So he is simultaneously saying baseball players are idiots and that football players are intellectuals?

nobody's gonna give a shit about this guy once he's off of ESPN. There's nothing unique about his lazy racist blowhardery, he just had the built-in audience.

He's worse than Bernstein to me. At least Bernstein can make me laugh occasionally.

Thought he was off ESPN?

Did he mention how unfunny they are too?

I think all he's saying is that if baseball were that complex you would need fairly developed critical thinking skills in order to understand it and if that were true, people who often have little access to the educational opportunities necessary to develop those skills (in his example, people from poverty-stricken areas like the Dominican Republic) would not be able to excel at baseball.

I don't think it's a big deal. It's like someone insisting that a particular job requires a Masters degree but the field is full of people who are succeeding with only a H.S. diploma, which would mean the insistence that a Masters is needed is not correct.

If it weren't him, or someone like him, I'd be open to less inflammatory interpretations. This fuckwagon, however, can and should be made to stew in the shit he stirs.

His voice and his commercial reads give me the anger shits TM Don Tiny, so I never really listen to his show. I take it he's made iffy comments before?

He's just a bloward Caller Bob in a world where there's more than enough of them succeeding purely because they're blowhard Caller Bobs and enough morons celebrate that sort of thing.

http://www.complex.com/sports/2015/07/colin-cowherd-espn/

"Colin Cowherd's comments over the past two days do not reflect the values of ESPN or our employees," ESPN said in a statement. "Colin will no longer appear on ESPN."

Yikes.

http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/colin-cowherd-needs-to-stop-talking-about-dominicans-1719751555

“(Baseball is) too complex? I’ve never bought into that ‘baseball is too complex.’ Really? A third of the sport is from the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic has not been known in my lifetime as having world class academic abilities. A lot of those kids come from rough backgrounds and have not had opportunities academically that other kids from other countries have. Baseball is like any sport. It’s mostly instincts. A sportswriter who covers baseball could go up to Tony La Russa and make an argument and Tony would listen and it would seem reasonable. There’s not a single NFL writer in the country who could diagram a play for Bill Belichick. You know, we get caught up in this whole ‘thinking-man’s game.’ Is it in the same family? Most people could do it. It’s not being a concert pianist. It’s in the same family.”

Should I be offended? I'm not.

I'm sick of people who pretend to be offended by every comment somebody says. Who care what Cowherd says?

Damage control. ESPN doesn't want a protest, and a media firestorm over this. Fire him, and move on. Cowherd should be smarter than this.

Damage control. ESPN doesn't want a protest, and a media firestorm over this. Fire him, and move on. Cowherd should be smarter than this.

I don't disagree; I'm just sick of all of this crap.