Comments on: The White-Boy Report http://www.reclinergm.com/the-white-boy-report/ Philly sports blog for diehard Sixers & Phillies fans Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:45:09 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: deepsixersued http://www.reclinergm.com/the-white-boy-report/#comment-18513 deepsixersued Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:25:45 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=188#comment-18513 Pete, go with "the logo" on your banner, the best "white boy" to ever play.With the lack of bigs available now there will be room for the big white stiff on every N.B.A. bench. If your on the playground who do you pick;West,Bird or Barry? You would probably punch Barry after he lobs in the first underhanded free throw!!! Pete, go with “the logo” on your banner, the best “white boy” to ever play.With the lack of bigs available now there will be room for the big white stiff on every N.B.A. bench. If your on the playground who do you pick;West,Bird or Barry? You would probably punch Barry after he lobs in the first underhanded free throw!!!

]]> By: art http://www.reclinergm.com/the-white-boy-report/#comment-18511 art Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:11:20 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=188#comment-18511 Kevin Love, spencer Hawes, Dunleavy, Barry, Walton, Szberciak , Karl, and I think one or two others all had parents from the NBA. They went to camps all summer from the time they were 11, and had High school coaches eating out of thier hands.  There are too few American born white players now that there will be none in nba in 15 years or so.  Stockton is almost assured to be the last US Born White NBA hall of famer. Kevin Love, spencer Hawes, Dunleavy, Barry, Walton, Szberciak , Karl, and I think one or two others all had parents from the NBA. They went to camps all summer from the time they were 11, and had High school coaches eating out of thier hands.  There are too few American born white players now that there will be none in nba in 15 years or so.  Stockton is almost assured to be the last US Born White NBA hall of famer.

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]]> By: BlueWorkhorse.com http://www.reclinergm.com/the-white-boy-report/#comment-816 BlueWorkhorse.com Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:00:37 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=188#comment-816 I think part of the problem has to do with the specialization of high quality athletes. There are barely any of the top-notch professional athletes that you can say were true two or even three-sport athletes like there once were (check out guys like Dave Winfield). Occasionally, there are guys like Carl Crawford of the Tampa Bay (no longer Devil) Rays, who had a basketball scholarship to UCLA, a football scholarship to be an option QB at Nebraska, and was also a baseball draft pick. But those players are becoming more and more rare, because players are told they have the best opportunity in one sport or another, and therefore give up their other sports to focus and hone their skills on a particular sport. And I say this because if a white athlete has the choice (and is good at multiple sports), he is more likely to choose the most profitable sport with the best average longevity, which is undoubtedly baseball. Also, I think white parents are more likely to push their kids toward baseball (and by push I mean build a batting cage rather than put up a neighborhood hoop or allow them to go to the local blacktop playground)because they view basketball and football as sports more closely linked with the hip-hop culture, which to many white parents (not all but a whole heap of a lot) is akin to something evil. So combine those and the kids that were once playing multiple sports growing up are now focusing on one with that one sport most often being baseball (or soccer, which isn't a sport that has been adopted by many blacks in this country), and you end up with less white players in the NBA, at least I think that has something significant to do with it. I think part of the problem has to do with the specialization of high quality athletes. There are barely any of the top-notch professional athletes that you can say were true two or even three-sport athletes like there once were (check out guys like Dave Winfield).

Occasionally, there are guys like Carl Crawford of the Tampa Bay (no longer Devil) Rays, who had a basketball scholarship to UCLA, a football scholarship to be an option QB at Nebraska, and was also a baseball draft pick. But those players are becoming more and more rare, because players are told they have the best opportunity in one sport or another, and therefore give up their other sports to focus and hone their skills on a particular sport.

And I say this because if a white athlete has the choice (and is good at multiple sports), he is more likely to choose the most profitable sport with the best average longevity, which is undoubtedly baseball.

Also, I think white parents are more likely to push their kids toward baseball (and by push I mean build a batting cage rather than put up a neighborhood hoop or allow them to go to the local blacktop playground)because they view basketball and football as sports more closely linked with the hip-hop culture, which to many white parents (not all but a whole heap of a lot) is akin to something evil.

So combine those and the kids that were once playing multiple sports growing up are now focusing on one with that one sport most often being baseball (or soccer, which isn’t a sport that has been adopted by many blacks in this country), and you end up with less white players in the NBA, at least I think that has something significant to do with it.

]]> By: Chris http://www.reclinergm.com/the-white-boy-report/#comment-811 Chris Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:06:33 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=188#comment-811 Pete, it's nice sweet that you preface with saying you're not a racist. That's something a racist would say. The fact of the matter is that you're right. The Nash-Stoudemire pick and roll doesn't have the same effect as Stockton and the Mailman. What happened to the cleanly shaven neckline and Malone's look that says, "find me in the paint or I'm gonna drop by and see your wife tonight." Nowadays they've all got shared high-fives and swap music on their iPods. There's no respect for a Rambis tradition that everyone responding clearly treasures. Vicariously living dunkers now have to relay on freaks of nature like Bradley to throw down, when Tom Chambers and (yes) Hornacek used to attempt a dunk when ahead by twenty. The mediocrity is gone. You want to see more white bread in the game, extend the 3 point line to 25 feet and start recruiting. Players would rather concede the 3 than risk their triple-double by missing the possible rebound. You won't see Lebron or McGrady out there playing D. The fact is that the closest we're gonna get to the NBA these days is as a flexible 19 year-old acrobat in a gorilla suit bouncing on a trampoline at half-time. Pete, it’s nice sweet that you preface with saying you’re not a racist. That’s something a racist would say. The fact of the matter is that you’re right. The Nash-Stoudemire pick and roll doesn’t have the same effect as Stockton and the Mailman. What happened to the cleanly shaven neckline and Malone’s look that says, “find me in the paint or I’m gonna drop by and see your wife tonight.” Nowadays they’ve all got shared high-fives and swap music on their iPods. There’s no respect for a Rambis tradition that everyone responding clearly treasures. Vicariously living dunkers now have to relay on freaks of nature like Bradley to throw down, when Tom Chambers and (yes) Hornacek used to attempt a dunk when ahead by twenty. The mediocrity is gone. You want to see more white bread in the game, extend the 3 point line to 25 feet and start recruiting. Players would rather concede the 3 than risk their triple-double by missing the possible rebound. You won’t see Lebron or McGrady out there playing D.

The fact is that the closest we’re gonna get to the NBA these days is as a flexible 19 year-old acrobat in a gorilla suit bouncing on a trampoline at half-time.

]]> By: Mike Donnelly http://www.reclinergm.com/the-white-boy-report/#comment-810 Mike Donnelly Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:23:17 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=188#comment-810 A posted picture of Kurt Rambis goggles and his 1 inch short shorts is really required at this point. Instant retching material. I was going to play some b-ball last night, I lowered the rim to 7.5 feet and I can almost dunk it now, that's gonna be sweet. But I was on level 179 on World of Warcraft and really wanted to earn the Amulet of Everlasting Destiny on level 180 so I didn't play. You should know I can now beat the West All Stars on my Wii, so I'm gonna be a beast on the court. A posted picture of Kurt Rambis goggles and his 1 inch short shorts is really required at this point. Instant retching material.

I was going to play some b-ball last night, I lowered the rim to 7.5 feet and I can almost dunk it now, that’s gonna be sweet.

But I was on level 179 on World of Warcraft and really wanted to earn the Amulet of Everlasting Destiny on level 180 so I didn’t play.

You should know I can now beat the West All Stars on my Wii, so I’m gonna be a beast on the court.

]]> By: GARGS http://www.reclinergm.com/the-white-boy-report/#comment-802 GARGS Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:20:17 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=188#comment-802 You're sitting on a gold mine of material here. How could you not include any pictures? You’re sitting on a gold mine of material here. How could you not include any pictures?

]]> By: Kellex http://www.reclinergm.com/the-white-boy-report/#comment-801 Kellex Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:20:11 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=188#comment-801 Freakin' awesome! I'll be watching this report unfold. Chase Budinger wins "best hair" for the next 10 years! Freakin’ awesome! I’ll be watching this report unfold. Chase Budinger wins “best hair” for the next 10 years!

]]> By: Mike Ferguson http://www.reclinergm.com/the-white-boy-report/#comment-800 Mike Ferguson Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:50:35 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=188#comment-800 Pete, I think you need to remember that Wally Szczerbiak isn't actually American Born, to my knowledge he was actually born in Spain (according to wikipedia, his father was playing in Madrid at the time). So his status as your poster boy is in jeopardy. I too yearn for that not-so-long golden age of the white boy, what with John Stockton's short shorts, Chris Mullin's edgy crew cut, Jeff Hornacek's near-pink skin, Kurt Rambis' goggles and Karl Malone's outspoken right wing political views. Now Pete, I'm not going to say that you're racist, but if you turned this around and had a column about the decrease in black players in baseball... well, I guess Gary Sheffield tackled that one adequately .... or the minimal number of black quarterbacks... well then I guess you'd pick up the majority of rush limbaugh viewers who were left without a guiding light when he went into rehab for, wait, what did he blame it on again? Is there rehab for racism? I think it might have been a vicodin addiction or something. Well I guess I can't think of a good example. Keep up the good work. Pete, I think you need to remember that Wally Szczerbiak isn’t actually American Born, to my knowledge he was actually born in Spain (according to wikipedia, his father was playing in Madrid at the time). So his status as your poster boy is in jeopardy. I too yearn for that not-so-long golden age of the white boy, what with John Stockton’s short shorts, Chris Mullin’s edgy crew cut, Jeff Hornacek’s near-pink skin, Kurt Rambis’ goggles and Karl Malone’s outspoken right wing political views.

Now Pete, I’m not going to say that you’re racist, but if you turned this around and had a column about the decrease in black players in baseball… well, I guess Gary Sheffield tackled that one adequately …. or the minimal number of black quarterbacks… well then I guess you’d pick up the majority of rush limbaugh viewers who were left without a guiding light when he went into rehab for, wait, what did he blame it on again? Is there rehab for racism? I think it might have been a vicodin addiction or something. Well I guess I can’t think of a good example. Keep up the good work.

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