MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred admits he was either a fool or a partisan hack
Zachary Faria
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Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has essentially admitted that he is either a Democratic hack or he is a gullible fool. You can draw your own conclusions about which characterization is more sympathetic.
Manfred declared that Atlanta is under consideration for the 2025 All-Star Game. “Atlanta is in the mix of clubs for the ’25 All-Star Game,” Manfred said, with the Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs being the two lead options.
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Of course, Atlanta was supposed to host the 2021 All-Star Game, but that plan was scuttled when Democrats demanded that Manfred pull the game from the city because of Georgia’s voting laws. Georgia had reformed its voting laws to make voting more secure and more accessible, but Democrats alleged those steps amounted to Jim Crow reincarnate. Manfred agreed, moving the game out of Georgia because “Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box.”
Georgia then saw record turnout in the 2022 midterm elections, with a whopping 0% of black voters describing their voting experience as poor. Over 91% of black voters said there was no difference in voting compared to 2020 or that voting was easier than before. Not exactly like Jim Crow.
Manfred saying that Atlanta is under consideration to host another All-Star Game means one of three things. The first would be that he was fooled by the partisan whining of Democrats into helping them attack their political opponents because neither he nor anyone in the MLB office was willing to read, or capable of reading, the election reforms. The second is that he thinks Georgia somehow magically stopped becoming Jim Crow between 2021 and now despite there being no further major reforms to the state’s voting laws.
Both of those two possibilities require you to believe that Manfred, and the entirety of MLB leadership, are not very intelligent and decided to stick their nose into something they never understood. It isn’t a particularly flattering explanation.
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However, the alternative is much worse. The third explanation is that Manfred used baseball as a political weapon to help Democrats win in 2022. This would mean that he knew Democrats were being hysterical over nothing and that he tried to use MLB’s credibility to bolster their hysterics. Under this logic, he used the All-Star Game to campaign against Republicans and tell people to elect Democrats. Because it failed, now he is willing to consider Atlanta as a host again.
You can take your pick as to which is worse: Manfred was a gullible fool who got played by Democrats, or he purposefully bolstered Democratic smears about Georgia’s voting laws to help Democrats win elections. Manfred is either a sleazeball or a sucker. Either way, he should be made to answer for his decision and for his competence as a commissioner of a professional sports league.