Professor Mr. Lizzie

If you are a sports fan, how do you feel when fans of the opposing team dominate your home stadium/arena? As a Tampa Bay Rays fan I’ve had many opportunities to ponder this question.

Tropicana Field feels like "Fenway South?" I've learned to live with it. Sigh. www.draysbay.com/2024/6/14/24...

Whose house? Our house!www.draysbay.com How I’ve learned to stop seething and love (or at least tolerate) fans of the visiting team.

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Why waste runs, right? www.draysbay.com/2024/6/13/24...

Rays 3 Cubs 2: Taj has a nightwww.draysbay.com This was a fun and exciting game but let me start with what I think is the most encouraging takeaway: Taj Bradley looked very sharp. His went seven innings, which by itself is great. But he also...

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Yes, I’ve been wondering this for years. Both happy to fight to the last Palestinian civilian.

open question whether it’s Hamas or Netanyahu who cares less about Gazan lives. they’re barely even fighting back against the IDF, so much for glorious martyrdom

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I wouldn't say this was the best played game I've seen from the Rays, but just as you sometimes lose games when you've done everything right, at times you win games where every one of your fielders lost a pop-up in the sun www.draysbay.com/2024/4/10/24...

Rays 4 Angels 2: Thanks goodness for José Caballerowww.draysbay.com If you’ve been missing three plus hour games, then today would have made you happy! This is surprising with the super efficient Zach Littell on the mound for the Rays, but today he wasn’t quite his...

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Shaky pitching, comatose offense makes for a long day at the Trop: www.draysbay.com/2024/3/31/24...

Rays 2 Jays 9: Justin Turner Overdrivewww.draysbay.com With games like this, the loss seems overdetermined. You can bemoan the lack of offense, but if your pitching is giving up nine runs you probably aren’t winning. And you can shake your head about...

Hoping this is the appropriately nerdy venue for this comment: really not liking Jeffrey Goldberg hosting Washington week. And still miss Gwen Ifill.

For my baseball people: we’re 8 days from Opening Day (yes, it’s capitalized) and I’m not really feeling it this year: www.draysbay.com/2024/3/20/24...

Dear Abby, Help! I’m not excited for Opening Daywww.draysbay.com Why is this year different from all other years?

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A farewell to Tyler Glasnow: www.draysbay.com/2023/12/20/2...

On Losing Tyler Glasnowwww.draysbay.com Our leading man heads to Hollywood.

Innocent until proven guilty of course, but…wow. By now it’s almost a cliche: flcga.org/florida-gop-...

Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler, husband of Moms For Liberty cofounder, accused of sexual batter...flcga.org Christian Ziegler, Florida’s GOP chairman and husband of Sarasota County School Board member and Moms of Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, is under

Academic bluesky: Anyone else think the requirements to create a login to a user unfriendly portal to submit a peer review is part of the reason it’s harder to find journal reviewers these days? My review is hardly top secret, just let me email it to you like we did back in the day.

As a FL prof interested in policy, I used to view each year’s short state legislative session with interest. Past few years I view it with existential dread. Here’s hoping these folks don’t realize that urban planning courses discuss race and equity. www.cltampa.com/news/florida...

Florida Education officials are now going after college sociology courseswww.cltampa.com The Principles of Sociology class, which still would be available to students, would no longer count toward fulfilling required social-science coursework.

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We've written up a short guide on how to navigate social media at a time rife with misinformation. Read our tips here: www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...

Separating Fact from Fiction on Social Media in Times of Conflict - bellingcatwww.bellingcat.com Bellingcat presents a guide to separating fact from fiction with real, recent examples of misinformation.

I’m no Constitutional scholar but I don’t think states get to make their own foreign policy. apnews.com/article/desa...

DeSantis says he's sending weapons to Israel in move that could bolster him in the GOP primaryapnews.com Ron DeSantis said he’s arranged to send drones, weapons and ammunition to Israel as it prepares for an incursion of Gaza in response to Hamas’ attack.

When you governor, who can’t bring himself to condemn his Nazi supporters, uses Jewish grief and anxiety to bolster his failing campaign: www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

DeSantis’ campaign sees his official response to Israel-Hamas war as political assetwww.tampabay.com “Most candidates can only say what they would do if they were in a position of power,” one political science professor said.

Where is the Toledo YIMBY group??

There is a critical need for zoning reform in Toledo Ohio.

Why are these settlers seemingly the only Israeli men who have not been called up for reserve duty? Instead they terrorize their Palestinian neighbors and will lead Israel into a larger war. www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

Editorial | Settlers are trying to drag Israel into war in the West Bankwww.haaretz.com ***

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Russell Sage Pipeline Grants are open for submissions: www.russellsage.org/research/pip...

Pipeline Grants Competitionwww.russellsage.org RSF has launched a new pipeline grants competition for early- and mid-career researchers in collaboration with the Economic Mobility and Opportunity program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Apart from the terrible politics of the “other site” my remaining posts there get at least pornbot likes/comments a day. Is this just me?

Maybe we need tenure to protect us from the whims of politicians like Mitch Daniels? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | How the tenure trap paralyzes higher educationwww.washingtonpost.com The system staggers on, beset by declining enrollments, plummeting public confidence and disgraceful violations of the freedoms tenure was created to protect.

Any property damage? no. Anyone injured? No. Any body cam footage? No. It’s shameful that my university and our immorally appointed State Attorney are prosecuting these kids: www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

They’re the ‘Tampa 5′ — USF protesters accused of felonies, now on tourwww.tampabay.com Arrested in March after a scuffle with campus police, the activists are traveling the country as figures in Florida’s political war over education.

Woot woot, calling all baseball people and Rays fans. @jasoncollette.bsky.social @rjanderson.bsky.social @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us @lynnhurtak.com

It's official! DRaysBay is now on Bluesky. Help us find other members of the baseball tribe.

From DRaysBay (which we’ll soon bring to BlueSky): Will all the baseball folks who have hated on the Rays for “ruining baseball” be equally angry at the Orioles whose 2023 spending is ahead of only the Oakland A’s who aren’t even trying?

For my baseball people: Quite a deal those MLB owners have, putting a postseason game at an inconvenient time, jacking prices up beyond what the local market can manage, and then blaming the fans who stay home: www.draysbay.com/2023/10/6/23...

Is it time to discuss Rays attendance?www.draysbay.com Or what we call the "A" word?

It's shocking that anyone treats this publication as legitimate. Apart from "pay to play" they do no actual reporting, they just paraphrase press releases. There are real newspapers in FL, let's read them instead. www.npr.org/2023/10/06/1...

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For baseball people/Rays fans: not much to say about this stinker of a series: www.draysbay.com/2023/10/4/23...

Rays 1 Rangers 7: A disappointing end to a challenging seasonwww.draysbay.com I thought last year’s loss to Cleveland in the Wild Card series was a low point. If you recall, the team scored zero runs in two games, one of which went into extra innings. But 2023 said "hold my.....