[Rainger99]

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[charlieo1126@gmail.com]

It’s about time

[BrianL99]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

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How very woke.

Why not integrate Para-Olympic statistics into real Olympic records?

Or ... World Football League or Arena Football records into NFL statistics?

Everyone gets a trophy or the world's not fair.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by charlieo1126@gmail.com

It’s about time

You're right. It's about time we put an end to all of this nonsense. Perhaps the next suggestion will be back pay at the MLB pay scale.

[charlieo1126@gmail.com]

It’s about time

[Challenger]

Originally Posted by charlieo1126@gmail.com

It’s about time

Put on your Kevlar and watch the incoming hate and denial.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by charlieo1126@gmail.com

It’s about time

Repeating it doesn't make it more valid.

[golfing eagles]

I'm going to write a letter today. In high school I had a tournament winning percentage of 45%, which blows Tiger, Jack, Sam and Tom away. I'll going to ask them to incorporate that record into the PGA statistics, and then pay me $2 million for each win and $4 million for my county championship. And even though there was no FedEx Cup at the time, I would have won it easily, so I'd like $25 million bonus for both my junior and senior years.

[Snakster66]

Negro Leagues were designated as "major leagues" in 2020. So why wouldn't the stats count at that point? MLB and Elias have spent the last four years researching and validating stats.

Major Leagues (and associated stats) is not just National League and American League. There's also:

Federal League
American Association
Players League
Union Association
National Association

The stats count as official MLB stats for those leagues as well. Long live the Newark Pepper and Fort Wayne Kekiongas!

[charlieo1126@gmail.com]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

I'm going to write a letter today. In high school I had a tournament winning percentage of 45%, which blows Tiger, Jack, Sam and Tom away. I'll going to ask them to incorporate that record into the PGA statistics, and then pay me $2 million for each win and $4 million for my county championship. And even though there was no FedEx Cup at the time, I would have won it easily, so I'd like $25 million bonus for both my junior and senior years.

sounds goodto me , It’s About Time

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by charlieo1126@gmail.com

sounds goodto me , It’s About Time

Good one

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Snakster66

Negro Leagues were designated as "major leagues" in 2020. So why wouldn't the stats count at that point? MLB and Elias have spent the last four years researching and validating stats.

Major Leagues (and associated stats) is not just National League and American League. There's also:

Federal League
American Association
Players League
Union Association
National Association

The stats count as official MLB stats for those leagues as well. Long live the Newark Pepper and Fort Wayne Kekiongas!

So why not just apply revisionist history to every record in the book? "They" could even make the outcome whatever they want it to be. Heck, I'm still hung up with Marris tying Ruth even though he had 8 more games, and Sosa/ McGwire beating it with steroids.

The Roman conquerors of Britain played a game called paganica, where a bent stick was used to hit a feather stuffed leather ball about 2,000 years ago. Perhaps we could apply revisionist policy to that, declare them PGA tour equivalents, and find some record to put on the books.

Bottom line: Declaring something "major league", by decree 100 years later is simply applying populist political correctness to something that was nothing of the sort at the time. History is history, you cannot change it, but hopefully we learn from it.

[Stu from NYC]

Was the competition in the Negro leagues equal to major leagues at the time?

If the answer is yes makes sense to me.

If not the records will be meaningless

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Was the competition in the Negro leagues equal to major leagues at the time?

If the answer is yes makes sense to me.

If not the records will be meaningless

Exactly!

There is something known as the APGA today (Alternate PGA), which consists of minority golfers. They usually have the sponsor of a PGA tournament invite one of their players as an exemption. I don't believe any of them has ever made the cut much less seriously compete to win. That tour is far from "equal". But sooner or later they may produce a superstar, one that might even set some sort of "record" if the revisionists of the future declare that tour to be "major" and merge stats. Personally, I find this assault on one of the last meritocracies deplorable.

[Rainger99]

Should the ABA records be incorporated into the NBA?


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