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.
‘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...
“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.
“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.
My son plays college baseball. He and others of his generation watch very little professional baseball on television compared to my generation. YouTube or MLB.com clips of a great play or nasty pitch, yes. Free tickets to a game? Sure! But they are not fans of the game the same way I and others of my generation (and my father’s generation) were. Most of them don’t give a f&$k about Babe Ruth or even know who the great players of my generation are. They definitely enjoy going to a game if given the opportunity or may be fans of and wear the gear of a particular team, but it’s just not the same.
My opinion is that Commissioner made the decision to please the leadership of baseball players' union...I do not think Manfred really cared about what Joe Biden said...But, he did care about what Tony Clark said...
Clark is the head of the players' union...He suggested that All Star game be moved...
Manfred wants to get along with the union...Moving the All Star game is a small price to pay to get along with the union...