MLB will move the 2021 All-Star Game and MLB Draft out of Atlanta as a consequence of Georgia’s new Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression laws, Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Friday. MLB To Move All-Star Game Out Of Atlanta In Response To Georgia Voting Laws:
“Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box,” Manfred said in a statement:
“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. 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.
“Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box. In 2020, MLB became the first professional sports league to join the non-partisan Civic Alliance to help build a future in which everyone participates in shaping the United States. We proudly used our platform to encourage baseball fans and communities throughout our country to perform their civic duty and actively participate in the voting process. Fair access to voting continues to have our game’s unwavering support.
“We will continue with our plans to celebrate the memory of Hank Aaron during this season’s All-Star festivities. In addition, MLB’s planned investments to support local communities in Atlanta as part of our All-Star Legacy Projects will move forward. We are finalizing a new host city and details about these events will be announced shortly.”
To all the baseball fans in Georgia who are upset right now, do not blame the MLB, or MLBPA, or President Joe Biden, or even voting rights advocates who called on the All Star Game to be moved as an economic consequence for the racist, targeted voter suppression of Black voters in Georgia, who tend to vote for Democrats.
You have only yourselves to blame for the racist Republican crackers you elect to office in Georgia who promoted Donald Trump’s Big Lie and enacted the worst Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression measures since the end of the Reconstruction Era, signed by your governor under a portrait of a slave plantation for effect.
Let this serve as a warning to Republicans in the Arizona legislature, who are also promoting Donald Trump’s Big Lie and pushing the worst voter suppression measures since the end of the Reconstruction Era (goddamn, Arizona wasn’t even a state until 1912, and entered the union as a Progressive Era state).
You can rest assured that the NFL and NFLPA will follow the example set by Major League Baseball and its own prior history, and will move Super Bowl LVII, presently scheduled for State Farm Stadium, in Glendale, Arizona on February 5, 2023, if you persist in enacting your Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression bills, and our idiot governor signs them.
There will be economic consequences for your racism and Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression.
UPDATE: MLB All-Star games have been worth $60-$89 million to state and local economies over the last five years. The loss of the game is a substantial economic blow to Georgia, which like other states, is struggling to economically recover during the pandemic. (h/t POLITICUSUSA).
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Major League Baseball is expected to announce the All-Star Game will be relocated to Denver. ESPN’s Buster Olney first reported that the game is expected to be held July 13 at Denver’s Coors Field. The Associated Press later confirmed the reports, citing sources familiar with the decision, and said the event will be hosted by the Colorado Rockies.
“MLB All-Star Game Reportedly Moved To Denver”, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mlb-game-denver-2021_n_606bc544c5b68872efea13bf
BTW, Colorado is one of five stares with all-mail elections, with no significant reports of voter fraud.
QAnon Queen Rep. Majorie Taylor Green, who has been stripped of her committee assignments but keeps collecting a congressional paycheck for performance art as an influencer on right-wing social media – expel her already! – is facing blowback for her “saying it was ‘good’ her state lost All-Star Game for voter suppression”, https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-all-star-game/
Greene said the move was “good.”
“Good. Now take the rest of woke progressive Democrat bullies like Hollywood and Stacey Abrams with you,” she said, referring to the Democratic Party voting rights activist expected to challenge Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) in 2022, before she ran out of characters she was lecturing MLB to “just stick to baseball.”
Racist cracker.
You can read the Twitter responses to the QAnon Queen at the link.
The purveyor of the Big Lie to encourage voter suppression laws, white nationalist Donald Trump, is calling for a boycott of Major League Baseball after it decided to move its All-Star Game out of Georgia in protest of the state’s new Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression bill signed into law by Governor Kemp. Said Trump: “Boycott baseball and all of the woke companies that are interfering with Free and Fair Elections. Are you listening Coke, Delta, and all!”
“Trump calls for boycott of MLB for moving All-Star Game”, https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/546282-trump-calls-for-boycott-of-mlb-for-moving-all-star-game
When Republicans say “woke” it is code for anyone who is not an ignorant racist bigoted white nationalist Trump/QAnon cult member.