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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“They probably see this as helping with the millennial and Gen Z audience they’ve desperately been trying to woo.”
I doubt that generations who grew up playing video games will get off very much on baseball, so I doubt that was the case.
More likely it was the (vastly overpaid, but ignorant) players bitching, the usual twitter-type mob threatening ‘boycotts’ (with most of them thinking that it’s racist/unjust to accuse blacks of stealing more bases than whites), and the implied/implicit threats to be ‘disruptive’ until MLB complied with moving the game out of Atlanta.
Go broke, there's honorable work at Jiffy Lube, at least for now there is...
Baseball is eternal, and will survive MLB.
I’d rather watch Cricket, than Baseball.
“the ‘ping’ of ball on metal bat will never replace the sweet sound of the ‘crack’ of ball on wooden bat...”
This.
Lift MLB’s Anti-Trust Exemption.
Reggie's Home Run at Tiger Stadium.
Yesterday I talked about a boycott. I had left the game after the BLM Marxist honors were issued by MLB.
Once again, they are making us double down on those efforts and I am.
President Trump is calling on Americans to let them feel it and cancel them for trying to cancel basic election integrity.
I’m all in.
“As much as I hate Biden, I’m not going to put most of the blame on him...”
Why not? He started the whole thing by reading what his Fascist Left handlers put in front of him. MLB merely complied with the lies.
Hopefully MLB is destroyed, but it’ll take awhile. Our damn woke major banks and broadcast networks favor institutions that share their anti-American values. So they’ll have money and plenty of advertising after this, at least in short term.
Yeah, I remember it. The games meant something back then. The game has gone to siht and it’s time for me to move on.
Perhaps the leaders of big professional sports will come to realize that their industry is based on fans who pay to watch games and buy the advertisers products. These fans want to see the sport played and are not interested in seeing it become a political rally or mass protest with the game itself now secondary. Sports fans have survived pretty much without these games during the COVID pandemic and are just start to get interested again. If big professional sports are ever to regain fans and their money they are foolish to piss off them off with these political and protest shenanigans.
The only thing that will kill MLB or any of the other sports is when people find things meaningful enough about their lives to replace those things with.
"Chicks dig the long ball!"
“If “Biden” (I mean the Democrat collective)...”
The democrat politburo as it were.
How could you not hate Biden? Bill Clinton lied about sex (and was justly impeached for it). Biden lies about everything. And has always been a dummy, a liar and a cheat. Ironic that a president who is too feeble to throw out a first pitch has destroyed Major League Baseball or at least irreparably harmed it.
Much better to play the game these days, than to watch others play. I still have my pitcher’s glove.
Please hockey, don't get WAKE... I love my Lightning (even if Jeff Vinik and Bill Gates are partnering on projects in downtown Tampa).
Ironically, a fan’s all-star vote may be more secure than the votes that I cast in national elections
Seems like someone (hint china, russia), is systematically dismantling all of America’s pastimes and traditions...
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