MLB under fire in Atlanta

[PillsburyDoughboy]

MLB moves All-Star Game out of Atlanta Braves' stadium due to Georgia's voter restriction law - Yahoo Sports

Rob Manfred said, "The best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year’s All-Star Game and MLB draft."

sports.yahoo.com

 

[huntinkev]

What does one thing have to do with another....this world has turned full blown stupid.

 

[PillsburyDoughboy]

What does one thing have to do with another....this world has turned full blown stupid.

Sorta agree with you .

No reason for MLB to have this knee jerk reaction .

 

[BamaProud]

In 2016 the MLB played a game in Cuba but won't play in GA because of their politics. Unreal.

 

[TNTreeman]

MLB requires an ID I bet to pick up a ticket but there against an ID for voting? ID at stadiums to buy beer? But showing ID to vote is racist? Idiots!

 

[BamaProud]

Turns out the Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has a membership to Augusta National Gol Club in GA. Florida Senator Marco Rubio killed him in this letter asking if he will resign his membership and also called out his hypocrisy for doing business with China and Cuba on the basis of human Rights while pulling the All Star game out of Georgia.

https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/e2adebb0-15c5-4c7e-ba20-72736b7f703b/78CF154CCBCADC0ED3A4F51D7EBB4E85.04.05.21-rubio-letter-to-mlb-re-georgia.pdf

 

[BamaProud]

Turns out the Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has a membership to Augusta National Gol Club in GA. Florida Senator Marco Rubio killed him in this letter asking if he will resign his membership and also called out his hypocrisy for doing business with China and Cuba on the basis of human Rights while pulling the All Star game out of Georgia.

https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/e2adebb0-15c5-4c7e-ba20-72736b7f703b/78CF154CCBCADC0ED3A4F51D7EBB4E85.04.05.21-rubio-letter-to-mlb-re-georgia.pdf

Also:

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Monday he will begin his very own boycott of Major League Baseball now that the league is playing partisan politics and moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta due to Georgia's new voting law. Governor Abbott didn't mince words in his letter to Texas Rangers Chief Operating Officer Neil Leibman.

"Thank you for the invitation to throw out the first pitch at the Texas Rangers' home opening game. I was looking forward to it – until Major League Baseball adopted what has turned out to be a false narrative about the election law reforms in Georgia, and, based on that false narrative, moved the MLB All-Star Game from Atlanta," Abbott wrote. "It is shameful that America's pastime is not only being influenced by partisan political politics, but also perpetuating false political narratives. The State of Texas was proud to help MLB host last season's National League playoff games and the World Series in Arlington. However, I will not participate in an event held by MLB, and the State will not seek to host the All-Star Game or any other MLB special events."

 

[TNTreeman]

Also:

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Monday he will begin his very own boycott of Major League Baseball now that the league is playing partisan politics and moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta due to Georgia's new voting law. Governor Abbott didn't mince words in his letter to Texas Rangers Chief Operating Officer Neil Leibman.

"Thank you for the invitation to throw out the first pitch at the Texas Rangers' home opening game. I was looking forward to it – until Major League Baseball adopted what has turned out to be a false narrative about the election law reforms in Georgia, and, based on that false narrative, moved the MLB All-Star Game from Atlanta," Abbott wrote. "It is shameful that America's pastime is not only being influenced by partisan political politics, but also perpetuating false political narratives. The State of Texas was proud to help MLB host last season's National League playoff games and the World Series in Arlington. However, I will not participate in an event held by MLB, and the State will not seek to host the All-Star Game or any other MLB special events."

That's beautiful !! We the people have so much power, if we'd just use it.

 

[bbqit]

I don't know if it was a knee jerk reaction. It appears the democrats have learned they can strong arm a business so that it affects more people. Saves bullets. The local politics, employees and state politics get told what to do by the business. The democrats are still learning how to do this in the most efficient way. They will have perfected it when the banks begin to foreclose on your loans due to their politics.

 

[LanceS4803]

Let me see if I have this right:
- Georgia voted for Biden, giving him 16 electoral votes
- Georgia voted for not one, but two, Democrat Senators (and minorities to boot, black and Jewish)
- Georgia flipped the Senate to the Democrats
So now the Democrats are punishing the citizens of GA by calling for massive boycotts of GA, costing these same citizens their jobs?
I guess you just can't be woke enough.

 

[Omega]

Let me see if I have this right:
- Georgia voted for Biden, giving him 16 electoral votes
- Georgia voted for not one, but two, Democrat Senators (and minorities to boot, black and Jewish)
- Georgia flipped the Senate to the Democrats
So now the Democrats are punishing the citizens of GA by calling for massive boycotts of GA, costing these same citizens their jobs?
I guess you just can't be woke enough.

Do you really believe the voters were responsible for that? IMO they had nothing to do with that, it was illegal votes, entered by crooked election officials, that did all that, and they do not care what happens due to it.

 

[flyinpro]

That famous philosopher once said; "Stupid is what Stupid does"

F. Gump.

 

[LanceS4803]

Do you really believe the voters were responsible for that? IMO they had nothing to do with that, it was illegal votes, entered by crooked election officials, that did all that, and they do not care what happens due to it.

If the government says it is so, who are we to disagree?
Omega, I think some "re-education" might be in your future.

 

[Omega]

If the government says it is so, who are we to disagree?
Omega, I think some "re-education" might be in your future.

There had better be some great re-educators to override the 21 years of Army training that helped instill my current feelings toward the current "government".

 

[bbqit]

The government can be similar to a co-op. Everything is great until the man running needs a new Mercedes

 

[BMan]

mlb moved the All-Star game from a majority black city that would have benefitted black-owned businesses to the tune of $100M, to a lily-white city that will benefit blacks zero.

Yeah, that's "woke." Idiots.

 

[bbqit]

Internet and cell phones have made it harder for the democrats to lie gracefully. Thanks Al Gore

 

[PillsburyDoughboy]

Untouchables

 

[Kirk]

Economics will return many of these "Woke" leagues to reality. Professional sports viewership is already down across the boards. TV and media is the very thing that is driving the social justice................TV will be the very thing that suffers most when sports TV viewing drops even more. When this happens advertising dollars dry up. 30 second ad spots sell for pennies on the dollar.

Sports TV Ratings are down.

 

[bbqit]

Economics will return many of these "Woke" leagues to reality. Professional sports viewership is already down across the boards. TV and media is the very thing that is driving the social justice................TV will be the very thing that suffers most when sports TV viewing drops even more. When this happens advertising dollars dry up. 30 second ad spots sell for pennies on the dollar.

Sports TV Ratings are down.

I agree and I hope the ceo from coke learns a life teaching lesson after his comment that a few white radicals don't buy coke it won't really affect their bottom line