Posted on 08/14/2007 6:51:36 AM PDT by Cat loving Texan
Yes, and teams who wear black uniforms play more agressively, blah, blah, blah...
“White pitchers were granted a strike on 32.06 percent of the called pitches that white umpires viewed, as opposed to 31.47 percent for Hispanic pitchers and 30.61 percent for African American pitchers.”
How do they know whites don’t have a different pitching style? Perhaps Hispanics try more difficult pitches?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I’ll take junk science for 400, Alex.
**** The report comes three months after another scholarly study found racial bias among referees in the National Basketball Association in regards to calling fouls. ****
Absolutely wrong and without base. The refs were paid to call games in a team’s favor.
perhaps the number differences are statistically insignificant.
Baseballs are white. Why isn’t something being done about this travesty?
Well yes they get paid, I meant to say bribed.
Try telling that to Bobby Cox...he’s been the victim of mostly white, anglo-saxon umps and tossed more times than a pizza at Dominos.
I love that they didn’t address the race of the batter. Why are the umpires only racist toward the pitchers?
This is meaningless. How do we know that those percentages don't line up with the actual frequency of strikes thrown?
I think you'd have to analyze this in a different way; take a subset of pitches that you can verify are actually strikes, and see how many are called differently.
I have two questions:
1.) Why would anybody spend money on a study like this?
2.) Where did the money come from?
“Try telling that to Bobby Cox...”
That’s because Bobby thinks only his pitchers are entitled to an extra 3” on either side of the plate, a concession he was very successful at obtaining throughout the 90’s.
I am beyond believing any more “studies” done in any country, much less this one.
Who the He?? Pays people to sit on their backsides and “study” crap like this?
They don’t produce a darm thing that is useful. It is one great big waste of time and money.
What’s worse: These “researchers” think they are contributing something to society!!!
Wait? There are white players in the NBA?
Throw strikes Babe ruth is dead.
The answer to #2 will give you the answer to #1.
I can’t help but wonder what motivated this guy to even think about studying this.
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