Posted on 04/04/2021 10:33:03 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Major League Baseball had extended and expanded its contract with a Chinese telecommunications giant shortly before boycotting the state of Georgia over the league’s disagreement with the election reforms recently enacted by the Peach State’s democratically elected governor and legislature.
Chinese state media reported on April 1 that the MLB will continue to be aired on the streaming platform operated by Chinese tech giant Tencent, which has significant ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Tencent is of the Chinese companies that had temporarily dropped NBA games as a form of censorship after former Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey spoke out in support of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
On April 2, the day after the announcement of the Chinese deal, the MLB moved its annual All-Star game out of Atlanta, Georgia, in response to a set of election reforms signed by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp last month. MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred said in a statement that the move would “demonstrate our values as a sport.”
The league did not respond to an emailed request to confirm the details of the Chinese deal and a question on how continuing business with China demonstrates its values considering the recent U.S. recognition of a genocide being carried out by the CCP against the Uyghur Muslims. The CCP is responsible for an estimated 100 million unnatural deaths since taking power in China in 1949.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) flagged the coincidental timing of the MLB’s China deal and Georgia boycott, writing on Twitter that the league has caved to pressure, moving the draft and Allstar game “the same week they announce a deal with a company backed by the genocidal Communist Party of China.”
“Why are we still listening to these woke corporate hypocrites on taxes, regulations & anti-trust?” Rubio wrote.
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You’re a day too late. The Babylon Bee already covered this 🐝
“ah so”
Maybe this is a sign, go there, and leave us alone. There are other leagues, and they are not so subservient to tyrants. Just sayin...
They can change MLB to MLC for either China or Communist.
When and where you see this “woke-cancel culture” intimidation, squelching of freedom, you can bet that its the CCP behind it. It looks and smells Maoist—and it certainly is Maoist. They have bought pro sports, big business, government officials and the courts. These traitors need to be dealt with appropriately.
“demonstrate our values as a sport.”
Values such as cheating and PED use?
“I’m going to check the label on my hotdogs, now.”
I know that Nathan’s, and Gwaltney are part of the chicom owned Smithfield Foods.
That's almost one and one half billion chinese citizens.
"The estimated population of the U.S. was approximately 328.2 million in 2019.."
With china having over four times the population of the USA, mlb and other sports are following the money, easily making up any revenue lost in the USA.
Well, “Bye!”
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MLB - another large corporation owned by the dictator in China.
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