A couple of weeks ago, I blogged here about the r/mlb subreddit hauling down my post about how Trump's tariff's would affect the post-hurricane reconstruction of Tropicana Field in Tampa.
And now? Late last week, when I posted there about this blowtorch piece from The Ringer, about the Dodgers' kowtowing to Trump with their White House visit just after the Trump Adminstration had White-DEI'ed Jack Roosevelt Robinson out of existence, they did the same to it.
So, here's what I pulled from it.
Among other hammers is quoting Mookie Betts 2020 vs Mookie Betts 2025.
Star outfielder Mookie Betts refused “to make this political” and called the visit “a privilege” ...
When Mookie Betts said in 2020, “We must not get comfortable when the protesting is over,” we can hear it ringing in our ears five years later when he claims a visit to this particular White House, at this particular time, is “just me being with my team”—just a matter of doing what he “felt was best for the Dodgers.”
And, I'd forgotten that Rachel Robinson is still alive, which makes the Dodgers' kowtowing look worse.
Rachel Robinson—the 102-year-old widow of one Jack Roosevelt Robinson—woke up to an affront on her dead husband’s legacy by the very country he served with honor, only to rise a few weeks later and witness not just the utter silence of the league he integrated, but her husband’s old employer specifically fawning over the brute who ordered the whole thing.
And, beyond the Dodgers, of course, Manfred has also been a mouse on this issue.
Give the whole thing a read.
And, yes, per the header .... we should start calling him "Jack," maybe? He used that himself. Rachel called him that. "Jackie" seems like it might often have been a deliberate diminution, a politer way of saying "boy" or something.
Now, the earlier piece, while about the Trop, was also clearly about Trump's tariffs.
This one? Clearly about the Los Angeles Dodgers. Shit, r/mlb still allows posts about Trevor Bauer. Disgusting.
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