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My apologies for pushing back on this, but can you provide any other examples of what you mean? I'm hearing many people, not just you, across many platforms referring in general to leftist-based antisemitism, as though it's clear and obvious and everyone knows exactly what they mean, but I've seen literally no one point to any incidents and say here, this is what I mean. At least outside of the Cornell incident, and I think you and I both agree that the guy's leanings are still unclear.

He might be of the left, but I don't know that it is a pretty good possibility. The guy might be a radical right-winger, and radical right-wingers can show up anywhere, even here in Big Shoulders, the right's platonic ideal of a leftist communist socialist hellhole, yet 17% of voters here went Trump in 2020. Location alone is not evidence. I'm skeptical of the implication that because someone lives in a city or goes to a college, that constitutes de facto evidence that they must be of the left, and that if an incident of antisemitism is present, then by extension, that means the left is just as antisemitic as the right. I won't buy that until I see something more concrete than, it happened at a college.

I just looked it up and saw. Is he of the left?

Honest question, has it been established who it is making threats to the Cornell Jewish community? What little I have seen of the story has said the threats are anonymous. Has anyone been identified?

I prefer slash lines over bottom line OPS numbers. A guy who slashes .320/.400/.400 is not the same kind of hitter as a guy who slashes .250/.300/.500, and showing just OPS hides that by making them look the same.

I’m basically with you on the scourge of gambling rotting the soul of the game, although pleasing the gamblers and the sponsors that cater to them would strike me as meaning more games to gamble on, not fewer to avoid weather. To your broader weather point: most of us won’t live to see this, but I can imagine that every northern stadium that eventually gets replaced from now on will be a retractable dome so as to make weather a non-issue, even in Chicago and Boston when they finally replace those iconic stadia however many decades from now. if they build them the right way so as to let sufficient natural light in from all angles, and can open both roof and side panels to let in outside air and breezes when it is nice enough to, people would forget all about whatever charm there was in being in the total open air for game. I can tell you from experience that nobody in Milwaukee misses County Stadium and pines for those 35-degree April games. At some point, perhaps by the beginning of next century, all the people who remember being in open-air stadia will be dead, and the entire open-air-stadium era will be regarded as an unfortunate pre-technological limitation.

He might be one of those guys who, when a team signs him for that kind of dough, their research tells them they can recoup it all, and then some, in extra tickets/concessions sold, increased road gate share, merch sales, and playoff revenue. That’s basically what’s going to make Shohei worth $50 million a year.

God truly help us all if she’s Attorney General two years from now.

Right. It’s not as though Fox is an actual journalistic organization and is going to issue a retraction, or anything like that.

Lock her up.

Meanwhile, the people of Sioux Falls responded with, “Oh my god! He said our city name! Trump knows who we are! He really does love us! MAGA!!”

That’s because you don’t see apologizing as a weakness.

No doubt. The non-apology was a part of a move that people can learn from.

I didn't intend to touch a nerve. I have never regarded mere opposition to Israeli government policies as being antisemitic, and I have never known of any liberals who hate Jews and want to marginalize, persecute, or genocide them, as some right-wing extremist groups might. That was really the only point I was trying to make. Do the DSA (whom I'd honestly never heard of before today) hate Jews? If they do, then I imagine they would agree with the Times of Israel's characterization that they ''support [the October 7] Palestinian terror onslaught against Israelis." That would be the first time I'd heard of any American mainstream political organization (which I would assume this is one) supporting terrorist murder, which would be honestly surprising to me. But then, like I say, I've traditionally not been animated by Middle East issues and so i don't follow the particulars as closely as some might. I do recognize that this is a minefield topic, though, and it's really hard to tread any objective ground on it.

I don't think of anti-Israel (the country) and antisemitism (the people) as being the same, although Jewish people themselves might be inclined to dispute that. In any event, I don't even know what elements of the left would hate Jews in the way certain types of right-wingers would. Deep Jewish involvement itself is woven into the fabric of the left wing, so anyone who claims to be part of the left and would also support persecution or at least marginalization of Jews within society makes me believe they are actually right-wingers in left-wing clothing, the way Soviet Russians were.

I may just have a blind spot about it, because honestly I am not animated by issues relating to the Middle East, but I don't think I have ever seen any general hatred of Jewish people by those who identify as liberals. I suspect there are some fine-tooth comb points that could be made that conflates concern or support for the Palestinian people (separate from Hamas) with antisemitism, but I when think about antisemitism as a broad personal trait, versus as an accusation hurled in response to some isolated action or statement, all the Jew-hating I have seen has come from the right. But again, I may just have a blind spot about it.

I can see why people would bail on political Twitter due to the bot activity and disinformation campaigns and the general fear and loathing of Musk, but I see no reason to not continue to use Twitter for sports.

I'm having trouble squaring up the idea of "the left" with the idea of antisemitism. Maybe I'm not fully understanding the full breadth of what constitutes "the left". What is even a "the left" principle that would unify a progressive liberal and an overt antisemite?

Just signed up for BlueSky, typed in a dozen accounts from Twitter to follow, maybe five are on it, and some of them haven't posted in months. So, a little slow on the uptake.

While we were actually there?