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A Dead Horse and A Deserved Backlash !


Now it begins –  the backlash against MLB’s decision to move the All Star Game from Atlanta. I usually do not like to beat a dead horse, but exactly what I talked about here recently is now occurring and coming out into the open. Namely MLB’s egregious decision is hurting exactly those that purportedly it was supposed to be helping. Again with the dead horse thing, but this proclivity to hurt the poorer among us, is a recognized repeated faux-pas in the Dems way of thinking.

Examples of backlash from the Washington Free Beacon:

Small-business owners in Georgia are criticizing Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred for his decision to move the league’s All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver, saying the decision will cost them nearly $100 million.

Darrell Anderson, the black owner of a limousine business in Atlanta, told the Washington Free Beacon that Manfred’s decision will hurt the community and worsen the economic damage from the pandemic.

“As the owner of a transportation service in Atlanta, I know firsthand how badly our community wanted the All-Star Game played here,” Anderson said. “The $100 million in revenue to this area was going to be the opportunity for all of us to recover some of the losses that we incurred during the pandemic.  Now, not only is that revenue gone, we may lose even more because conventions that were planned for Atlanta are now up in the air thanks to this decision by the MLB.”

Alfredo Ortiz, president of the Job Creators Network, a small-business advocacy group, sent Manfred a letter on 4/7/21 demanding him to reverse the decision, arguing the move “will have an outsized impact on minority-owned businesses.”

“Your decision is punishing the very group you claim to be defending,” he says. “Small businesses in Georgia are hurting and you pulled a multi-million dollar rug out from underneath them…. Don’t let activist groups weaponize America’s pastime to push radical ideas that MLB fans don’t support.”

Now that those that are effected the most are speaking out, it seems as if the likes of Stacey (“I really won back in 2018”) is changing her tune. How long will it be before Joe (“I really did win in 2020”) changes his tune?

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