MLB Umpires will call a Strike if you're a White Pitcher

So, what about Boston's Daisuke Matsuzaka? Do they consider him white too?

He he... Yep, there's now a study that reveals MLB baseball umpires call strikes more for Caucasian pitchers than they do African. This is a study conducted by a team of one Daniel Harmermesh, a professor of economics at the University of Texas. (Who probably doesn't know squat about baseball...)

Hamermesh's team analyzed the calls on about a whopping 2.1 million pitches thrown in the Major League between the 2004 and 2006 MLB baseball seasons. Controlling for all other outside factors, such as the pitcher's tendency to throw strikes, the umpires' tendency to call strikes and the batter's ability to attract balls, researchers found evidence of same-race bias, and the data revealed that the bias benefits mostly white pitchers.

After all, 71 percent of MLB baseball pitchers are white while a whopping 87 percent of the umpires are... yep, white too.

The highest percentage of strikes were called when both the home-plate umpire and pitcher were white, and the lowest percentage were called between a white ump and a black pitcher.

Also according to the study, minority umpires judged Asian pitchers more unfairly than they did white pitchers. It's a significant disadvantage for Asian pitchers because the MLB doesn't have any Asian umpires whatsoever yet.

Probably Jacky Chan will be the first one, when he's done making all them silly Rush Hour sequels.

Basically, what Harmermesh's team of morons, who probably don't have much to do, are saying is that if you're a pitcher and the umpire is of the same race as you, then you can probably hit the goddamn batter and the ump will STILL probably call a strike.

No wonder Michael Jordan quit baseball.

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