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{weblog_name} - Copping Out
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Sometimes, it’s still hard for me to believe how little – even with our penchant for schmoozing, commentary and over-analysis – we Jews really talk to each other. Yesterday, my wife told me something I found difficult to grasp. She was driving our 8-year-old son to Hebrew school, at Chizuk Amuno Synagogue, when she found that the beltway exit to Stevenson Road was blocked off by Baltimore County Police officers. Determined (probably to my kid’s dismay), she drove around to the Reisterstown Road exit and tried to gain access to Chizuk via Brooks Robinson Drive (that’s Radio Tower Drive for all you old-timers and third baseman haters.) But she was still roadblocked by the cops and forced to walk from Brooks Robinson Drive to the shul. Not a far walk, mind you, but naturally when you see a bunch… read more

I read this - in a Baltimore-based publication, no less - and I simply had to stop reading:

“....third baseman haters.”

Within about ten words of inscribing the name, eternally magical for those of us of a certain era, “Brooks Robinson,” Feiler writes “third baseman haters”!

I have never heard of such an outrageous thing!

This confirms what I’ve long suspected about Feiler: he has a tendency to make things up as he goes along!

However, for one of Feiler’s age who likely reached “baseball awareness” around the 1970 season, this association of Brooks with hatred probably belongs more in the realm of psychiatry than journalism.

On the other hand, such a generous judgment could easily be mistaken: The publisher and other two editors of The Jewish Times are equally given to fabrication in their writings as they see fit as well.

This is simply how this publication operates.