{"id":20276,"date":"2020-07-21T12:25:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T17:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=20276"},"modified":"2020-07-21T12:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T17:25:15","slug":"baseball-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2020\/07\/21\/baseball-firsts\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball firsts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two firsts from last night\u2019s Giants exhibition game against the As\u2026\r\n<p>First, before the game started, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/bayarea\/giants\/gabe-kapler-giants-players-kneel-during-national-anthem-game\">Gabe Kapler took the knee<\/a> during the national anthem. And yes, he was the first MLB manager to do that. What\u2019s remarkable is not that he did it, but that he was the first to do it. The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFGiants\/status\/1285440363910426624\">front office supported him<\/a>, which is great! But what\u2019s remarkable is that few front offices have been out front supporting the rights of the players, staff and managers to protest\u2014and the content of that protest\u2014rather than that Gabe Kapler took a knee.\r\n<p>The other first happened late in the game, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/bayarea\/giants\/giants-alyssa-nakken-coaches-first-base-late-exhibition-vs\">Alyssa Nakken, one of the assistant coaches, went down the first-base line and took up position in the coach\u2019s box<\/a>. She became the first woman in MLB history to be an on-field coach. Again, what\u2019s remarkable is not that she was capable of being first-base coach, but that she\u2019s the first to do it. The front office supported her, which is great! But what\u2019s remarkable is that few front offices have been out front supporting the development of women as coaches, either on-field or in any capacity at all.\r\n<p>I\u2019m very pleased for the Giants, and for Coach Nakken and for Gabe Kapler, but I want to emphasize that it wasn\u2019t really anything remarkable about them or their actions or their characters that brought them to these firsts. What\u2019s remarkable is that nobody else did, or was allowed to, do these totally unremarkable things.\r\n\r\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I><br>-Vardibidian.\r\n[\/raw]\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger still feels that it is entirely inappropriate to be endangering the well-being of Jon Miller by playing baseball, but at least he's not traveling with the team.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20278,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20276\/revisions\/20278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}