I was listening to Cowherd live as he did his tirade against baseball.
I didn't think (at the time) that he said anything wrong. But, he did pause for a second during his example knowing that if he didn't phrase it correctly, people would get offended. It didn't work.
Personally, I found the original premise (that baseball is a thinking man's game), as offensive as cowherd's rebuttal. Fans were trying to say that baseball players, and managers, had to be highly educated in physics, calculus, geometry, statistics, etc to be successful. Cowherd pointed out that players from the Dominican Republic who grew up in poor neighborhoods without proper schooling were dominating the sport. Made perfect sense when he said it.
This is just one of those times when people are offended by the truth.