The Delusional Behavior of Angel Hernandez

Angel Hernandez is a baseball umpire who has sued MLB for discrimination. After getting his case thrown out at the trial court level, he has appealed, claiming that the system for evaluating umpires is inherently biased against minorities.

The thing about Hernandez is that he is universally reviled as the worst umpire in the major leagues. So how does he think he deserves a chance to umpire in a World Series?

His delusional behavior illustrates a common problem in today's world. It is an inability to accept reality, as in Trump's insistence that the 2020 election was "stolen" from him, despite all his aides telling him otherwise.

The second thing this illustrates is the regrettable tendency of people in this country to turn to the court system to obtain redress for every little perceived wrong they have suffered. There are many problems we face in life, and few are solvable through the legal system, whether it be criminal or civil.

In my experience many people who obsess in this way suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD. They simply cannot let go of a past perceived injustice and get on with their lives.

A third observation is that the fact that Hernandez is still an MLB umpire illustrates the evil of labor unions. Unions used to have an important role in obtaining dignity for the working person, but today they seem to have little role except to make it next-to-impossible for employers to fire incompetent employees.