Major League Baseball's Foul Ball

Townhal.com ^ | April 8, 2021 | Emmett Tyrrell

[Kaslin]

Washington -- Major League Baseball is following Black Lives Matter and taking a stand on the state of Georgia's recent election legislation. MLB, under the direction of someone by the name of Rob Manfred, is pulling the 2021 All-Star Game out of suburban Atlanta along with the MLB draft. The New York Times, in a front-page editorial (camouflaged as news), said the move by MLB was a "rebuke of a new Georgia voting law that critics have predicted would disenfranchise Black voters." How supporters of the Georgia law feel about the law remains unknown. The Times' editorial was just another attempt to demonstrate that every vexed issue has only one side to it, and by gum, The New York Times always arrives at it first, followed by Black Lives Matter and now, thanks to Manfred, by Major League Baseball.

Last Friday, after Manfred's Solomonic judgment on the state of Georgia, a guest on Fox News' "Special Report with Bret Baier" from a melancholy state of mind ventured the thought that Manfred's act was another example of "politics" intruding into everything.

Now it had intruded into sports. Well, it may have looked like "politics," but it was something else. It was a manifestation of culture, a peculiar kind of culture. Call it "Kultursmog." Kultursmog is even more poisonous than politics. At least in politics, there is a faint allusion to there being two sides to every issue, possibly more. There are grounds for argument, or what some people call a debate. It might not work out that way. When a person on the left calls for a debate, the person on the left usually means he gets to talk and we get to listen, but at least listening is allowed.

With Kultursmog, one has what one had with the Times the other day. One has one point of view ventilated as the only point of view. On the other hand, the panel member on Fox News was right in saying that what he called "politics" (and I call Kultursmog) intrudes into everything. That is why we call it a "smog." It is a polluted atmosphere. It is polluted ideas, polluted fears, polluted solutions, polluted institutions and on and on. What the pollutant is are the beliefs and phobias of the left. I will bet that the founder of Delta Airlines and the founder of Coca-Cola never thought that the day would come when their enterprises were in league with the left. Yet were they alive today, they would be at one with BLM or they would be out the door, and BLM is led by Marxists. That was one of the rare facts that I disinterred from the chaos of words in the Times last week.

What allows Kultursmog to seep through so many institutions in America? It has polluted our great universities. It threatens giant corporations. It even poses a threat to the American military, where I am told ignoramuses hold forth on the error-strewn "1619 Project" and where there is a move afoot to return Manhattan to the American Indians if a proper tribe can be found to take it. What motivates an ambitious young Americano to fall for the Kultursmog when he or she could just as easily go to work on Wall Street or Main Street or go around the world in a kayak or on foot?

I believe that, for many Americans, finding favor with the Kultursmog is more powerful than the sex drive, the profit motive, the desire to live alone in a hut in New Jersey with no running water. What drives people to the Kultursmog is called virtue-signaling. I am more dramatic. I call it virtue-flaunting, and one would rather flaunt one's presumed virtue than actually practice virtue. So, in regard to Manfred's decision to boycott Georgia and the giant corporations' decision to go along with him, it costs them nothing. It is an empty gesture. I hope MLB decides to move the All-Star Game to New York or perhaps to Chicago during a gun battle on the South Side. No, that is too harsh. How about settling on moving the event to one of these enlightened cities during a riot?

What was it that Francois de La Rochefoucauld said back in the 17th century about hypocrisy? I believe it was, "Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue." The old Frenchman had not yet heard of virtue-flaunters and the Kultursmog.

[Elsie]

I don't know HOW you manage to watch all your machines
and STILL have time to share all these articles with us on FR.

I appreciate the time and effort you spend daily at this task.

[healy61]

These are racist, white board members who are leaving Atlanta for a whiter community. They don’t get off the hook because they thought they found a “good” reason to leave.

[King_Corey]

Up until the BLM kneeling took over MLB I was a huge baseball fan. When the Astros were revealed to have cheated to win the WS, and the kneeling began, I quit watching 100%

This current woke stupidity will continue the decline of MLB. Hopefully some other baseball group will go on to make a new league. Or I will just go watch HS Baseball, or Women’s college softball. Something else may fill the void here.

[William of Barsoom]

I’ve never been a big sports fan — especially on TeeVee.
I always catch the Indy 500, the Kenticky Derby, the SuperBowl, the World Series, and other major big-deal events because they’re fun.

The All-Star Ballgame was one. But I don’t NEED it.
So, if they want to be stupid and Politically Correct, they are free to — and they can go to hell.

I like Coke. Love it. Nothing quite like it
But I don’t NEED coke.

Iv always liked Delta. “Old-Days,” Delta anyway. I did a training film some years ago, and it gave me an appreciation of them on several levels. But I don’t NEED Delta, or any other airline. Screw ‘em all. The “security” experience, and the sardine, jammed-in seats aren’t enjoyable, but are offensive and unpleasant.

Same-same with lots of the other gutless corporations. I don’t NEED them for the most part.

I won’t give my money to cowards who permit the Enemy to destroy my country by weak and accomodationist lack of fighting back. Screw ‘em.

There wasn’t much wrong with America before all this (REDACTED) Krappe began. America may not have been perfect, but I cordially invite those who hate it to de-camp and go live in a better place and leave the rest of us to our imperfect, evil, racist, oppressive hell-hole to live out our time in our ignorance and terribleness.

[Graybeard58]

Or I will just go watch HS Baseball, or Women’s college softball.

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The metallic clink of the bat is unnerving.

[King_Corey]

Or I will just go watch HS Baseball, or Women’s college softball.

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The metallic clink of the bat is unnerving.

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I get a little of that when a wood bat shatters and I see splinters flying with some weight of the thing flying at players and the crowd. But I prefer the shape and look of a woman than men anyway.