Letter to the editor: No politics in sports
Who would ever have thought they would see the day the MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL would move from being politically neutral to the progressive left? They must now bear the descriptive title of “professional sports and social justice organizations.”
We are not privy to the reasoning behind Major League Baseball’s decision to move the All Star Game from Georgia to Colorado, but it was obviously political. The Georgia voting reform bill, upon which the MLB based its objection and decision to move the game, was passed by the Legislature and signed into law by the governor. The Legislature and governor were elected by Georgia voters, and the MLB had no business whatsoever to interfere in that democratic process.
The fans that support pro sports are not Democrats or Republicans when supporting their teams. There is no politics in their support. Hopefully, the entities that were financially damaged by the MLB’s decision will have grounds to recover their losses through the justice system.
All is not lost. There’s still the PGA.
Ken Mowl
Derry
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