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MLB to move All-Star Game from Georgia

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  1. signalmankenneth

    signalmankenneth Well-Known Member

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    This is only the beginning of the boycotts?!! The state of Georgia is going to pay economically for it's voter restrictions bill! Delta and Coke are speaking out against the voter restrictions bill, a little late those?!!

    (CNN) Major League Baseball announced Friday that this season's All-Star Game and MLB Draft will not be held in Atlanta in response to Georgia's recently passed laws that placed new restrictions on voting.[​IMG]

    The new host city for the July 13 game has yet to be announced, according to the league.

    "Over the last week, we have engaged in thoughtful conversations with Clubs, former and current players, the Players Association, and The Players Alliance, among others, to listen to their views," MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. "I have decided that the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year's All-Star Game and MLB Draft."

    Georgia recently passed new voting laws, leading critics to call for boycotts of companies based in the state and for sports leagues to consider moving big events. Chief executives and other high-ranking leaders from more than 100 companies, including Target, Snapchat and Uber, issued a public statement Friday opposing any measures that deny eligible voters the right to cast ballots.

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/02/us/ml...spt/index.html

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    signalmankenneth, Apr 2, 2021
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    I posted earlier about Delta not being happy with the situation either. A few of the big name employers there are making their disapproval known. Only time will tell how big the fallout will be.
     
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  3. Steve N

    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    So MLB is bigoted and wants to punish those they disagree with.
     
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    perotista Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The problem with sports these days is they have become as political as our two major parties. Politics invades everything these days. There's no getting around politics. No break from politics even in venues like sports which are suppose to take one away from the daily grind and the reality of the real world for a couple of hours.

    Well, I'll put on some old 1950's sci-fi movies and enjoy myself at home where politics can be left out of the equation. First pro football, then the NBA and now MLB. All have become political entities just like the Republican and Democratic parties.
     
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    In other news, MLB will no longer ask to see your ticket when entering the stadium!
     
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    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I stopped watching MLB when they went on strike for the payoffs in the 90s, and I stopped watching the NFL when the kneeling started. Over the years, I can only imagine how much time I wasted by doing nothing but watching millionaires who don't know me from a hole in the wall when I could have been doing something productive. I now spend my free time restoring old photos for family members and friends.
     
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    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    They were told what to think, just like most wokesters and bigots.
     
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    The CEO's that are against the Georgia voting bill admitted that they didn't even read it, just minutes before criticizing it...
     
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    I took my family to a Dodger game a few years back. They did ask to see my ticket upon entry, scanned my ticket to get my bobble head, and asked for ID when I spent $70.00 on 4 beers.
     
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    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    $70 on 4 beers? And I heard Jerry World had outrageous prices.
     
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    I think it's a excellen idea. They can move it to someplece like Fargo, ND or maybe Milwaukee, I don't know about California but The State of Georgia voting laws like Jim Crow laws would put the state of Georgia in its place.If a place is going to try to bring back segragation like it was 70 or 80 years ago, then they lost a privilidge or sorts. Talking racist can get a man in trouble of all sorts.
     
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    That comes down to $17.50 a beer. This sounds pretty expensive.
     
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    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The only solution is to drink when you’re driving to the game and show up sloshed.
     
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    I've always been an avid baseball fan since growing up in the 1950's when each league had just 8 teams each and just the winner of the league went to the world series or playoffs. Yes, the strike of 1994 stopped me from watching and rooting for a couple of years. But slowly, I came back. Like you, I stopped watching the NFL when it became a place for displaying politics. Politics has no place in sports, each has its own arena which should be kept separate in my opinion.

    If I want politics, I'll come to a site like this one. If I want to get away from politics and the real world for a couple of hours, I'd go to a ball game or tune into one on the TV. If professional sports wants to become a political arena, then I've watched my last ballgame. Instead of baseball today, I watch Bella Lagosi's Dracula followed by Boris Karlof in the Mummy and finally Lon Chaney Jr. in the Wolfman. Tomorrow I'll delve into sci-fi with It came from outer space and Them with James Arness, the original, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Beast from 20,000 fathoms then top it all off with a couple of Abbot and Costello movies, Abbot and Costello meet the invisible man and Abbot and Costello go to Mars.

    I loves these old films as a kid, they bring back fond memories and are truly enjoyable. At least to me. No more baseball until it rids itself of politics.
     
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    Ah, apologies to go off topic, but this I can't resist!

    Nice. Gotta love some of those vintage sci fi flicks. The original 1951 The Thing from Another World is excellent. And 1956's Forbidden Planet is, ah, well, it's spectacular beyond description really, isn't it?

    I bought a dvd set of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea a few years ago. The early B&W episodes are pretty fun to watch. Robert Duvall playing an alien was wild, I'd never seen some of these B&W episodes when I was a kid.

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    They learned nothing from the NFL destroying professional football?

    DOWN WITH MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL!
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    "Major League Baseball has decided to punish Georgia for its new voting law by moving the 2021 all-star game from Atlanta. The new law isn’t racist, as critics complain. In fact, it actually increases access to the polls."
    I have no interest in watch Woke Sports. MLB is now dead to me.
     
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    perotista Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No problem, I'm enjoying the heck out of them.
     
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    perotista Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    As for politics in sports, this was in my inbox this morning. Perhaps I'm not alone in believing politics ought to kept out of sports. A lot of us watch sports to get away from reality for a couple of house besides rooting for our favorite teams. If I want politics, I'll tune into C-Span or come to this site. If what I want to watch free of politics, then it use to be sports. I haven't watched much sports at all since politics entered the sporting arena. I get enough of politics on this site and on the daily news.

    Nearly half of American sports fans changed viewing habits because of social justice

    https://sports.yahoo.com/nearly-hal...bits-because-of-social-justice-192601834.html
     
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    A little early actually. Those companies, like you, didn't read the law. Delta has retracted its comment after the CEO read it. He should be fired.
     
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    Anyone that does that better be careful. You can't bring your own beer into stadiums. Entering the ballpark is going to be like airport security.
     
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    Actually politics in sporting events has been around for quite a while.

    https://slate.com/news-and-politics...s-and-politics-for-longer-than-you-think.html
     
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    hahahahaha!!! They would be hypocrites wouldn’t they?
     
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    Nothing like the last 5 years or so. Most politics in sports if one wants to call it that was players vs. owners. Sure the Olympics had some with the raised fists etc. But nothing that stood out in our professional sports, NBA, MLB, NFL like that or in college sports. At least that I can remember.
     
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