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MLB moves All-Star Game out of Atlanta Braves' stadium due to Georgia's voter restriction law
Yahoo Sports ^ | April 2nd, 2021 | Nick Bromberg

Posted on 04/02/2021 4:45:10 PM PDT by Mariner

Major League Baseball announced Friday afternoon that the game would be moving out of the Atlanta Braves' Truist Park because of the state's new law that restricts voting rights. The MLB draft is also being moved out of Georgia.

Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement that "the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year's All-Star Game and MLB draft."

You can read Manfred's statement in its entirety below. No replacement location was immediately announced.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


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Eff 'em.
1 posted on 04/02/2021 4:45:10 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

Check other search items related.


2 posted on 04/02/2021 4:46:34 PM PDT by Dacula (Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.)
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Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement that "the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year's All-Star Game and MLB draft."

No, it'd be moving the team out of Georgia, or denying the World Series being there should the Braves make it there, but obviously that southeast money is too much.

This stupid little exhibition game is nothing. It's laughable grandstanding and virtue signaling.

3 posted on 04/02/2021 4:47:08 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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MLB was already dead to me. This just reinforces it.

Want to bet the players will take a knee before the start of the game, for ‘racial justice’?


4 posted on 04/02/2021 4:47:17 PM PDT by simpson96
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Everything the left touches turns to sh!t.

Everything.


5 posted on 04/02/2021 4:47:18 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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This is flippin stupid!!!!!!


6 posted on 04/02/2021 4:48:35 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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Remove all tax breaks that the NBA is receiving from Georgia.


8 posted on 04/02/2021 4:49:28 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
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They’re not hurting anyone but the fans, if there’s any actually left.


9 posted on 04/02/2021 4:50:01 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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Good take it St Paul, and take Delta and American Airlines with you.


10 posted on 04/02/2021 4:50:08 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page)
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Yep. All part of their plan.


11 posted on 04/02/2021 4:50:48 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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Thanks for the memories MLB. It’s over for me.


12 posted on 04/02/2021 4:51:14 PM PDT by freefdny
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To hell with MLB and Delta Airlines and American Airlines too. I can live easily without them.


13 posted on 04/02/2021 4:53:04 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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Darn. After missing it the last 58 years I was pumped to watch this year.


14 posted on 04/02/2021 4:53:19 PM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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Nobody even watches sports anymore thanks to Covid, so BFD. And the new law doesn’t restrict voting in any way if you’re actually a legit GA resident who is also eligible to vote, that is. What dumbasses.


15 posted on 04/02/2021 4:53:59 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Irish lives matter!)
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Yep. Professional sports represents competition, teamwork, and unity. Can’t have black and white players working together.


16 posted on 04/02/2021 4:54:40 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Free Republic: The Internet's 1st social media platform. Since 1996.)
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I’ve been done with professional sports for a long time now but I’m beyond hating their guts now.


17 posted on 04/02/2021 4:55:13 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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Is anyone even going to notice?


18 posted on 04/02/2021 4:55:32 PM PDT by Tolk2112
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The cancelled an exhibition game? Big deal. They need to prove they’re serious and pull the Braves out for the entire season.


19 posted on 04/02/2021 4:55:45 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts. )
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I’ve never been into professional sports. Sports should be nothing more than a community activity that you get together with community picnics.


20 posted on 04/02/2021 4:57:02 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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