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MLBPA open to discussing moving 2021 MLB All-Star Game from Atlanta after new voting laws pass in the state
CBS Sports.com ^ | 03-26-2021 | R.J. Anderson

Posted on 03/28/2021 10:49:14 AM PDT by OrangeHoof

Major League Baseball is scheduled to play its 2021 All-Star Game this summer at Truist Park, located in Atlanta, Georgia. Yet with less than a week to go until Opening Day, the MLB Players Association appears open to discussing whether or not the event should be relocated in response to recent legislative developments in the state.

MLB Players Association director Tony Clark told the Boston Globe that the union body is "very much aware" of the bill signed by Georgia governor Brian Kemp on Thursday that overhauled the state's election laws.

The bill includes "new restrictions on voting by mail and gives the legislature greater control over how elections are run," according to CBS News. It has been opposed by both Democrats and voting rights groups who believe the law will "disproportionately disenfranchise voters of color."

Clark told the Globe that "we have not had a conversation with the league on that issue" before adding that "if there is an opportunity to, we would look forward to having that conversation."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbssports.com ...


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To: OrangeHoof

If anyone knows of petitions for supporting Georgia’s efforts to eliminate voter fraud please post them. These Voter Suppression Bedwetters need to be called out.


21 posted on 03/28/2021 11:03:29 AM PDT by Don@VB (Power Corrupts)
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To: OrangeHoof

Professional sports and the NCAA are extensions of the DNC, just like the Marxist Media.


22 posted on 03/28/2021 11:04:49 AM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: OrangeHoof

GOOD, move it to Cuba.


23 posted on 03/28/2021 11:06:11 AM PDT by boomop1 (term limits NOW)
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To: OrangeHoof

Move it to Cuba, and stay there. MLB is more dead than legacy media...


24 posted on 03/28/2021 11:07:22 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: OrangeHoof

“...and gives the legislature greater control over how elections are run,”

Actually, that’s the way it’s supposed to be you stupid douchenozzle! It’s in the Constition! Wouldn’t you know, some union puke acting the fool.


25 posted on 03/28/2021 11:07:45 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: OrangeHoof

Go woke, go broke, MLB.....

But yeah, there are enough arses in this country and world that will ignore such woke-ness and keep watching ‘for the love of the sport.’

Not me......


26 posted on 03/28/2021 11:08:35 AM PDT by cranked
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To: OrangeHoof

This is WAR. ITS BEEN ON SINCE NOV 3

You Want to play games Democrats do you?

Well guess what we’re about to engage in your little games , and we’re going to TROUNCE YOU

Are you suck up corporations they want to go along with the Democrats evil anti-American and unconstitutional intentions - screw you!!!!


27 posted on 03/28/2021 11:08:56 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (Fraud !!! Now we’re off the TRUMP TRAIN and on the Swamp express to communist hell !! TRUTH! )
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To: poinq
People should boycott the braves

For years Hanoi Jane Fonda and her mentally ill hubby Ted Turner (owner and CNN boss) used to make the chopping hatchet cliche motion for the Indian Massacre chants of the crowd at ball games. Where is the cancelling for that?

28 posted on 03/28/2021 11:09:26 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: stylecouncilor

“MLBPA open to discussing moving 2021 MLB All-Star Game from Atlanta....”

So this high paid union shithead literally wants to take his bat and ball and go home.


29 posted on 03/28/2021 11:12:11 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: OrangeHoof

Let’s just cancel the MLB All-Star game. Problem solved.


30 posted on 03/28/2021 11:12:48 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher )
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To: OrangeHoof

They can do whatever, we canceled Major League Baseball in my house.

Just too much money, attention and fame going to people of really low character.

It says a lot about America that so many people idolize the characters that you really wouldn’t trust to baby sit your kids, would you?

Add to that it really is a kid’s game. It should be left to children to play. They should stop playing it at all after high school. Intramural sports for adults are fine, that’s about health and fellowship primarily.

Being a spectator of professional baseball supports and furthers the interests not only of the wrong people, but it supports the wrong ideas and values as well.

It’s fake as hell. Cardboard fans, recorded cheers, gamblers influencing games, etc.

Just think of how forced and fake all the media build up around the games and stats is. There is always a greatest this and a greatest that, every day they are on and on with that nonsense and somehow they’ve convinced people that it’s not only entertainment but it’s somehow ephemeral and tied into the story of America.

Yeah, professional baseball is American, because it’s essentially a legislated monopoly syndicate, a fake and a scam, created solely to placate you, distract you, give you a false sense of meaning and purpose, and take as much of your money as it can.

It don’t get more American than that.


31 posted on 03/28/2021 11:13:55 AM PDT by BusterDog
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To: Midwesterner53

“Famous Georgia saying: Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

We have a slightly different version on the south side of Chicago!😎


32 posted on 03/28/2021 11:15:52 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: JennysCool

This is a chance to have a pre-emptive boycott. Lets stop watching from the gitgo and force MLB into publicly taking a side. Thats how alinsky progressives have been running corporate boycotts for decades, now its our friggin turn!


33 posted on 03/28/2021 11:16:29 AM PDT by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: OrangeHoof

The ironic thing is that Blacks are urged to support their vote being diluted by the votes of illegal aliens, in the name of voting rights.


34 posted on 03/28/2021 11:16:42 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: 100%FEDUP

Why not just have MLB handle our elections, lord knows their All-Star Voting Process is more legit than the one for our Presidential Elections.


35 posted on 03/28/2021 11:17:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: OrangeHoof

We’ve got to take it to these guys using their own tools. The game sponsors need to be boycotted


36 posted on 03/28/2021 11:18:43 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: frank ballenger

The Baltimore chop should be axed.


37 posted on 03/28/2021 11:21:25 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: dfwgator

I remember going to games and grabbing handfuls of all star ballots and punching them out with friends in school and the little chads would be around our desks on the floor. We didn’t get in trouble if we brought some in for our teacher to do as well!


38 posted on 03/28/2021 11:22:01 AM PDT by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Don’t forget the stupid intentional walk rule and the absolutely mind-blowing stupidity of the extra innings starting at second rule.


39 posted on 03/28/2021 11:30:05 AM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: frogjerk

Another reason now that I prefer Cricket over baseball.


40 posted on 03/28/2021 11:30:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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