Although he is hugely popular with fans, the team official acknowledged his dancing invited derogatory remarks.
One friend, invited several months ago, remarked that he had always wondered who lived in the space, and found it strange to be sitting on its fire escape.
Coming from a Jewish man who had grown up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the remark invited all sorts of inquiries.
These lofty remarks invite a reminder: that leisure has typically been the privilege of a few carried on the sweated backs of many.
The prose, calm and sensible, invites us to remark the seasoning effects of experience, but -- and this is the drawback -- it almost never offers the jolts of revelation he makes us hunger for.
Invited to comment on his notional rivals, he remarked that they were "Uncle Toms" whom fans of his own, purer art would regard as "puppets of da man".
'I'm a joiner," Mr Medlar will proudly remark when invited to discuss his busy social life.
Aware of the backlash his sexist remarks would invite, he added: "if u think this is sexist,9 times out of 10 u the ugly one and we didnt pay to come see u play anyway".
By suggesting that if anti-Semitism comes - and his own remarks would invite it by justifying hatred against Israel and its supporters - he all but says that the Jews will have no one to blame but themselves.
But this result also invites some critical remarks.
What is sought and what is discussed is often the answer to a particular practical problem, and the resulting particularity of the remarks invites multiple interpretations.
