* Xiàtiān de nánhái: Simplified Chinese for “boys of summer”.
Has China bought a controlling interest in Major League Baseball? What other motivation could there possibly be for MLB to deny millions upon millions of dollars to hotels, restaurants, ball park, paid parking lots, and the negative effect on the tax base in the Metro Atlanta area as well as all their employees and for what?
Unless you’ve been under rock the last few days, you know about Denver, Colorado, being the new host location for the All-Star game and MLB draft. According to MLB.com, the reason the game was moved out of highly diverse Atlanta, Georgia, to the virtually all-White city of Denver is because “the decision to move the All-Star Game was ‘the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport’ and was made after consultation with teams, former and current players, the MLB Players Association and The Players Alliance, among others….Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box,” Commissioner Rob Manfred said.
True, that’s the only MLB game that’s moving this year out of states — or, rather, that has been announced as going to be moved. With this idiotic, stupid, silly, asinine, and foolish position, MLB has only just begun its ride on the slippery slope of political correctness. Take me out to the ball game…not. That’s right. The boys of summer no longer want fans to enjoy the great American pastime of rooting for their favorite baseball team.
As if moving to another state will change anything. It won’t. Instead, what it does do is shine a light on other states voting laws and guess what? Many are more strict than Georgia’s. I personally believe that Georgia’s voting laws, even with the current changes, are still lacking; but I will not discuss that here.
Instead, MLB has joined in with the likes of the NFL (acting as wussies with the take-a-knee B.S. that went on and spread); the Coca-Cola Companies with their forcing racial equity by training employees to be less white; and Delta Air Lines and their flip-flopping on voting integrity laws causing one pundit to say to Delta, “Is you is or is you ain’t?”
Just like the NBA is heavily invested in by China — thus putting professional basketball into a state of overwhelming hypocrisy, that is, American teams allowed to wear slogans on their uniforms that condemn America but not allowed to wear any that call out Chinese torture, political and religious murder, and slavery — MLB’s position on the evilness that is the State of Georgia’s attempt to verify that all, regardless of color, who show up to vote have a right to vote (they can prove they are a citizen of the US and of Georgia) and that the collecting of those ballots is done in a consistent manner across the state in every voting location makes absolutely no sense at all unless they’ve been pressured.
So the question is legitimate: Has China invested in MLB? If not, then who is delivering the pressure for them to act to stupidly? But the next question, and more important one at that, is this: If a MLB player hits a homer but there are no fans there to hear the crack of the bat against the ball, did he really hit a homer?
Just like all the other sports organizations and franchises and businesses are learning, MLB will soon learn not to mess with the fans. You see, MLB et al, fans don’t need you. You need the fans.
So, to all you professional boys of summer out there, remember this: Fans butter your bread.
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