This is another step on the continuum. It is remarkable how many corporations; and yes, professional sports are corporations first and foremost; are willing to collapse their business model on behalf of wokeism and political ideology. However, that said, this is a predictable step when you think about our earlier discussions of blue regions and red regions and how they would break-down in a soft civil war surrounding politics and freedom.
Major League Baseball (MLB) has announced they will not hold the All Star game in Georgia due to the recently passed law ensuring voting integrity.
If we are to follow the progression of this continuum, we will see further division of our nation based on leftist politics. Eventually you get to a situation where the Red State -vs- Blue State issues (Red Region/Blue Region) will break down into liberty and freedom zones (red), and totalitarian control or communal zones (blue).
Exactly as we have been predicting for over a decade.
I lost all interest in major league baseball when they put the BLM logo on the field in 2020. F them.
I lost all interest in major league baseball when their highly overpaid players went on strike in 1994. I’ve only been to maybe 6 games since, all with my dear father who was an avid, lifelong Orioles fan (like his father) and who was heartbroken by the strike. But he didn’t abandon MLB and followed the Orioles closely until he died in his nineties not quite a decade ago. I miss him but am grateful he didn’t live to see what has become of our nation.
If I need to watch a baseball game, I have been watching baseball from Japan and Australia for the past 2+ years. More entertaining and very little if any virtue signalling.
Good for you thedocoo.
Major League Baseball here in The United States has decided to announce this on Good Friday, one of American Christians most revered religious days.
Of course the people who work for the MLB have no idea that this very special day still means anything to any of us but we know it does and always will.
The MLB thinks it is more important than the crucifixion of Our Savior for our sins and probably did not even notice what day it was.
The people who are the king and lords of the base ball here in the Untied States just wanted to stick it to Georgia.
My family, and there are a lot of us, are more than sickened by this and are done with professional baseball just as we quit the NFL.
If the MLB had a problem with what Georgia did they really should have waited out of respect for Good Friday and Easter Sunday at least until next week.
But they did not even notice what a special religious weekend this was.
This is worse than what the NFL did.
Much worse.
Amen Brother.
MLB chose to prostitute itself for the woke money. Won’t get any of mine!
I live in Worcester, Massachusetts and I had to show my ID when I voted last year. I voted early, in person. I guess Fenway Park is off the list to
host the ASG.
Nope. Logic and consistency aren’t in the left’s playbook.
MLB makes this release on Good Friday no less. Biden thinks he is much more powerful than Trump. He got MLB to roll over. This is it for me. No more professional sports. I despise the progressives
Just wait until the BLM rioting starts up again this summer. We’ll be hearing the same talking points all over again too.
https://twitter.com/Shem_Infinite/status/1378071693390909440
Shem nailed it.
If you didn’t notice, BLM and Antifa burned small mom-and-pop businesses, not Walmarts and Home Depots. Their war is against the middle class, not the wealthy elite because they are gutless cowards.
It may be they had permission to burn that Starbucks because it was going to go out of business anyway due to location and there were tax benefits to having it burned down.
Been off twit for 4 months now. I miss Shem. Thx FPCHmom.
The American past time sells out America. Buh bye MLB.
I texted a friend of mine in the league and he tells me players and coaches are pissed off. His phone is blowing up with texts.
Good.
Tell him they all need to speak up loudly, together. Privately and publicly. Tell him they can be heroes if they all stick together!
From the Cleveland Indians site:
“Somehow, it’s ok to be frisked down with a metal wand, required to buy advance tickets with a confirmed credit card or paypal-type account, but not ok to require voting ID
And from the Cleveland Indians:
“Fans wishing to purchase at the Box Office will need to have a photo ID on them. Tickets can be purchased in quantities up to 8 per person, per transaction. Some special offers are not available at the Box Office- District Tickets, kids tickets. Other restrictions may apply.”
I’m in Ohio and I want that GD loser of a baseball franchise called the Indians to move the hell out of Ohio and take the Reds, too.
I’m tired of non stop radio airtime being devoted to this dying sport of baseball and it IS dying.
iHeartRadio owned radio stations are non-stop with MLB promotion and talk.
I’ve taken my ears elsewhere.
I’ve switched my radio listening to a locally run classic rock station that only plays music so I don’t have to hear a DAMN thing about baseball.
how are the going to pay those outlandish salaries, if the fan base declines?
Total losers = Cleveland Indians. What value do they really provide for the tax dollars spent on their product? (Rhetorical question).
Best thing I’ve done is remove MLB from my life whether it’s the radio, TV, online. It’s a boring and dying sport dominated by discussion from the blue state chattering class.
A nation divided united will fall. No way this country will stand as a whole nation if we end up with red vs blue. And by the way don’t you need to show a ticket as prove of purchase before you enter the arena. For everything you have to provide some form of ID except at the ballot box. I’ve never been into baseball good riddance. I’m exhausted when does it end.
It’s nearly impossible not to hate these people. Hating isn’t an emotion I’m comfortable with.
Hate is not inherently and only “an emotion”. It is also a decision about what to detest, what to abhor, what to stand against.
As an emotion, hate will eat you up from the inside out. As a factor in decision-making, it is a healthy perspective that ends up identifying the stuff that will eventually kill you if you don’t “hate it” at some level.
Our language has been so bastardized. Definitions and expressions of both hate and forgiveness have become so distorted that the words are almost useless in communication.
Rush Hudson Limbaugh was warning about it in the 1990s when he would say “we’re losing the language”.
He was so right.
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words” … “The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”
― George Orwell
Don’t hate them. Pity them.
Hating anyone hurts YOU more than THEM.
Many blessings to all that see through this insane delusions that continues to escalate.
Screw that. Psalm 5:
For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you. The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.
Hmmm…. “you hate all evildoers”, look at the context. God will will serve perfect justice on them. I am not concerned about that.
Matthew 5:44
[44] But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
I admit, I am not quite there yet … I can’t say I love my enemies and I consider the godless left an enemy. Hate does more harm to you than them. I hate what they stand for but I don’t hate them as human beings. Hate will also affect your health in negative ways and color your world in negative ways. It’s not something I would recommend.
Again in Luke 6:27-29, 35
[27] But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,
[28] Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.
[29] And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also.
…
[35] But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Again, I am not quite there yet but understand where I should be.
You do as you see fit. I’m still being challenged.
Psalm 5
(David talking to God)
[1] Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
[2] Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.
[3] My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
[4] For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
[5] The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
[6] Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
[7] But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
[8] Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
[9] For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
[10] Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
[11] But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
[12] For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
Just tried to watch – “Failed script”! They’re staying right on top of ANYTHING not favorable to *Biden!
What as Sick” person” he is.
“President”.
really Joe……..”the very people who are victimized the most are the people who are the leaders in these various sports”….hmm…I don’t think so
This should energize some conservative voters and might persuade others as well. It’s just absurd.
So in a nutshell MLB supports obvious voter fraud.
Makes one wonder about how MLB and other “woke” sports such as football and basketball run their drafts.
I already blasted the Commish, who is an idiot
Baseball which is supposed to be as American as apple pie would rather serve fortune cookies which is as fake and phony to the Chinese culture as MLB outrage to the Georgia voting law.
remember, the Supine Court gave the MLB a judge-made exemption (completely fabricated against the clear law) from the antitrust laws, because they were the ‘national pastime.
Baseball played by families in their yards can still be “mom and apple pie”.
But the professional MLB is not.
So we can all still have fun with our bats, balls and gloves and tease grandpa gently while he limps around the bases like the good sport he is.
And we can turn our backs on the million dollar sell outs that those who play for money have become.
Watch the grand kids play tee-ball or the fourth grade team have fun playing for the right reasons but leave the professional creeps alone.
Leave the MLB all alone but still love base ball for the fun it can give your family.
Base ball can still belong to American families playing it together on a summer afternoon.
We are such a silly people.
I was looking forward to a full MLB season this year with fans in the stands. Being from PA, the Phillies bullpen held up yesterday, and we go a win in the 10th.
Oh well, back to NASCAR for this year again. Other than the Talladega incident last summer, at least they have most of their sh*t together. It’s fun to watch my favorite driver win and to watch the drivers I don’t like go a lap down.
Happy Easter everyone.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish bu have everlasting life. – John 3:16
Noosecar is just as bad. Why don’t you spend that time fighting for your country instead?
noose-car HA!
True Stu or how about taking the kids grand kids, nieces and nephew out for a nice easy family game of base ball in the yard.
Instead of watching some one else play sports we can all go back to doing things ours selves.
My friends husband was watching a guy fishing on a show about fishing on television the day before yesterday.
His wife was trying to get him to turn the TV off and go outside and do some fishing himself.
She reminded me of some ones mother “Turn off that TV and go out and play”.
What has gotten into the adults in America that they will pay gobs of money to watch some one else, fish, play poker, hike, cook , sew or even take pictures now.
Amazing.
Christ keeps my sanity!
I hope you have had a blessed Good Friday.
Would be a perfect time for a player led strike since this is obviously a globalist move.
They seem to think we care about what they think and do. Nah. Just more time for me golfin’, grillin’, and chillin’.
Me too TradeBait.
More time to Live with a capital L.
Screw the MLB – I’ll never watch another game in person or on the idiot box.
I think I’ll enjoy chasing my wife around the house just like I did when I swore off the NFL.
America’s favorite past-time. Dads and their sons go to the ballparks and an occasional mom and her son…am guessing most are/were middle class until the price of tickets, parking, snacks, beer etc all went thru the roof. I thought in 1996, taking my son to a Cubs game was expensive having dropped $100 for food, parking, drinks, and tickets…now its much more.
It used to be bleacher seats were the cheap seats at Wrigley…No more MLB for me.
agree
Always the left attacks and always the Republicans just sit there.
It would really really be nice if we had a party which would not just respond but proactively act to make further attacks useless.
All the institutions have been taken over by the left. They must be replaced by alternatives. It seems this won’t happen spontaneously so some organization working on behalf of conservatives must step forward.
With all issues of recent times absolutely no opposition by R’s or anyome in MSM has allowed the Democommies to get away with everything. If even 50% had any integrity things would be different.
MLB has been in decline for a long time, this isn’t going to help them.
https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1378062776166461440
“‘The Government™’ isn’t something you can vote for because it is, in reality, the vast unelected administrative state which is present at every level of government along with the unelected lobbyists who effectively own the politicians found at every level of government who pretend to be in control.” – Me
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1378061160495349767
NO! I have given up on the Milwaukee Brewers and MLB. No TV, No radio, No hats, shirts, etc., and No to their cashless society the Brewers and other team are pushing by not allowing the use of cash at their stadium.
GOOD HOLY GRIEF $300 for ONE GAME!
For $300 you could buy a tent and some nice camping equipment that would last for years and take your whole family out weekend after weekend after weekend for years for just the cost of one MLB game.
No wonder the people who run the MLB are so full of themselves if they can get people to fork over this kind of money week after week year after year they probably think it will never end.
How long will it take for the brave republican party to fold? The correct response is, bye.
I know the RNC still exists, because it keeps sending requests for money.
to quote descartes in pig (which they are) latin, “RNC beg-ito, ergo sum”
The RNC begs, therefor it exists…
therefor when we can stop them from begging, they will no longer exist
Have you noticed how they trot the RINOS out in the emails and texts doing the begging?
Nikki Haley, Rick Scott etc.. I just laugh and send them a scathing reply. I also ask them when they had a slim majority under Ryan and McConnell, what did they get done other than tax cuts? What happened to immigration reform and why they wouldn’t fund the border and Trump had to elevate it to the Supreme Court to get funding as other Presidents did on other issues. I wouldn’t give the time of day to the RNC.
Looks like the fruit of seating American business to political and globalist purposes and takeovers.
Could it be that woke Coke said jump to the commissioner with his pathetically insufficient follow-through on his threats of severe consequences related to known and systemic cheating, and he essentially said how high?
Just look at the rest of Pro sports including NASCAR who seem like they are in a race to self-immolate over PC priorities. Then again, if you’re fine with Y chromosome possessors competing in female sports— as so many of the PC priotizers now are, what exactly are your standards?
I bet the CCP loves Coke and they do a lot of business with China. China is replacing us with our entertainment as well as products and services.
I was a subscriber of MLB.tv…until today. Wokeness keeps saving me money.
Yes, every game not watched is a couple nice nights out at a good non-chain restaurant owned by a small business.
Thanks, MLB, for going to bat for voter fraud!
I will reward you by never going to another of your games.
No surprise that what Sundance predicted long ago is coming to pass. Still I am conflicted. I want to fight this if at all possible. On the other hand, the thought of living in my own little red region, where liberty and freedom zones can be found, is actually very appealing.
Sad to say, the blue regions aren’t going to let red regions exist, are they?
Georgia was a red region. Texas was a red region. Pretty soon you’ll be standing on one foot and the only red region will be the one you’re standing on.
As were CO, NM, VA, NV
Soon we will lose NC, MT, and TX
Unbelievable! I hope they don’t cave! Who wants a bunch of self centered elites taking a knee anyway. Let’s hope the support from other states show these idiots who and what they really think…time for the other 75 mill to stand up..
Local news in Atlanta just reported that leftist groups are calling for boycotts of coca cols, Delta and Home Depot plus Chikfila. Delta and Coca Cola are screwed not only is the left boycotting them but so is the right. I will guarantee they miss read this boycott
ChikFila is the most popular fast food restaurants in the area, they are always packed. The drive throughs (multiple lanes) wrap around the buildings at all hours. I bet they aren’t flinching about the AME boycotting them.
I haven’t heard Home Depot make a statement one way or the other. I guess they would rather stay out of politics. Though Arthur Blank does own them and the Atlanta Hawks I would bet the Hawks have taken a knee.
The Atlanta Braves released a statement saying this decision was not their decision or their wishes. I guess MLB did this all on their own with no input from the teams.
I don’t care what the communists think of the law it is the right thing to do even if the local Foxnews channel has been whining about it the whole time. Add the Atlanta newspaper to that hissy fit and we have a city full of cry babies all throwing a tantrum at one time. Does my heart good to hear the knashing of teeth.
Having a pro sports league with a HQ in NYC does not help a particular sport relate to the rest of the nation but then again MLB is more interested in the Chinese market or blue coastal areas.
Would like to read more on red blue breakdown. Please post links. Thanks.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/04/13/it-begins-east-and-west-coast-blue-states-team-up-to-begin-economic-civil-war/
I recall MLB pandered for Obama in Cuba ( during terrorist attack in Belgium)
It’s not surprising…
Want a new stadium.. need better stadium rental rates..
Who do you see to get local tax money.. not the tax payer but the local politician..
It’s called Stadium Subsidies…. very prevalent..
IIRC the subsidy has been banned in Tampa Bay Area and perhaps the whole state of Florida..
So the money man says MLB it would be in your owners intrest to make a statement..
This gets more bizarre every day..
Link https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadium_subsidy
MAGA
So just think about it.. empty stadiums.. the teams are still playing.. how..
Why ..MSM funding.. … the same people setting the National Narative
I certainly do not want to discourage people from acting with their wallets and consciences, but as with so many others lately, its important to understand that most of these orgs have already run the numbers… and they do not need us.
What that means is that our “power” of the purse is minimized. Google, MSFT, Dicks sporting goods, NFL, they’re all doing just fine with about as good as our side is going to get at doing financial boycotts.
I wouldn’t be too sure of the NFL they went full on woke during the scamdemic. The Colin Kapernik stuff hurt them bad. We won’t know the damage until the season starts in about 6 months. MLB season just started we’ll see soon how this plays out. Most people in this country know nothing about GA or this new law because the news will not report on it correctly. Even the local news here is bashing it and only giving the communist view. Total BS.
I think that is true in the short term but I don’t believe sports can survive without fans in the long term.
They have run the numbers and maybe they’re right and maybe they’re wrong. Has everyone stopped buying all Coke products – or did we get miffed for a couple of days and then forget and get a Sprite or a Fanta at a fast food place? Has everyone truly sworn off flying on Delta – or would we book a flight with them if they were lower by $50?
If we won’t spend an extra $50 to tell Delta to F*** off for not letting Georgia legislate election security, then – yeah – I guess we get what’s coming to us. And what’s coming to us is going to be REALLY FREAKING BAD. Way worse than people understand. The 2020 election fraud wasn’t a one-off, it was the start of the New Normal. The progs winning everything. Second Amendment – GONE. Free speech – GONE.
Dicks isn’t doing well. No retailer with that much mall/brick and mortar dependence is doing well.
As to the rest, you don’t have to fund your enemy.
Demographics will eventually kill the NFL – their fans are dying off and there are no replacements.
Who needs brick and mortar? The malls were dying ten years ago. Nobody wants to employ expensive American workers, when they can easily manufacture products in foreign sweatshops and sell them online. (no more tariffs to level the playing field).
TREASONOUS coups are as bad as it gets.
The loss of brick and mortar stores also promotes a cashless society to consolidate Totalitarian control (social credit anyone?) as it squeezes every drop of profit.
Win-win for them is a lose-lose for free society.
Thank God it’s more fun to gamble on MLB while not watching.
Not to be outdone by the less Woke MLB, the Woke Pentagon is seriously considering pulling both Ft. Benning and Ft. Gordon from Georgia.
Tyler Perry will be moving his phony White House Movie lot as well.
The Woke Pentagon’s first plan under consideration was that Atlanta be burned to the ground except it was pointed out that the democrat party depends too much on Atlanta to stuff ballot boxes..
Tyler Perry will move his White House movie lot just outside the White House so extras will no longer have to commute.
Aren’t they going to change the name of Ft. Benning to something else? General Henry L. Benning was a Confederate General. Didn’t Congress pass an authorization that include changing the names of Army bases to eliminate Confederate names?
The may be renaming it for the smartest and most honest man Joe Biden knows, Hunter Biden.
We might be better off if we’d just let the Chi Coms overrun us.
I can hardly take in the insanity that is going on!
I vacillate between wanting to laugh or to weep.
To Hell with Baseball now
To hell with sportsball. And Coke. And Delta. And …
I’m really annoyed about the coke. But rumor has it that coke does take paint off cars.. and that can’t be good.
Now, if they just got rid of drugs and alcohol, there would be no more crutches or safe spaces, and the American people would be forced to reckon head-on with the TREASONOUS COUP. Globalists really seem to enjoy rubbing our noses in our own excretement.
So if they would have stayed and played in a limited attendance stadium it would have somehow been a big deal for Georgia? Buh bye, don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. And didn’t I see a poll saying that 70% of African Americans are in favor of voter ID?
To use lefty logic, MLB is racist because there are many AA’s in Georgia and moving the game disproportionately affects low-income people and communities of color. Also, MLB is not doing what they can to ensure that everyone is welcome, thus making the game less accessible to minorities and in the minds of lefties, RACIST!
Everyone should call out MLB for this indiscriminate disenfranchising of so many BIPOC baseball fans.
What does “call out” mean? Tell them that they’re hypocrites? Like they care. They only thing that matters to them is money. Total boycott of MLB, all Coke products, Delta Airlines and any other company that threatens Georgia for having the gall to try to enact election security measures in their own state through their own elected legislature.
Baseball has elite suites, and other racist, expensive seat neighborhoods . We need special “oppressed minority” seating in all the suites and box seats, and lower tier seats !!! because racism !!!!
It’s been pleasant to hear a baseball game in progress after this past year. Some semblance or normalcy. But they killed it within the hour, shilling for Moderna (now a sponsor of ESPN) with the analysts all cheering their recent jabs, and then I heard a promo for “social justice initiatives”. I’m out. Baseball can go to hell with the rest of the sports world.
“when I became a man, I put aside childish things” 1 Cor 13:11.
We really cannot countenance watching grown men playing children’s games while the country is being systematically destroyed.
I gave up football (pro) when they started kneeling. I’ll give up baseball because I’m not into caving. Pro basketball has been over the top. I guess someone is trying to tell me that social justice and sports are oil and water and we know what oil did to the birds during the spills. They were accidental. These fools actually decided to slime themselves!!
Well I can’t watch any less baseball – or spend any less money on it – than I already do.
Time to play hardball, folks. No matter how much you love baseball, turn it off. Refuse to go to a game. Do not watch on TV. Boycott advertisers if you can without totally inconveniencing yourself. And don’t stop at baseball. We can’t count on spineless Republicans…they always cave. But if 70 million voters boycott anything, it will have an effect.
Professional sports? I’m sorry…is that still a thing?
Here it is!
https://www.mlb.com/amp/news/mlb-reveals-plans-to-help-game-grow-in-china-c263931024.html?__twitter_impression=true
If you are watching professional sports with the possible exception of the NHL you are collaborating with the Left. If you are watching any sport broadcast by ESPN, you are a collaborator. If you stop watching professional sports except for your favorite team (just like my clueless neighbor) you are a collaborator. Don’t be a collaborator.
Naw! Canadian here.
The NHL has caved too.
They just don’t have the T.V. contracts.
Move out of blue states while you can. As for the All Star game, who cares.
IT SEEMS THE MLB HAS FORGOTTEN WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE NFL …..LET’S REMIND THEM!
I’m amazed at how many people have just now decided to stop watching sports, truly amazed.
I will find the story from when a king captures another king in war and knowing the people would revolt, he introduced sports to deflect this revolution and guess what… That King was successful.
I will find it unless someone else finds it first.
I’ve boycotted many commie places. (Never frequented a lot of them to begin with). Never been on social media, for example. But now I went from mildly annoyed .. to HELL NO!
RNC is back to it’s old tricks- just a lot of loud whining…
I just don’t see what a politician can do about MLB not playing their game in the Atlanta area. Maybe they could write a sternly worded letter or something IDK.
MLB. How far they’ve fallen from where the great game of baseball began…back when every village and town across the nation had a team…and they played long tough games that everybody enjoyed…take a look at the summary of the greatest book ever published about baseball–first-person recollections of how it was to play in “The Glory of Their Times” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glory_of_Their_Times