Thank you Jodi Zarkos, for writing about racism in sports . Racism and hidden personal prejudices are among our worst weapons of mass destruction. Moreover, for many reasons it is one of our most challenging subjects to address. According to research from the University of Texas at Austin , “Umpires for Major League Baseball are more likely to call strikes in favor of pitchers who share their race or ethnicity.” http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070813091112.htm One of the longtime MLB rules states that an umpire should not make a call to ‘even things up’ from an earlier bad call. This regulation is one of the most ignored rules on the books and it sounds like the Pocatello umpire disregarded the “even things up” rule. In a second related story, last week the Idaho Statesman picked up an article about sportsmanship from Ogden Utah ’s Standard-Examiner called, 'They say it starts with a prayer and ends with a fight' http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/34...