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If anyone is looking for a game to watch, you may want to tune in to the White Sox and Angels game. Shohei Ohtani is batting second in LA's lineup and is pitching. He hit a solo homer in the 1st inning and he's held Chicago scoreless through 3 innings.
 
Some already have regretted their idea of boycotting Georgia and moving the MLB All Stars game. https://www.americanthinker.com/blo..._will_cost_them_votes_in_the_peach_state.html
April 5, 2021

Boycott boomerang: Genius Dems start to realize Georgia boycott will cost them votes in the Peach State​

By Thomas Lifson

Democrats thought they had a brilliant plan to force Georgia to permit widespread voting fraud by getting their woke pals in corporate America to bully the state into repealing its brand-new voting integrity law that mandates voter ID and other common-sense measures. Two Atlanta-based corporate giants, Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines, denounced Georgia’s new voting integrity bill, and Major League Baseball announced it was moving the All-Star Game away from Atlanta.
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Guess who gets hurt in the estimated $100 million impact from the loss of the MLB showcase. That would be the little guys who work at hotels and restaurants, who are vendors at the game, and who work in other service industries. The local Dem pols realized this quickly. Last Friday, Laura Ingraham reported:
[T]he blowback against this is growing, which forced even liberal Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff to put out a statement last night saying, "I absolutely oppose and reject any notion of boycotting Georgia." But then he said that look, corporations that are disgusted, like we are with this voter suppression bill, should stop any financial support for the Georgia Republican Party.
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Stacey Abrams, who claimed that she was cheated out of victory in the governor’s race (this was back when it was permitted to question an election result, an activity that now is regarded as destructive of democracy now that almost half the country thinks Joe Biden’s election to the presidency was based on voter fraud) wants to have it both ways. She put pout a video on March 31 that called ion corporations to use their “full clout” but also warned that her peeps would be hurt by boycotts.
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What does “full clout” mean, if not including boycotts? Watch and see if this makes any sense (spoiler alert: it doesn’t, and you have to endure 5 minutes of sophistry and lies):
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Some already have regretted their idea of boycotting Georgia and moving the MLB All Stars game. https://www.americanthinker.com/blo..._will_cost_them_votes_in_the_peach_state.html
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I love that it's just now dawning on people that calling half of the population racist might make them hate you in return.

Edit: Greg Abbott announces that Texas will not persue any All Star games itself.

On the one hand, I understand that he doesn't want these corporations trying to force their political agendas through boycotts and he HAS to do something. On the other hand, for the same reason that MLB cost Atlanta $100M supposedly, it's the same for Dallas/Arlington or Houston. It feels like mutually assurred destruction is inevitable.


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I love that it's just now dawning on people that calling half of the population racist might make them hate you in return.
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Or better yet, thinking that imploring corporations to punish their state for wrongthink by the political class is going to make the local plebs like them. How exactly does that work out?

Major events make lots of money for local businesses and franchises, like restaurants, hotels and others in the hospitality sector. All of which employ the working class heavily. They took an estimated $100 mil out of their state's economy and crowed about their victory, thinking that the locals will thank them for it. How fucking stupid are they? I see all the major Georgia Dems are backpedaling now, trying to figure out how to pin the blame elsewhere. Turns out the plebs don't like paying the price for their political/corporate parlor games.

Just goes to show how fucking out of touch they really are. BTW, I know Stacey Abrams looks like a fat dumb goofball everywoman, which I think is why she gets a ton of support. Ever read up on her? Both of her parents have graduate degrees from a fancy private school, she's got an Ivy League law degree and a masters, and the only jobs mentioned in her wiki bio are political internships and being a lawyer. Sounds just like every other over-privileged political asshole ever to me. Guess she hit the jackpot on looking like a dumb slob and being black so she can pretend she isn't just like the rest of them.
 
Ironic to see the MLB moving the All Stars game to Denver who have less blacks than Atlanta. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mlb-moves-all-star-game-atlanta-one-whitest-cities-america ( https://archive.ph/bqyrO )

MLB Moves All-Star Game From Atlanta To One Of The Whitest Cities In America​

BY TYLER DURDEN​

TUESDAY, APR 06, 2021 - 08:17 AM
Authored by Bryan Preston via PJMedia.com,
Major League Baseball has announced that it is playing the 2021 All-Star Game in Denver, Colo. instead of Atlanta, Georgia.
The Colorado Rockies will host the 2021 MLB All-Star Game after the decision to move the event from Atlanta over Georgia’s restrictive voting law, according to multiple reports.
ESPN and Altitude TV reported the game was going to be moved to Coors Field in Denver on July 13. Neither the Rockies nor MLB immediately responded to Fox News’ request for comment.
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The politics can’t be lost here, since MLB made a political decision to side with Joe Biden and the left’s lies regarding Georgia’s new election law.

Georgia is a red state; Colorado has shifted blue in recent years.
MLB has rewarded a blue state after criticizing a red state over a voting law that’s less restrictive than some blue states including Delaware so pro baseball is now a blue sport.
Atlanta is a black-majority city, with 51% of its population black.
Denver is one of America’s whitest major cities; just over 9% of Denver is black. More than 76% of it is white...

...Since MLB is political and now advocates exclusively for Democrat preferences, it should register as a lobbying organization and have its anti-trust protections revoked.

That will only happen if Republicans recapture Congress, so MLB will presumably lobby to oppose that too, and punish red states while rewarding blue states accordingly.

Meanwhile MLB will continue doing business in China and Cuba, two of the world’s most notorious communist dictatorships. China is credibly accused of genocide by its Han majority against its Uighur minority. MLB is silent regarding this systemic racism in China.
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Hollywood Hulk Hogan said:
No it doesn't. It limits the number of drop boxes and makes it illegal to give water to people in line. And you are retarded; IDs aren't free. Even drivers licenses cost money.


Georgia's own Trump cultist governor said there was no fraud in Georgia. It's fixing a problem that doesn't exist because the Trump cultists are mad that he lost Georgia so they don't want minorities to vote.

Oh, and the law also makes it so that the state legislatures can decide who wins the state.
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Dude why don't you just spend 5 seconds googling something instead of just repeating your dumb "facts".

Free voter ids:
georgia voter id

The food and water provisions are just to keep political actors and interest groups from handing out free stuff. Anyone else can.

Drop boxes were only made available because of the pandemic. It's a non issue, you can mail a ballot from your mailbox or drop it of at the post office or even at the polling station when it's open. The law actually mandates drop boxes, it doesn't eliminate them. Limiting the drop boxes hours and numbers is a security issue to prevent people from fucking with them.

The legislation will not prevent a single person from voting. Every time blueanon retards talk about "voter suppression" they never bring up a single example of a person that was prevented from voting who was eligible to vote. Dems always caterwhaul about the mildest of security concerns because they want to cheat like they do in Cali where you don't need any ID to register to vote you just have to "declare" you're a citizen. They want to disenfranchise US citizens in their own country and ballot harvest to their hearts content. Lol too bad so sad.

You just don't know what you're talking about and believe whatever your phone tells you.
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Argue about the voter crap in the voter crap threads. There's a billion of them.
 
Buck Swope said:
Well we had our first benches-clearing incident today involving Nick Castellanos and the Cardinals' battery to start. Castellanos was the only player ejected, which was pretty weak shit in my opinion since there was no violence at all by anyone. The best part is when the bullpens started to get into it a bit at the end. Idk why but the bullpens getting super heated is usually my favorite part of these things, because they have literally nothing to do with anything that preceded the bench clearing. Jomboy did a pretty quick rundown on it even though nothing really happened.
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I was so thrilled we got a bench clearer and grand slam in the first week.

Plus I got to listen to a game on radio, while sipping a beer eating meat, I haven't felt such joy since last season.. well the Phillies won so I forget how long that's been maybe 4 years now :P
 
We got to give some kudos to former Yankees player David Wells about what he think of the MLB's decision about the All-Star game.

Former Yankee David Wells on Thursday blasted Major League Baseball’s decision to move the All-Star Game from Atlanta, in protest of Georgia’s new GOP-led election reform bill.

The two-time World Series champion pitcher told Fox News Radio’s “The Brian Kilmeade Show” that the move by MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s has caused him to stop watching games.

“I’ve had a lot of dealings with Rob Manfred back in my playing days, and I never liked the guy,” Wells said during the interview.

“To me, how do you change the games, the dynamics, and hurt a city like Atlanta that really needs some income in that situation?” the left-handed hurler said on the show. “I mean, Atlanta’s a great place to play baseball.”

The controversial March measure tightened restrictions on absentee voting and allows the state to take control of local election systems.
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This might be the worst call I've ever seen not involving Angel Hernandez. How the fuck do you call him safe here AFTER watching the replay? I'm not even a Braves fan and I'm livid.


Also, wifebeater Domingo German got lit up again and the Yankees finally sent him to the "alternate site". Hopefully that's the last time I have to see him pitching for this team.
 
Aaron Hicks will be sitting out the game tonight against the Blue Jays in protest over the police shooting in Minnesota lol.

In more important baseball news that wasn't mentioned here, Joe Musgrove (a San Diego native) threw the first no-hitter in Padres history the other day when they beat the Rangers in Texas.
 
Expect the narrative to get unbearable tonight.

Easy headline: Anti-vaxxer catches COVID.

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Twins SS Andrelton Simmons, who declined vaccine, out after positive …

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MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota Twins shortstop Andrelton Simmons has tested positive for the coronavirus and was placed on the COVID-19 injured list Wednesday before the team's doubleheader against the Boston Red Sox.

Simmons has said he doesn't plan to get the COVID-19 vaccine, which was made available in a single-shot dosage to the team at Target Field last Thursday.

Twins president of baseball operations Derek Falvey said Simmons was experiencing "very mild" symptoms and resting at home. The positive test result was received late Tuesday, after the Twins lost 4-2 to the Red Sox.

After the initial phase of contact tracing, the Twins determined no additional players needed to be quarantined.

Simmons was replaced on the roster by infielder JT Riddle, who was summoned from the alternate training site. Third baseman Josh Donaldson, out since the season opener with a strained hamstring, was expected back for the second game of the doubleheader.

The Twins held a meeting to remind players and staff to heed virus protocols, even though a majority of them have been vaccinated. The full immunization period isn't in effect yet.

"We're not out of the woods by any means on that front," Falvey said, adding, "Now is the time to be as vigilant as possible."

Simmons tweeted last month that he would not be getting the vaccine or advocating for it for "personal reasons and past experience," on which he declined to elaborate. He confirmed Sunday that he did not participate in the teamwide vaccination. Asked if he planned to get the shot in the future, Simmons said he didn't know.

"We want to continue to educate people in the environment. This is real. This is something that can enter. We know that," Falvey said. "Sometimes no one really knows exactly how it can come at different times. We know that from looking not just across our sport, but across all sports and across the country and the world. Our view of that is constantly reminding people of why we think it's a good idea to get vaccinated. Our docs have recommended that, and so we continue to provide them as resources to players, to learn as much as they can about this."
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Just five days after Musgrove of the Padres, Carlos Rodon of the White Sox just threw the second no-hitter of the 2021 season, and the second White Sox no-hitter within their last 42 games. Just like Musgrove, the only runner he allowed was on a hit by pitch. Rodon hit his player (the catcher for Cleveland) on the top of the foot with one out in the top of the 9th inning. There was a lengthy and loud chant of "BULLSHIT" after it happened, but it clearly did hit him.
 
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Just five days after Musgrove of the Padres, Carlos Rodon of the White Sox just threw the second no-hitter of the 2021 season, and the second White Sox no-hitter within their last 42 games. Just like Musgrove, the only runner he allowed was on a hit by pitch. Rodon hit his player (the catcher for Cleveland) on the top of the foot with one out in the top of the 9th inning. There was a lengthy and loud chant of "BULLSHIT" after it happened, but it clearly did hit him.
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I kind of feel bad for the batter, there was nothing he could really do to get out of the way there but the fans were treating him like he was that prick who deliberately got hit to ruin Scherzer's perfect game a couple years back (forget the guy's name, some scrub from Pittsburgh).

 
-Braves and Yankees have decent offense undone by bad pitching
-Mets aren't the juggernaut they imagined when signing Lindor
-Tigers' rookies moving up the rebuild clock
-Reds aren't dogshit somehow

It's just the first week too; shame the WS is going to be Dodgers vs AL sacrifice again.
 
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