For MLB, playing the 2021 All-Star Game in Georgia just wasn t worth the hassle
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What prompted MLB s decision to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta? (1:42)
Howard Bryant joins Outside the Lines to discuss MLB pulling its All-Star Game from Atlanta. (1:42)
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Revenge and backlash have always been the American response to defeat, especially in the case of civil rights. Despite the resulting muddiness, misdirection and outrage, the Georgia voting bill, signed into law last month,
was clearly a response to defeat, just as the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was. Sports have always been expected to provide a form of talcum to assuage the effects of backlash, the illusion that the games reflect a certain national unity through its diversions the Super Bowl, the Final Four, the World Series. My team, your team, our country.
A Greenville man was cited for driving while impaired on Dec. 12 after driving into a mobile home, according to court and law enforcement reports.
The incident took place at 2:28 a.m. on 3463 Askew Road, according to the State Highway Patrol.
Martin Bravo Jimenez, 51, of 3038 Elks Road, of Greenville, ran a stop sign then ran straight off the road into a mobile home. The mobile home sustained $5,000 in damages. Jimenezâs vehicle sustained $15,000 in damages and was not drivable.
He had slurred speech, red, glassy eyes and a strong odor of alcohol on his breath.
His blood alcohol level was 0.11.
Nine other people were charged with driving while impaired between Nov. 29 and Dec. 14.
believe that he wouldn t have known something about what was going on or wouldn t have many opportunities to learn about what was going on. this guy schuber is like a mini me of the governor. he doesn t want to know anything. schuber told you today that he checked in with the ft. lee maye your at your request and that s the most anyone looked into the matter. here s more from today. i frankly, you know, maybe more could be done, but the fact of the matter, i think i m the only one that reached out to nibble on this issue at all, quite frankly. was he responsive to you in real-time, senator? no, absolutely not. he s never responded to my letter. in fact, he seemed to indicate that he just didn t seem to realize that he needed to respond to my letter. i spoke at four different port authority committee meetings, and i addressed him directly.
let me just correct one thing. the port authority commissioners are not salaried. so they don t receive a salary, they get remunerated for expenses. but i was somewhat surprised, i ve known pat schuber for many years. he s a former mayor of a community i represent. he is a former assemblyman, so he served in the legislature, and he s the former county elected executive. so i would have assumed that mr. schuber knew something about his responsibilities, but an e-mail is exposed from his executive director, the port authority executive director saying, laws were probably broken here. none of our processes were followed. people were put in jeopardy.
are we being allied of a taliban push? was bergdahl was simply a pawn to return afghanistan to what it was before we invaded? and what s this claim that bergdahl served with honor and distinction? how does this square with the fact that he mailed his possessions back to his patients before he left his unit. is this an attempt to make the deal for his release a happier occasion than what it otherwise may merit? this has grown into a serious debate and is hardly the familiar democrat versus republican fight. even if the usual suspects on the right out there are doing what they predictably do, attack president obama. gentlemen, thank you for joining us. we ve got a new development here. senator dianne feinstein chairing the intelligence committee says the administration violated the law by failing to notify congress about the prisoner transfers. let s watch senator feinstein. i understand, and i believe the vice chairman does as well that there are circumstances when the presi