Posted on 04/09/2021 5:55:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
Major League Baseball is moving its 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta, Georgia, to Coors Field in Denver, Colorado. This, says ESPN, is "in response to a new Georgia law that has civil rights groups concerned about its potential to restrict voting access for people of color."
Or, more likely, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred moved the game because he is concerned about Rob Manfred.
Cobb County estimates that losing the game will cost the region more than $100 million. Atlanta, a city with a 51 percent black population -- the largest Black-majority metro area in the nation -- will lose most of all. They'll live, but it's certainly a peculiar way for professional baseball to show solidarity with the African American community.
Denver's Black population, on the other hand, is somewhere around 9%. You want to see a segregated city, come visit Denver. That might be something Manfred, who runs a league with one Black majority owner, could ponder as his limo drives by the blinding whiteness of neighborhoods like "Stapleton" -- officially changed to the anodyne "Central Park" less than a year ago -- on his way from Denver International to downtown.
Another funny way of showing your concern for alleged "voting restrictions" is by moving the All-Star Game to a state that in many ways has voting laws at least as stringent as Georgia's. To vote in Colorado, a person also needs photo identification, just as they do at the will-call window at Coors Field. Like Colorado, Georgia allows voters without ID to use the last four digits of their Social Security number, a bank statement or utility bill, a paycheck, or any other government document with their name and address. Though ID requirements are the provision Democrats hate most, they are broadly popular among voters, which is why they are compelled to use hyperbole and disinformation when talking about the rest of these laws.
Colorado also requires signature verification for mail-in ballots. Over 10,000 voters are rejected every election because of bad signatures. This is the kind of shameful disenfranchisement that Manfred now supports.
You might recall Joe Biden and other Democrats ginning up anger by falsely claiming that parched voters would be denied a mere glass of water under this new law, though the restriction is aimed more at specifically curtailing what campaigns can hand out. It's hardly unique in the nation. Colorado, like 37 other states including Delaware and now Georgia, also prevents campaign workers from handing out water or food or paraphernalia to voters near a polling place. Though, to be fair, on this front, perhaps none have as restrictive a policy as New York, the home of Major League Baseball headquarters.
Georgia, like Colorado, also has no-excuse absentee voting. But Georgia's is more expansive, with a minimum of 17 days of early voting -- and a provision allowing counties to request two additional Sunday voting days can bring the total to 19 days. Colorado has 15, which, using the quickly changing standards, basically makes it a state of Bull Connors.
Some will correctly point out that Colorado, which was moving to an all-mail election before COVID-19, automatically mails ballots to every "active" voter -- something most states hadn't even contemplated before last year, and then only on an emergency basis. As a former Colorado resident, I can tell you, it is not uncommon for people to get the ballots of former residents, of grown kids long gone, or of dead relatives in their mailbox. It's a mess. Yet, whatever your opinion is on that policy, if failing to automatically provide every resident a mail-in ballot, whether they ask for one or not, is now considered "Jim Crow on steroids," MLB is going to have an impossible time rationalizing having any event in any state. Or at least, any state that takes its elections seriously.
Now, of course, I don't accept the notion that preserving some minimal integrity in elections is "suppression." Apparently, Georgia voters don't either, as a new Morning Consult poll shows only 36% opposition to the new law. Can you imagine what those polls would look like if most of the media weren't blatantly lying about the bill 24-7? But Manfred obviously doesn't care about the lies. He doesn't care about the fans. He doesn't care to know anything about the law. He doesn't care about the Black community. If he did, he wouldn't have moved the game. Rob Manfred, like so many others who wilt at the first sign of left-wing hysterics, is there to protect himself.
I’d love to see that totally boycotted...
It's been thus since that fateful day in The Garden of Eden.
What did the serpent have to gain by convincing Adam and Eve that God was a mean old right-wing wacko who was holding out on them?
Charles Barkley explained it all a few days ago. Communists live to stir up strife, division and discord and squash happiness, joy and contentment.
Only then did people start talking about voting issues. In my case, they mail me a ballot, I fill it out, and put it in a drop box. I don't mail it back.
The All-Star game is scheduled for mid July. By then Mr. Manfred will be confronted with the dire ramifications of his hasty decision. TV viewership, ratings, merchandise sales, and attendance will all be down. The woke networks will not be kind. They will demand renegotiation of contracts as advertisers balk. As Commissioner, Mr. Manfred is the CEO of Baseball. His prime responsibility is to increase revenue and profits. The failure to execute that prime responsibility will ultimately result in his departure. He will of course claim victimhood.
Think of the tens of thousands of black fans Major League Baseball (likely the Colorado Rockies team) is going to pay to travel to Colorado and attend the game for camera shots of the stands, in an attempt to dispel the truth that they moved the game to a very Caucasian city for political reasons.
It makes sense when you realize it’s not about what they are saying it’s about.
First they say the law mandates the polls close earlier. It doesn’t, so that’s not it.
Then they say the law cuts the early voting days. It doesn’t so that’s not it.
And on, and on.
When you really look at it, they’re trying to kill the new law so they don’t have voter ID requirements and signature verification on absentee and mail-in ballots. It just so happens these are the 2 areas of greatest concern (& highest likelihood) for the voter fraud that swung the state to Biden in November, and turned both Senate seats to Dems in the run-off.
Looked up on Wikipedia—last year’s game
was to be held at Dodger Stadium but
was cancelled due to late start of
season.
2021—at Coors Field
2022—at Dodger Stadium
2023—to be determined
2024—at Citizens Bank Park Phila.
In 2002 the game ended in a tie. It was
at Selig’s home turf, Miller Field in
Milwaukee.Was watching on TV but I had
to drive the next day to Philly to
attend a convention.Shut off TV but put it
on radio in bedroom.It was announced
the game was ending, tied. Think
that was the first year of the winning
league getting home field advantage if
they won game.As it was a tie, another
method was used.
Not about gain or loss. A serpent does what a serpent does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhXjd88SFrk
Game had to end as they ran out of
position (non pitcher) players
I LOVE baseball and it’s killing me that I’m boycotting. My hope is baseball will come to its senses before long and I can get back to the game I love.
Democrats/MSM (redundant) will do anything to protect and maintain their proven cheatable territory. They know Georgia was automatic for Dims, or was.
The description of Colorado voting left off the part where they throw all the ballots into Dominion voting machines and come out with whatever results are needed, including 100+% turnout in some counties.
It should be moved...to Mars...
What are the chances that some players boycott the game.
Communists think showing ID to vote is bad, and smoking weed on the way to a baseball All-Stars game is good.
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