Like, you didn't know the origin of the word, or you didn't know it was an anti semitic derogatory insult? Both. I would have thought most baseball fans would have come across some discussion of the word given Enrique hernandez's nickname, but maybe its less known than I would have thought. Meyers grew up in podunk central Illinois, he definitely grew up hearing that as an insult, even if he didn't really truly understand it. Chances are though, he had to have known it had some anti semetic connotation. Or maybe he's just dumb.