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All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Gwreck Apr 02 2021 01:05 PM

I'll admit to not expecting MLB to do this. https://twitter.com/evandrellich/status/1378058286939901956?s=21

MFS62 Apr 02 2021 01:15 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Who is this person - what is his affiliation with MLB? OE: Never mind - he writes for the Atlantic. But I haven't seen this anywhere else. Later

TransMonk Apr 02 2021 01:16 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Wow! Didn't think this would happen. It will be interesting to see what happens next. Repubs are going to run out of sports they don't hate soon.

Gwreck Apr 02 2021 01:20 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Who is this person - what is his affiliation with MLB? OE: Never mind - he writes for the Atlantic. But I haven't seen this anywhere else. Later The Athletic, not the Atlantic. The sports journalism website. And his link was pretty clearly the breaking news of MLB's statement. I doubt anyone else had seen it before the tweet. But it's also now up on the MLB website, if you are so inclined: https://www.mlb.com/news/2021-all-star-game-draft-relocated

bmfc1 Apr 02 2021 01:23 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

I impressed and surprised. Well done. Perhaps it will go to LA as the Dodgers were supposed to host last year's game.

metsmarathon Apr 02 2021 01:25 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

bring it to citi, to make up for canceling our (road) opening day. and as a reward for not signing that dickhead bauer.

MFS62 Apr 02 2021 01:35 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

=bmfc1 post_id=59281 time=1617391387 user_id=73] I impressed and surprised. Well done. Perhaps it will go to LA as the Dodgers were supposed to host last year's game.

I like metsmarathon's idea - bring it to Citifield. Take baseball away from LA, not to it.



And, yes, I read Athletic and typed Atlantic. My bad.



Later

Edgy MD Apr 02 2021 01:52 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Well, the best way to make sure the salute to Aaron has some substance may be to move it to Milwaukee, where Aaron played 14 of his 23 seasons and was a key player in the hard fight for integrated housing in the city. Not that there aren't voter suppression measures on the agenda in Wisconsin, but not having yet passed, maybe the game can be used as a carrot to dissuade such legislation.

A Boy Named Seo Apr 02 2021 01:53 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

It's really gonna piss Georgia off if it turns out this decision was based on any kind of vote

Edgy MD Apr 02 2021 02:03 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

It'd be interesting if Tim Anderson or David Price or somebody simply said, "You can have the game wherever you want, but I can guarantee you that nobody black is going to go if it's in Atlanta. Probably nobody brown either. And if any white guys show up to play, they're going to feel really stupid."

batmagadanleadoff Apr 02 2021 02:19 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Edgy MD wrote: Well, the best way to make sure the salute to Aaron has some substance may be to move it to Milwaukee, where Aaron played 14 of his 23 seasons and was a key player in the hard fight for integrated housing in the city. Not that there aren't voter suppression measures on the agenda in Wisconsin, but not having yet passed, maybe the game can be used as a carrot to dissuade such legislation. Fuck Wisconsin and their scumbag state legislature. They do everything bad in that state. US Supreme Court sanctioned voter suppression. Extreme gerrymandering. Lame-duck kneecapping of the incoming Dem Governor. Screwing voters during the most dangerous months of the covid pandemic. Scott Walker for two terms. And MLB did its part but that's not nearly enough. Nothing is enough until Georgia repeals its new voter laws. Coke and Home Depot and Delta should be boycotted massively until Georgia's vile new law(s) is/are totally repealed. Those giant Georgia-based companies are playing politics, threading the needle, trying to satisfy everybody. After it's too late do they finally make public statements condemning the laws. There are even reports that Delta worked with the Georgia legislature in passing those bills.

Edgy MD Apr 02 2021 02:25 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Well, there are real people living there, and so I suggested using the game as a carrot to unscrew voters.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 02 2021 02:29 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Edgy MD wrote: Well, there are real people living there, and so I suggested using the game as a carrot to unscrew voters. There's real people in Georgia, too. Tony Evers is the only thing or person standing in the way of Wisconsin following Georgia's lead. If not for Evers ....

batmagadanleadoff Apr 02 2021 02:32 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Edgy MD wrote: Well, there are real people living there, and so I suggested using the game as a carrot to unscrew voters. Whatch'a doin' this Summer? The 2021 ASG moves to Baltimore. Where it belongs: in a blue state.

G-Fafif Apr 02 2021 02:51 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

https://twitter.com/snytv/status/1378080177335504898?s=21

Willets Point Apr 02 2021 04:19 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

File under: Don't threaten me with a good time. [TWEET]https://twitter.com/RepJeffDuncan/status/1378074529076015106[/TWEET]

Edgy MD Apr 02 2021 04:24 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

WIN-WIN!

batmagadanleadoff Apr 02 2021 07:20 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Baltimore had previously hosted the ASG in 1958 and in 1993. The team with the longest gap between hosting ASG's is the NY Mets, 49 years (1964-2013).

Edgy MD Apr 02 2021 07:57 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Willets Point wrote: File under: Don't threaten me with a good time. [TWEET]https://twitter.com/RepJeffDuncan/status/1378074529076015106[/TWEET] The best part about this is that he doesn't even pretend to be doing his own work.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 03 2021 03:38 AM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Jeez, I swear I read that Baltimore had been selected to host the ASG after it had been pulled from Atlanta.

Lefty Specialist Apr 03 2021 06:58 AM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

They'll have to be sure it's in a safely-blue state. Laws similar to Georgia's are percolating all over. Boston, New York, Chicago, California, Seattle, Baltimore, Minneapolis and Denver are about it. Pennsylvania has a Republican legislature so that rules Philly and Pittsburgh out. Minneapolis if you really want to make a statement about George Floyd but I don't think Manfred is that adventurous. New York would be too obvious a 'liberal elitist cancel culture' play. Dodger Stadium is having it next year so that probably rules them out. I'd guess Baltimore, San Diego, or Denver. But of course I didn't think they'd actually pull the game in the first place.

Double Switch Apr 03 2021 12:07 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

When I read this nugget - GQP lawmakers, including Senators Ted Cruz (Texas) and Mike Lee (Utah) have called for an end to Major League Baseball's antitrust exemption after the league announced it would pull the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta - I wonder how fast those 30 MLB team owners contacted GQP "lawmakers" to remind them of how much money the owners have donated to the GQP over the years. Love of the game, my wrinkled backside. I'd vote to see the ASG played in cruddy RingCentral Coliseum, due for demolition when if/when the A's finally get a new facility. Or Seattle, in a decent stadium and as far from Georgia as it gets.

Edgy MD Apr 03 2021 12:23 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Senator Cruz will back down once the league moves the game to Cancún.

Edgy MD Apr 05 2021 12:26 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Current reports suggest a big influence on this was The Players Alliance, a group of current and former players — most, but not all African-America — organized to advance justice and equity in baseball and society. Alliance President Curtis Granderson spoke with Commissioner Manfred on behalf of the organization. Most reports suggest a meaningfully sized players' revolt was imminent, including managers and coaches, such as Dave Roberts, managing the defending champs, and scheduled to be the home manager in the game.

Marshmallowmilkshake Apr 05 2021 05:37 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Why would any team want this All-Star Game, having been pulled from another team with few of the benefits that go with hosting a game? It might have been a better solution to have the Braves keep the game, but allow or even encourage, the players to wear some kind of personal statement on their jerseys. Why would another team want to host a future game, knowing it takes at least a year of preparation and could be pulled away at nearly the last minute for reasons that have nothing to do with the team?

Edgy MD Apr 05 2021 06:50 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Well, a lot of the preparation is the responsibility of the city and state. Beyond that, I wouldn't be so quick to absolve Liberty Media.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 05 2021 06:53 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 06 2021 08:12 AM

=Marshmallowmilkshake post_id=59499 time=1617665858 user_id=119] Why would another team want to host a future game, knowing it takes at least a year of preparation and could be pulled away at nearly the last minute for reasons that have nothing to do with the team?

Fine by me. Any team that's in a scumbag state that would even contemplate such vile voter suppression laws doesn't deserve to host an all-star game, anyway. I'm sure that the blue state teams will have no qualms about vying to host all-star games. That's more ASG's for the blue states and less ASG:s for every other state.

Fman99 Apr 05 2021 06:59 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Right. Maybe if you want to host that big fancy All Star game, don't pass laws discriminating against half of your state's population.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 05 2021 07:01 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 05 2021 07:04 PM

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=59541 time=1617670419 user_id=68] =Marshmallowmilkshake post_id=59499 time=1617665858 user_id=119] Why would another team want to host a future game, knowing it takes at least a year of preparation and could be pulled away at nearly the last minute for reasons that have nothing to do with the team?

Fine by me. Any team that's in a scumbag state that would even contemplate such vile voter suppression laws doesn't deserve to host an all-star game, anyway. I'm sure that the blues state teams will have no qualms about vying to host all-star games. That's more ASG's for the blue states and less ASG:s for every other state.


There wasn't gonna be an ASG in Atlanta anyways, one way or the other. The players would've boycotted the game had it remained in Atlanta. Rightly so. So the choices were to replace Atlanta or have no game at all and all of the scandal that would go with a boycott.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 05 2021 07:03 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

=Fman99 post_id=59546 time=1617670796 user_id=86] Right. Maybe if you want to host that big fancy All Star game, don't pass laws discriminating against half of your state's population.

Less than half. It's a minority ruled state, now, what with the Republican president and two Republican US Senatorial candidates having lost the last state-wide election. The scumbag Republicans in Georgia don't even represent the majority. And I won't even get into what Kemp did to steal the Governorship from Stacey Abrams in 2018.

Fman99 Apr 05 2021 07:11 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Yes I meant that actually after I hit Submit, less than half.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 05 2021 07:24 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

=Fman99 post_id=59546 time=1617670796 user_id=86] Right. Maybe if you want to host that big fancy All Star game, don't pass laws discriminating against half of your state's population.

Yeah, I know. It's not the repugnant laws that are the issue. It's the baseball community that's against the vile laws that's the problem.

G-Fafif Apr 05 2021 07:29 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

https://twitter.com/buster_espn/status/1379241419479605252?s=21

bmfc1 Apr 05 2021 08:27 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

If Pete makes the team, he gets another Home Run Derby.

LWFS Apr 06 2021 09:30 AM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Edgy MD wrote: Well, a lot of the preparation is the responsibility of the city and state. Beyond that, I wouldn't be so quick to absolve Liberty Media. Move the stadium out of the city to Cobb County, on the taxpayers' dime? Then put out THAT statement? Yeah, no, I'm not forgetting.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 06 2021 10:24 AM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 06 2021 10:26 AM

It might have been a better solution to have the Braves keep the game, but allow or even encourage, the players to wear some kind of personal statement on their jerseys. Here's an ever better idea: let's let Braves players put some black tape over their 2021 All-Star Game commemorative uniform patches. [FIMG=222]https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/60692cb86b2f5ddd07553dc8/960x0.jpg?fit=scale [/FIMG] Fuck the Braves and their new White Flight Stadium and fuck Georgia. Also, the Braves were like the only MLB team to opt-out and not participate in MLB's Get Out the Vote 2020 program. Even the Texas Rangers participated.

Willets Point Apr 06 2021 10:26 AM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

White tape would be more apropos.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 06 2021 10:31 AM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

It's outrageous that someone would defend a law that, among other things, gives Georgia's heavily gerrymandered Republican State legislature the right to overturn a county's election results if it doesn't like the results. Did Georgia consult with Michigan and its use of emergency managers for that idea?

Ceetar Apr 06 2021 11:26 AM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Why would any team want this All-Star Game, having been pulled from another team with few of the benefits that go with hosting a game? It might have been a better solution to have the Braves keep the game, but allow or even encourage, the players to wear some kind of personal statement on their jerseys. Why would another team want to host a future game, knowing it takes at least a year of preparation and could be pulled away at nearly the last minute for reasons that have nothing to do with the team? Why would Dick Monfort want to curry favor with the league, help out, be a good MLB citizen? Maybe so they look the other way as he bumbles the franchise around? I don't think the Wilpons ever really got to the point where they would've been forced to sell, but being good buddies with MLB and playing nice and abiding by unwritten draft rules, letting them test statcast or anything else, humidors, etc, etc and all that rich boys club stuff certainly gave them a buffer that others might not have had. [TWEET]https://twitter.com/ByJamesWagner/status/1379484708086677510[/TWEET]

Edgy MD Apr 06 2021 11:29 AM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

I guess MLB managed to find somebody who wanted the game. And the draft.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 06 2021 11:51 AM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Why would anyone ever wanna buy a house knowing that Mother Nature could destroy it through no fault of the homeowner? Why would anyone ever wanna get out of bed knowing they're gonna be sleepy all over again in a few hours, anyways?

Ceetar Apr 06 2021 02:00 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=59773 time=1617731513 user_id=68] Why would anyone ever wanna buy a house knowing that Mother Nature could destroy it through no fault of the homeowner?

apparently you can make quite the profit with insurance if you've got a house in the right spot.


=batmagadanleadoff post_id=59773 time=1617731513 user_id=68]
Why would anyone ever wanna get out of bed knowing they're gonna be sleepy all over again in a few hours, anyways?




I haven't figured this out either.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 06 2021 02:48 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

=bmfc1 post_id=59655 time=1617676072 user_id=73] If Pete makes the team, he gets another Home Run Derby.

Does a player have to be on the AS team to be eligible to participate in the HR Derby?

Frayed Knot Apr 06 2021 02:50 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

No

batmagadanleadoff Apr 06 2021 02:52 PM Re: All Star Game Moved from Atlanta

Frayed Knot wrote: No I didnt think so but couldnt find a straight answer on the web.