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    Rebel QueenStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/28/19 8:29pm

    Related side note, I really wish we taught girls baseball rather than softball. It is a huge impediment to crossover stars. The most likely position for a woman is pitcher and they’re not practicing the kind of pitching the MLB does.

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      AddaDaDaDaRebel Queen
      3/01/19 1:38pm

      Interestingly enough, women had organized teams and even some professional teams during the late 1800s and early 1900s, up through the end of World War 2 (A League of their Own is a fairly decent drama about female baseball players during the 1900s). Baseball was not considered a sport for men until right around the early 1900s, in fact, so it wasn’t unusual to see women playing. They were quite skilled, too. A female pitcher by the name of Jackie Mitchell was signed onto a professional team. Allow me to quote for you a passage from an article about the subject:

      First up was Ruth, who tipped his hat at the girl on the mound “and assumed an easy batting stance,” a reporter wrote. Mitchell went into her motion, winding her left arm “as if she were turning a coffee grinder.” Then, with a side-armed delivery, she threw her trademark sinker (a pitch known then as “the drop”). Ruth let it pass for a ball. At Mitchell’s second offering, Ruth “swung and missed the ball by a foot.” He missed the next one, too, and asked the umpire to inspect the ball. Then, with the count 1-2, Ruth watched as Mitchell’s pitch caught the outside corner for a called strike three. Flinging his bat down in disgust, he retreated to the dugout.

      This woman struck out Babe Friggin’ Ruth. Ruth was so embarrassed by the first two strikes he thought something was wrong with the ball, because his tiny lizard mind couldn’t imagine a female having enough skill to take him down. Just imagine that for a second.

      Of course, she then immediately struck out Lou Gehrig.

      Unfortunately, the backlash from that was pretty swift and exactly as you would expect: sexism reared its ugly head, Mitchell’s contract was voided, and women were essentially barred from what was now a man’s sport.

      The history is fascinating, but the bottom line is there’s absolutely no reason for women not play baseball. We just got a few manly problems barring our path.

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      Ben von SückAddaDaDaDa
      3/05/19 11:10am

      Thanks for sharing, I love this. 

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    RobbStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/01/19 5:38am

    Congrats to her on following her dreams that is commendable. But she has absolutely no chance of making the NFL. She’s 5’5” 135lbs and the average NFLer is 6’2” 246lbs. Also CMU is an NAIA school. Not a top tier Division 1 school, average Division 1 school or a Division 2 school. Smallest players in the NFL weigh 160lbs and are kickers. Smallest positional player was 5’5” 170lbs and was actually more of a track star than a player. Lets not gas this up more than it is

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      Steve ViciousRobb
      3/01/19 11:20am

      Bruh like 99% of college football players have no chance of making the NFL. Nobody is suggesting shes the next Derwin James (go noles).  It’s a good story.  That’s it.  Don’t need to throw cold water all over it.

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      RobbSteve Vicious
      3/02/19 8:06pm

      And if a similiar sized dude at her school had a platform to get my attention...I’d tell him the same thing

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    Old white guyStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/28/19 4:16pm

    Until the NCAA or some like group argues that since she appeared in a commercial, she lost her eligibility.

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      IDM3Old white guy
      2/28/19 6:47pm

      The CCCAA (California Community College Athletic Association) apparently didn’t have a problem with it.  Since Central Methodist is a NAIA school, I don’t think they’ll say much either, as will the NJCAA.  

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    BeopuppyStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/28/19 5:16pm

    Aren’t there women’s football teams?

    (Not saying she should go there. I really don’t know.)

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      IDM3Beopuppy
      2/28/19 6:39pm

      There once was the Lingerie Football League, but it was eventually shut down for specific reasons; i.e. women in their underwear playing football.

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      FasstEddieIDM3
      2/28/19 7:09pm

      Still around. Just called something different and with less ruffles.

      https://lflus.com/

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    FrodonutStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/28/19 3:58pm

    What was the tune she used when singing her letter of intent? Iko Iko?

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      yesFrodonut
      2/28/19 5:30pm

      I saw that and I was like, “please please please don’t let that be a typo.” I feel that I simply must live in a world where people sing letters of intent. I do live there, and anyone who tells me differently will be ignored!

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    IDM3Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/28/19 3:07pm

    I’m happy for her. Not just for getting that scholarship, but mostly for overcoming the odds with cancer. I can tell she’s one of those people who refused to listen to that same old, tired, “Well, I gotta die of something sometime” bullcrap, because like me and my diabetes, I don’t have time for a pity party. I’ve got things to do and a life to live, so it’s not time to become part of the “walking dead”...you feel so bad that you just want to die, and soon everyone around you will wish that you would hurry up and die as will. Honestly, do you want to listen to that noise all the time?

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    900turboStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/13/19 12:16pm

    CMU will be playing Clarke University on ESPN3 August 31st.

    Hopefully we get to see her play.

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    ktfright | Kinja Neighborhood Black GuyStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/28/19 3:07pm

    Dope, I’m rooting for her.

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    CrewBabyStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/28/19 3:52pm

    As a girl who played high school football way back in the day, I can’t tell you how this makes me feel. Amazed, proud, happy, overjoyed. Yeah, girl. Get it.

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