MLB's decision to move the All-Star Game out of Georgia fails on multiple fronts
In a knee-jerk reaction, baseball's powers that be jerked the annual classic out of Atlanta in protest of Georgia's new voting laws — proving they knew nothing about it
Major League Baseball pulled the 2021 All-Star Game from the state of Georgia and the Atlanta Braves’ Truist Park on Friday afternoon, a direct response to the grossly inflated controversy over Georgia’s new voting law.
Supporters called it a bold statement of purpose. It will warmed the hearts of many outside the state who wish to stick it to the GOP legislators who pushed the law through. It generated tweets of celebration, admiration and self-congratulation from people outside Georgia who have already moved on to the next controversy, having taken their apparent victory lap. They are completely and blissfully oblivious to the wreckage the decision leaves of the Atlanta economy.
In short, Major League Baseball seriously blew it. They made exactly the wrong move. They made it on the basis of lies the Fascist Left continues to tell about the Georgia election law, lies generated by the puppet masters standing behind Joe Biden. EVen when so Leftist a media outlet as The Washington Post revealed his lies by giving him the maximum Four Pinocchios, he and his White House staff doubled down and repeated their blatant falsehoods.
When confronted by a reporter, designated surrogate liar Jen Psaki stubbornly refused to acknowledge the truth. She defended Biden’s lies about voting closing on election day in Georgia at 5:00 p.m. (voting, in reality, is from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.), and that the bill makes it harder for people to vote in Georgia. In reality, the new law expands advance voting to 17 days and allows “no-excuse” absentee ballot applications.
The bill does require a state ID or drivers license to be able to vote, whether in person or absentee, and in reality that is what Biden and the rest of the Fascist Left do not like. It elminates their ability to cheat, as they did in the 2020 presidential election and in the Senate runoff elections in January that sealed a Democrat majority both houses and the White House.
Those are the lies Major League Baseball — as well as Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines — chose to believe, rather than getting the facts for themselves. Those companies also came out strongly against the election law. The irony is that MLB, Coke and Delta either are so clueless — not a good characteristic for a multinational corporation to display — as to not check the facts for themselves, or they deliberately joined in The Big Lie themselves.
The non-existent “woke mob” won another one for the cause of Fascism.
We say “non-existent” because there really is no mob. Phantom social media members and a few well-known “woke” Fascists join together to make a lot of noise on Twitter and Facebook over issues such as this. If patriots and freedom lovers stand their ground, however, refusing to be intimidated by what looks like an avalanche of criticism, the so-called “mob” disappears. The fact that MLB and the others don’t know this is an indication that, in the end, they will be the big losers to The Big Lie.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred came under heavy pressure from the Twitter mob to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta after the Georgia legislature passed a new set of election laws last week. (Photo: Sean M. Haffey (Getty)
Ironically, Tuesday of this week, MLB Commissioner Rob Manford announced the All-Star Game will be moved to Coors Field in Denver. The pick is far more a slap in the face to Georgians than the new voting law could possibly be construed.
For one, the move punishes minority businesses in Atlanta and rewards mostly white businesses in Denver, which isonly 9.2% black and over 76% white. Atlanta is 51% black and 40% white. Not only is the voting law not what Manford and MLB executives believe it is, but the businesses that are hurt, losing $100 million in expected revenue from the All-Star Game, are mostly minority owned.
Secondly, if the voting law is the real issue — obviously it is not, but for the sake of argument — Colorado voting laws are far more restrictive than Georgia’s are now. Colorado does not allow “no-excuse” absentee voting. The state has 15 days of early voting just before a general election, whereas Georgia now has 17 early voting days with an option to add two more days.
Colorado requires voter ID, just as does Georgia. Colorado has all mail-in voting available, but specific reasons for voting by mail must be provided on the ballot application. In short, it is much more “difficult,” if that word can be used in either state, to vote in Colorado than it is in Georgia.
Consider that MLB is headquartered in New York City. The State of New York only allows early voting 10 days before a general election and ends two days before. New York requires photo ID to vote. Absentee voting is restricted to five narrow areas of reasoning why an absentee ballot should be sent. In short, it is harder to vote in New York than it is in Georgia.
Missouri has two major league baseball clubs, the Kansas City Royals and the St. Louis Cardinals. The state does not have early or no-excuse absentee balloting at all. Missouri has voter ID requirements that are limited to a drivers license or a state ID. In short, it is harder to vote in Missouri than it is to vote in Georgia.
Is Major League Baseball going to move out of New York? Will the leagues force the Yankees and Mets to move out of state? Will they require the Royals and Cardinals to relocated?
Of course not. But such decisions would make just as much sense as moving the All-Star game out of Atlanta — which is to say, no sense whatsoever. It was a bad decision made on bad input by people who don’t understand the wind blowing against their face is generated by the equivalent of an electric fan, not by a hurricane.
The sooner corporations realize it will not, in the long run, pay to be “woke.” The vast majority of people in this country are fed up with the nonsense, knee-jerk idiot decisions being made by corporate executives who only count Twitter posts instead of customers coming through the doors.
When we all vote with our feet, when their revenues drop as a result, maybe they’ll change the way they do things. Or maybe they won’t. If they choose to ignore us, they won’t be in business much longer.