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Jess Frampton

Opinion: What do we mean by “election interference”?

On Tuesday, in the first inning of Game 4 of the World Series in New York, the Yankees second baseman hit a towering fly ball down the right field line.

As thousands in the Bronx began screaming “Drop it! Drop it, you f&$king bum! Drop it!, the Dodgers’ right fielder Mookie Betts settled under the ball and caught it, right up against the fence. Just then, two Yankee fans in the front row grabbed his arm and wrenched the ball out of his glove. It was a mugging, live on national TV, meant to help the Yanks. (As it turned out, a day later, they were beyond help — but I digress.)

This play can tell us a lot about a certain kind of fan but also about a big problem we have in America: “election interference.”

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