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'21 All-Star Game, Draft moved from Atlanta
Major League Baseball ^ | April 2, 2021 | Commissioner of Baseball Robert D. Manfred, Jr.

Posted on 04/02/2021 12:09:33 PM PDT by John W

Commissioner of Baseball Robert D. Manfred, Jr. issued the following statement today regarding the 2021 All-Star Game:

"Over the last week, we have engaged in thoughtful conversations with Clubs, former and current players, the Players Association, and The Players Alliance, among others, to listen to their views. I have decided that the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year’s All-Star Game and MLB Draft.

"Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box. In 2020, MLB became the first professional sports league to join the non-partisan Civic Alliance to help build a future in which everyone participates in shaping the United States. We proudly used our platform to encourage baseball fans and communities throughout our country to perform their civic duty and actively participate in the voting process. Fair access to voting continues to have our game’s unwavering support.


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KEYWORDS: baseball; cancelculture; mlb; woke
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To: conservativehistorian

For those of us who enjoy baseball, but hate Woke pro Sports, we can still get together with friends and neighbors to play baseball on our own. Besides, it is more fun to play the game, anyway.


41 posted on 04/02/2021 12:23:28 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: John W
WOW! The MLB is moving its game...
That's awful!
What is the world coming to?

Wait... What?...
The Manly Lesbian Bitches are moving their game?
Where to?

42 posted on 04/02/2021 12:24:55 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another John Brown now that we desperately need him?)
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To: VeniVidiVici

He did: “...opposes restrictions to the ballot box.”


43 posted on 04/02/2021 12:25:32 PM PDT by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No Amazon, No Chy-Na made )
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To: who knows what evil?

MLB supports keeping the conversation focused on Voter ID so that the software issue is not discussed.

MLB supports fraud.

And they’re not stupid.

Federal taxpayers will likely make MLB whole in return for services rendered to Deep State.


44 posted on 04/02/2021 12:25:50 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: John W
Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box

Translation: We support the desecration of the ballot box and the dilution of of the votes of real voters in favor of Democrat ballot box stuffing and cheating to win elections.

45 posted on 04/02/2021 12:26:27 PM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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To: mewzilla

I haven’t read about Georgia’s new voting law bill. Does it require voter ID or what?


46 posted on 04/02/2021 12:26:41 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: John W

Manfred is the absolute worst commissioner of baseball I have ever seen.


47 posted on 04/02/2021 12:27:00 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: John W

My neighbors and morning coffee group “have engaged in thoughtful conversations with” and amongst ourselves and have come to the conclusion that since professional baseball has become a partisan political entity and since they cannot properly read the plain English in which the new Georgia voting legislation is written, that we, both individually and as groups, will henceforth refrain from watching professional baseball. We recommend and encourage all baseball addicts support Little League baseball, Pony League and college baseball; and a plague on you professionals!!!


48 posted on 04/02/2021 12:28:35 PM PDT by elpadre
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To: John W

Did the commissioner talk to anyone who knows anything about what’s in the law?


49 posted on 04/02/2021 12:28:38 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: John W

This will suck for those cheaters in Atlanta. Bless their hearts. Look what they have done to their city and state by cheating in the 2020 election.


50 posted on 04/02/2021 12:29:09 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: jeffc

Oh, and raise the tax and cost of the Atlanta Stadium for the Braves to outrageous prices. You know, like the Epipen guy, and no none in the media gave a spit...


51 posted on 04/02/2021 12:29:09 PM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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To: John W

So it is ok for a vaccine passport to access places and it is bad to present id to vote.


52 posted on 04/02/2021 12:29:17 PM PDT by moviefan8 (#restorethesnyderverse)
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To: John W

Stupid is as stupid does.


53 posted on 04/02/2021 12:30:06 PM PDT by mulligan (an En bbnnEeThe to)
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To: John W
>> non-partisan Civic Alliance <<

Every notice how "non-partisan" organizations always seem to be left wing kooks?
54 posted on 04/02/2021 12:31:24 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: John W

What is next? I would not be surprised if the San Diego Padres are forced to change their name and logo because it is linked to Junipero Serra.


55 posted on 04/02/2021 12:31:33 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: MinorityRepublican

The law doesn’t address the software issues.

We can get Voter ID. End mail-in.

And the election can still be stolen using the RCV-enabled voting machines.

That’s what HR1 is all about. Ensuring those machines are used nationwide.

But by all means, let’s keep yapping about Voter ID to the exclusion of all else.

Deep State will likely allow us Voter ID.

Because they can still steal elections even if ever voter is a legal voter.


56 posted on 04/02/2021 12:32:06 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: John W

What a fool! I am so tired of this stupid woke BS. Nothing more than a political tool at the expense of our great country. Only fools and the spineless fall for it. Goodbye MLB!


57 posted on 04/02/2021 12:33:03 PM PDT by NeverTyranny
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To: John W

I’m kind of glad to see them go all in on woketardness. I have a co-worker whose life revolves around sports and movies (he’s not married). The only sport I have watched in recent years has been MLB. I already decided to give up on MLB when they knelt on the field and stenciled BLM on the pitchers’ mounds. He was going to take it hard when he starts the day by coming to my office and asking “watch the game last night?” and hearing “no, I don’t watch sports any longer”. He knows how important the voting laws are, and while I don’t expect him to stop watching, he’ll at least get it that I won’t be watching. Ever. MLBLM can FOAD.


58 posted on 04/02/2021 12:34:55 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: All

No MLB 4 ME!


59 posted on 04/02/2021 12:36:27 PM PDT by Dacula (Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.)
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To: Trump20162020

Kennesaw Landis would never have done something like this.


60 posted on 04/02/2021 12:36:48 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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