does anyone know if he dosent want to play black players???? that is what is so ridiculous..so you dont have a quota of enough black players on your team and now you are a racist. brilliant.

I am not saying White should be thrilled to play for him..I am saying him not wanting to play with white players isnt exactly helping his point.

a reasonable person would agree that White insinuated the coach is racist ..or at least does not like black players.

First, I don’t offer a single bit of real evidence. I offer an alternative possibility, one that could be valid but who knows?

My issue here is that White, a nationally known athlete or soon to be nationally known athlete, coming out and saying that a coach doesn’t like black players.

Its a little unclear about whether or not he spoke to the coach or not but all he says is that he wasn’t too excited about it. And there haven’t been maybe players of his race on the team.

There are 1000 reasons why he might not be excited. Two sport athlete, Second Hobby, Not serious, and many others. It is unfortunate that today, people still jump to that as the first thing. HE COULD BE A RACSIT. I am not denying that, but there is zero proof of it. And it appears that he didn’t speak to the coach at all.

Baseball is becoming more and more Latino, and there has always been a strong white presence. There are less and less African American players every year. And even less that are strictly one sport baseball players. That is due to many other things than racism.

The fact that we jump straight to lynch this coach without hearing a response. The fact that the first thing we jump to is someone not getting what they want/deserve because of the color of there skin disgusts me. It exists, I am not denying that, but it disgusts me non the less.

i’m pretty sure Pat White - unlike you - DIDN’T just jump to conclusions.

i’d imagine what players told him DID have something to do with race.

what he “offered” alluded to that.

now, a bunch of people here roast White for not disclosing every gory detail inside the program, or for daring to open his mouth at all.

maybe Pat White made a mistake. maybe he doesn’t know everything about Van Zant (though i’m CERTAIN he knows a lot more of substance than all of the people here defending him). but you have to wonder - why would Pat White have decided not to do something he loved based on nothing? sometimes, when there’s smoke, there’s fire. and White really has nothing to gain by reporting the smoke - in fact, based on his hesitation to reveal the rumors he’s heard and his (limited) experience with Van Zant, i’d say that White genuinely DIDN’T want to talk about this issue.

meanwhile, you’re sitting here, banging your chest about how, in a court of law, this evidence wouldn’t be admissible as hearsay or something. “OMG! the newspaper didn’t go into detail about what the anecdotes were!”

question, though: given that the article DIDN’T go into detail about what White had heard, why do you take it as fact that those anecdotes WERE innocuous? i understand you’re proud of yourself for coming up with a version of the story where the lack of black athletes is tied to general apathy of African Americans in playing baseball (which is true), and that the “anecdotes” were simply white players saying “we don’t like him because he yells at us” which White somehow interpreted as further evidence of Van Zant being a racist (a fairly unlikely story, but still at least plausible given the extremely limited facts that you know) - but how have you now decided that this IS what happened???? i’ll tell you where NOT to begin - with that assumption.