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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Friday, December 18, 2020‘It hurts:’ After vowing change, Black candidates shut out again of MLB front office jobs
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Posted: December 18, 2020 at 11:10 AM | 20 comment(s)
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1. DL from MN Posted: December 18, 2020 at 11:43 AM (#5994867)Never work in a sexy industry, they can treat the workers like ####, and get away with it.
Because they're already wealthy by birth and can pursue fun jobs instead of having to make their own money.
A very small percentage of Ivy League graduates have generational wealth and don't have to work, and I'm pretty sure the ones who do don't want to work 80 hours a week.
Also, anything you have to do 80 hours a week stops being fun really quickly.
So, it would be better if they worked 20 hours a week for their families? What's the argument here?
If they're willing to work 80 hours a week for peanuts I don't care who they are, that's initiative. There should be more opportunities, and the jobs shouldn't be exploitative, but the people taking the jobs aren't the problem here.
It's not praiseworthy in the least.
Or, "Why RMc Finally Quit Radio".
Yes, and that parental support is a horrible practice because it makes entire industries near-slave wage sweatshops, where people who need to make their own living can't survive. It also distorts the real estate market in hip cities. If you want to take a chance is a risky industry, live with 4 roommates in a crappy part of town eating ramen, don't have mommy and daddy pay $3000/month for your luxury apt.
Horrible if you're interested in meritocracy. Really good practice if you're interested in maintaining privilege.
Maybe, and I'm definitely pro the former and anti the latter.
But, if you were really into maintaining building the family empire (like pre-modern aristocrats) you'd want your children to maximize either earnings, or power, and have lots of children of their own. You wouldn't want your very expensively raised off-spring slaving away for low wages, and delaying adulthood.
Sort of. One thing it does is allow people to focus on prestige positions that lack guaranteed or high-level monetary benefits or hard power. This can be rich kids becoming scholars, taking up "charitable" efforts of widely varying legitimacy, or any other vanity project that nominally adds to the family's prestige. Particularly if said child is ill-suited to the family business and you want to keep them away from it for practical purposes.
This was true even in more overtly aristocratic times, when a family was often judged on things like collecting art and artists, throwing the swankiest balls, having the smartest philosopher at your dinner parties, displaying the nicest fashion, etc. That and the more strict primogeniture of past times meant there were a lot of second, third, forth sons who had to be shunted off somewhere harmless so they wouldn't challenge the heir.
This was true even in more overtly aristocratic times, when a family was often judged on things like collecting art and artists, throwing the swankiest balls, having the smartest philosopher at your dinner parties, displaying the nicest fashion, etc. That and the more strict primogeniture of past times meant there were a lot of second, third, forth sons who had to be shunted off somewhere harmless so they wouldn't challenge the heir.
Yes, and that might make sense today for rich families that have 4 or 5 kids. For the typical wealthy family with two, that's too risky.
1) Why is this person given anonymity by Nightengale?
Seems to me that a big part of the problem is people in positions of power - like this team president - who are perfectly happy to hide behind big talk and then not actually do anything. Granting anonymity to someone for a quote that reinforces the story but without any accountability makes Nightengale complicit, IMO. Frankly it makes Nightengale look like his fiery stance is all posturing.
2) The quote by Kenny Williams in the excerpt is probably counterproductive, also. I can't fault him or anyone for feeling discouraged, but telling young black candidates that it's all hopeless is going to lead to fewer black people pursuing jobs in baseball, which will in turn contribute to the shortage of candidates and therefore make it even harder to put black people in these jobs. There's a difference between frustration and capitulation, and Williams's comments here seem like they bleed into the latter category.
Perhaps. But if you didn't read the article—it's not clear if you did—two other portions not excerpted may help explain his frustration.
I think every team but NY has changed their head of baseball ops at least once in that time?
The numbers back him up. And the league and teams have collectively been awful, even since Selig talked about doing better with the inception of Jackie Robinson Day and since requiring teams to interview minority candidates. This is the kind of change that only occurs through concerted effort. Talk never does the trick, and all of MLB has been heavy on talk and light on action.
It's not clear if I did? Did you not notice where I also mentioned a completely different aspect of the article? Is that not proof enough for you? Do you imagine that I simply chose a random paragraph from the article to quote here, to try to fool people into thinking I read it when I actually didn't?
Does no one else, specifically Kenny Williams Sr, see the irony of a MLB Executive VP complaining about unfair hiring practices pertaining to his son, whom most assuredly holds the position he does within the White Sox organization in no small part due to nepotism?
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