7 Apr 2021
Former Major League Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent blasted current Commissioner Rob Manfred for making a “serious mistake” in pulling the league’s All-Star Game out of Georgia.
Vincent, who served as MLB commissioner from September of 1989 to September of 1992, let fly with his criticisms of Manfred in a Tuesday op-ed in the
Wall Street Journal. In the piece, Vincent accuses Manfred of having made a “serious mistake” by pulling the All-Star Game (ASG) from Atlanta. Specifically, he charges that Manfred should have first protested the “substance of the law” before acting out of “desperation” by enforcing a boycott.
Vincent also highlighted the disproportionate harm such boycotts have on minority communities. In addition to citing the hypocrisy of baseball pulling a special event from Georgia, supposedly because of a “racist” law, and then doing business with a gross human rights abuser in China. The former commissioner also questioned Manfred�
The headline said that Mr. Manfred “politicized baseball over a law he likely hadn’t examined.”
MLB moved the Midsummer Classic from Atlanta to Denver spurred by the Democratic outcry over Senate Bill 202, which requires voter registration for absentee ballots and bans electioneering, including passing out food and drinks, within 150 feet of a polling entrance, but also expands early voting.
The move came with Democrats decrying the Georgia Election Integrity Act as racist. President Biden has repeatedly compared the measure to the Jim Crow laws of the segregation era.
Atlanta, where nearly 30% of businesses are minority-owned, is expected to lose $100 million with the relocation of the July 13 game to Denver, which is 76% White and 9% Black. Atlanta is 51% Black.
Ex-MLB commissioner Fay Vincent slams successor Rob Manfred s decision to move the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver over Georgia s voter law, saying baseball can t become a weapon in the culture wars
Ex-MLB commissioner Fay Vincent penned an opinion piece slamming Rob Manfred over the mistake of moving the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver
MLB is one of several corporations pressuring Georgia to drop its new voter law, which limits mail-in voting and allows for greater legislative control of elections
Critics of the law say it unfairly targets minority voters in metropolitan areas
Vincent, 82, served as Major League commissioner from 1989 until 1992
Apr 7, 2021
BRETT: I have come upon an epiphany as I’ve been watching this fight over Georgia, and it’s pretty simple, pretty direct: Democrats are only happy when judges set the rules for voting. We saw that take place back in the run-up to the 2020 election of course, when we watched Marc Elias go around the country with a bunch of other folks involving groups like Eric Holder’s group, et cetera, and were suing to change the voting rules, right?
They were suing to ensure that judges would make decisions on mail-in ballots, mailout ballots, shotgun ballots, whatever you want to do. The conservatives, Republicans, are most happy and most at ease when it works through a legislative process. So there’s going to be no satisfactory solution when it comes to Georgia because you have one side that is oriented towards a judge in a robe banging a gavel and telling you that you must change your voting laws regardless of what the legislature wants.
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