@1:

Yes, because that's so much more important right now than acknowledging 400 years of institutional racism in this country...

@1 and @2 have valid points.

There’s not going to be too much ball playing at Cal Anderson sculpture or not. Good looking piece. Unfortunately it doesn’t appear to be anchored very well. With any luck they can find a more suitable place to display it at the park.

@5 It's changing for phase 2 as small outdoor sporting events are permitted, [no insult].

@5: The field was already open for any group of five persons or fewer, social distancing required. Last Wednesday, Seattle Parks & Rec' started taking reservations for organized groups to use fields in July. (https://parkways.seattle.gov/2020/06/12/modified-phase-1-reopening/)

Be interesting to see what happens if a team reserves the field...

@7,

So are there no other baseball fields in Seattle? I play baseball (much more softball these days, to be brutally honest) and know that down here in Portland there are at least a a handful of baseball, and a shitload of softball fields around town. And limited demand for them (which genuinely saddens me, as it's a reflection on the decreasing popularity of the game, though is nice when organizing a game.) And if you're willing to travel to the suburbs, there are literally dozens of options to choose from, all within a 20 minute drive. I'm quite certain if my friends and I were in this dilemma, we'd graciously acknowledge the size and scope of this movement and find someplace else to play. But that's just us.

@8: "So are there no other baseball fields in Seattle?"

It's not just a baseball field; soccer games are played there as well. There is no other public field within easy walking distance, and Cal Anderson Park is in the middle of a densely-populated area. Citizens of Capitol Hill have had one of their few public play areas taken from them, without any kind of due process or public input, right as restrictions on outdoor activities are being relaxed. That alone makes this whole action a mockery of any ideas about justice.

"And if you're willing to travel to the suburbs, there are literally dozens of options to choose from, all within a 20 minute drive."

It can take 20 minutes just to drive onto I-5 from Cal Anderson Park. Total travel time to a suburban ball field would be more on the order of an hour. (And unnecessary travel is not advised during a pandemic, for obvious reasons.)

"I'm quite certain if my friends and I were in this dilemma, we'd graciously acknowledge the size and scope of this movement..."

This "movement" covers maybe several square blocks of a large, diverse, and densely-populated neighborhood. There's no reason for anyone living there to tolerate having their sports field taken away at the start of summer without consent.

(And your pushy, condescending tone, delivered with your abject ignorance of the place for which you claim to speak, does not exactly support your use of the term "graciously" to describe your hypothetical actions.)

@9,

I was gonna go into an elaborate response here, noting that other than my leading question asking if there were any other baseball fields in Seattle (which I'll concede was probably offered in jest) I've no idea what in my comment qualifies as either pushy and/or condescending. But there's a slog PM post that's probably gonna be garnering all the action, and so I'm gonna head there.

Though I do want to also note this line... "your abject ignorance of the place for which you claim to speak" is complete nonsensical bullshit. I clearly noted that I only "claim to speak" with regard to Portland, and was offering it up for comparison.

Alright, one more.... When you note that the "movement" only covers several square blocks, I think we're on different pages there. The movement in Seattle and elsewhere is vast and far ranging, as evidenced by the fact that it was prompted by an incident in Minnesota and has prompted protests worldwide, which is what I was alluding to contextually. I guess when I noted that our game would "graciously" relocate in such a circumstance, I thought it understood that we'd be standing in solidarity with that movement, though perhaps I should have specified such.

@10: If this un-permitted, not-design-reviewed, not-inspected fist sculpture falls and kills a Black person, that will be a great example of it supporting #BLM, right?

(And all I did was cite the policy showing that @5 was factually incorrect, and therefore his name-calling personal attack on @1 lacked real basis. I'm not exactly sure how that engendered your telling people in Seattle to drive to the suburbs in 20 minutes because self-appointed activists non-consensually took over our public park, but hey, whatever works for you...)