The Lusitania was WWI.
Full article, opens free for me.
Major League Baseball decided last week to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta after the Georgia Legislature passed changes to the state’s voting laws that many, including President Biden, called racist. Activists urged Commissioner Robert Manfred to punish Georgia. By rushing to do so without first protesting the substance of the law, Mr. Manfred made a serious mistake.
The use of “muscle” or financial power to influence policy is an ancient tactic. The term “boycott” has its roots in 19th-century Ireland, where the nationalist politician Charles Stewart Parnell urged his followers not to deal with Charles Cunningham Boycott, a highly unpopular British land agent. A boycott is generally an act of desperation, and the original one was largely unsuccessful.
CEOs vs. Georgia / The Economic Climb
Organizations like Major League Baseball have sometimes participated in public debates over policy. Moving directly to an economic sanction suggests that Mr. Manfred believed the Georgia law required drastic intervention. But consider what he didn’t do: He didn’t limit the number of home games the Atlanta Braves will play. He’d need the approval of the players’ union to do that, and Braves owner John Malone would surely resist. To move the site of the All-Star Game is one thing; to ignore union and ownership powers is quite another.
The midsummer All-Star Game is an exhibition that benefits only the city where it’s played. It was reported Tuesday morning that Denver will be the new host. The players will get paid no matter where the game takes place. MLB will get the same television revenue. The only people hurt by Mr. Manfred’s decision will be Atlanta’s stadium workers and local vendors.
The talk shows and editorial pages are full of questions. What is the basis for acting so forcefully against Georgia? If Georgia is racist, how can baseball talk of doing business with China? Mr. Manfred failed to spell out specific criticisms of Georgia’s voting law. Now he’s put himself in the awkward position of having to defend Colorado’s voting laws.
During my time as commissioner, I learned that the American people view baseball as a public trust. They want the game to stand for the best and noblest of our national virtues. They see baseball as the repository of their dreams, even as they root for their favorite teams. They don’t want, and won’t accept, anything that separates them from the game’s history and leadership.
Major League Baseball can’t become a weapon in the culture wars, a hostage for one political party or ideology. It can’t be only for the rich or the poor, nor can it only be for one race, as it was until 1947. Baseball must always stand above politics and its dark elements of corruption, greed and sordid selfishness. It can’t go wrong by standing for national greatness.
The situation calls to mind the 2006 Duke lacrosse case, when many erred—like Mr. Manfred has here—by leaping to a conclusion based on assumptions rather than carefully considered facts. I’ve done the same thing, to my regret. Much rides on Mr. Manfred’s shoulders so he must be prudent. Perhaps he now sees how complicated these issues can become. I wish him well.
Mr. Vincent was commissioner of baseball, 1989-92.
I like my ice cubes so it gets water too.
I'm an American and I'm not really sure. I think I just have to sign a piece of paper with the correct name and address.
A month lockdown, that's cute. Both my aunts haven't left the house since march... of last year. The one aunt won't even let her son and wife come visit. I mean they are both overweight, one a lot more than the other, and have both had cancer in the last 10-15 years but still a year.
Austin Powers doesn't even make sense anymore when Evil wants a billion.
Last man Standing?
Shit, I think I just have to call the garbage company to let them know. Or take it to best buy and they trash the shit. Unless you are talking old CRT tvs but those are basically antique now.
Krispy kreme isn't even that good. Fuck, you fat pieces of shit need to get you priorities straight.
I figured it would be fbi HQ or something so I skipped it. Look this shit up.
I think it should only be a harder to buy in AR or any firearm because you have to have the money to buy it. If they become free the companies that make them will stop.
In general no, but Carson, Owens, Ngo and countless others prove that it's not the race that is the problem but the upbringing and mentality. Krappernick is half white, raised by a white family, went to a white school but somehow became a symbol of white oppression.
Doctor of engineering and expert on climate change, vaccines and gender.
They only explode in video games if they are red.
If you check out the gab account page it says at the top that it is not Trump but reserved for Trump and they just post anything he puts out.
Edit: and as I read this thread further, you already knew that.
I still use CDs.
Fucking climate change is at it again.
Who is the white guy next to King Gorilla aka Harambe?
I would be so confused if Dennis Rodman somehow saved us all.
They aren't if you look at "younger" and "them".
I remember that and my theory is that everyone in the future just didn't want to go.
"Hey guys, want to go to a party where the host can only blink?"
Warnock is just filling in for the senator that died. The original term ends in 2022.
That's what it sounded like to me.
It's pretty funny but it's just a few short scenes with the shirtless stoner guy.
I took a class in community college and asked about Hinkley buying a gun. The teacher was like "yes, because he doesn't have a felony but how hard would it be for him to get a gun anyway?" Another guy says "I can get him one in 20 minutes."
This was almost a decade ago but it would have taken me about an hour.
We are all white.