Narrow-minded Xenophobia Makes Its Way to the Big Leagues

Torii Hunter, step right up:

"People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African American," Los Angeles Angels center fielder Torii Hunter says. "They're not us. They're impostors."

"Even people I know come up and say, 'Hey, what color is Vladimir Guerrero? Is he a black player?' I say, 'Come on, he's Dominican. He's not black.'"

Scott Boras, no stranger to idiotic statements, supports his player with trademark hide-the-ball, divert-the-enemy flourish:

"The colleges have corrupted baseball," says Boras, whose son plays at Southern California, "because they have taken away the scholarships. They've taken away America's pastime from the grass-root level of homes."

Putting these two quotes together, it seems Torii should have gone to college and learned a new trade, since baseball is likely to go the way of the Detroit, in his mind. Or, perhaps he could have taken a statistics class or two so that he could understand that it is a far more complicated question.