Posted on 04/09/2021 5:42:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber
If Major League Baseball team-owners don't act fast, the MLB will experience a hemorrhaging of fans that might damage the pro game for years. The way to repair the damage is to fire Commissioner Rob Manfred and return the All-Star Game to Atlanta this summer.
An April 7 report from Fox News (via Becker News) says Manfred decided to pull the game from Atlanta after consulting with Stacey Abrams and a voting rights group associated with LeBron James and the always sketchy Al Sharpton. The timing of Manfred's decision caught owners off-guard, reports Fox.
Manfred's decision should not only incense team-owners, but serve as grounds to dump the commissioner. The economic damage being done to Atlanta metro businesses — Atlanta small businesses are 30% minority-owned — and hourly wage workers, who include plenty of blacks and Hispanics, is considerable and a black eye on the game. That black eye isn't going away without remedial action.
Manfred's actions are also going to hit owners where they hurt most: their wallets.
Yes, teams' TV revenues are contractually locked in, so revenues will come. But MLB-branded merchandise sales aren't automatic. Fans can simply stop buying any merchandise licensed by Major League Baseball. That hurts teams and its partners, who produce everything from apparel to gear to bobble heads.
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The MLB is racing the MFL to the bottom of Lake WokeBeGone.
It’s too late,baby.
If they really fired Manafort and moved the game back to Atlanta, I actually don’t believe it’s too late. That would send a bigger message than Manafort was trying send.
Of course, this is all moot. They won’t do any of that.
Nolan Ryan would be a good commissioner
The point that Atlanta has more blacks than Denver so the MLB is hurting blacks by the move is not a conservative one. It makes this about race, disparate impact, and “equity” rather than voting integrity. It uses the leftist, progressive frame of reference which sees everything in racial terms. The issue, for conservatives, is whether the voting rules are reasonable or onerous. A voter ID is NOT an unreasonable requirement, a voter’s race is irrelevant.
I don’t think the owners control their game or teams any more. When they allowed their employees to kneel and disrespect the flag and the US, they game them power to do whatever they want. This move by their leader is no different as they’d be labeled racist if they dared criticize and reverse the move.
I can’t believe that pro sports aren’t taking a hit across the board.
How are they making money? Nobody watches, nobody attends.
Now you have this. Why go to Denver? I really miss the point here.
I really don’t care about baseball, and now even less so.
Let’s see. Boy how things change.
1. I’ve turned off Fox
2. Turned off NFL
3. Turned off MLB
4. NBA long gone
5. I absolutely to not trust the SCOTUS to do the right thing ever.
I don’t really care what happens at the border or in the rest of the world. It is clear that in our life time, China will control us, and we will fall in line.
Can it get worse? Yes....Kamala Harris?
We are watching what happens when you have a man in the WH who was not picked by the majority of the people in this country. Everything is illegitmate.
Well the NFL just doubled their tv money in the new contract, so the tv folks must think somebody gonna watch..
Spot on.
I’m sure by now MLB Team Owners have a good idea of who and why
the weak Commissioner moved the game. And I bet the story that
Abrams, James and Sharpton caused this move are accurate.
Threats of BLM Riots caused the move.
We will pay for this as they will double or triple cable rates
The interesting part is that most NFL games are on network OTA.
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