Your personal view on Women in sports/baseball

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Originally Posted by HoustonGM

Yep. That's pretty much my stance. If a person is able to do it, they should be allowed to.

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Agreed.

Naahhh!

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Originally Posted by dickay

Agreed.

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Hear! Hear!

OK, I have heard tons of people say things along the lines of "Men are naturally stronger and better at most sports then women".

Just curious, who would have a better chance at becoming a pro baseball player, Bill Gates (who is a man) or Jennie Finch (who is a woman)?

Relating to the utterly ridiculous parallel between seperate locker rooms for different genders and segregation: I don't think you guys quite get this, so I'm going to give you this quote said previously by TheNamelessPoet (I acknowledge that this quote was used for a different reason, I don't intend to be taking quotes out of context here):

"they have boobies!!! jezz I was hoping I didnt have to say it. it will become a distraction to the game... and i dont care if im called sexist, or a pig, or whatever... it will be distraction"

When kids go to gym class, there is a boys' locker room and a girls' locker room. This is not a form of segregation, this is because of the possibility for sexual harassment in a mixed locker room.

Why can't a woman who is fully qualified, trained, and talented play in a "male sport"?

Why is it that almost all men don't realize that not all women want to be homemakers? We passed the 1950s (barely) and we should be past that type of stereotyping of the genders.

Not all males are tough and strong (I for one am not,I suck at sports and I've even been told that I should be strong because I'm male) and not all women are weak and unathletic.

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Originally Posted by metsguy234

OK, I have heard tons of people say things along the lines of "Men are naturally stronger and better at most sports then women".

Just curious, who would have a better chance at becoming a pro baseball player, Bill Gates (who is a man) or Jennie Finch (who is a woman)?
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No said that Every man in existence is better than every woman in existence.

BUT, men are naturally bigger/stronger/more athleteic than women. The average man is over the average woman, the peak men (i.e. professional athletes) are over peak woman. It just a fact you cant really argue.

can you find a woman is better than a man in those repsects, yes you can, judt like you can find some 60 year olds that are stonger/more athletic than a 25 year old, BUT 25 years olds are just naturally stronger/more athletic than 60 year olds.

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Originally Posted by Arctic Blast

I gotta say, for you guys who don't seem to think women are capable somehow of playing a contact sport, do yourself a favor, go watch a women's rugby game. They are downright BRUTAL on the field. I have seen women's rugby that was easily ten times more violent and impactful than the men's version, on a regular basis.

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Use to be a sport on TV called Roller Derby.
A female version of hockey but roller skates instead of ice skates
Really was womens wressaling

And no you would not put a male in the rink he would be dead before he got around once.

We're likely to see a female umpire before a female player. I remember reading a story about a female minor league umpire a couple years ago; I wonder how she's doing.

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Originally Posted by BorgHunter

We're likely to see a female umpire before a female player. I remember reading a story about a female minor league umpire a couple years ago; I wonder how she's doing.

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I remember hearing about that too, but I heard that she umpired a ST game this year.

stLouis or minor saints?

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Originally Posted by BorgHunter

We're likely to see a female umpire before a female player. I remember reading a story about a female minor league umpire a couple years ago; I wonder how she's doing.

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Ria Cortesio 2007
AA Southern League
was dropped before had a slot in AAA Majors.

Pam Postema
1983
AA Texas league
Gulf coast league
Pacific Coast league
umped in spring training Majors.

Bernice M Gera (First)
NewYork-Penn -A League

Found in wiki

none active Pam files a law suit aswell Bernice did 70's over contract/release

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Originally Posted by shepster

stLouis or minor saints?

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Spring Training (I probably shouldn't have used an abbreviation that isn't so commonly used)