Major League Baseball Players Consider Georgia Boycott

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Major League Baseball Players Consider Georgia Boycott

March 26, 2021 at 8:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 48 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/03/26/major-league-players-may-force-all-star-game-to-move/

"SNIP....

Boston Globe: “The 91st MLB All-Star Game is scheduled to be played in Atlanta this July. But on Thursday, in the wake of voting-restriction legislation signed into law by the Georgia governor, the executive director of the MLB Players Association said the players are ready to discuss moving their annual midsummer exhibition out of Georgia.”

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[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Better not put Arizona on the short list ... got the same bullshit going here ... (nt)

[Sanity Claws]

2. Great. Let this be the start of a massive boycott.

[SMC22307]

3. Move it to Washington, DC! (n/t)

[Blue_true]

11. Yes, that would be great. Or New York City or Los Angeles or San Francisco, or Boston.

[SMC22307]

32. Yep. I'd like DC though with Biden there and crowds cheering...

unlike Fat Nixon's attendance with crowds booing and him choking back tears. That was a thing of beauty.

[soothsayer]

4. Yes! Boycott!

[ShazzieB]

5. Do it, MLB!

BOYCOTTTTT THOSE BASTARDS!.

[Skittles]

6. not a sports person but THAT would be cool

absolutely

[Mary in S. Carolina]

7. Thank you!!

Please Boycott! Also, tall Jim Beam and Pepsi from now on; I call on all restaurants to switch to Pepsi.

[applegrove]

8. And they can yell Kapernick when the right goes after them for cancel culture.

[monkeyman1]

9. just read the master's tournament is thinking the same thing !!!!

[Blue_true]

13. Wow. That would be major, since the whole history of that tournament is about Augusta. nt

[SCantiGOP]

15. That's a joke

Masters can’t be played anywhere but Augusta National.

[monkeyman1]

17. read it on newsweek

[SCantiGOP]

34. The Augusta National owns The Masters

That would be like saying the Kentucky Derby should move out of Kentucky.

[Blue_true]

19. That shouldn't be done to a person that has a limited sense of humor.

[TomSlick]

20. If it is true that the Masters can only be played at Augusta National, it should be canceled.

Until these latter-day Jim Crow laws are repealed, spending money in Georgia condones racism and a blatant attack on democracy.

[gab13by13]

23. It would be nice,

if a half dozen or so big name golfers boycotted the Masters, what's the chance of that happening?

The all star game is just one game, why don't the Brave's players boycott the season, or do something.

[TomSlick]

28. The Georgia government is engaged in an attack on democracy itself.

Unless and until these Jim Crow voter suppression laws are repealed, Pro golfers who play at Augusta will be condoning the racist attack, as will ESPN and CBS if they cover the Masters, advertisers who pay for the coverage, viewers who watch the coverage, and golfers who buy the products of advertisers.

This is an existential threat to American democracy. We need to act like it. Georgia needs to be a pariah until this attack on democracy ends.

[Auggie]

10. DO IT

[SheltieLover]

12. Good!

[AllyCat]

14. Nope. Not going to GA.

Stupid repukes

[Mr. Evil]

16. What would be great would be if Coka-Cola

announced if this legislation stands that they would move their complete operations to another state. Maybe New York. That would sure put a dent in Kemp's armor.

I've stated this before in more words than now. There are only two kinds of people on this planet. Those that are assholes and those that are not assholes. Brian Kemp is an asshole! He's also most likely a fascist. Probably a Nazi wannabe. Just wants the position and power with no intentions of doing anything productive with it. Fuck him! I hope he gets hit by a bus. I hope the next time he yawns outside a bird shits in his mouth. He deserves to eat shit!

[dflprincess]

22. I thought it would be nice if Delta Airlines

announced they were moving its headquarters to Minneapolis. Given that it merged Northwest Airlines in 2008 it would seem the logical place for it go & MSP is still a Delta hub.

[Mr. Evil]

26. Atlanta has long wanted to be considered a metropolitan player

alongside New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. But, with this backward Jim Crow shit rearing its head again it's like taking one step forward and then two steps backward. Corporations like Coka-Cola and Delta have the real ultimate power to stop this. If they say they are packing and leaving what would shitstains like Brian Kemp do? He's betting they won't do anything. I don't know. I think the time has come where they just might. I don't think they will risk losing billions of dollars just so he can bask in his personal racist, fascist glory.

[BannonsLiver]

29. Minneapolis is also problematic

When most people think of Minneapolis they think of George Floyd so from an image standpoint that’s an issue. Also, weather.

Delta has a lot going on at MSP. I flew through there regularly pre Covid. But it’s not anything like the investment they’ve made in Atlanta. Also GA is where the company started. It also employs a lot of people of color in the ATL metro so that would be a hit for them as well. I see very little chance their HQ is going anywhere.

[BobTheSubgenius]

18. It may sound like a pretty minor thing, even a silly thing.

But every little bit of pushback is another rock on the pile. Bring 'em all on....all the backhand slaps and kicks in the groin you can think of.

[dchill]

21. Whyever not?

[LaMouffette]

24. YES!!! Georgia needs to be boycotted, just like Arizona, which lost the Superbowl for refusing to

recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day back in 1991.

[gratuitous]

25. In a capitalist system, your dollar is your vote

All the players should check their humanity, and see if they can tolerate playing in a state that would treat their Black teammates so poorly. The upshot of all this screwing around with citizens' voting rights and access to the ballot is that the courts rule the legislation unconstitutional, but never in time to invalidate the law before an election or two are conducted under the unfair system. Then the new office holders (beneficiaries of the crooked system) go through the whole exercise again to rig the next election. And the courts can't or won't act quickly enough to conduct a free and fair election.

So if the legislative, executive, and judicial branches are all failing to create a fairer and more equitable system, it's time to withhold the almighty dollar from these connivers. The consequences move from the realm of government where the fix is in to the economic realm, where the punishment hits them where it hurts.

[Snackshack]

27. This should take all of...

2 seconds to decide.


What the GA GOP did is a pure petty and vindictive act. It did not have the visual impact of a Bull Conor, fire hoses or German Shepard’s but its intent was every bit the same.

GA should be boycotted across the board by all.

[turbinetree]

30. Not good enough.......... every sports team should move out of Georgia every last one of them

and just up this game that the racist's have now invoked, every college game team should be barred in playing in other games in out of state stadiums ............

[SCantiGOP]

35. The problem with these boycotts --

What are you going to do when 10 other states have passed the same laws?

[turbinetree]

36. Put a billboard up outside the stadium and ask Are you next?

[Liberty Belle]

31. Excellent. Let's see corporations start dropping conventions in Georgia next, and

how about boycotting Georgia peaches and whatever else this backwards racist state produces?

[Blue Owl]

33. Do it

The momentum needs to shift in Georgia -- AWAY from the racist GOP and their vote suppression fuckery