@SuntLacrimae50 said in New Blog Post: MLB THE SHOW 24 UNVEILS ROAD TO THE SHOW: WOMEN PAVE THEIR WAY:

@BJDUBBYAH said in New Blog Post: MLB THE SHOW 24 UNVEILS ROAD TO THE SHOW: WOMEN PAVE THEIR WAY:

@SuntLacrimae50 said in New Blog Post: MLB THE SHOW 24 UNVEILS ROAD TO THE SHOW: WOMEN PAVE THEIR WAY:

@BJDUBBYAH said in New Blog Post: MLB THE SHOW 24 UNVEILS ROAD TO THE SHOW: WOMEN PAVE THEIR WAY:

I can’t imagine what it’s like, to consider the inclusion of Women, Women, who make up half of the world’s population, into literally anything as “woke”. That sounds like an awful life.

It very much is if it's a new feature added at the expense of real substantive improvements when women -- WOMEN -- have accounted for literally 0% of MLB gameday rosters, ever.

Here’s some light reading for you, from the MLB HOF

https://baseballhall.org/women-in-baseball

And? You really should take a class in debate or basic argumentation.

Nothing -- literally nothing -- in that timeline refutes what I wrote, that no woman has ever been on an actual MLB roster in any competitively meaningful way.

I don't really care about this that much. But for you to see people who question SDS's motivation for or implementation of this feature as miserable people or as woman-haters (lol, seriously) says way more about you than about me.

The game is called....?

MLB the Show.

NOT -- "Baseball in Society" or "Baseball and Social Change" or "Baseball for Everyone."

And before you bring up the Negro Leagues not being MLB, that's an entirely different thing. Many of those players would have been superstars in MLB had the racial landscape been just. NO WOMAN would have made an MLB roster, let alone become a star.

Make an NCAA softball game! Make a LLWS game! All good, and I'd probably check them out....

I've already spent way more time going back and forth with a person who lacks basic emotional maturity ("yer a woman hater!") and basic reading/reasoning skills.

By the way, tonight I will go home to my wife and probably go to the park to give BP to my 11 yo and 15 yo daughters, who love softball. Woman-hating me...

Goof.

I think it was about a decade ago there was a television show called Pitch. It was a fictional story about the first female in the MLB. Wasn't bad until it became more about her intimate relationships instead of the hardships of breaking a barrier. One of the things I think the show got right is that it will happen. Chances are it will probably be a specialist. Maybe a contact hitting 2B or breaking ball throwing LRP. Most likely the latter. Maybe not for a long time, but, in my opinion, it will happen.

I have a problem of this supposition, "And before you bring up the Negro Leagues not being MLB, that's an entirely different thing. Many of those players would have been superstars in MLB had the racial landscape been just. NO WOMAN would have made an MLB roster, let alone become a star." You state your opinion here as fact and throw away any possibility of equivalence between female and pre-Robinson black players. With the exception of a wartime female league, women were seldom given the opportunity to even play baseball. Softball was sanctioned just for women. Women were taught to play only softball. That would be tantamount to keeping a sect of the population away from baseball by selective inclusion. Even the AAGPBL started as a hybrid of baseball and softball, and slowly went more towards baseball during it's eleven year tenure.

More recently, girls have been allowed to join little league and some high school and college baseball teams. The sheer number difference of women still playing softball instead of baseball is staggering. How many high schools would you have to go to, to find one girl playing baseball instead of softball? At that level, you should find some. However, those "girls are funneled from baseball into softball." (https://www.espn.com/espnw/culture/story/_/id/24943645/shutout-women-battle-play-baseball)

Yes, men are typically stronger, faster, and taller. The great thing about baseball is that those things don't always matter. If it did, we might have never heard the names Altuve, Kemp, or Betts. The best should be the ones playing. If that's a woman, I will cheer them on.

In the end, this is a video game. I'm not a ballplayer. Haven't picked up my glove since playing catch with my niece over a decade ago. I do get to play this game with my likeness and last name on an Angel's jersey. Kelsi Whitmore is closer to doing that in real life than I am. If I have the ability to do that, shouldn't she?

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