(Not everyone, but man, Chicago has a lot of meatballs)
The Dunning Kruger effect plays a role as almost no one really has the experience or the knowledge to be an executive in professional sports, or knows what these executives plans are or the vast majority of the relevant, behind the basic fact details that go in to making decisions they make. And yet they think they know better.
A lot of these meatballs seem to call out nearly everything as a mistake, and when they are occasionally correct they use it as positive reinforcement for their continued meatball mentality. As a disservice to obtaining a more rational approach they excuse or completely ignore all the times they were dead wrong.
Certainly these sports executives moves are not beyond criticism, and they make mistakes.
When no time is taken to even try to understand the limited amount of information that is actually available to the meatball before ranting and raving in a hissy fit, there is no reason to take them seriously. Additionally when that person never addresses or acknowledges the numerous times they were stupidly wrong or had made too many assumptions the same applies.
Also there is an often expressed belief the meatball is doing the lords work of opening the eyes, curing the ignorance and removing the rose colored glasses of us somewhat normal people. So everyone else is basically an idiot to them, until they see the light, which is right in line with their presumptuous and arrogant nature.
I find the whole thing fascinating for some reason.
