Posted on 04/03/2021 5:26:40 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
I guess I’m confused here.
Major League Baseball announced Friday that it will move this year’s All Star Game out of Atlanta in a direct surrender to the cancel culture crowd that is outright lying about a voting procedures bill passed by the Georgia legislature. In announcing this pathetic act of cowardice, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said that the move was was “the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport”, and said it was taken after consultation with the sport’s cowardly owners, managers and current and former players.
VDO.AI So, what exactly are the “values” of MLB at this point? They certainly have nothing to do with voting rights. After all, the Georgia bill actually expands voting rights in the state, adding additional days for early voting and more hours for the polls to remain open. Those “values” certainly have nothing to do with honesty, or courage, or standing up to bullies, given that MLB just caved in a cowardly manner into outright lies about this law coming from the bullies in the Perpetual Outrage Mob and the corrupt national news media.
What about racism – is MLB taking a stand against that by refusing to hold a single all-star game in a state that wants to require a voter to produce identification in order to vote? Not really, no. After all, MLB has held multiple all-star games in Texas, where voter ID has always been required in most circumstances. It has held all-star games in several other states that have always required an ID to vote.
And if a voter ID requirement is suddenly “racist,” how do we explain new polls from multiple leftist organizations that show such a provision being supported by more than 70% of the U.S. population, including majorities of Blacks, Hispanics and … wait for it … even Democrats?
Also, if MLB is taking a stand against supposed “racism” here, how can the league possibly still, in the year 2021, allow the team in Atlanta to continue carrying the name “Braves,” after decades of protests against that moniker by leftist Indian protest groups who claim that the name is racist? Indeed, if MLB won’t play its All Star Game in Atlanta, why then is it planning to allow this anti-Indian racist baseball team to play 81 home games in the very same city this year?
What does all of that reality say about the “values” of MLB and Rob Manfred?
It says they’re a bunch of money-grubbing cowards who are afraid to take a stand against the real bullies in American society today. That’s what it says about them and their “values.”
That is all.
Americas Favorite Past Time is over. It’s been over for me ever since the knee BS, but this will hopefully really put the kabash on them.
They can put a man on second in the first inning!
The only “racists” in any of this are blacks. There is no systemic racism in America. There is, however, increasing distrust of blacks by whites and Asians that has been well earned. It is not up to whites or Asians to fix this.
Why is baseball excluding women is the bigger question
There’s the REAL atrocity that must and can be fixed on EVERY SINGLE TEAM
Let’s flood MLB with charges of sexism
I suspect some of the money being printed by the Democrats in these huge spending bills will filter back to MLB, NFL, and NBA. That’s why professional sports do not appear to be concerned about falling ratings. As long as they tow the Establishment line, the money will continue to flow, regardless of what the fans think of them.
They might be able to fund some arenas or stadiums...but not the teams. All you need is two seasons of 10,000 fans per game showing up on average....to change the business dynamic.
They’re not cowards. They’re enemies and they been that way for decades.
People need to give up the fantasy that the people opposing America are just Americans that are misguided.
They’re like the “friends” and “neighbors” who marched people to the gulags and the ovens.
MLB announced that the 2021 All-Star Game is being moved out of Georgia as part of a marketing campaign to inform Americans that the All-Star Game still exists.
I honestly haven't even heard of this stupid game being played at all in the last 25+ years ... and I certainly didn't know it was scheduled to be played in Atlanta this year.
LIBERALS ‘punish’ all who go against them by taking away life’s pleasures. Give them a dose of their own medicine. BOYCOTT MLB.
YIPEE! Another good reason not to watch professional sports!
I don't think so. Baseball fans, as NFL football fans have proven they can't be shamed or humiliated into giving up baseball or football. No matter how the owners and players humiliate them. They insist on giving the owners their hard earned money to be later used against them. Major League will not experience a drop in attendance for their actions regarding Georgia. Nor will Coca- Cola experience a drop in sales.
I'm going to "demonstrate my values" as a baseball fan and boycott this woke BS. You lost me when players, making millions of dollars, were allowed to kneel like the spoiled brats they are.
It’s become a strange world when protecting against voter fraud is deemed to be voter suppression.
People are pissed about this, more than we’ve seen. It’s cumulative, based on lies. ignorance, cowardice, and stupidity. Enough is enough.
Delta’s state tax breaks passed in the house, but not the senate. Ditto, Coke, probably.
Federal legislation has been proposed to end baseball’s anti-trust status. Wokesters have stampeded over the line they should not have crossed, and are probably sensing that now.
I’m done with ‘em unless they reverse, which may happen, imho.
Hell, Stacey Abrams is begging for no boycott. She knows who it hurts; her peeps in GA, and then the blame trickles down to her individually. She’s the vote guru in GA—this could be her demise, which is why she went on record opposed to it.
Maybe baseball’s final nail in their coffin, too.
(organized) SPORTS of ALL kinds, who NEEDS them?
I DON’T! I REFUSE!
I won’t watch/listen to football, baseball, hockey, NASCAR, Olympics, marathons, etc.
I didn’t mention basketball because I HATE basketball.
I didn’t mention golf or tennis because only morons would watch golf or tennis.
Either Right Field or Pitcher.
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