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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
I fail to see the analogy here. I didn't read of anybody wanting softball umpires working MiLB games. The minors are similar to WNBA and college basketball in comparison the MLB and NBA. Nobody was making the leap in logic all the way to ASA sofball (or any softball for that matter), which of course is nothing like baseball.
For what it's worth, I was a big supporter of Pam Postema when she was making here bid to be the first female MLB umpire. She was very good. I have not followed Ria Cortesio's career closely, but I understand that Ria Cortesio is no Pam Postema.
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The argument was that women CAN succeed in pro sports, as evidenced by Violet Palmer. I'm saying that there is a much better chance for a woman to succeed in basketball because there is a legitimate female equivalent to men's basketball at every level. I know there is softball out there, but it's almost an entirely different sport from baseball. I'm saying that a woman succeeding in baseball will be much more difficult than it was in the NBA because a woman needs to literally break into baseball; she can't move from softball to baseball and back, unlike a woman theoretically could in basketball.