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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?

Baseball is to football in the US as cricket is to soccer in the UK.

I don't think under-35s care about wins or complete games, either. But they definitely care about stars, and I think high strikeout totals might be the sign of a pitching star to them.

Was it one of the dead ball guys? If so, then no wonder. One of the other things about the game in those days was how big the ballparks were. It was nothing for a park to be 360 down the lines, 450 to center, and 400 in the alleys. Outfielders had to play deeper to prevent batted balls from getting by them and turning into inside-the-park home runs, which allow softer hit fliners and the like that would be caught today to drop in for hits. One reason there were so many qualified .300 hitters back then.

Interesting data points on how TwitX has lurched rightward since Musk took it over. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/27/elon-musk-twitter-x-anniversary/ One year after billionaire Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, aiming to rid it of a “woke mind virus” that he believed was suppressing free speech, the site’s business outlook appears dire. The number of people actively tweeting has dropped by more than 30 percent, according to previously unreported data obtained by The Washington Post, and the company — which the entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX has renamed X — is hemorrhaging advertisers and revenue, interviews show. But in at least one respect, Musk has delivered on his original promise: Twitter has become far less “woke.” Through dramatic product changes, sudden policy shifts and his own outsize presence on the platform, Musk has rapidly re-engineered who has a voice on a service that used to be the hub of real-time news and global debate. A site that fueled social movements such as the Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter and #MeToo has veered noticeably rightward under Musk, especially in the United States, say organizers from across the political spectrum. A Post analysis of dozens of conservative and right-wing influencers and media figures found that many saw their follower counts rise on the day Musk became owner and continue rising at a rate higher than under Twitter’s previous ownership. None of the dozens of popular liberal and left-wing accounts examined by The Post show the same pattern.

That’s actually a pretty decent recovery on Trump’s part. Took in the corrective information, acknowledged the right city to the crowd without apologizing, and immediately engaged them with a question about something else to get their minds of the error.

I agree with you, although maybe even executive terrorists are super emotional and not fact-driven and also simply not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

He shoots, he SCORES!

I don’t think Baseball wants to give up the strikeout, either. Related to the K’s marketing value in highlight clip packages, I think a key reason has to do with how video games, combat sports , and superhero movies have led young guys to crave mano-a-mano competitions. Me against you. I die or you die. I strike you out or you hit a homer. A fight to the death every at bat. Baseball is trying to capture the demo that loves that stuff. I would bet if you did a two-question survey, “Which do you like better” and the two choices were “Either home run or strikeout” and “Any ball in play”, the former would have a really good chance of winning among under-35s. I think pitchers really like the high strikeout era, too, in part because it gets them paid, and in part because it makes them look historically great striking out so many more guys than even the black-and-white Hall of Fame pitchers did. If any starting pitcher today had the same K/9 rate Bob Feller did, they wouldn’t even have a job. Freddy Peralta has one of the top 50 K/9 seasons in history. How else could he ever get on an historical Top 50 list? That’s a pretty decent brag.

I’ve seen player interviews in which they’ve said they like it, and it’s easy to see why: it gets them off work sooner.

One more thing I would do for baseball: in the outfield, I would have a series of randomly-placed landmines. “There’s Marshall, settling under that ball …” KABOOOOM! “Holy SHT!”

I've won a few bets on the sausage race because you can tell which one is likely to win just by watching their legs, how they move, and how limber up beforehand.

That song would have sucked ass has he used strings.

I read that they added strings. Phil Spector is looking up and laughing.

This stands with some of the best work in their deep, deep catalog.

Ok I’ll bite: the Tigers struck lightning already how?

Ties were always replayed and not part of the record. I do r think I’d want to see replays of several tie games every year, or just have those games disappear from the record.