Strike Out
I’ve talked before about how I’ve avoided watching pro and college sports since last summer, when they started turning the playing surfaces and uniforms into placing for displaying political messages. The exceptions are NASCAR and pro rodeo, because they’ve held true to their core beliefs and generally kept politics out of the games themselves.
But I was looking forward to this spring in the hopes of being able to enjoy major league baseball again. That abruptly ended just as the new season started last week, when MLB caved to a false narrative and pulled the all-star game from Atlanta, in protest of Georgia’s revised voting law.
These leagues are so scared of not being politically correct that they are willing to destroy their fan base, since data shows that TV viewership and overall support for these sports is dropping the more they inject politics into it. Never mind that in order to pick up game tickets at the ballpark’s “will call” window, you have to show a photo ID…the very ID they claim is a form of voter suppression when required in order to cast a ballot.
So it’s harder to get a ticket to a baseball game than to vote for elected officials? We’re more concerned about true identity when there’s a profit motive, as opposed to representative democracy?
Fine, two–or millions–can play that game. I’ll find something else to do with my time, and you folks who run pro sports leagues can continue being ill-informed and hypocritical.
Now, if you’re following sports so you can make intelligent wagers on, say, on the DraftKings Sportsbook app…that’s different. Because that’s a way to make money, and that I respect far more than these hand-wringers who fall in line with the cancel culture woke mob.
