D.B. of the Week - Colin Cowherd

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Pedro Martinez wasn't my favorite baseball player of all-time.

Actually, I hated him when he was on the Suck Sux and was throwing a 75-year-old man to the ground.

Poor Don Zimmer.

But Pedro had a great answer when they asked him about this week's D.B. of the Week, Colin Cowherd.

"Who is he?" Pedro asked.

Cowherd was a sports talk show guy from ESPN.

He got fired last week because he made some silly remarks about baseball and the Dominican Republic...basically saying that baseball isn't real complicated if people from the Dominican Republic can understand the complexities of the game.

I'm glad to see Cowherd hitting the road.

He's always been a bombastic moron.

He's always been anti-baseball...telling us how great college and pro football is compared to the M.L.B.

Yeah...he glosses over the fact that former players brains are turned to mush.

He crows about how difficult it is to manage a football game...

...but how simple baseball is.

And I could never take more than 5 minutes of his garbage.

If football was so intricate perhaps genius coaches wouldn't throw the ball on first and one when the Super Bowl is on the line.

Yet...

... there are people defending Cowherd, of course.

What happened to free speech? the morons moan on social media.

Cowherd was free to blast an entire nation of people.

ESPN was free to fire him for it.

My question being:

How can you be so tragically short-sighted?

When will it dawn on people that lumping an entire class of people into in dumb sentence doesn't work?

So.

See you down the road, Colin Cowherd.

Thanks for the heartfelt apology.

Pedro doesn't care.

He doesn't even know who the hell you are.

Even if you did win D.B. of the Week.

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