I honestly believe that he could go anywhere, and they’d get over it as long as the team didn’t completely crater. What got people crazy about him wasn’t just what he was saying, it was the perceived presumption of doing it while you were sitting on the bench. Nobody cares that Marshawn Lynch is sitting down because…

Minnesota is a blue state. Just want to point that out guys. In case you’re looking to sign a quarterback

Should think about switching to keeper with that height.

Much as she would like to think it learned something from that they barely feel it. I guess that’s the one good thing to take from this.

This is nowhere near as uncommon as you’d probably like to believe. Most people just don’t try to do it in public.

Haha I think you’re right. It’s alternate history created when Hitler is assassinated as a kid I think

30. I just mean looking when you hear the ball hit the bat.

“Normalize” is a word that’s thrown around much too casually lately. Is it normalizing for Jew to write a biography of Hitler? S it normalizing to take the confession of a murder suspect? Again, argue all you want whether or not this was framed correctly for the age group, but dismissing it out of hand as…

How do we try to rehabilitate people who have been radicalized without trying to understand what radicalized them? You’re right that it’s of far greater value to put dominant groups into the place of the dominated, but I can’t really agree with the premise that there’s no utility to exploring the motivations of…

I’m not saying they shouldn’t extend the nets. They should. But if you’re going to go to games in the interim (or if you’re going to go to games in places where they aren’t planning to extend the nets) you should avoid areas where a line drive might land in your lap if you aren’t able to deal with that.

Well, I guess I’m hoping that teachers are doing their best to find ways to ask these kinds of questions and get their students to ponder them without putting undue burden on black students, because it’s not your child’s responsibility to teach my child. It seems that this teacher didn’t do that, at least for this…

I think everything I’ve posted suggests that I would if what I learned would help me to confront them. I don’t think that’s any different than my watching a movie or reading a book on the Holocaust that has German perspectives in it. I’m Jewish, so it can be harrowing, but its also enlightening.

To me the question…

We sat right in the danger zone for a company party once at Miller Park while my wife was pregnant and every time I I heard the ball hit the bat I was playing goalkeeper with my wife’s stomach. It was bloody tense.

Oh of course. I just think that the likelihood of unpreventable accidents go down if you keep the very small kids out of foul ball range.

I’d plunk him, but good for you.

I hate to make this super long, but I just want to say, I’m also coming at this from the perspective of someone who did a lot of training and work on race in college. At that time, going on ten years ago now, it amounted to a lot of instances of the black students in the group just having to get up and bare their…

If you could, would you go back in time and plunk baby Hitler with a foul ball?

Yeah this has been a huge concern of mine as a fan with a small child. I think at a certain point you just have to sacrifice those great seats in the interest of safety until the kid is old enough to wear their own glove and pay attention.

“People of colour should not be required to rationalize White Supremacy. Fucked up.”

Well, as a historian I would suggest that it is more complicated. Hate and fear come from somewhere, however unjustified it may be, and it will only help us to confront them if we know what that is. Now, if you want to make the argument that these kids are too young for this, okay, you’re probably right, but the idea…