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Boycott Baseball. MLB Shows Their Holier-Than-Thou Hypocrisy Moving Game From Atlanta to Buy-dem-ville, Yet MLB Has Training Camps in Communist China.

Posted by freedomforall 3 years, 1 month ago to Politics
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Excerpt:
"Abrams's response is just the tip of the iceberg of the hypocrisy and contradictions seen from this MLB maneuver — stiffing black-owned American small businesses just emerging from a pandemic to protest a U.S. law they are perfectly free to campaign for to change otherwise through elections, or else playing the ball game without politics and drawing a big audience. Which is it for them? And by the way, how many of their baseball players are American citizens?


Unlike Abrams, they chose, and chose poorly, because what they chose will probably have some consequences for the MLB organization, given its nuclear level of hypocrisy.

Here's another piece of hypocrisy: will MLB now move its All-Star Game to Delaware, Joe Biden's home state, where, unlike Georgia now, there is no early voting at all? Will they stop advertising and selling merchandise in that state? Or New York, or New Jersey, which also don't have early voting as they now do in Georgia? These MLB virtue-signalers would be hypocrites if they didn't.

Here's the big one: MLB made a big deal about its move out of Georgia being a human rights issue, and them being all concerned about human rights, you see.

Can they explain for us why they recently held a ball game in brutal totalitarian military dictatorship of Cuba? A place Cuban ball players flee from to freedom, which in some cases includes MLB salaries made possible only by living in a free, democratic society that exists already? They aren't fleeing to a hellhole, which is what MLB is now claiming about Georgia.

Can they explain to us why they hold a training camp in China, home of the Uighur slave-labor laogai and the broken-treaty de-democratization of Hong Kong? You'd think an organization that concerned about voting rights that willing to disrupt its own business and make itself politically unpopular in Georgia in the interest of virtue-signaling on voting might just take an interest in voting and transparency practices over in communist China.

These things to them are fine, but Georgia is an affront to their delicate democratic sensibilities."


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  • Posted by $ BobCat 3 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Being 70, I can still hold my beers all night -as long as it remains in the mug ...
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  • Posted by bobsprinkle 3 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    This "old man bladder" thing sucks........Hey....a new form of competition. See how long anybody over 70 can hold it.
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  • Posted by bobsprinkle 3 years, 1 month ago
    MLB...NFL...NASCAR....are FF's (former favorites).
    No wonder I am spending more time on this computer rather than in front of the tv.
    Actually, didn't watch a lot of baseball. A bit too slow. Basketball does not interest me at all.
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  • Posted by rhfinle 3 years, 1 month ago
    I now have better things to do than to watch baseball. I hope the huge socialist-sympathetic outfits pay their players for the remainder of their contracts, but I'm sure they'll find a way to weasel out of it. To fix it we have to boycott it.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 3 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Somehow me dino has managed to cut down Walmart visits from once a month to an average of four times a year. As gross as it may sound, my stomach feels better if something carbonated can help me burp after lunch and dinner.
    Served with meals at home, I'm a regular drinker of Arizona Diet Green Tea With Ginseng most often flavored with squeezed lemon juice. I buy it at Publix. Recall buying it at Walmart. There's a geisha girl on the label.
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  • Posted by 3 years, 1 month ago
    In solidarity with Georgia's action to make their voters prove their identity to vote:

    "Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he declined to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Texas Rangers’ home opening game because of Major League Baseball’s decision to move the All-Star Game from Atlanta in response to Georgia’s sweeping new voting laws.

    Abbott thanked Neil Leibman, MLB’s chief operating officer, for the invitation.

    “I was looking forward—until Major League Baseball adopted what has turned out to be a false narrative about the election law reforms in Georgia, and, based on that false narrative, moved the MLB All-Star Game from Atlanta,” he wrote in a letter.

    “It is shameful that America’s pastime is not only being influenced by partisan political politics, but also perpetuating false political narratives.”

    Texas won’t seek to host any MLB special events and Abbott is forgoing all future participation in league events."
    https://www.theepochtimes.com/texas-g...
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  • Posted by shaifferg 3 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    store brand unsweetened tea, if you can stand Walmart, cheapest I've found. Other similar options
    should exist if Walmart is as stressful for you as it is for me.
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  • Posted by 3 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Unfortunately, the colleges are getting the financial benefits (of our support for college sports) and they are the source of leftist brainwashing for the future leaders. College sports don't deserve our support any more than the political parties do.
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  • Posted by wmiranda 3 years, 1 month ago
    I was a die hard Packer fan since the 80s. But after the disrespect to the flag and veterans, I dropped football all together. We the fans need to be resolute in making it clear that sports are for entertainment and not political peddling. If MLB want's to go political, to hell with them. For me and millions like me, we could do without MLB, NFL, NBA and other multi-million dollars paycheck sports. College and local sports can be just as entertaining playing the same sports. And those athletes do it for the joy of playing.
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  • Posted by 3 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    At least it requires more skills than just height (basketboring) or mass (footboring.) OTOH, drugs have been used to replace the skill, and those so-called record-holders are still being 'honored' ... that is, they have been proven to use performance enhancing drugs, but their 'awards' have not been retracted and given to naturally-skilled players.
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 3 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    I started a few years ago with flavored/unsweetened fizzy water with 2 drops of concentrated liquid Sucralose. Lately, though I've noticed that the sweet flavor gets in the way ...so I've quit the sweetener and only do flavored, unsweetened fizzy water. It's actually not too bad!

    The only Coke product I need to be concerned about is Dasani water because we gave up all sorts of coke-y things years ago when hubby noticed that the dark-colored cola-type drinks exacerbated his restless leg syndrome.

    Sometimes I get a little tired of all the "healthy stuff" we learn because acting on it sure does restrict the diet!
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  • Posted by $ brightwriter 3 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    I was an insulin junkie for a while and noted that small amounts of fruit juice added to water (seltzer without salt or soda water with) did a great job of superseding formal carbonated phosphoric acid concoctions and other extravagant media-hyped poisons.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 3 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    The little puke could have just stayed silent, but threw in with the scumbags. No more coke in my house.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 3 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Diet A&W Rootbeer!

    We also like Waistwatchers. It is sweetened with Splenda (indigestible, but identical tasting, mirror sugar molecule).
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 3 years, 1 month ago
    Baseball is barely a sport at all. Big fat guys who don't sweat calling themselves "athletes" is an activity, not a sport. It is one notch above golf, bowling, darts and billiards.

    Watching baseball is about as exciting as watching pigeons. I'd rather paint your house than watch this crap...for hours. Even the umpires, who could be replaced with cameras/computers (like tennis) are ridiculous. Ask a baseball guy about that and you'll get, "It is part of the game". Manipulation of the rules is part of the game? Crap. The only thing that allows this boring mess to survive is social inertia. If such an activity were started today, it would be ridiculed.

    Excellent set of notes, highlighting the hypocrisy. Everything is partisan today, and they've shown that "America's Pastime" is a socialist-totalitarian campaign. Great. Flush the whole thing and get more kids playing something that gets them exercise, like soccer; that you can play for exercise until you are old, unlike softball, which is a fat guy, glory-days, drinking game.

    Nice post (as always) FFA!
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  • Posted by $ rainman0720 3 years, 1 month ago
    I (sarcastically) wonder why nobody in the MSM has pointed out that MLB requires a photo ID in order to pick up tickets at the Will Call window.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 3 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    "Like voting..." Nicely expressed. I've always voted in the past although, because of where I live, my vote rarely ever counted for anything. Looking at the 2020 election I'm now convinced I needn't bother at all. It's rigged.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 3 years, 1 month ago
    Great post Freedomforall . The hypocrisy is standard fare unfortunately. They only care about slavery that ended 160 years ago. They are the three monkeys today 🙈 👀 🙉 👂🏻 🙊👅
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  • Posted by Dobrien 3 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Quit football in the 90’s the rest of the pro sports have gone down the shitter as well . Social justice warriors are not entertaining.
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