Yes. Seriously. There was zero mention of race in the CHB's piece. None. You said that this was a racial-biased piece. So, yeah, show your work.
The fact that you ask this question is exactly why the CHB has a job.
The hell are you talking about?
He has written an entire column about tension between two black players on the current team and a retired white Hall of Famer. Price is loudmouthed, profane, emotionally volatile, "grandstanding" and "thin-skinned" (the last an accusation that makes no sense, given that he's defending a teammate). JBJ is sneaky and two-faced. Neither of them has the proper respect for their white elder Eckersley, despite his HOF career and difficult life experiences and--oh, yeah--his fairly pointed criticism, as a member of the media, of their professional failings.
You're projecting. Majorly. David Price is thin-skinned and it doesn't matter what color that skin is. He takes every slight as a personal affront to his honor. Which, if that's what he needs to become a good pitcher, that's cool. I'm down with it. But at the same time, Eduardo Rodriguez goes to AAA and puts up some pretty pedestrian numbers (which is being diplomatic) and Eckersley says, "Yuck." You know, that I reread what I wrote, you're right. I mean, this is way worse than Eckersley talking crap about their moms. I mean, can you imagine the anguish and turmoil that Eduardo Rodriguez had to go through that night? Yuck. Now that's a four-letter word that we can all agree, hurts like a fist.
If Shaughnessy wants to write a story about how players don't like Eck's criticisms, maybe he should try to cast the net a little wider (interview ONE white player, maybe), so people don't see through to his unconscious motives, the way they did back in 2013 when he wrote that David Ortiz might be juicing for no reason other than that he was having an excellent season. Ortiz was, at the time, a known Dominican, and, as every sportswriter of long standing who does his homework knows, pretty much all of those Dominican players do steroids.
So is Shaughnessy doing this on purpose (like you said in the first paragraph) or is this an unconscious subtext that he's slinging? Because there is a very, very big difference. And this piece isn't about how players don't like Eck's criticisms, it's about how one player (Price) got into a shouting matching with Eckersley over a very mundane comment.
Let me ask you this question, if Chris Sale got into a fight with Dennis Eckersley, would you be okay with it?
BTW, I think that David Ortiz was always a known Dominican. I remember the early days of his Red Sox tenure when he tried to hide it; but once it became known, all bets were off!
Incidentally, I can't imagine Eck is any happier with this piece than Price and JBJ are. It's only going to make his job harder to be a pawn in Shaughnessy's latest racial-strife-on-the-Red-Sox story.
I think that you're giving Dan Shaughnessy way too much credit here.
Further to the above, because I just looked up the note I sent to Shaughnessy after the Ortiz article: At the time, Ortiz had had 63 ABs and had a .426 BABIP. This is the kind of foundation Shaughnessy builds his stories on. He's got a script—"Dear reader, minority players aren't really our kind of people"—and he finds a way to write the same story over and over again.
Shaughnessy is a lot of things: professional shit-stirrer, seller of stupid books, afro enthusiast; but I don't believe that facts add up to him being a racist. You're the one that's trying to connect the dots.
BTW, you still haven't proven anything other than you read way too deeply into a column of man you claim to hate.