Posted on 08/14/2021 6:16:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
Just when you think the accusations of racism can't get any more absurd, this ridiculous headline pops up on Yahoo!Sports: "MLB umpires show discrimination against non-white players, according to new study."
That's right. You read it correctly. Major-league umpires are racist, and it's based on allegedly erroneous ball and strike calls and which player benefits from the errant call.
"A new study suggests MLB umpires discriminate against non-white players, according to Hank Snowdon, a student at Claremont McKenna," wrote Chris Cwik from Yahoo!Sports. "The study used balls and strikes data from the past 13 seasons to determine the rate of missed calls against certain players," Cwik continued. "Snowdon determined which should-be strikes were called balls, which balls were erroneously called strikes and then looked at the race of the umpire, batter and pitcher. What Snowdon found was that umpires made more advantageous calls when their race was the same as the person receiving the advantage."
The difference of the alleged racist calls amounted to a grand total of 0.3 percent, something so minuscule that even a professional race-baiter like Al Sharpton likely wouldn't have noticed. Not until a woke college student at Claremont McKenna made an issue out of it, that is.
To give Mr. Snowdon the benefit of the doubt, he's a white youngster from a brainwashed generation that's been indoctrinated for years to see white racism around every corner and under every rock, as well as within his own being. He no doubt despises himself and sees conducting idiotic "studies" like this as a type of racial penance. So I forgive your stupidity, Mr. Snowdon, as you're an obvious victim of your racist environment.
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Second this motion!
I don’t.
The brat’s environment is no excuse for not thinking.
Ray Stevens, Little League: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJVtsY98bR0
Or Joe West will make a purposeful bad call on a rookie and stare him down.
“Racism against white people is still racism”
Lol!
I don’t know if they’re racists, but I do know that Angel Hernandez and Laz Diaz suck as umpires. They’re consistently awful and argumentative.
.3 percent is well within the margin of error for such a study. Like most liberal wingnutz, statistics doesn’t matter - but, then again, math is racist.
While watching MLB games it becomes apparent to the number of ball and strike calls the umps miss and they certainly aren’t consistent. Maybe it is time for the computer to call balls and strikes. If you’ve watched bb over the years yo may agree that this current crop is the worst in many years.
That is indeed the most likely explanation.
Baseball isn’t racist. It’s all about PoCs hitting a white ball.
More evidence that blacks and whites can never peacefully coexist together in the same country.
How to correct this? Easy. Allow black players 4 strikes instead of three. It’s only equitable.
And how about the white chalk lines for base paths?
How about the white bases themselves? How does 2nd and 3rd base feel about not being 1st? How come home plate gets to be a plate and not a base?
OMG Protest/resist/un baseball.
As my dearly departed father used to say: "I,m an equal opportunity racist, I hate very body".
LOL! At the Trump rally in The Villages someone was selling a T shirt that said “no lives matter, you all suck!”
I believe it was Nipsey Russell who said long ago that nothing is improving race relations like football. Where else can you see a big Black guy chase down and tackle a big White guy while millions of Whites cheer him on.🙂
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