{"id":77826,"date":"2015-10-27T16:19:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T00:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77826"},"modified":"2015-10-27T16:23:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T00:23:27","slug":"dusty-baker-was-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77826","title":{"rendered":"Dusty Baker Was Right!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes in 2003<\/a>: Dusty Baker, the (black) Chicago Cubs manager recently voted by players in a Sports Illustrated poll as the best manager in the game, said last week:<\/p>\n

“[The heat] is a factor in Atlanta, it`s a factor in Cincinnati, it`s a factor in Philadelphia. We have to mix and match and try to keep guys fresh and try to have different lineups . . . I`ve got a pretty good idea [how it`s done]. My teams usually play better in the second half than they do in the first half. I think that`s because the way we spot guys and use everybody.”
\nHe then went on to violate all sorts of the rules of political correctness by opining:<\/p>\n

“Personally, I like to play in the heat. It`s easier for me. It`s easier for most Latin guys and easier for most minority people. You don`t find too many brothers in New Hampshire and Maine and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, right? We were brought over here for the heat, right? Isn`t that history? Weren`t we brought over because we could take the heat? Your skin color is more conducive to the heat than it is to the light-skinned people, right? You don`t see brothers running around burnt and stuff, running around with white stuff on their ears and nose and stuff.”
\nA huge controversy erupted. Numerous sportswriters and broadcasters demanded Baker`s scalp: “Making dumb racial comments is inexcusable and has no place in society,” said a columnist in Buffalo. On Fox News` Hannity & Colmes, when my friend Jon Entine, author of Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We`re Afraid to Talk About It, explained that Baker`s comments were not scientifically implausible, Righteous Rightwinger Sean Hannity exploded: \u201cYour science is a silly science, Jon. It`s absolutely idiocy!\u201d<\/p>\n

Demonstrating that this Baker can stand the heat, and won`t get out of the kitchen, the three-time National League “Manager of the Year” refused to apologize.<\/p>\n

His position: “I was just saying the facts, Jack.”<\/p>\n

Good for him.<\/p>\n

A few thoughts \u2013<\/p>\n

We`ve been lectured for years that “race is only skin deep,” that the only differences between races are surface features evolved to adapt humans to local climates. Now, though, a new dogma appears to be emerging \u2013 that race isn`t even skin deep!<\/p>\n

Hmmm. The common perception among baseball fans that, say, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens look different must be some kind of mass hallucination.<\/p>\n

In fact, of course, racial differences are so blindingly obvious in sports that sports media have developed a particularly acute immune system to make sure that “the words don`t match the pictures \u2013 my title for an article I once wrote about what we can learn about human diversity from sports, if we`d only think rigorously about what we see on ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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