MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred seems ready to apologize for his decision to pull the 2021 MLB All-Star Game out of Atlanta following a request from former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. In the wake of the passing of a new voting rights law in Georgia, Abrams and other leftists demanded that major institutions, such as Major League Baseball, withdraw themselves from the Peach State until the law was repealed.
Well, now we are two years down the road from the decision, and the laws that were dubbed by some leftists as “Jim Crow 2.0” are still in effect. Manfred, however, seems to have finally come to his senses in the years following his decision to cower to the woke mob. In an interview during the festivities at the 2023 MLB All-Star week, Manfred spoke about the possibility of Atlanta hosting an All-Star game in the coming years.
“Atlanta is in the mix of clubs for the ’25 All-Star Game,” Manfred said about the league’s upcoming decision according to the Atlanta Journal Constitutional. “I am not Prepared to go past that right now.” This is a significant change in stance from 2021 when Manfred proclaimed that the league would not consider coming back to Atlanta until change was made to those voting rights laws.
Of course, following leftist cries about the unfairness and downright inhumane nature of Georgia’s voting laws, the state saw an increase in turnout during the next election. So, as is often the case, that reaction from the left was blown miles out of proportion.
Manfred also spoke about the Oakland Athletics’ impending exit from California, as the team plans to move to Las Vegas. Manfred dubbed that move his biggest disappointment in a quote shared by Outkick Sports. “My single biggest disappointment is that because of the kind of political process in Oakland, we didn’t find a solution to keep the A’s in Oakland. That’s No. 1 on the disappointment list,” Manfred claimed.
Oakland is joining a long list of businesses that have left the failing state of California following rampant crime and homelessness in the state’s greatest cities. Places like San Francisco and Las Angeles, which were once havens for the rich and successful, have become infested with drugs and crime in ways that were nearly unimaginable in the golden years of the state.
With that collapse has come a major loss for those on the left, who claim that the ideal society would be one governed in the way that Gavin Newsom has led the nation’s largest state. Constant theft has been met with little to no resistance from police who have their hands tied behind their back by laws and toothless prosecutors, leading to retailers leaving the state in droves.
What it will take to reverse this kind of decay nationwide is people like Rob Manfred pushing back against the woke mob, and allowing their business sense to take the wheel in the steering of major corporations and business entities.
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