Does lightning-rod umpire Angel Hernandez deserve his villainous reputation?
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Does lightning-rod umpire Angel Hernandez deserve his villainous reputation?
Let’s take Major League Baseball’s word for it that this year’s much-maligned Nike-designed, Fanatics-produced uniform pants—the ones players call “see-through,” the ones they drag reporters to their lockers to feel, the ones they are trying to get away with not wearing—are the same as last year’s pants.
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MLB’s Uniform Fiasco Is About More Than See-Through Pants
Take a quick dip into any one of the thousands of years of art history and you’ll find that, no, actually, plenty of great art was made by jerks, creeps, assholes, vampires, perverts, and worse, all of whom left a trail of victims in their wake. To steal a term from Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation, these people are what we call “Art Monsters.”
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His popularity is growing—though you’d never know it from watching the news—but he’s increasingly battling unruly protesters inside and outside his large rallies. They block roads, pelt his supporters with eggs, kick and beat them, tear at their hair, beat on their cars, rip up their signs, and call them names. Rarely, a Trump supporter gets violen
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Artists cannot simply ignore his charge that our failures are uniquely volatile threats to the social order.