Last week’s decision by Commissioner of Baseball Robert Manfred, Jr. to relocate this year’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game was wrongly decided. It outraged millions of fans and stoked controversy, and will hurt in very real ways many of the minorities it’s purportedly designed to help. The follow-on decision, to relocate the game to Denver, reveals that the original decision wasn’t really about access to voting, but was nothing more than woke virtue-signaling. While a decision to reverse course and re-relocate the game back to Atlanta won’t undo all the damage caused, it would certainly help prevent future damage. And it has the added virtue of being the right thing to do.
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Pritzker offers up Guaranteed Rate Field, Wrigley Field for 2021 All-Star Game
By FOX 32 Digital Staff
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CHICAGO - Gov. Over the last week, we have engaged in thoughtful conversations with Clubs, former and current players, the Players Association, and The Players Alliance, among others, to listen to their views. I have decided that the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year’s All-Star Game and MLB Draft, said MLB Commissioner of Baseball Robert Manfred, Jr. Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box.
Pritzker said he applauded the decision by the MLB and said that Illinois recently expanded voting access in Illinois.