golf, etc..
Don't know if they have DH over there. I do think that the separate woman's professonal league would allow more women to play.
Let's take school funding, for instance.
If separate girls'/woman's leagues are provided for, that means some more qualified and better male athletes are left out - less for them.
Having lesser qualified classes/groups doesn't interest me .
And to be blunt, I have no interest at all in Special Olympians. What is the point?
If anyone can compete on the same field, I think it's great. Special laws and provisions don't suit me here, or in Gov't laws.
If separate girls'/woman's leagues are provided for, that means some more qualified and better male athletes are left out - less for them.
Having lesser qualified classes/groups doesn't interest me .
And to be blunt, I have no interest at all in Special Olympians. What is the point?
If anyone can compete on the same field, I think it's great. Special laws and provisions don't suit me here, or in Gov't laws.
I saw it and wrote it off as a publicity stunt. But who knows, maybe a woman could make it as a knuckler if she's really talented? I'll doubt it until it actually happens.
Originally Posted By: mechtech2
Let's take school funding, for instance.
If separate girls'/woman's leagues are provided for, that means some more qualified and better male athletes are left out - less for them.
Having lesser qualified classes/groups doesn't interest me .
And to be blunt, I have no interest at all in Special Olympians. What is the point?
If anyone can compete on the same field, I think it's great. Special laws and provisions don't suit me here, or in Gov't laws.
Well, if you think of it this way, why should sports be in school at all since it doesn't interest 100% of the people. We probably should ban college sport or scholarship on sports too so it won't waste tax payers' money.
No problem with women in sports or their own league here. It's there to develop characters and moral rather than the entertainment of the audience.
Let's take school funding, for instance.
If separate girls'/woman's leagues are provided for, that means some more qualified and better male athletes are left out - less for them.
Having lesser qualified classes/groups doesn't interest me .
And to be blunt, I have no interest at all in Special Olympians. What is the point?
If anyone can compete on the same field, I think it's great. Special laws and provisions don't suit me here, or in Gov't laws.
Well, if you think of it this way, why should sports be in school at all since it doesn't interest 100% of the people. We probably should ban college sport or scholarship on sports too so it won't waste tax payers' money.
No problem with women in sports or their own league here. It's there to develop characters and moral rather than the entertainment of the audience.
Originally Posted By: mechtech2
Let's take school funding, for instance.
If separate girls'/woman's leagues are provided for, that means some more qualified and better male athletes are left out - less for them.
Having lesser qualified classes/groups doesn't interest me .
And to be blunt, I have no interest at all in Special Olympians. What is the point?
If anyone can compete on the same field, I think it's great. Special laws and provisions don't suit me here, or in Gov't laws.
I am for letting women play in MLB. My only point on women only leagues is that fewer women likely are going to make it in MLB, so having a separate league would give more women opportunity to play at the professional level. It could be like the farm system and some of the women could move up to MLB from the women's teams. Professional womens baseball would be just as interesting and entertaining to watch as MLB. Its the quality of play, not that pitches are 100 mph in one league vs 70/75 (or whatever it might be) in another (or the average difference in hitting distance,throwing, etc). You're still going to get a good game. The women can make the spectacular plays just like the men do. I was at a tournament in South Bend IN last summer and was quite impressed with the traveling women's baseball team from Australia. They were good and they won the tournament.
Let's take school funding, for instance.
If separate girls'/woman's leagues are provided for, that means some more qualified and better male athletes are left out - less for them.
Having lesser qualified classes/groups doesn't interest me .
And to be blunt, I have no interest at all in Special Olympians. What is the point?
If anyone can compete on the same field, I think it's great. Special laws and provisions don't suit me here, or in Gov't laws.
I am for letting women play in MLB. My only point on women only leagues is that fewer women likely are going to make it in MLB, so having a separate league would give more women opportunity to play at the professional level. It could be like the farm system and some of the women could move up to MLB from the women's teams. Professional womens baseball would be just as interesting and entertaining to watch as MLB. Its the quality of play, not that pitches are 100 mph in one league vs 70/75 (or whatever it might be) in another (or the average difference in hitting distance,throwing, etc). You're still going to get a good game. The women can make the spectacular plays just like the men do. I was at a tournament in South Bend IN last summer and was quite impressed with the traveling women's baseball team from Australia. They were good and they won the tournament.
Panda - I DO kinda lean that way. Too much money and importance is spent on athletics instead of schooling.
But none of the teaching ciriculum is 100% for everybody either.
I would prefer more varied sports programs that all could try out for.
But I well know things are here to stay, and it's not a big deal to me either way - yet. I don't like the progression of special interest attention and funding.
But none of the teaching ciriculum is 100% for everybody either.
I would prefer more varied sports programs that all could try out for.
But I well know things are here to stay, and it's not a big deal to me either way - yet. I don't like the progression of special interest attention and funding.
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mechtech2 ..I guess you can say that no good thing remains untouched or uncorrupted. Athletic competition was never about fairness. That's what the physics of the arena and the rules are for. When you start applying social templates across these sorta things it tends to get complicated.
I always wondered if the same thing could be applied to sumo wrestling.
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I always wondered if the same thing could be applied to sumo wrestling.
Now that would be disgusting!
I always wondered if the same thing could be applied to sumo wrestling.
Now that would be disgusting!
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