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-Great Cultural Revolution
MLB yanks All-Star Game out of Atlanta over Georgia's new voting law
2021-04-03
That's the law that's "like Jim Crow on steroids."
Yesterday President Biden suggested, today we have the report that Major League Baseball responded to the merest touch of the whip like a thoroughbred. This continues the discussion started in that thread yesterday.
[NYPOST] MLB is taking its ball and leaving Georgia.

The league announced on Friday that it is moving the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta as backlash grows over a new Georgia law that is seen as an attack on voter access.

"I have determined the best way to demonstrate our value as a sport is relocating this year’s All-Star Game and MLB Draft," commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement.

"MLB fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box."

The Braves, in a statement, opposed the move.
A shame you’ll have to eat the loss, guys. But someone has to suffer for the greater good, and you made the mistake of living in Georgia. Still, consider the fact that the entire city of Atlanta can eat the lost revenue alongside you!
Posted by:Fred

#33  " Time to stop favoring all the big corporations." I agree. However, they have already bought & paid for control of our political and economic systems. It's called "rent seeking". Quite a few of these corporations need to be put out of existence for the good of the rest of us (real people, that is). I do not see how this can happen with the deep entrenchment of corporations.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2021-04-03 23:50  

#32  Classic.

Cheers.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-04-03 22:50  

#31  I think it is time to end the MLB Anti-Trust exemption. Time to stop favoring all the big corporations. The same thing goes with large corporations sec 230 exemption, etc. Google, Facebook, Amazon... all of them. No more exemptions, no more special treatment. Once a company gets "too big to fail" it should lose all government protections, be it a bank, a brokerage or a baseball league.

Times up, no more playing favorties.
Posted by: These Forkbeard7574   2021-04-03 22:44  

#30  Bad Beavis News Bears
Posted by: Bertie Glimp3666   2021-04-03 21:48  

#29  ^ lol
Posted by: Frank G   2021-04-03 21:26  

#28  One of my proudest moments was watching my son at 13 throw a dart from deep center, catcher never picked up the ball and it became stuck in his face mask. They did score

Catcher was the head coach’s kid
Posted by: Beavis   2021-04-03 21:12  

#27   Nice work, a glass to you sir. I saw Able Bodied Men go down in the GA Summer after two hours of golf.

I did my basic training at Ft Gordon in Augusta. Watching Texans and Arizonans do face plants from heat at 101 after saying this ain’t shit, kind of cracked me up. I would whisper but you have a dry heat
Posted by: Beavis   2021-04-03 21:10  

#26  ^That young woman added 20' to her throw and caught everything afterwards. Probably shaved a full second off of her home to first sprint.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-04-03 20:53  

#25  Nice work, a glass to you sir. I saw Able Bodied Men go down in the GA Summer after two hours of golf. We here prefer the 100+ temp with 35 winds + gusts, but the red dirt way. White pant dressings, so by the end of the season you could see who hustled if the pants had a pink tint.

Toughest thing I had to do, at the time youngest was in mech pitch so everyone is still learning, was the Ass. Coach at the time ->laugh y'all or you ain't human<- and youngest said something sporty during a drill. Had to take him aside, explain the chain of command, and stressed to pay attention or acquire a taste for leather. Must of done well, whole team even the fence setters and dirt kickers were on-board.

Here I am telling stories. Same year, young gal was struggling with throw and catch, and I was pushing her comfort zone with parents in-tow. Well she caught one with her cheek, wind and no tree evening sun, game conditions. Did my 1st aid thing with the dirty hanky and someone's cooler ice. Dad comes down, oh crap. He looks at her, says a couple things to her in their native language, puffs up and walks off, apparently satisfied with my actions and proud daughter had finally got a dinger doing something physical.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-04-03 20:50  

#24  swksvolFF And thank you as well.

But I must admit there was nothing better than coaching my son in travel baseball for 6 years, most people can’t understand the satisfaction of getting to the baseball field at 8 am on Saturday in GA in July and staying there until 9. Going home washing the uniforms in iron out to get the GA red clay out and back Sunday at 9 and playing until you’re eliminated or win it all.

I coached him for 2 years in HS rugby and still coach that side, he’s playing in college. Was a top 100 player and might’ve been an AA last year except for Covid.

I always disliked the coaches that berated their players, you can critique them and be positive. Couple of years ago we were in Knoxville playing a decent rugby side but they made too many high tackles, didn’t come into the rucks properly. His face was beet red at halftime, spittle flying everywhere after the match I mentioned how he looked and with a slight jab said those are coaching issues. He thought about it thanked me and then gave me a jar of moonshine
Posted by: Beavis   2021-04-03 20:05  

#23  Gone Are The Days

America as we knew it is vanishing before our eyes
Character virtue merit sacrifice service-before-self: all part of a departed era.

We have memories.

Of a better, finer America.

It was a good run.
Posted by: Angaising and Tenille5042   2021-04-03 19:37  

#22  Good work Coach. Thank you for your time.

It is my experience that no matter how talented a participant is, or is not (me), all hit that wall and it is A Coach who gits them over, if the parent(s) allow it.

I only remember my tough coaches, and could go on all evening. I don't mean hit you with a sock of quarters, one come across as an absolute pushover intellectual other than he was wider than tall. When his #1 had us sniffing the rafters, we could hear him benching 300 reps. Made the fatigue ebb quick.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-04-03 19:24  

#21  It’s a cool story he’s on the Braves ground crew and one inning per game he changes into the spandex and googles and takes on all comers.

He was collegiate track athlete and was racing some guys before a game one of the Bravos promoters saw him and whaalaa a superhero was born

I coach high school rugby and we make the kids circle the field with proper ball handling, once the ball is at the back of the pack, last man must sprint to the front
Posted by: Beavis   2021-04-03 18:26  

#20  Impressive.

Reminds me of a baseball coach I had. Late, or e'f up, and he would make us 'run the posts', run the perimeter. If he wanted to drive his point home, he would give the mark a lead and if he passed him, he had to run it again.

He had another card called 'burnout'. Basically, duff a throw, and he would call out the mark and the two would throw back and forth with Coach increasingly throwing harder until: mark would bail out or mark would throw poorly or Coach would get tired which was the only way to get out of the penalty box if you will. Losing, and its "Run the posts!".

Beginning of the season, Coach would Run the Posts three four times a practice. End of season, he didn't have to and Running the Posts was a rare thing.

You know, back when coaches could be Coaches.

Flash forward X decades and I find myself with the Coach Cap. Softball, but basically the same game, and there were practice sessions where it was more expedient and efficient to simulate outfield hits by throwing - working on lateral movement, over the head or short, whatever the player needed to work on - and could do that repeatedly for 30 minutes: benefits of a classical education to quote Hans Gruber. Also had a real disdain for those who mailed in warmup or floated a throw to first, but Running the Posts wasn't an acceptable option, which was unfortunate because that taught me the benefits of awareness and being a quick learner.

*paid off later in life, about to enter a potential structure fire and noticed teammate, in his haste, had donned his wildland tunic instead of his Big Shit coat. Not wanting to Run the Posts with a collapsed teammate I tapped him out (to be fair, it was his first real trial) even at the risk of the QRT not being fully stocked upon potential entry. Indeed, that is a Big No No, but 10 seconds can be the difference between smoking outlet and Crap the Basement is Engulfed.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-04-03 17:50  

#19  Sue for Breach of Contract. Sue for defamation.
Posted by: magpie   2021-04-03 17:46  

#18  MLB is just another government subsidized industry. I am so done with sports.
Posted by: badanov   2021-04-03 17:44  

#17  #5 swksvolFF

Have you seen the freeze?
Posted by: Beavis   2021-04-03 16:28  

#16  I'm sure premiere jackwagon George Will will write about how baseball rules the world...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-04-03 15:55  

#15  MLB is SO irrelevant.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2021-04-03 14:43  

#14  I blame soccer.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-04-03 14:29  

#13  Anti-trust exemption from 1922. Yeah, I'd say dumping that is decades over-due (a sport, not a business...GTFOH).

Ted Cruz, Mike Lee call for revoking MLB’s antitrust status after All-Star Game pulled from Georgia
Posted by: Clem   2021-04-03 13:48  

#12  Prolly at the new stadium in Minneapolis: St George Floyd Memorial Stadium

James Biden's Iraq Reconstruction company won the bid to build it. A bargain at $300 billion
Posted by: Therelet Protector of the Nebraskans7196   2021-04-03 13:06  

#11  End of an era
RIP, Georgia Peach.. Iron Horse... Shoeless Joe... Splendid Splinter.. Kid..

Take it away, Dave Frishberg:
Van Lingle Mungo

Posted by: Clyde Pheating6572   2021-04-03 12:53  

#10  Why not just stick to flying and stay out of politics as much as possible?

Indeed. Or just play ball or just sing or just act. Leave the politics to the politicians. Lord know we have enough of them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-04-03 12:23  

#9  According to the Washington Examiner, the Delta situation resulted from him putting the company in the public eye on the other side of the argument first, and reversing his position in response to leftwing pushback:

The backstory makes Delta, and Bastian, look even worse. Just last week, Delta released a statement praising improvements in the bill -- on absentee voting, weekend voting, poll worker flexibility, and more. Even though Delta conceded that "concerns remain over other provisions in the legislation," the assessment was basically positive.

The statement prompted some ugly blowback from the left. Former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann tweeted, "Do not fly Delta. Do not spend money with Delta. Boycott Delta. Ruin Delta." The hashtag #BoycottDelta began to fly around on Twitter.

Talk of punishing Georgia grew. On Wednesday night, President Biden said he would "strongly support" moving the baseball All-Star game set for July 13 in Atlanta. "This is Jim Crow on steroids, what they're doing in Georgia," Biden said. The president has consistently mis-stated what is in the Georgia law. As Karl Rove outlines here, Biden has leveled three specific accusations against the law, and all three are false.

But it's enough to make a CEO tremble in fear. And so Bastian issued his new statement to the "Delta family." Then Georgia Governor Brian Kemp cut Bastian's legs out from under him. Delta did engage in the legislative process, Kemp said, and "At no point did Delta share any opposition to expanding early voting, strengthening voter ID measures, increasing the use of secure drop boxes statewide, and making it easier for local election officials to administer elections -- which is exactly what this bill does." Just to stick it in a little, Kemp added, "The last time I flew Delta, I had to present my photo ID."

So now Delta is being battered from all sides. What's the lesson? The lesson is not that the company should be four-square in support of the new bill. It is not that it should be four-square against the bill. It is that corporations like Delta should try to stay out of hot political controversies. Delta is a passenger airline. It flies people around the country and the world. It flies Trump supporters. It flies Biden supporters. If flies everybody. Why not just stick to flying and stay out of politics as much as possible?
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-04-03 12:09  

#8  Lemee guess. Frisco... no, Chicago or Detroit.
(I'd go for Portland but I don't think they have the facilities.)
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-04-03 11:48  

#7  Haven't bought a Delta ticket or an MLB ticket in years. It's almost too easy...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-04-03 11:47  

#6  When MLB went all cable in my area it was easy to quit watching, I had no choice. Last year's kneelers made it easy to quit the radio. Now I'll skip the digital broadcast games. Local traveling leagues for me now.
And that's really too bad, for me anyway. I coached my boys from youth to high school for 20 years. Love the game.
Posted by: Spoter B   2021-04-03 11:36  

#5  Sue for breach of contract, and be glad to be rid of a season which lasted all of 1 day. Cash out investments and holdings.

It will be tough; The Braves have a fine tradition. But Blooper, like Slider, is a fallice joke, and nobody volunteers for a three hour shit talk session, and all the panders are not going to just suddenly take up baseball.

Congrats MLB. You managed to lose a coach who grew up with George Brett. Audio books from now on for tinker time.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-04-03 11:04  

#4  
No loss to our family we switched off Major League sports when the League owners started supporting the player disrespect to the USA.

Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the new election law "does not match Delta's values." I guess his values are PR for Profit not Honest in Government.

This is not the same Delta Airlines culture, that I did a few months of ITSEC & Network installation consulting work for some 25+ years ago.




Posted by: NN2N1   2021-04-03 08:33  

#3  Baseball? They still play that?
Posted by: Mercutio   2021-04-03 07:08  

#2  Not going to help these people. Of course they can't seem to help themselves lately.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-04-03 06:49  

#1  
Another'not too bright move' by woke major league baseball,
or the new political party to be known as Maleba

Posted by: Caesar McCoy8523   2021-04-03 05:53  

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