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GOP Rep. Jeff Duncan (SC-R) announced that he ordered his staff to introduce legislation to strip them of their antitrust exception.
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With a Dem legislature and President, this won’t go very far.
To paraphrase The Bard, an act “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Sounds like someone is actually going to start playing “hardball”.
Sorry, I just had to say that, if I did get it in first.
Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) in the House, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) in the Senate.
Call your Member at (202) 224-3121 and demand his or her support for this. Mention the destruction of the minor leagues as well.
Then call the district offices and email.
“GOP Rep. Jeff Duncan (SC-R) announced that he ordered his staff to introduce legislation to strip them of their antitrust exception.”
Just in general terms, I don’t understand why baseball would do this.
I read an article, which said 14 of the 30 major league teams are in states with voter ID laws. Voter ID is a key objection of the liberals to this Georgia law.
It really makes one wonder, what are the criteria for a replacement site for the All Star Game? Must it be held in a state with no voter ID law, with the most lenient early voting law, or what exactly is baseball trying to accomplish with their political statement?
If they hold the game in a state which has less early voting than Georgia, and/or a voter ID law, Rob Manfred will look like an idiot. And their political statement will look stupid.
While we’re at it, repeal the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1962. That will hit all professional sports leagues in the pocketbook.
I think on a state by state basis to pull tax breaks for stadiums has a better chance
Strip them of their citizenship and send them to China. On a leaky boat.
This is a project for rational and decent people who have the real power of the purse. If they do not watch on TV or buy tickets to the games then and only then will MLB Commissioner Manfred realize that he is a woke fool. Would also love to know if he, an attorney, actually read the law before he took such dreadful action to hurt MLB and the people of Georgia.
Seems more a matter for courts.
Granting a monopoly, as a matter of large scale use of limited public resources, obligates use independent of unrelated topics. Should the grantee fail to fulfill reasonable use of those resources, monopoly contract is broken and up for grabs.
Goodbye MLB, anyone want exclusive use of Georgia’s baseball stadiums?
Hot air. It isn’t going to happen.
I’ve been against MLB having antitrust exemption for decades. They don’t rate it regardless of any of this other stuff. Should never have gotten it the first place.
Politicians pound the table about it occasionally and then it’s back to business as usual.
I’d like to see an official player’s vote.
Do they want to play?
Or do they want to continue to flip off the people and the country who used
to love them and make them rich?
The choice should be theirs. Not some CCP compromised organization’s.
As far as I’m concerned, the’ve simply become the circuses part of the
bread and circuses show to keep the masses distracted, anyway.
Actually, I hope they stay stupid, and the masses become less distracted.
Way too many of these clowns stopped being athletes worth watching,
long ago, anyway. (And there’s a war on, and an election has been most
blatantly and egregiously and obviously stolen.)
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Ain’t happening. That would require more than talk and stamping about by real representatives with morals and a backbone.
Can Georgia sue over breach of contact?
MLB, BLM, It’s all the same bull manure....they all stink too...smell like commies.
GOP always talk big when they know there is zero chance of actual consequences. Zero chance this legislation would pass. It’s just a desperate head fake to their lost base.
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I go on some baseball boards and the retard level is spectacular even many MLB managers and players are. They all repeat the same BS talking point that moving was good because voters were being held back from voting because of the law. The irony is sickening in that obviously the law is meant to make every vote count.