{"id":395354,"date":"2021-04-07T07:28:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T11:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=395354"},"modified":"2021-04-07T07:28:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T11:28:24","slug":"ex-mlb-commissioner-slams-commissioner-rob-manfred-made-a-serious-mistake-by-pulling-out-of-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-mlb-commissioner-slams-commissioner-rob-manfred-made-a-serious-mistake-by-pulling-out-of-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-MLB Commissioner Slams Commissioner Rob Manfred: \u2018Made A Serious Mistake\u2019 By Pulling Out Of Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-mlb-commissioner-slams-commissioner-rob-manfred-made-a-serious-mistake-by-pulling-out-of-georgia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=395354&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-674.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Fay Vincent slammed MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred in an op-ed this week for his decision to withdraw the league\u2019s All Star Game from Atlanta after Georgia enacted a new law aimed at tightening the security of elections in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent made his criticisms of Manfred in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/rob-manfreds-all-star-error-11617726664\">op-ed<\/a> published on Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal, calling boycotts an \u201cact of desperation\u201d and saying that Manfred made \u201ca serious mistake\u201d by rushing to pull the All Star Game out of the state \u201cwithout first protesting the substance of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vincent noted that the course of action that Manfred took effectively allowed him to bypass needing approval of the player\u2019s union and team owners. An ESPN reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hbryant42\/status\/1378123941835911168\">noted<\/a> this week that league sources indicated that the move was the result of corporate pressure, not the result of player-threatened boycott. The piece also noted that only people that will be hurt by Manfred\u2019s decision are workers in Atlanta, a city that has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mlb-moves-all-star-game-to-colorado-which-has-voter-id-laws-significantly-less-diverse-than-georgia\">more diverse<\/a> population than the new host city, Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"34\">\n<p><em>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\u2019s voting law. Now he\u2019s put himself in the awkward position of having to defend Colorado\u2019s voting laws.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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\u2019t want, and won\u2019t accept, anything that separates them from the game\u2019s history and leadership.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Major League Baseball can\u2019t become a weapon in the culture wars, a hostage for one political party or ideology. It can\u2019t 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\u2019t go wrong by standing for national greatness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The situation calls to mind the 2006 Duke lacrosse case, when many erred\u2014like Mr. Manfred has here\u2014by leaping to a conclusion based on assumptions rather than carefully considered facts. I\u2019ve done the same thing, to my regret. Much rides on Mr. Manfred\u2019s shoulders so he must be prudent. Perhaps he now sees how complicated these issues can become. I wish him well.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>MLB\u2019s decision to pull the game out of Georgia came after President Joe Biden said during an ESPN interview last week that he would \u201cstrongly support\u201d the game being moved out of the state. Fact-checkers have reported that Biden has repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/04\/02\/president-biden-recidivist\/\">lied<\/a> about the new election law and the White House has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/psaki-refuses-to-answer-if-biden-will-stop-lying-about-debunked-georgia-election-law-claim\">declined<\/a> to say if he will stop lying about it. Critics have also noted his rhetoric that the law is a new Jim Crow law is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/03\/30\/no-georgias-new-voting-law-is-not-return-jim-crow\/\">wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Fay Vincent slammed MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred in an op-ed this week for his decision to withdraw the league\u2019s All Star Game from Atlanta &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311779,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-674.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Ex-MLB Commissioner Slams Commissioner Rob Manfred: \u2018Made A Serious Mistake\u2019 By Pulling Out Of Georgia","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-674.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Ex-MLB Commissioner Slams Commissioner Rob Manfred: \u2018Made A Serious Mistake\u2019 By Pulling Out Of Georgia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}