HuffPo brings us the dumbest blog post ever

Steve Cobble at HuffPo brings what may be the dumbest blog post I have ever read. The post, titled Morality Play: Diverse Team Wins, Monochrome Team Loses, tries to make the case that the Chicago White Sox are somehow more deserving of a World Series title because they "look like America," whereas the Astros are a very white team. A taste:

On the theory that even HuffPost readers cannot live on Scooter & Karl alone, I cannot let the just-ended World Series go by without a comment. It was a great series.

It was made better for me by the fact that the very diverse Chicago White Sox, who look like America, defeated the retro-looking, and very pale, Houston Astros.

Here's why this is the dumbest blog post ever. The pre-Jackie Robinson, all white Major League Baseball was a terrible thing because talented and very qualified ball players were kept out of the league solely because of the color of their skin. Since the 1970's, though, Major League Baseball has become about the most color blind entity you can imagine. What counts in today's baseball is the production on the field. With a stupid post like this, Cobble sets the sport and to some extent the country back 40 years. Who cares if the Houston Astros were a very white team? Those white players were the best talent available to the Astros, and that collection of players was also the best team in the National League this year. Part of the reason we celebrate Jackie Robinson today is because when he broke through the color barrier, he started baseball on the path towards becoming a meritocracy where race doesn't matter. The "very pale" Houston Astros earned the National League pennant. By bringing race into this, Cobble is dirties the meritocracy that Jackie Robinson started the sport towards. It would be a very different issue if their were any proof what so ever that the Astros were discriminating against hiring minority ball players, but that's just not the case. In fact, if any of the top ten minority ball players in the game said they wanted to play in Houston at a price the Astros could afford, I guarantee you the team would jump at the chance to sign them.

This is just another example of how far the left has jumped the tracks of traditional liberalism. If the goal of the Civil Rights Movement was to create a color blind society, current liberals, nay, progressives are doing their damndest to prevent it by interjecting color into everything.