Baseball media: if you do not loudly report on this I do not want to hear a goddamn thing from you about Jackie Robinson on April 15. bsky.app/profile/fbih... - ThreadSky

craigcalcaterra.bsky.social • 101 days ago

Baseball media: if you do not loudly report on this I do not want to hear a goddamn thing from you about Jackie Robinson on April 15.
https://bsky.app/profile/fbihop.press/post/3lkny5alym224

Reposted from Matthew Reichbach

The Department of Defense deemed a story about baseball hero and civil rights leader Jackie Robinson's time in the Army as "DEI" and deleted it.

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freeulysses.bsky.social•101 days ago

every team in the league retired his number. the mets have a huge 42 rotunda, with a statue and everything.

but now the feral pack of goons let loose in the gov't have decided to erase him and it's "jackie who?"

jk13.bsky.social•101 days ago

@espn.com @espntr.bsky.social

jk13.bsky.social•101 days ago

@mlb.com @losdodgers.bsky.social

migwell905.bsky.social•101 days ago

Jeff Passan to his credit is calling out this nonsense all day.

craigcalcaterra.bsky.social•101 days ago

And yes: this is real. I went to the URL myself and checked it out.

iwantyoustudio.bsky.social•100 days ago

craigcalcaterra.bsky.social•101 days ago

This is the Internet Archive of the Jackie Robinson post that was removed. https://web.archive.org/web/20240915202349/https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2490361/sports-heroes-who-served-baseball-great-jackie-robinson-was-wwii-soldier/

iwantyoustudio.bsky.social•101 days ago

lindseyadler.bsky.social•101 days ago

this is... even more bizarre because plenty of black players are still live in this series. including dusty! so jackie was just individually selected for removal? https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2649955/sports-heroes-who-served-baseball-legend-dusty-baker-served-in-marine-corps/

fabriceraimbaud.bsky.social•101 days ago

For Jackie DEI is in the url not for Dusty.

lindseyadler.bsky.social•101 days ago

that's incredibly funny, my god. call branch rickey if you want to complain about DEI.

fabriceraimbaud.bsky.social•101 days ago

sorry I misspoke. I think deleted pages are automatically deleted by the string “dei” contained in Jackie's url but not in Dusty Baker's url.

mattsavino.bsky.social•101 days ago

Apparently because of stuff like this.

wovenstrap.bsky.social•101 days ago

There's an argument that Jackie was the best-fielding infielder in MLB history. But talking about him is just some DEI thing.

fakebuckeye.bsky.social•101 days ago

If you search "Jackie Robinson" on the site you get an article about Pee Wee Reece and how brave he was for being friends with Robinson. Which is so much worse.

themahimike.bsky.social•101 days ago

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/story/article/2490361/sports-heroes-who-served-baseball-great-jackie-robinson-was-wwii-soldier/

thoggatt.bsky.social•101 days ago

Those bastards.

thomasacstout.bsky.social•101 days ago

Delete the "dei" from the URL, copy and paste it into the WayBack Machine, and you can find the original page

vslyke.bsky.social•101 days ago

@ken-rosenthal.bsky.social @jeffpasan.bsky.social

108stitches.bsky.social•101 days ago

All games on 4/15 have been officially cancelled.

Why bother having to address this issue.

mash831.bsky.social•101 days ago

It triggered a donation for me @jackierobinsonfdtn.bsky.social

hrryan.bsky.social•101 days ago

The only hit I find searching on "Jackie Robinson" is an article on Pee Wee Reese. Oddly, Robinson is mentioned in the Branch Rickey piece and there is a photo of him, but his first name is not included anywhere, so it doesn't show up on the search. Sloppy motherfuckers.

restofusparty.bsky.social•101 days ago

Wow, they are not even pretending now!

tibbar52.bsky.social•101 days ago

This all makes me so sad! They even took Michelle Obama s picture down! I stand with my brother s and sisters that have darker skin the I have❣️

donjorizzy.bsky.social•101 days ago

@jemelehill.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net

gh-kirsch.bsky.social•101 days ago

Winston worked in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth, where his job is to rewrite historical documents so they match the Party's twisted version of events.

freeulysses.bsky.social•101 days ago

noplot.bsky.social•101 days ago

Heck, someone could try and get comment from his widow Rachel; she's still around at age 102.

bassafterdark.bsky.social•101 days ago

@mets.com Citi Field has the Jackie Robinson Rotunda, we need Steve Cohen and the Mets organization to denounce this grotesque act inmediately

outdatedbob.bsky.social•101 days ago

Fat chance. Guess who Steve Cohen supports.

bassafterdark.bsky.social•99 days ago

You're probably right, but like many Americans his support may be waning a bit... https://www.nj.com/mets/2025/02/mets-owner-steve-cohen-doesnt-seem-too-happy-with-president-trump.html

tyrannosaurussmith.bsky.social•101 days ago

They’re racist segregationists.

rreardon.bsky.social•101 days ago

They had better specifically call out Hegseth and his racist agenda or else they are cowards

vanderfluit.bsky.social•101 days ago

More digital book burning.

rickyb2531.bsky.social•101 days ago

Just when you thought this Fascist Taliban cuntry can't go any lower..... It finds a way!!!
I HATE this country for what it's become, I HATE most ameriKKKans for what they've become, I HATE that traitor FELON47!! I HOPE IT DIES A MISERABLE HORRIBLE PAINFUL DEATH SOON!!!

nettahough.bsky.social•101 days ago

@olbermann.bsky.social

neil8noregon.bsky.social•101 days ago

Here, here

djw1974.bsky.social•101 days ago

I wonder what they’ll do when they find out Ted Williams’s mom was a Mexican-American.

mufcfan.bsky.social•101 days ago

It says exactly what they all think about anyone who isn't a white male when they are assuming everyone is a DEI instead of them achieving the position they did!

gustavocados.bsky.social•101 days ago

Feels like a good time to point out Jackie Robinson's wife, Rachel Robinson, is still alive at 102. Old enough to watch her husband go from hero to watching the government try to erase his existence as "DEI."

poodledad90.bsky.social•101 days ago

It will be extremely disappointing for baseball to not say anything about this… especially after all the great work they’ve been doing acknowledging and promoting the history of the Negro Leagues.

All of that will be wasted if they sweep this shit under the rug.

todude.bsky.social•101 days ago

When MLB is more progressive than the government ... woof

coconutlizard.bsky.social•101 days ago

Beyond disgusting

pottersville.bsky.social•101 days ago

@pablo.show

elchinolatino.bsky.social•101 days ago

Rob Manfred, if you are still entertaining the thought of enshrining Pete Rose because Dear Leader asked for it, but you'll let them do this to JACKIE ROBINSON, you should resign yesterday.

llancejr.bsky.social•101 days ago

If ya think racism isn't part of dismantling America and it's strained history, ya just plain stupid or MAGA.

theviolenceoftruth.bsky.social•101 days ago

Folks. Dumb gave an order and earnest people tried to give a half hearted effort to make it look like they followed it. Hence maybe one url got deleted. Does not deny the stupid. And the racism.

alexandra19.bsky.social•101 days ago

Who is made happy by this?
Hard to believe even his base would be cheering for this.
It’s contemptible.

wclamp.bsky.social•101 days ago

disgusting

daholtster.bsky.social•101 days ago

I doubt they will report anything about Jackie, going forward.

samlindauer.bsky.social•101 days ago

Unfortunately nobody in mainstream baseball is on Bluesky

samlindauer.bsky.social•101 days ago

Mainstream baseball media** that is. Though I’m not sure there’s a major leaguer on here either haha.

goobjones.bsky.social•101 days ago

@jaysonst.bsky.social @kenrosenthal.bsky.social are both on here and about as mainstream as you can get.

samlindauer.bsky.social•101 days ago

Stark yes, but Ken only posts links to his stuff, not sure how much he is actually on here. And his @ is @ken-rosenthal.bsky.social

heffaycs.bsky.social•101 days ago

@espn.com @mlb.com what can you do

tmv7o.bsky.social•101 days ago

2strong2silence.bsky.social•101 days ago

I said the same.

crisitunityguy.bsky.social•101 days ago

@jeffpasan.bsky.social share amongst your colleagues

mlieberson.bsky.social•101 days ago

He just shared at “the other place” with a pretty forceful message

crisitunityguy.bsky.social•101 days ago

Good! I’m glad to hear it.

annest.bsky.social•101 days ago

Revisionist history. 😡

dreamscythe.bsky.social•101 days ago

Deleting the most famous black republican ever. The party of Lincoln lmao

gtetonbeautiful.bsky.social•101 days ago

I'm guessing many of the team owners are big trump supporters. Pretty positive mine in STL is. So, I'm sure there will be little to no response from the league, especially as the % of blacks in the league continues to dwindle.

bigbadfab.bsky.social•101 days ago

@jaysonst.bsky.social

adfrts.bsky.social•101 days ago

I imagine it’s possible someone from the Athletic will take this on, and maybe give it the criticism it deserves…only for their piece to be edited to shreds by their NYT overlords

mikusa.bsky.social•101 days ago

Meanness with glee. You shall reap what you sow

hueythekingfish.bsky.social•101 days ago

Something tells me they’re gonna keep Clarence Thomas in the limelight

mattsavino.bsky.social•101 days ago

Here's the 302 network redirect that's adding "dei" to the URL to deliberately break the page.

peachplumbears.bsky.social•101 days ago

I know next to nothing about all this but it seems like impressive sleuthing and technological know-how so good on ya, mate!

johnlindros.bsky.social•101 days ago

So I’m clear, we should infer that someone intentionally made this one article disappear to draw attention to what I assume is an automated system that that been set up to eliminate “keywords”.

sonicwylde.bsky.social•101 days ago

It is not just one article. There are multiple pages of black war heroes at the site that no longer show up because of that dei link thing. The first one reported was a Medal of Honor holder Charles Calvin Rogers.

johnlindros.bsky.social•101 days ago

Is it accomplished the same way, with a redirect adding “dei” to the url?

sonicwylde.bsky.social•101 days ago

probably? I didnt look into the source code. but it does have that same dei added to it so I would hazard a guess that yes it probably is.

johnlindros.bsky.social•101 days ago

Well, either the bad guys or their script targeted this 1 sports article for whatever reason OR a whistleblower used knowledge of the system to do so. And someone in the know fed the info to social media amplifiers 4 weeks out from Jackie Robinson Day.

Not the worst strategy to get attention.

b1gd1ll.bsky.social•101 days ago

Somebody give Reggie Jackson a microphone.

https://youtu.be/R4mWOVy_02s?si=hVe5eLtCjUuJydKC

thestreetfa.bsky.social•101 days ago

maggiemck.bsky.social•101 days ago

How about demanding @mlb.com and the Dodgers speak out about it too

cubnut.bsky.social•101 days ago

MLB itself won’t have much to say about Jackie on 4/15. Teams will be focused on finding a spot for Trevor Bauer.

sethmk.bsky.social•101 days ago

Also MLB and the Office of the Commissioner do not get to wrap themselves in 42 without doing the real work today

bawbfromonline.bsky.social•101 days ago

Gotta sell some hats!!! Racism from the White House be damned!!!

rigamarock.bsky.social•101 days ago

@djmosfett.bsky.social any national political party that isn’t hammering this already is unserious.

thomasacstout.bsky.social•101 days ago

They cannot erase Black history, no matter how hard they try

We refuse to forget

https://web.archive.org/web/20240915202349/https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2490361/sports-heroes-who-served-baseball-great-jackie-robinson-was-wwii-soldier/

ogtedberg.bsky.social•101 days ago

Actually April 15 is Major League Baseball’s first annual Eric Trump Day.

thesamejames.bsky.social•101 days ago

Donald's concerned about Eric. He saw him on TV with Don Jr but suddenly he was gone and some foreign guy named "Cornholio" appeared. And people doubt the great replacement theory.

jillhempel17.bsky.social•101 days ago

Glad to see Passan came out against this on Twitter.

kceric.bsky.social•101 days ago

It will be interesting to see if that decrepit jackal Peter Gammons weighs in.

caroeve.bsky.social•101 days ago

📌

josephgruber.com•101 days ago

@jaketapper.bsky.social @thephilliesshow.bsky.social @philstailgate.bsky.social @mlb.com @theatlantic.com

dlrconlicense.bsky.social•101 days ago

@minakimes.bsky.social I hope you can get this out there. This is beyond effed up

solzyatthemovies.com•101 days ago

I just put my piece online. In doing further research, I found that he is the only Black baseball player whose page is down. All the others are still online!

curlysteam.bsky.social•101 days ago

If I had to guess, I’d say we won’t hear a goddamn thing from then on April 15. I don’t think we can even count on cynical veneer of anti-racism anymore.

curlyfro.bsky.social•101 days ago

i have a thought but it is unkind.

jenramose.online•101 days ago

🫡

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