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“Little Guys” and Principle


The big news in sports is that yesterday the Atlanta Braves won the World Series. Rob Manfred and Major League Baseball got what it deserved – a truly symbolic poke in the eye! … “yes, there is a God!”

As you all may recall, in April MLB’s commissioner, Rob Manfred, pulled the All-Star game out of Atlanta. This move cost the city of Atlanta upwards of  $100 million dollars … err, perhaps better said Manfred’s cowardly move cost the people of Atlanta close to $100 million dollars. 

Why did Manfred make a decision that so harmed the “little guys” in Atlanta? Basically, it was because he was being threatened by “woke” politicians who did not like Georgia’s new voting laws that required a picture I.D. to vote. Apparently, when Commissioner Manfred did not have enough testosterone or integrity to stand up for what was right, “little guy,” Joe Cobb decided that he had had enough. He then said he was done with MLB, despite his undying love for the Atlanta Braves.

Well that was all good back in the spring, but once the Atlanta Braves were in the World Series, how did Joe Cobb respond? Did  he have the the backbone that the MLB Commissioner lacked? What was he doing? What was he saying?

From Townhall:

‘Little guy,’ Joe Cobb recently reiterated, “I publicly said I would not watch the Braves, and I meant what I said. I know I’m just one voice. To me, the problem is that so many people caved, and now what do we have? Well, we have the World Series. That’s great. And we’ve got full stadiums. That’s great. But you know what else we have? Major League Baseball wasn’t penalized. They got away with it. They were able to dictate and change people’s lives, and there’s no penalty for it.”

Cobb said that before the controversy happened, he was pretty pumped about the prospects for this season. “I was really, really excited,” he said. “And when this whole controversy blew up, I was like, I don’t own a team. I don’t own a newspaper. I don’t have a public outlet. The only way that I can make my feelings known that I cannot reward a company when they do something so bad to other people is just not give them any of my money.”

His stance had become a running joke with his family and friends, who asked him the day after every game whether he watched it. He had not watched, attended or streamed any game, not even the highlights.

“I’m just one person, but you know what? It is a principled stand, and I will stick by it. In good conscience, I couldn’t do it if someone came up to me today and said, ‘Here, Joe, here are two tickets to the World Series.’ I would donate them. I’d give them to somebody else, but in principle, I just couldn’t go.”

Are there a lot more Joe Cobbs in this country? “Little guys” who have taken what they think are lonely stances against the big guys. Guys that are mostly silent. Guys that you won’t find at a protest, or as online warriors, but guys that are collectively affecting our cultural curators’ bottom line, beginning with the loss of consumer trust that they’ll do the right thing — the most important relationship they have with their consumers, and one they cannot afford to lose.

Kudos to Joe Cobb – just one “little guy” … one “little guy” with principles.

Are there more “little guys” out there that will stand up for principles? Not necessarily the Atlanta Braves, but “principle” in general.

Do you have any Joe Cobb in you?

11/3/21

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