Your personal view on Women in sports/baseball

[TheNamelessPoet]

The high salaries are not due to the Player's Union. It's due to the fact that baseball is in high demand, and the fans are willing to pay high prices, which in turn allows players to demand more money from teams.

They started the ball rolling

[RickD]

I am against women in baseball, football, basketball, the military, etc if they are mixing with men. I am all for women's baseball, football, basketball and in the military just not on the same team. The reality is women and men are different and to mix in sports puts women at an unfair advantage. It may sound sexist but it's true.

[HoustonGM]

They started the ball rolling

By demanding that those that create the entertainment that generates the revenue get a fair share of that revenue.

The reality is women and men are different and to mix in sports puts women at an unfair advantage. It may sound sexist but it's true.

So, there's no woman that could be better than men at such things?

[RickD]

I'm not saying certain women would not be better but the physiological, biological, psychological ,etc differences would be too great to allow them to be effective. What family wants to pay good money to take their kids to an NFL game and watch 3 300 pound linemen gang tackle a 140 pound female quarterback. It goes the same in the military...a male unit with a female soldier, said group is taken hostage, who would the bad guys try to torture in order to break the troop morale? Sad, sexist whatever the issues are there.

[TheNamelessPoet]

So, there's no woman that could be better than men at such things?

thats not what I said. First of I honestly think it would be few and far between, and secondly I don't want to see a woman playing baseball in the MLB. As I said before... I just dont want to see it... I don't have a great argument but its one of the few things that I am very closeminded about.

Don't get me wrong I LOVE women, in fact I did last night but I dont want to play next to one if im playing. It not that they are inferior or anything like that, My boss Is a woman (well one of the is anyway) and are as cappable as any boss I've ever had and she is treated with same as all the male bosses ive had. Brains wise, a woman is no better nor any worse than a man, phyisicaly women are NOT the same and I will go to my grave saying that.

[HoustonGM]

I'm not saying certain women would not be better but the physiological, biological, psychological ,etc differences would be too great to allow them to be effective.

Every person is different. Such a blanket statement cannot possibly be true.

What family wants to pay good money to take their kids to an NFL game and watch 3 300 pound linemen gang tackle a 140 pound female quarterback.

I don't think any 140 pound female would be good enough / stay healthy enough to play in the NFL. This is where the whole "the female must be capable" thing comes in.

[HoustonGM]

thats not what I said.

That reply wasn't to you. See the quoted part right above it..

Brains wise, a woman is no better nor any worse than a man, phyisicaly women are NOT the same and I will go to my grave saying that.

In general, yes. But there ARE women that are just as physically capable as men, if not more so, at whatever sport is in question.

[TheNamelessPoet]

I'm not saying certain women would not be better but the physiological, biological...

cant play today im bleeding

.... psychological ,etc differences would be too great to allow them to be effective. What family wants to pay good money to take their kids to an NFL game and watch 3 300 pound linemen gang tackle a 140 pound female quarterback. It goes the same in the military...a male unit with a female soldier, said group is taken hostage, who would the bad guys try to torture in order to break the troop morale? Sad, sexist whatever the issues are there.

very good points tho my gross comment is probably going to get a sideways look but its true. I don't know about your guys significant others but mine sure is a headache 5 days a month... not that I dont deserve it based on the other 23 days but its true. You want that in a locker room?

[RickD]

Yeah ok....point is women and men are physically different....FACT....women are biologically different then men.....FACT

I think sports should be same sex only. OPINION!

[HoustonGM]

You want that in a locker room?

Girls and guys would obviously have separate locker rooms...

[TheNamelessPoet]

Yeah ok....point is women and men are physically different....FACT....women are biologically different then men.....FACT

I think sports should be same sex only. OPINION!

Agreed

[TheNamelessPoet]

Girls and guys would obviously have separate locker rooms...

why... they are equals

[RickD]

Well I mean come on. Any guy who has ever dated, talked to or even looked at a woman know they are different. No matter how tough or fit a woman is she is DIFFERENT then men.

Seriously HGM look at the differences....

[RickD]

why... they are equals

LOL.....ok so can this go both ways....one guy joining an all girls basketball team....people would have a fit....why? Guys are made different.....I think HGM is just trying to be contrary....

[HoustonGM]

No, I'm not. Men and women aren't exactly the same. They have general biological and psychological differences. This does not mean that women are incapable of competing in athletic events at the same level with men.