Posted on 07/23/2020 4:40:55 AM PDT by Stravinsky
Major League Baseball players have the option of having a patch with Black Lives Matter or United For Change on a jersey sleeve on opening day of the pandemic-delayed season.
Teams have the option of stenciling an inverted MLB logo with BLM or United for Change on the back of the pitchers mound during opening weekend games.
After discussions among the commissioners office and the Major League Baseball Players Association, The Players Alliance and individual players, each player may use a wristband with an inverted MLB logo in which the silhouetted batter is black, the first use of such a logo.
Each player also may use a Black Lives Matter batting practice T-shirt or a T-shirt designed or obtained by the player or his team.
MLB is lifting cleat restrictions for this season, giving players the ability to put messages for social justice and causes on their spikes.
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Maybe they didnt get the message, YOU ARE DONE, find a real job. The 13 percent will now pay your salaries you could make more at McDonalds. NFL, MBA hold the pickles hold the lettuce ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Maybe they didnt get the message, YOU ARE DONE, find a real job. The 13 percent will now pay your salaries you could make more at McDonalds. NFL, MBA hold the pickles hold the lettuce ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
That’s ok. Major league baseball viewers have the option of turning off MLB for good.
MLB is dead to me.
Business must be really good that they can piss off 60% of their fans.
Saving a lot of money these days avoiding professional sports. Yes!
Again, BLM is a front for Marxism. Are the pro athletes willing to redistribute their wealth for the common good?
Keep digging.
OMG! This is a nightmare I cannot wake up from.
Major league morons supporting communism awesome
It would be hilarious if the FEC came after MLB for illegal campaign contributions due to the donations going to BLM go straight into democrat wallets. Not to mention the advertising those patches offer.
Isnt that a violation?
After a lifetime of following MLB, they just killed it for me. BLM is an anarchist arm of the “Demonrat” party. They funnel funds to the elitist political elites of the Democrat party. They are either stupid or complicit but in the end it does not matter. The damage is done.
Canceled my season tickets, and won’t be watching any games. Same for NFL and NBA zero games.
Rats should now be happy to open the schools, as this horseclinton will be encouraged in the high schools FIRST.
Baseball players obviously don’t know BLM is a Marxist group whose goal is to take away America’s freedoms. BLM cares nothing about black lives. Proof is their silence on black-on-black crime and thousands of abortions of black children. BLM is out to destroy the country as we know it. Goodbye MLB. I’m done with it.
I wish I had watched sports and been a big fan. My boycott would be more effective. But I have never spent a penny knowingly on any major league sport in my life.
I have been a fan of baseball — loved and played it — but no more. This is outrageous.
I hope everyone turns it off and these idiots wither on the vine.
Hoss
I dont think MLB or other pro sports will lose 60 percent of their viewers. All it will take is 20 percent turning off the television to kill the golden goose. The economic models are based on a never ending growth of TV revenues. They are now facing a decline in revenues, with salary caps dropping. The coming battles between owners and players will be fun to watch.
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