The trouble with having lost all interest in baseball years ago is that I can't quit watching it now
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Who the f’k cares?
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MLB Baseball moves All-Star game out of Georgia
Commissioner Robert Manfred: “I have determined the best way to demonstrate our value as a sport is relocating this year’s All-Star Game and MLB Draft.” Mission accomplished.
Someone points out that you need an I.D. to pick up tickets at a ballpark or buy a beer, but it’s raaassist to ask a voter to do the same.
Circling back: As Republicans move to revoke MLB’s anti-trust exemption, something no other sports business enjoys, here’s a great article explaining the 1922 Supreme Court decision that granted MLB that status (interesting note: the plaintiff was a competitive league’s team owner who was denied permission to join the big guys because his fan base in Baltimore had “too many negroes”.)
And over at Twitchy.com, lots of fun at the expense of that grubby capitalist LeBron James.
[M]any conservatives are dragging James for weighing in on the Georgia law when he stayed silent on China back in 2019:
“When I speak about something, I speak about something I’m very knowledgeable about, something I’m very passionate about. I feel like with this particular situation, it was something not only I was not informed enough about, I just felt like it was something that not only myself or my teammates or my organization had enough information to even talk about it at that point in time and we still feel the same way.”
That was then, this is now:
From reader “Charles Smythe”:
Dems have controlled our legislature for 60 years. We have no early voting, to get an absentee ballot you have to sign an affidavit with a valid excuse and return it to your local board of elections and you have to show some form of ID in order to vote in person. If Georgia said, "we scoured the country and think CT does things the right way" and enacted a carbon copy of our state election laws, that result would be significantly more restrictive than what they recently enacted. Would that be "Jim Crow on steroids"?