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Joe Biden might just have killed Major League Baseball
American Thinker.com ^ | April 3, 2021 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 04/03/2021 6:53:25 AM PDT by Kaslin

Georgia passed a law that greatly expands people’s opportunities to vote. However, because it mandates Voter ID for absentee ballot requests, Democrats, led by Joe Biden, have announced that the bill is the Second Coming of Jim Crow. Joe went further and sought to destroy parts of Georgia’s economy by calling for Major League Baseball to move its All-Star Game out of Georgia. And the MLB franchise heeded that call.

One of the highlights of the baseball season is the All-Star Game, which was set to be played on July 13 in Atlanta. Since 1933, midway through the MLB season, fans pick their favorites from the American League and the National League and then the chosen stars compete. I’m not a baseball fan but I’m willing to bet that, in terms of ad revenue and merchandise sales, it’s an important part of the business end of pro-baseball. And it certainly brings revenue to the city hosting it.

On Thursday, Biden made one of his little scripted appearances, this time on ESPN. It’s worth noting that ESPN, which Disney owns, long ago transferred its allegiance from sports to leftism with a serving of sports on the side. Trump, who was a fine athlete when he was young, was never allowed near ESPN.

Sage Steele, ESPN’s interviewer, told Biden that

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TOPICS: Outdoors; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; biden; democratscandals; election; espn; fascism; georgia; howtostealanelection; mlb; oligarchs; sports
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To: donozark

Add Noosecar to that list of sports killed by political correctness.


21 posted on 04/03/2021 7:18:14 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: GranTorino

‘Not fun to watch anymore.’

between phony pick off lobs to first base, batters stepping out of the box to adjust gloves each pitch, pitchers staring for ten seconds for a sign, then stepping off the rubber, managers strolling out to the mound...even without political drama, baseball as a spectator sport has sucked for a long time...


22 posted on 04/03/2021 7:24:00 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Kaslin
President Trump Releases Statement: Boycott Baseball and All Companies Interfering with Fair and Free Elections - Are You Listening Coke and Delta?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/president-trump-releases-statement-boycott-baseball-companies-interfering-fair-free-elections-listening-coke-delta/

https://gab.com/gatewaypundit/posts/106001703101396371

23 posted on 04/03/2021 7:26:21 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: BrexitBen

‘College baseball is far superior to the disaster of major league baseball.’

the ‘ping’ of ball on metal bat will never replace the sweet sound of the ‘crack’ of ball on wooden bat...

no purer sound in sports exists...


24 posted on 04/03/2021 7:27:43 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Kaslin

As much as I hate Biden, I’m not going to put most of the blame on him for this one. MLB chose to go this direction. They certainly wouldn’t have moved an All-Star game in response to outrage from the right or Trump, even when he was President. They probably see this as helping with the millennial and Gen Z audience they’ve desperately been trying to woo. What they fail to understand is that even younger baseball fans are different from NBA or NFL fans.


25 posted on 04/03/2021 7:28:06 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: donozark
NFL. NBA. MLB. What are three things America does not need?

Partner, you ain't lying?

The NBA is 90% Black and NFL is 70% Black

I do not need to see any of these sports and will continue to do so.

26 posted on 04/03/2021 7:28:19 AM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business...)
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To: SmokingJoe
Who watches MLB All Stars anyway?

I lost interest after the 2002 game which ended in a tie. There are no ties in baseball!

27 posted on 04/03/2021 7:29:19 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: donozark

Add in the WNBA... Put them all together and what do they spell?

NAMBLA FNBLWNB


28 posted on 04/03/2021 7:29:55 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: libertylover

Once they all hit their knees, switch to The Lord’s Prayer.


29 posted on 04/03/2021 7:31:43 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Kaslin

Memo to Beijin Joe:

Take a knee...


30 posted on 04/03/2021 7:33:29 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Kaslin

Communists are on a mission to erase American culture, to be replaced by woke collectivism

That said, goodbye pro sports, hello high school, college sports, and actually playing the games in my spare time


31 posted on 04/03/2021 7:33:56 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Stravinsky

‘As much as I hate Biden, I’m not going to put most of the blame on him for this one.’

I don’t hate Biden; my vote for Trump expressed my approval of certain positions he held (undoing America’s involvements in global warfare for one), not from hate of his rival...I try not to hate anyone I don’t know personally...

that said, I do blame Biden for involving himself in this travesty, knowing full well the power of the bully pulpit; it showed a lack of judgement and poor analytical skill at determining the size and scope of a problem...


32 posted on 04/03/2021 7:36:37 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Kaslin

I used to be an avid baseball fan, but lost interest when the players started kneeling during the anthem. I never went to games to get a dose of leftist politics. It was easy to walk away.


33 posted on 04/03/2021 7:37:37 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: vpintheak
Done with ALL professional sports.

Yup, our family is now down to Gonzaga hoops and UNT Mean Green sports.

I was planning on attending a couple of games at the Rangers new ballpark, despite how bad the team is. Not now, and that means the venues adjoining the stadium won't get any of my money, either.

Eff them, and the Democrats can raise taxes on millionaires and corporations all they want...I don't care anymore.

Let's see how "patriotic" LeBron and his buddies are, when Papa Joe comes to them with one hand out, and the other with an AR-15 known as the IRS.

34 posted on 04/03/2021 7:38:04 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Fiji Hill

‘There are no ties in baseball!’

certainly there are; by rule, any tie game that completes five and a half innings and is curtailed by rain or other adverse conditions goes into the books as exactly that; a tie...

the second All Star game in 1961 comes to mind (during the time when MLB inexplicably played two all star games)...


35 posted on 04/03/2021 7:43:05 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Kaslin

The last All Star game I remember was is in 1970, when Pete Rose ran over Fosse.


36 posted on 04/03/2021 7:43:43 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Lurker

37 posted on 04/03/2021 7:46:37 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Kaslin

38 posted on 04/03/2021 7:46:46 AM PDT by sacjones
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To: Travis McGee

Love it.

L


39 posted on 04/03/2021 7:47:22 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. , )
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To: Kaslin

Why not. He’s killing America so what’s a little thing like baseball to the stumbler in chief?


40 posted on 04/03/2021 7:47:34 AM PDT by Josa
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