Trump Urges Supporters To ‘Boycott Baseball’ After MLB Steps Out In Favor Of Voting Rights https://t.co/hCvHH0Dves pic.twitter.com/l9iF9Kn8TT
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) April 3, 2021
YES! Trump supporters, PLEASE boycott baseball!
— Woody (@elbandito2016) April 3, 2021
He'd love the photo you picked for this article but a more accurate illustration would be: pic.twitter.com/cbsxxKjicQ
— Brian Nelson (@briannelsonnow) April 4, 2021
No he never through out the first pitch cause the MLB never invited him to and he's angry. Maybe someone should get him a snickers
— Eric Blaine (@Mrcheesezole) April 4, 2021
Donald Trump, July 3, 2020:
One of their political weapons is "cancel culture" . . . shaming dissenters and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees. This is the very definition of totalitarianism, and it is completely alien to our culture and our values, and it has absolutely no place in the United States of America.
ItalyTrump's fellow conservatives have also called for boycotts of: Walmart, Netflix, Budweiser, Starbuck's, Keurig coffee makers, Target, Pepsi, and Gillette.
Mexico
Scotland
All products made in China
Amazon
Macy's
Apple
Goodyear
Glenfiddich Whiskey
Oreos
New Balance
Under Armour
AT&T
T-Mobile
Boeing
Merck
Nordstrom
General Motors
Toyota Motor Corp.
Nike
Harley Davidson
New York Times
Washington Post
Rolling Stone
New York Magazine
Dallas Morning News
Arizona Republic
Wall Street Journal editorial board
CNN
ABC News
NBC News
ESPN
CBS
HBO
CNBC
Univision
Touré (MSNBC)
Chris Matthews (MSNBC)
Graydon Carter (Vanity Fair)
Charles Krauthammer (conservative writer)
Rich Lowry (National Review)
Jonah Goldberg (National Review)
Sopan Deb (CBS News)
Katy Tur (NBC/MSNBC)
Karl Rove (Republican commentator)
Megyn Kelly (Fox News)
Chuck Todd (NBC)
Paul Krugman (New York Times)
Dave Weigel (Washington Post)
Fox News pollsters
Joe Lockhart (CNN analyst)
Joy Reid (MSNBC)
Chris Cuomo (CNN)
Debra Messing (actor)
Tom Ford (designer)
Sports: These people have been whining so loudly about the "evils" of "cancel culture", yet they also :The “Patriot Boycott” list. pic.twitter.com/GU5uUW4i69
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) April 4, 2021
demand everyone boycott the NFL because players knelt during the national anthem to protest police brutalityThe hypocrisy is breath-taking.
demand everyone boycott the NBA because players knelt during the national anthem to protest police brutality
demand everyone boycott NASCAR because it banned the flag of a pro-slavery country that declared war on the United States
demand everyone boycott MLB because this year's All-Star game will be played in a different stadium than first announced
Georgians - and all Americans - should fully understand what the MLB's knee-jerk decision means: cancel culture and woke political activists are coming for every aspect of your life, sports included. If the left doesn’t agree with you, facts and the truth do not matter.
— Governor Brian P. Kemp (@GovKemp) April 2, 2021
Baseball getting called out as "woke" is the most hilarious shit I've seen in a dog's age. There is none less woke a thing than baseball this side of the Eisenhower era.
— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) April 2, 2021
This is the first time Jeter has successfully gone to his left in years. https://t.co/cgCfSg6M18
— (((EugeneFreedman))) (@EugeneFreedman) April 2, 2021
A fun thing to do is to find people pushing the #boycottMLB tag, search their tweets and see how they, like, never, ever have tweeted about baseball before.
— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) April 2, 2021
I'm trying to imagine how all of this would play out if everyone stopped believing the lie about what professional sports means for local economies. If that happened it'd be like "we're moving the game!" And, "well, OK, bye."
— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) April 2, 2021
Short version: claims from either side that MLB moving the All-Star Game is a HUGE ECONOMIC BLOW . . . are wrong. Yes, it's a super high-profile thing. It has big symbolic value. It matters to isolated businesses/people/interests, but it is not a big deal in a macro sense.
— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) April 3, 2021
People on both sides have some political reasons to claim this is a major economic decision by MLB, but that's either bad faith or a lazy assumption based on years and years of people accepting claims about sports' economic impact uncritically.
— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) April 3, 2021
MLB, its teams and its owners play that up to get stadiums built for it and to make claims about their own importance, but it's wildly overstated and sometimes outright fabricated. Like when the Academy says "two billion people watch the Oscars!"
— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) April 3, 2021
Haha, no they don't.
A fun thing to do is to look at the entire gross revenue of Major League Baseball and compare it to other businesses. It's pretty small! $10 billion. As a company it wouldn't make the top 300 in the U.S. in revenue. https://t.co/RhOqy8FzP2
— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) April 3, 2021
Which is to say that the significance here is not economic. It's about public stances and principles and listening to players, fans, sponsors and other interests around the game. It's very much to the merits of voting rights, not, as we so often say, about the money as such.
— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) April 3, 2021
I stand with President Landslide--we absolutely should cancel the first three games the Red Sox played against the Orioles.
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