Sheffield has theory why fewer blacks play MLB

ABC News ^ | 06/03/07 | staff

[Kid Shelleen]

The percentage of African-Americans playing Major League Baseball is at an all-time low and Gary Sheffield says he has a theory why that's the case.

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In an interview with GQ magazine that's currently on newsstands, the typically outspoken Tigers designated hitter said Latin players have replaced African-Americans as baseball's most prevalent minority because they are easier to control.

[Perdogg]

I thought it was the heat.

[Seeking the truth]

It’s that Evil White Man thing again.

[PeteB570]

So to cut to the chase - Baseball is a team sport.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

[johnny7]

I thought it was the heat.

...or the shoes.

[atomicpossum]

Latin players have replaced African-Americans as baseball's most prevalent minority because they are easier to control.

Uh, if rebellion is on your mind when you walk out on the field, maybe THAT's the reason they don't want you.

[cdcdawg]

“there ain’t no English going to be coming out.”

Good grief.

[rocksblues]

How to win friends and influence people.

[martin_fierro]

They obviously hired this guy for his brains. /s

[NittanyLion]

What a dope.

[Mr. Mojo]

No Sheff, the current dearth of "African American" MLB players is simply due to the fact that, as a group, they're not as interested in baseball as they once were. ....especially in comparison to basketball and football. The reasons for this are varied, but marketing has a lot to do with it.

[Always Right]

Latinos doing the job blacks don’t want to?

[cdcdawg]

Next headline: Sheffield Plunked by Puerto Rican Pitcher

[conservativeharleyguy]

..."but there ain't no English going to be coming out...",/i>

Not really any English coming out of Gary Sheffield either. It's not often you see the words "theory" and "professional baseball player" or "athlete" in the same story. Now we know why.

[Dr. Frank fan]

What a moron. "because they are easier to control"? The funny part is that his race-grievance theory ("it's discrimination against my race, because my race is like ____") is totally racist ("Latins are easier to control!").

He says he knows a lot of blacks who are at home who can outplay Latins who are playing. So he thinks that GMs intentionally release superior baseball players for inferior ones for the sake of being able to "control" (whatever that means) them?

This jackass makes X'ty million dollars a year, why doesn't he buy a baseball team and grab up all that wasted talent then. Supposedly he has identified an undervalued resource out there, the black baseball player who's sitting at home because he "can't be controlled". If he believed in his half-baked racialist theory, that's what he'd do.

I can't believe I even wasted that amount of brain cells on this stupid quote however.

[Kid Shelleen]

Maybe Bud Selig should be the head of INS..

[Lawgvr1955]

Ya, I don't want people offering me millions of dollars to play a game to tell me what to do.

Not rocket scientist material.

[mimaw]

Sheffield is a POS. We had him in Milwaukee for a while. He wanted to be traded and refused to put any effort in his performance. He was horrible to young fans who approached him. Hasn’t their also been questions about steroids with him. I’d say if we only see black Latin faces it’s because they are better players.