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Major League Baseball Strikes Out
Townhall.com ^ | April 7, 2021 | John and Andy Schlafly

Posted on 04/07/2021 4:50:38 AM PDT by Kaslin

Major League Baseball shamefully pandered to Leftists by pulling the All-Star game out of Georgia. Trump’s strong response in calling for a boycott of MLB deserves a standing ovation, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that Texas will no longer seek to host MLB events.

Baseball should remain the timeless sport which unified America ever since the Civil War. The armies of the North and the South would take breaks to play a friendly game of baseball with each other.

Healthy rivalries between the National and American Leagues, and other professional baseball leagues, subsequently kept the game on track for more than a century as fans found refuge in it from real conflicts. Millions of boys, like the future governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, developed character and fitness playing in the Little League.

Liberals have hijacked MLB to misuse it “to stop what happened in Georgia from happening in other states,” as Democrat Stacey Abrams admitted. Election integrity bills similar to Georgia’s are being considered in other states, and Leftists are enlisting executives to try to stop enactment of this good legislation.

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred belongs to the ultra-exclusive Augusta National Golf Club, which hosts the Masters Tournament in Georgia this week. Rather than grandstand to the detriment of baseball, Manfred could have looked in his own mirror instead.

Stadiums are built for sports leagues at taxpayer expense, and some impoverished cities such as St. Louis are burdened with the debt long after a football team abandons the town for another stadium somewhere else. Billionaire team owners milk taxpayers to fund stadiums and arenas for the owners’ enrichment.

Over-hyped sports events, such as the All-Star game or Super Bowl, can actually cause a net loss to the local region in security costs and declines in revenue to small businesses. It is common for local businesses to complain about how little benefit they actually receive from high-profile games like the Super Bowl.

Liberals absurdly claim that the pullout of the All-Star game will cost Georgia’s Cobb County $100 million, although only 8,000 hotel room nights were booked for the event. Visitors would have to spend in excess of $10,000 apiece to reach that estimated loss, when the average sports fan probably spends far less.

Moreover, most of the revenue is to hotel chains like Marriott that have already pushed the liberal agenda by announcing that they will not donate to Republicans who voted against fraud in the last election. Local spending on professional sports events rarely reaches the pockets of the little guy.

State legislators should be examining how much professional sports leagues are really costing their residents, rather than worrying about a retaliatory cancellation of an event. Georgia and other states should ban gambling on sports, which has become a driver of the otherwise declining television ratings for the leagues.

Congress should also examine how professional baseball has filled nearly 30% of its rosters with immigrants, while the percentage of black players has dropped from 19% in 1981 to only 8% last year. High-paying positions that should be filled by Americans are instead given to immigrants having less inspirational value to American youth.

MLB has built a “development center” in China as part of the globalist push by pro sports, so why doesn’t it move its All-Star game there? The game is ironically being moved to Denver, which is only 9.2% black compared with Atlanta which is 51% black.

No one would be surprised if the Denver stadium has many empty seats when the game is played there. Fan attendance at baseball and football games has long been declining, and stadiums were nearly empty all last year.

The successful Atlanta Braves team, which has repeatedly won its division, properly repudiated the pullout of the All-Star game from Georgia. “It just stinks,” declared veteran Atlanta pitcher Charlie Morton in criticism of the pullout.

The Braves organization said it was “deeply disappointed” by the pullout decision, and that “businesses, employees, and fans in Georgia are the victims of this decision.” Its manager further criticized the decision.

“It is finally time for Republicans and Conservatives to fight back – we have more people than they do – by far!” declared Trump. “Boycott Major League Baseball, Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, JPMorganChase, ViacomCBS, Citigroup, Cisco, UPS, and Merck. Don’t go back to their products.”

No politician before has ever had the guts of Trump in taking on corporations and crony capitalism. Not even Teddy Roosevelt stood up against so many powerful, entrenched corporate interests as Trump does.

Baseball does not belong to a few overpaid executives, and its Commissioner Manfred should resign. The sport belongs to fans, volunteers, and the grassroots, and we should take the sport back without the liberal agenda and gambling and abuse of immigration, before its executives completely ruin it.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: baseball; boycott; corporateamerica; georgia; mlb; repubstrategy; sports
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1 posted on 04/07/2021 4:50:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Manfred gets the hat trick on this one: gutless coward, idiot, and hypocrite. If he had any decency, he would resign immediately.


2 posted on 04/07/2021 4:58:23 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Kaslin

“Americans pastime” clearly is only for blue-voting Americans


3 posted on 04/07/2021 5:00:08 AM PDT by newzjunkey (America First - bring on Giant Meteor in 2021)
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To: Kaslin

Baseball was my first love as a Yankees fan growing up in the Bronx in the golden age in the 50s. I didn’t watch one game last year and won’t watch any this year. **** them.


4 posted on 04/07/2021 5:02:25 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Kaslin

Wild pitch


5 posted on 04/07/2021 5:03:57 AM PDT by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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To: newzjunkey
“Americans pastime” clearly is only for blue-voting Americans...

Aint that the God's honest truth?

6 posted on 04/07/2021 5:05:35 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Kaslin

“It is finally time for Republicans and Conservatives to fight back – we have more people than they do – by far!” declared Trump. “Boycott Major League Baseball, Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, JPMorganChase, ViacomCBS, Citigroup, Cisco, UPS, and Merck. Don’t go back to their products.”

Now I am curious. Will Donald Trump give up his Diet Coke?


7 posted on 04/07/2021 5:05:46 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: Kaslin

This will be the most poorly attended game ever.


8 posted on 04/07/2021 5:16:55 AM PDT by bray
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To: PGalt

I demanded and received a refund for my MLB TV subscription. Gent on the line was Dominican. He asked if he could ask me some questions. Asked how long I’d been a fan.

I told him since my grandfather took me to my first Giant game at Candlestick when I was six. (55 now).

I told him I’d be going to the DR for Winter Ball to compensate. He got excited and asked me if I knew who the greatest Dominican player who ever lived.

I told him Clemente, and he was so happy. I told him Clemente made me a lifelong Padre fan even though I was an Oakland A in my DNA, a Giant by dint of proximity, and a Yankee because I lived in NYC.

Then he said, “Not only do I understand and apologize for what you have to do, I deeply respect it and I grieve with you.”

I was shocked. Manfred needs to go. He failed to excommunicate the Astros, Altuve and his band of cheating scumbags.

Kennesaw Mountain Landis would have all of their asses.


9 posted on 04/07/2021 5:19:52 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Kaslin

It is a bit disheartening to think this but here goes ... big businesses (BB) are going ‘woke’ because they have reviewed the voting processes across the country. What they seem to have decided is that despite Republican efforts to tighten up voting rules and regs it will not be enough to overcome the ability of the communists to ‘find’ enough votes in each election to insure a ‘D’ victory. Therefore knowing who the probable victor is going to be, BB is aligning themselves with in their eyes, the winning team.

The reason that BB is not concerned about the userious tax rates is that they can quickly move their official HQ to a more tax friendly country. The smart BBs have already set up a shell company in another country who will come to be the legal owners of the USA operations if needed.


10 posted on 04/07/2021 5:26:09 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Slo-Joe and KamelToe are not my leaders.)
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To: bray

Would you want to attend a game in a stadium that will have bombs to go off during the third inning?


11 posted on 04/07/2021 5:29:53 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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To: Kaslin

Stupid is as stupid does.


12 posted on 04/07/2021 5:45:48 AM PDT by mulligan (an En bbnnEeThe to)
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To: Kaslin

I think the motives for CEOs are less political, and more a matter of image and P.R.

If you offend any of the Easily Offended Puritanists, like antifa or BLM, you’ll have a bunch of them blockade your corporate HQ and other facilities, as well as other executive’s homes. They’ll “DOX” whoever they can, indulge in corporate manufacturing sabotage, and create all sorts of mischief — some of which has been deadly dangerous in the psst.

“We just wanna make widgets at a reasonable profit level — we don’t need all this potential grief and inefficiency.”

They want to move somewhere where this doesn’t happen. It won’t work. These violent commie a$$es will pursue to the ends of the earth.


13 posted on 04/07/2021 5:52:54 AM PDT by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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To: Kaslin

The MLB is dead. Long live the sport of baseball.


14 posted on 04/07/2021 6:12:23 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Been to Dominican Republic several times. They enjoy baseball very much. : )


15 posted on 04/07/2021 6:20:36 AM PDT by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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To: newzjunkey

MLB is being used as a tool by BLM junkies to keep the Jim Crow narrative front and center.


16 posted on 04/07/2021 6:22:28 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: RinaseaofDs

Clemente was the best bad ball hitter I ever saw (tv only).


17 posted on 04/07/2021 6:25:05 AM PDT by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Roberto Clemente was Puerto Rican, not Dominican. And he was a Pirate all-time great, never played for the Padres.


18 posted on 04/07/2021 6:36:11 AM PDT by pburiak
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To: Cecily

RC Cola. (Does it still exist?)


19 posted on 04/07/2021 7:11:54 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: PGalt

Yogi was the penultimate bad ball hitter. He hit them when they tried to walk him.


20 posted on 04/07/2021 7:13:57 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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