Steve Dilbeck - California Knucklehead

For want of anything intelligent to say or simply a genetic disposition to boorishness,  Steve Dilbeck of the LA Times calls Arizonans "knuckleheads," a reckless generalization.   Los Angeles may have Clayton Kershaw, a fine pitcher who's never been to college.   Arizona has Roger Angel. 

Firstly, to paraphrase Russell Baker,  people become journalists because they are mathematically challenged, need an occupation less intellectually demanding than engineering or medicine, and aren't motivated enough to get up early in the morning to do something productive like work on a farm.  Of these, the most marginal are left to babble about sports.

Next, California would be better served if its babblers toned down the babble and urged the knuckleheads in their state to stop killing each other over baseball games.   Aping the public bad behavior of its brawling sports teams.  Arizona is the least of California's problems.

Last, Mr. Dilbeck's defense of boorish behavior by Dodgers baseball players, i.e., urinating in a public swimming pool and bragging about it, is substantive evidence that its newspapers employ individuals with a genetic disposition for boorishness and who are very much a part of fueling the mayhem in California.

But perhaps I'm mistaken.   Mr. Dilbeck, being one, is probably California's foremost authority on knuckleheads.

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How sad for you and Mr. Dilbeck if you think Dr. Angel is a sportswriter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Angel