Posted on 03/26/2021 1:21:13 PM PDT by raccoonradio
MLB Players Association executive director Tony Clark said players are ready to discuss moving the summer's All-Star game out of Atlanta after the state legislature passed an election reform bill restricting voter access, the Boston Globe reported.
The 91st MLB All-Star game is scheduled for the Atlanta Braves' Truist Park on July 13 and they're planning to have full capacity.
"Among highlights, the bill would require a photo ID in order to vote absentee by mail, after more than 1.3 million Georgia voters used that option during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also would cut the time period people have to request an absentee ballot and limit where ballot drop boxes can be placed and when they can be accessed."
"One of the biggest changes in the bill would give the GOP-controlled legislature more control over election administration, a change that has raised concerns among voting rights groups that it could lead to greater partisan influence.
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Hey! Wait a second! I always liked professional bowling! ...as long as they don’t kneel for the national Anthem or are otherwise woke.
This is the union
Cancel cable ... Don’t fund them
Half of these players ( all millionaires) are foreigners.
Just shut up.
somebody can’t vote, may I ask why not
gop-e isn’t smart enough to play like that.
The bill did not “restrict voter access” any more than laws which require ID for many kinds of minor purchases (alcohol, cigarettes) or to enter into ordinary contracts - rentals, deeds, auto purchases, etc. I am sick of pro sports leagues trying to subvert the rule of law.
MLB: “Blacks are too stupid to fill out a simple form or find their polling place. Everything must be done for them because they are basically children.”
I guess they want Presidential elections to be like All-Star Game Voting.
They just continue to kill off the sports leagues...
Stop buying their “made in China” crap, stop going to their games and stop paying for cable/satellite/streaming.
Or likely write a check to buy tickets at the MLB Box Office.
Such morons.
Can MLB please explain to the public why blacks are too stupid to get ID?
Remember a few years ago the NBA pulled the All Star Game from Charlotte, because at the time NC had some law which allegedly “discriminated” against transsexual peoples?
And remember the time the NFL pulled the Super Bowl out of Phoenix, because Arizona at the time didn’t have a state holiday for Martin Luther King?
I’m sure in both of those cases, there were contracts in place which were violated by the leagues so they could make their political statement. Baseball may well follow along, in order to lose money and get sued to make a political statement. It wouldn’t be the first time a sports league did so.
MLB says either corrupt your elections so Democrats can cheat or we’re out of here!
I’ll give cricket this. Their field position names are entertaining. And nothing says civilization like the tea break. :)
Gee, maybe Hollywood will decide to follow suit and leave their second home, too. Could GA be so lucky to lose the libs who relocated there looking for a cheaper place to make films?
Getting really sick and tired of this. And I’m a baseball fan.
Boston may have about 12-14k.
Boston is at 12% capacity which for Fenway is about 4,500 people. Pathetic gov.
Please for the sake of your sanity stop trying to counter progresse activism with logic! It hasn’t and will never work.
Dear G-d in heaven. The American pastime now.
Jesse Kelly is right. Communists want/take EVERYTHING.
The never pause and at we have most of it, we can relax. No. The want it ALL. Demons.
Her official title is Ghettopotamus!
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