Perhaps the same people who overlooked Hernandez’ shortcomings to promote diversity in MLB umpiring? Maybe the pre-Torre MLB leadership was blowing smoke up Hernandez’ ass — and Torre was having none of that BS?

I know that no one likes to admit that overlooking weak minority performance occurs in the name of promoting…

The White Sox fan on staff is yelling about how you never trade for 2B prospects. The Red Sox fan on staff is just giggling at his desk. The asshole Nationals fans on staff were whining this morning about giving up prospects for an actual dominant workhorse starter, and they deserve to never win anything ever.

It’s amazing how the media has whipped up a horse race JUST IN TIME for the debates, this has to be perhaps the most coincidental set of circumstances of all time! 

Nate’s whole thing is that emotionally over-invested partisans (non-sociopaths) continually read too much into every little event, aided by narrative-driven media members.