2023 CWS

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Originally Posted by Turbine

It would take decades to organically grow baseball up north.

Have to start younger.

If you were able to remove the "It's too cold" excuse, the pool of available athletes would grow.

A late April start (instead of March) for Little League and Babe Ruth League might help generate a potential pool of future collegiate baseball athletes.

It wouldn't happen overnight.

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They still will never be able to play it year round like the kids in the south. There are also 17 MLB teams in the north/northeast as opposed to 5 in the south. College baseball will never be as good or popular up there as it is down here. Hockey is played indoors and will never be big in the south, nothing to do with weather.

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Originally Posted by crazycajun

They still will never be able to play it year round like the kids in the south. There are also 17 MLB teams in the north/northeast as opposed to 5 in the south. College baseball will never be as good or popular up there as it is down here. Hockey is played indoors and will never be big in the south, nothing to do with weather.

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I don't see youth on any diamond year round.

In the end you are right though, but not for the reasons given.

Up north youth skate outdoors, there is a hockey opportunity in every neighborhood. That is where the hockey foundation begins.

For baseball it's easy to say it's too cold to stand in one place and do nothing.

You would be wrong about hockey in the south if there were a rink in every small town.

Popularity comes down to opportunity.

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Originally Posted by Dad04

The college baseball season already extends beyond the spring semester by weeks. How long should college baseball last into summer?

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Should be shorter season on both ends

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Originally Posted by Turbine

I don't see youth on any diamond year round.

In the end you are right though, but not for the reasons given.

Up north youth skate outdoors, there is a hockey opportunity in every neighborhood. That is where the hockey foundation begins.

For baseball it's easy to say it's too cold to stand in one place and do nothing.

You would be wrong about hockey in the south if there were a rink in every small town.

Popularity comes down to opportunity.

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You just not looking . . . I have ski level clothes, portable heaters, hand warmers and anything else you can imagine to stay warm in the stands at baseball year round. It is played here every month except maybe Dec and Jan, when we hunt . . .

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Originally Posted by Turbine

I don't see youth on any diamond year round.

In the end you are right though, but not for the reasons given.

Up north youth skate outdoors, there is a hockey opportunity in every neighborhood. That is where the hockey foundation begins.

For baseball it's easy to say it's too cold to stand in one place and do nothing.

You would be wrong about hockey in the south if there were a rink in every small town.

Popularity comes down to opportunity.

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Well you also sit inside on july 4th and watch tv so I wouldn’t expect you to see the youth play outside year round. I’m not wrong on anything, you try to reword my statements as if they are your own. We do have rinks in every small town, they just aren’t ice and still roller hockey isn’t popular. Baseball is very popular in the north, it’s just they only care about MLB. Our warm climate and lack of mlb teams puts all our interest(money) in to youth high school
and college baseball.

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Originally Posted by CajunEXPRESS

Ohio State could very easily secure both indoor practice and playing facilities. So being too cold isn’t their real problem.

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. . . And who says they can’t recruit the south . . . Stephenson says hold my beer . . .

What the big 10 is really complaining about is they can’t buy a home schedule that gives them a regional, don’t confuse it for anything else. They can’t fathom that their hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars doesn’t guarantee them being a top 5 conference in anything.

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Originally Posted by crazycajun

What the big 10 is really complaining about is they can’t buy a home schedule that gives them a regional, don’t confuse it for anything else.

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Maybe the formula should change. Why reward home wins rather than road? Actually kind of sad a team can advance two rounds by playing every game at home

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Originally Posted by crazycajun

Well you also sit inside on july 4th and watch tv so I wouldn’t expect you to see the youth play outside year round. I’m not wrong on anything, you try to reword my statements as if they are your own. We do have rinks in every small town, they just aren’t ice and still roller hockey isn’t popular. Baseball is very popular in the north, it’s just they only care about MLB. Our warm climate and lack of mlb teams puts all our interest(money) in to youth high school
and college baseball.

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I'm going to join you in jumping around here because you are all over the place. This time I will join you in the word salad.

I have never reworded one of your posts. I crop out what I am not replying to. Makes the desired point stand out more.

Roller hockey and ice skating are totally different and there are no collegiate or pro roller leagues to aspire to, thus no high schools.

I have been driving a truck for 40 years in and out of every small town in Acadiana, the baseball fields are not used year round. Irrelevant but true.

People no longer need to be indoors to watch sports. Just because I'm a radio guy doesn’t change the fact that more people would follow championship baseball on the 4th than on an unnamed say in June.

People are so desperate to watch something on the fourth of July they watch people gorging on hotdogs.

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Originally Posted by CajunVic

. . . And who says they can’t recruit the south . . . Stephenson says hold my beer . . .

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Post of the day when it comes to "why not?"