Letter to the editor: MLB hypocrites

The political activist known as Major League Baseball (MLB), along with the Pittsburgh Pirates, decided to punish the working citizens of Atlanta and move the 2021 All-Star Game. Fortunately, woke elements who subscribe to cancel culture are dealing with a phenomenon that doesn’t discriminate.

The Atlanta Braves are the National League Champions competing in the World Series. The street vendors, restauranteurs, cab drivers, hotel services, you name it, anyone who was devastated by the pandemic of 2020, were looking for some economic relief. But because there was some form of voter ID in the new law for absentee voters, the people of Atlanta were punished by having the All-Star Game taken away. Are the hypocrites of MLB letting people pick up valuable tickets at “will call” without some form of ID?

MLB has moved on to harassing the ownership of the Cleveland franchise to drop its century-old “Indians,” just as the NFL pressured the Washington Redskins to drop its nickname.

The ownership of the Braves is standing firm in not changing its name, just as the Pirates are standing firm and signing no big-time free agents. Try the Washington Wild Things for some good baseball, fun and the national anthem.

Henry Miller III

Murrysville