Inevitable: Now the World Series Is Racist-You knew this was coming.

Last Wednesday, Ben Walker of the Associated Press surveyed our fractured, divided land and zeroed in on one of the most pressing issues of our day: there aren’t enough black players in the World Series. Walker doesn’t have the slightest shred of evidence to support the contention that this is because of racism, but that’s nonetheless the thrust of his article, and it’s no surprise: it wouldn’t be a day ending with a y if the establishment media didn’t find some “racism” in the United States. Where none exists, it has to be invented.

Walker made a stark comparison that actually seemed to reveal some racism until you think about it for half a second: “Looking around Memorial Stadium before Game 1 of the 1983 World Series, Philadelphia Phillies star Gary Matthews saw a lot of Black talent. Joe Morgan. Eddie Murray. Garry Maddox. Ken Singleton. Al Bumbry. Disco Dan Ford. And plenty more that night in Baltimore.” But now, “for the first time since 1950, shortly after Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color barrier, there project to be no U.S.-born Black players in this World Series. Zero.”

Gee, that’s terrible. And it’s clearly a sign that “systemic racism” is nowhere more systemic than in Major League Baseball, which clearly, despite turning Jackie Robinson into a demigod and obsessively courting black players, behind closed doors is a regular Klan meeting. There are all sorts of contemporary equivalents of Gary Matthews, Joe Morgan, Eddie Murray, Garry Maddox, Ken Singleton, Al Bumbry, and Disco Dan Ford out there, but they’re not being given a shot at the big leagues, because MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred and the owners of the Major League Baseball teams are a pack of white supremacists, right?

Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, apparently thinks that: there are all sorts of great black players out there who just aren’t being given a fighting chance: “That is eye opening,” Kendrick said. “It is somewhat startling that two cities that have high African American populations, there’s not a single Black player. It lets us know there’s obviously a lot of work to be done to create opportunities for Black kids to pursue their dream at the highest level.”

But really, are there a lot of young black men who dream of playing Major League Baseball but don’t have any chance to try? That’s unlikely in the extreme. The relentless idolizing of Robinson, who was a Hall of Fame player but not really a god at all, is just one of many indications that Major League Baseball would be positively thrilled to showcase a new generation of black stars. The problem, however, is not that there are deserving black players who are being denied a chance to play baseball; the problem is that black Americans just aren’t playing baseball the way they used to.

Back when Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, baseball was still by far the dominant sport in America. In the days of segregation, there was enough interest in baseball among black Americans to keep several black-only leagues going, and when Robinson broke the color barrier, there was a large number of great black players ready to shine in the major leagues. But since then, football and basketball have rivaled and in many ways eclipsed baseball, and it doesn’t take deep familiarity with the popular culture to see that there just isn’t an interest in baseball among young black Americans, and young Americans in general, that there used to be. This isn’t because of racism. It’s because there is, for a variety of reasons, more interest in other sports. In exactly the same way, the National Basketball Association is filled with black players; there are few white Americans competing at that level and less interest in basketball among young whites. Racism? Of course not. Some people are simply interested in some things that don’t interest others.

But Ben Walker and AP don’t write stories about an alarming dearth of whites in the NBA, because the only racism that fits the establishment media narrative is anti-black racism, and even though the rosters of the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies have nothing whatsoever to do with racism, Walker saw his chance to further the idea that we are worse off today in terms of racism than we were in the bad old days of Orval Faubus and Theodore Bilbo. This is how AP and its colleagues sow society-wide resentment and division, and why they deserve the disgust and contempt of all rational and fair-minded people.

As a former member of several Major League Player Development departments, we have had this conversation many times. Primarily, any Major League team would not shy away from a player of any color if that player could possibly contribute to a World Championship down the line somewhere. We draft and sign potential champions. We do not draft "color".

As conscious of this issue as we have been, I don't recall hearing the point of the game being passed from father to son. It's so obvious. Thanks for your comment qam1.

Correct. And if there were enough U.S.-born black players, the wokesters would just go to the next “underrepresented” group on the list: trannys.

Maybe they could get that Canadian shop teacher with the enormous fake breasts a slot on one of the teams - strictly for representation purposes, of course. Like other representational tokens, actual ability to do the work at the expected level of expertise is a very, very secondary consideration..

Or maybe they could insist on something related to baseball … hmm…

By Gosh! I knew it! Where are the black + U.S.-born + tranny + switch hitting + short stops”?

Well???

More black athletes CHOOSE basketball, football and track than choose baseball. The “why” is their business, unless they CHOOSE to tell us about it.

It is their own CHOICES that fuel the perceived discrepancy, not any racism!

Race hustlers are gonna complain about something, no matter what. If the Astros were an all-black team managed by a white guy, there would be outrage from the race hustlers. Yet, the Astros being managed by Dusty Baker, a black man who has had a long career as a player and manager, doesn't seem to draw the least bit of interest.

In America, the race hustlers spring from the well of slavery, as it is the supposed original sin, and the reason why all these racial stories must be told. Yet, there seems to be no interest in the Cuban slave trade that endured decades after the American Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation.

Yet, there stands Yordan Alvarez in a Houston Astros uniform- clearly a descendant of African ancestors. His lineage as a black man is as profound and relevant as any other black man in America. Why is he not considered black enough?

If the Astros were an all-black team managed by a white guy, there would be outrage from the race hustlers.

And if the Astros were an all-black team managed by a black guy, there would STILL be outrage from the race hustlers, as they would then say the only reason the Astros have a black manager is because no white guy would take the job, due to all white guys being RACIST and not wanting to work with an all-black team.

As you state, they will find something to complain about in any situation whatsoever.

Speaking of Dusty Baker, I’m not much of a fan, as he and Tony La Russa had more than a few bitter words for each other while La Russa managed the Cardinals- my favorite team. But, Baker’s father was an Air Force veteran, and Baker himself was in the Marine Reserve during his playing days. And according to legend, he invented the High Five. Anyway, I’m just hoping the Astros don’t win again. Cheaters.

Not only skin colors, but something should also be done about eliminating sport primacy segregation. Baseball should not be restricted to just baseball players, and football should not be restricted to just football players. They could kill two birds (skin color and sports primacy) with one stone if they allowed (for example) the Cleveland Browns to play the Cincinnati Reds. :-)

(And the sport they should play is hockey.)

Any women in MLB? Sexist.

Any short people in the NBA? Uh,oh.

Eskimos in the NFL? Racist.

Convicted felons in professional sports?

Under age 16? (besides Joe Nuxhall)

Quadriplegic? Branch Davidians? Vegetarians? Blind? Deaf?

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