Posted on 03/16/2022 9:38:56 AM PDT by John Semmens
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has called for Major League Baseball to achieve a proportional representation of female players on each team. "It is a disgrace that baseball hasn't accorded women a fair share of the roster slots," Adams exclaimed. "It took them more than half a century to allow blacks to play in their leagues. Now it's time they allowed women to play."
The Mayor dismissed objections that women cannot compete on the same field as men. "This is simply not true," he insisted. "Right now, our city softball leagues have coed teams. With a few similar modifications of the rules, MLB could easily achieve a similar result." The most noticeable modification would be to install pop-up outfield fences that are 100 feet closer than the regular fences when females are batting.
Adams admitted that he can't force other cities to adopt the same roster proportions of male and female players or the modifications that would make mixed gender play feasible, but asserted that "I can and will order the Yankees and Mets to do the right thing for games played in New York City. So, starting next year at least 50% of their players in home games must be female. Our City will blaze a new path toward equity in this great sport and inspire a nation to follow suit."
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Same for NBA, NFL and NHL. Oh, and lets not forget boxing.
The joke’s on Mayor Adams. All Major League Baseball need do is have half their male players self-identify as women. Then it’s back to business as usual.
(And John, that might be an idea for your next satire posting!)
Fix you suckie city and stay out of baseball
The Village has a new Idiot in charge....WTF....maybe work on crime.
I suppose MLB could become less boring with a world class supermodel cheer leading squad
So, the stadiums are already there, why not have a women’s baseball league like in the old days?
I think they are called tavern softball leagues, Mr Mayor
Or Dolly Parton-like pinch base runners
Remember back when hopes were high for this ignoramus?
Then he opened his mouth to speak...
Guess the phase “base on balls” would no longer be used......
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