So, what I gathered is that the Ivy Leagues are racist. Those holier-than-thou bastions of upper-crust arrogance that think they should be dictating to the rest of us are a bunch of hood-wearing Klansmen. Barack Obama would be appalled to learn this.
I guess Baseball is going to have to go out on the streets and kidnap Negros to play and to manage baseball. Merit is racist so it has to be de-emphasized or simply eliminated and should be because there is no such thing. Everyone is exactly llike everyone else. All differences are plots by a coterie of Conspiring White Men to keep the Negro in his place.
Obviously it is racism because baseball never scouts or signs blacks and hispanics from Latin America. Nope, it’s all lilly-white because of those racist GMs. This guy has it all figured out. They’ll probably kill him.
And the $30 million annual budget of Reviving Baseball in the Innercities is a racist plot to keep baseball white.
Feces twice passed.
Around the same time, Boy's High, the Brooklyn basketball powerhouse was led by two of the best players in NYC - Lenny Wilkens & Tommy Davis. Tommy chose baseball.
The fact that baseball is ignored by young blacks is a tragedy for baseball. But it is a cultural fact. Maybe if they'd quit tearing down baseball field & putting up soccer goals it might help. But that's just the way it is. It's not racism.
Because math ... and finding the right answer is so.... white.
/sarc
I seem to recall that there was a math bias in the 1950s....I’m not sure about the actual numbers, but it was said that if a white minor-leaguer had to hit .300 in AAA ball to get promoted to the majors, a black player had to hit .340.
What an @ss.
It looks like 13 of 30 GM’s have Ivy League educations.
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/page/wintermeetings15_GMs/a-breakdown-major-league-baseball-30-general-managers,
with Dave Stewart having not attended college at all.
Andrew McCutcheon wrote a thoughtful article for the players’ journal a couple years ago, about how hard it is for poor kids (of whatever race) to take up baseball as a sport. Poor kids can’t afford travel ball and the big name trainers, so they have to excel in high school ball to be noticed. College baseball may not be an option either - baseball scholarships are not nearly as lucrative as football and basketball. Even a top high school player that gets drafted in the first round with a 7 figure signing bonus is looking at 3-5 years of busing through the minors, with any number of factors that can derail their development. There’s no instant stardom, like football and basketball.
As far as analytics being racist, there is a balance between statistical analysis and old-fashioned scouting. A kid who is not putting up the numbers, but the scouts insist he has the “tools”, will get wide leeway and multiple chances. So this guy is obviously a rat projecting his racism on a sport that he apparently doesn’t like.