When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Without getting political, can somebody fill me in on this law? I can't seem to find anything concrete on the Internet
Originally Posted by mvp 78
I think this is the only non-biased article on the internet
https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/03/27/...-law-sb-202-do
Baseball getting political. That's distressing.
The King of TalkSox has Spoken.
A very sad and dangerous situation when the highest ranking U.S. politicians pressure athletes and Georgia based companies to force this situation that actually financially hurts the people of the state they claim to be standing up for.
Are those same highest ranking politicians going to force a move of the Olympics from Beijing? I don't think we need to review the human rights abuses there?
Will Coke, Delta, and Home Depot be pressured to stay away from the Olympics if it us held in Beijing?
RedSoxDirtdog 19
Calm down. I've been tamed.
Let's not move the All Star game to Texas, they still have the death penalty.
Yes let’s pretend this is all brand new stuff and the Super Bowl was once never moved out of Arizona because they didn’t celebrate Martin Luther King Day.
https://theundefeated.com/features/w...r-king-jr-day/
Very fair questions.
But we're all in danger of falling into the hole of an acrimonious political discussion here.
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
Are you suggesting that these two events are in any way related?
You are absolutely right but on the other hand it is likely that these types of discussions aren't going to be avoided anywhere.
The Georgia state legislature (and governor) are hilarious. Their election officials were responsible for counting the votes for the 2020 election, and, despite immense pressure from then President Trump, did in fact deliver a fair and accurate vote count.
Indeed, all our election officials are to be commended for doing their jobs well in a very difficult environment. Our national shame, culminating in the attack on our Capitol building, is the very public and virulent denial, led by then President Trump and endorsed by way too many US Senators, House Members, and state legislatures and governors, of the 2020 results.
The real problem, Georgia Republicans discovered, was exactly the same problem the Emperor (in the movie Amadeus) found with Mozart's first concert/opera: "too many notes," which in 2020 (and Jan 2021) became "too many votes." This time around Stacey Abrams was the composer/instigator.
I consider their new "Election Integrity" law to have little to do with election integrity--but don't think it is insurmountable. Time will tell, and the 2022 US House and Senate campaigns are barely a year away.
Meanwhile, the MLB decision seems to be an over-reaction, except that this All-Star Game was intended especially to honor Hank Aaron, who actually grew up in the Jim Crow era and as late as the 1975 and 1976 seasons was receiving racial threats when he made a run on Ruth's home run record (and surpassed it). Ironically, I believe the good citizens of Atlanta helped elect Biden and later those two Democratic US Senators 2+ months ago.
As Sox75 asked, who really gets hurt by this?
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
#BringASGtoFenway2021
It is a reaction. In the meantime, I'll continue to try to do anything without some from of proper identification. lol
Corporations have always been "political."
Baseball has been "political" in many ways, before- like being very slow to integrate blacks into MLB.
Perhaps, it's what they are getting "political" about is what distresses you.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
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