“One Man’s Opinion” by Gordon Curvey

I am going to keep it real folks. I did not watch one minute of the World Series that ended the other day with the Giants winning there second title in three years.

It just did not interest me as a sports fan. Baseball is living in the past. Baseball needs  to make some serious changes to the game to get young inner city youth to play baseball again like they did back in the day. Young inner city kids turn to basketball and  football around the age if 12 or 13.

Kids in the inner city think baseball is too slow and guess what folks? It is!! It is too damn slow. Something needs to be done to make the pitchers pitch in 20 seconds. And also something needs to be done to stop the batter from stepping out the batters box to mess with there batting gloves and kick the dirt around home plate etc.

Also the marketing of baseball is TERRIBLE!! Might of fact here is a question for everyone reading this. Name more than two baseball players who do commercials on TV? I  can’t name one other than Derek Jeter.

But there are plenty of basketball and football players who  are seen on TV commercials. Like Chareles Barkley, Shaq,  LeBron James, Micheal Jordan, Reggie Bush, Peyton and Eli Manning, Aaron Rodgers, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant, Derek Rose. Ray Lewis and more. No baseball players in sight. The question is why?

Kids in the inner city see their favorite players on TV and want to be like them. They don’t see any baseball players on TV to try to be like. It is a problem MLB management needs to look at and look at now.  This is not 1954. It is 2012. Baseball needs to get with the times readers. It is a new day and a new generation. Baseball IS NOT America’s pastime anymore.