Get over it. Seriously. Gawker/Deadspin/Adequate Man isn’t a church, it’s a god damn blog. It’s not here to cater to your individual taste. If you want pious virtue, then don’t click it. Or don’t comment! There’s a million stay-at-home mommy blogs you can read, or go over to Defamer and read what Kristen Cavallari and…

Great job using baseball smart words and having no idea what they mean! She will not “be drafted”, she will be signed to a team as an international free agent which is a completely different process. Players coming in as IFA have a 99.99% bust rate, girl or no, but getting signed is a big step and opens up other…

This is nothing. The New York Mets have been pretending to be a pro-style team for 53 years.

Can women make a throw from well behind second to home plate, or execute a clutch double play? Those call for non-trivial strength/speed. I am asking because I genuinely do not know. The lack of any organized adult women’s baseball makes me curious.

Wait, you’re telling me there’s a specific rule against women playing but there’s nothing in the rulebook that says a Golden Retriever CAN’T play baseball?

Well, they would get absolutely annihilated by all three of those guys.... Serena has already had a very public loss to some barely ranked male player.

No major sports league in the US has rules against allowing women. The women who want to play just have to prove themselves worthy of a roster spot.

I thought MLB had a specific injunction (if that’s the right word?) against allowing women to play?

If she is this good, she better start dipping. You know, baseball traditions and what not.

But where was Brian Williams?

Frankly, nobody gives a shit about women’s sports.

I hope so too but she won’t. This story is kind of sad because it will just lead to a lot of disappointed feminists. The kid is an awesome athlete but you have no idea how difficult it is to succeed in professional baseball.

If there even is a chance for them to join Little League programs :/ My town definitely only had softball for girls, as far back in age as I can remember (unless you petitioned, I remember there was one girl who did play with the boys, but it wasn’t easy or common)...

You clearly haven’t seen Better Off Dead. French people LOVE baseball!

Sure, but you don’t find any rumors of them beating any such team.

It would be an upset if she did, but if a woman is going to get there, this is how it’s going to happen. A woman shortstop with a good batting approach could play second base in the majors.

Well Wickenheiser played for a Finnish pro hockey team, and Manon Rheaume tended net for the Lighting in the preaseason in 92-93. Does that count?

probably not an average all men’s high school team, but yes a very good one could certainly beat the USWNT. in fact, the best women’s national teams generally play excellent u-17 men’s (boy’s?) teams in their respective countries to train at a high level and work on moving the ball quickly; i believe that was even…

Though I'm inclined to agree with you, the uswnt has been beaten by the US under 19 team quite a bit.

the talent is there for them to compete in women’s leagues but there is a reason why men and women professional sports are separated, it’s because the talent level between the two is a chasm, not something close to parity