Posted on 06/12/2021 4:07:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
By moving the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver because Georgia is protecting peoples’ votes, Major League Baseball is hypocritical in its rationale.
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred stated that the “best way to demonstrate our values as a sport” would be to move the upcoming All-Star Game and its Entry Level Draft out of Georgia. The decision came after the state’s legislature passed and Governor Brian Kemp subsequently signed the “Election Integrity Act of 2021” into law. Opponents of the new law decried it as racist, oppressive and disenfranchising.
This voter integrity measure has been attacked for allegedly denying persons of color the ability to vote. It’s claimed it will punish those who simply want to offer comforts such as food or water to voters standing in line or those without identification. But these premises are based on the bigotry to low expectations that blacks cannot obtain identification or get to the polls without the aid and protection of government.
MLB nonetheless abandoned Atlanta, becoming the third league to move an event to exert political pressure. The NFL moved the 1993 Super Bowl from Arizona to Los Angeles after Arizona voters rejected Martin Luther King Day as a state holiday, and the NBA moved its All-Star Game out of Charlotte in 2017 after the North Carolina legislature passed a law requiring transgender persons to use public restrooms corresponding to the sex on their birth certificate.
While the governing bodies of a professional sport are well within their rights to put their events anywhere they want, doing so under the premise of being socially responsible is flawed at best and inherently wrong at worst. It is hypocrisy more often than not, and it usually affects the same groups of people it purports to respect and want to protect.
That’s why the All-Star Game moving to Denver has led to a lawsuit on behalf of local Atlanta businesses.
Atlanta and its metro area will no longer have the anticipated major economic infusion that they bid for and had been awarded long ago. Cobb County Georgia officials are now speculating a loss of nearly $100 million in potential revenue.
There are far-reaching implications for the decision beyond the virtue-signaling affirmation for Manfred and his colleagues that will soon be forgotten by the rest of America. Keep in mind that nearly a third of all businesses in Atlanta are owned by black Americans. Nearly 8,000 hotel rooms in the metro area had been on standby for the League, its fans and the media who would have been there to cover everything surrounding the event.
And some of that revenue would have been used to repay the financing of Truist Park, which benefitted from nearly $400 million in public funding for its construction. Cobb County and its taxpayers are on the hook annually for nearly $23 million to retire that debt.
That’s why the Job Creators Network (JCN) sued MLB – albeit unsuccessfully – for $100 million in economic damages to Atlanta businesses and a $1 billion punitive fine. “MLB robbed the small businesses of Atlanta,” said JCN CEO and president Alfredo Ortiz, “many of them minority-owned… we want the game back where it belongs.”
Think about it. If the rationale for moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta is to protect the integrity of the game and stand in support of “disenfranchised” and “suppressed” – meaning black – voters, then why is MLB now rewarding Denver with all of the economic benefits of hosting the game...which is nearly 76 percent white.
Hypocrisy much?
Martin Baker is a member of the Project 21 black leadership network.
At best, it ought to be noted that only 9-percent of Denver is black. From the city council (13), I think two are black. With the exception of Salt Lake City or Boise....I think one of the largest cities in the US without any real black population.
COL is a stronghold of wealthy, rural black ranchers
I hear Boise is already being ruined by White people from Washington and Oregon.
Looking forward to the draft. Pirates pick first.
I gave up baseball 20 years ago. There’s little more disgusting than a ball player paid over 6-figures a week charging a little kid for an autograph at a baseball card show.
I love baseball and my favorite team. Haven’t watched any in the past two seasons because they’ve gone over to the dark side.
How many of these prima donnas would play if the max salary was $ 100,000 a year ???? Fluck pro sports . Overpaid playing kids’ games .
Your hearing is quite accurate, but of course add California to the list of locations from which the sewage is being imported.
Salt Lake City, which is now the "Austin, Texas" of Utah and apparently proud of that dismal fact**, is spiraling downward at an alarming rate too as it succumbs to the invasion, and even the surrounding suburbs of SLC have run shrieking hysterically to the left lately. It will take several more years, but Utah's and Idaho's future (and Montana's) will match that of Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, etc. Same applies to Texas, with the exception that it will likely take only several more weeks or months, as opposed to years, before its demographic destruction is complete. If they have any real ideas of secession in the Lone Star State, they better do it before it's too late.
** At least it's not the "Portland, Oregon" of Texas. Yet.
I’m not sure if I want to move to a more red location in the USA, or bug out to another country. We’re losing all the good things and growing all the bad things.
I gave up watching every sport, even my beloved UF Gators football. At first it sucks, but eventually you realize “Why do I give a shit about a bunch of 20 y/o blacks who hate me playing a game?”. I’ve read a ton of books, audited some courses on Coursera, and started going for walks in nature.
Time much better spent.
I hear ya. I’ve been spending at least one day a week at the range. Nice.
As a radical Washington Nationals fan I stopped paying any attention to MLB when they stepped up and supported BLM.
My hope is someone starts a new league and MLB goes bankrupt
“...after the North Carolina legislature passed a law requiring transgender persons to use public restrooms corresponding to the sex on their birth certificate.”
This is incorrect, at least to my understanding. The law passed allowed businesses to choose if they wanted to allow men to use their woman’s facilities. Charlotte had previously passed an ordinance that required businesses to allow this. The state law allowed property owners in Charlotte to make their own decision.
Freegards
Too many Americans are fat, drunk retards that care more about a game than our country.
Is baseball still a thing?
Add the Appalachian Mountain area to the list. Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia.
I’m not sure if I want to move to a more red location in the USA, or bug out to another country. We’re losing all the good things and growing all the bad things.
Which other country? I can’t think of any that are better than the USA.
I know the left is working at warp speed to destroy her, but, for now she is the best.
How many of those downtown Atlanta businesses vote for the DemoRats?
Any of them that lose revenue from the move well who cares.
There’s European countries that might be socialist, but they don’t have 40 million violent apes in every city.
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