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In the time it takes to get to work, I'm Keith Simon. I pulled into the ballpark with my youngest son

Luke. We were getting there for the first game of his little league season. He was

probably in about the fourth grade, although I don't remember exactly. He said to me,

Dad, I want to make the all-star team this year. The Little League All-Star team

was made up of one player from each team as selected by the team's coaches.

So every coach got to select one player

to put on the All-Star team.

I'm not the kind of dad who sugarcoats things.

I believe that facts are our friends.

And the sooner we embrace the truth the better.

So I said to Luke that he was not going to make the All-Star team.

Now remember this was before a single game had been played but I didn't need to see any games to know who was going to be selected

for the All-Star team. In fact, I could have made a pretty solid prediction about which kid was going to be selected

from every team.

Ready to find out my secret?

The coach's son was going to make the all-star team.

A shockingly high percentage of coach's sons made the all-star team because the coaches made the

decision. My point isn't that their kids weren't great players. My point is

that we can't help but play favorites. We are all guilty in one way or another.

Figure skating analysts have expressed concern about judges favoring skaters from

their own home country. Back in the 2014 Winter Games, a scandal was generated

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