{"id":399943,"date":"2021-04-08T12:28:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T16:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=399943"},"modified":"2021-04-08T12:28:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T16:28:44","slug":"source-tells-cnn-if-mlb-didnt-move-all-star-game-media-would-have-hounded-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/source-tells-cnn-if-mlb-didnt-move-all-star-game-media-would-have-hounded-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Source Tells CNN If MLB Didn\u2019t Move All-Star Game, Media Would Have Hounded Players"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fsource-tells-cnn-if-mlb-didnt-move-all-star-game-media-would-have-hounded-players%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=399943&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-911.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An \u201cinformed source\u201d admitted to CNN that the MLB\u2019s decision to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta, Georgia, came in part because media outlets would have hounded players about their thoughts on boycotting the state following a sustained media campaign of misinformation about Georgia\u2019s new voting law.<\/p>\n<p>In a Twitter thread, CNN anchor Jake Tapper relayed what the anonymous source told CNN regarding the political considerations behind the MLB\u2019s decision. This source told CNN there would have been consequences if they hadn\u2019t pulled the All-Star Game, so they acted proactively. Among those consequences were the fact that a biased media would have repeatedly asked professional baseball players about their own stance on the law and urged them to boycott the state, though the source didn\u2019t say that explicitly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMLB officials made the decision because if they didn\u2019t then the decision would be left to individual players, individual All-Stars, some of whom no doubt would have individually boycotted the game themselves,\u201d Tapper tweeted. \u201cIn short: There was no way to avoid this becoming political.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tapper followed up that tweet with one about how the media would have treated All-Star players for the next several months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf MLB hadn\u2019t acted, individual players would certainly have been asked from now until July whether they were boycotting or not. It would have \u2014 arguably \u2014 become a bigger issue,\u201d Tapper wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.318777292576\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">3\/ If MLB hadn\u2019t acted, individual players would certainly have been asked from now until July whether they were boycotting or not.<\/p>\n<p>It would have \u2014 arguably \u2014 become a bigger issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaketapper\/status\/1379848271397523458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the giveaway. The MLB appears to have feared an activist media \u2013 not fans or residents of Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>The source explained to CNN that the MLB made its decision in part to protect players from this coordinated media attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\">@MLB<\/a> did what they thought was taking one for the team, as it were, trying to protect the individual players and to operate as a cohesive whole, the source tells CNN,\u201d Tapper wrote. \u201cWhatever you think of the decision, that was part of the calculation.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"14.102112676056\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">4\/ So <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MLB<\/a> did what they thought was taking one for the team, as it were, trying to protect the individual players and to operate as a cohesive whole, the source tells CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you think of the decision, that was part of the calculation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaketapper\/status\/1379848274140626946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As evidence to support these claims, Tapper linked to a CNN interview with former MLB All-Star outfielder Curtis Granderson, the current president of the Player\u2019s Alliance, as well as a statement from the Player\u2019s Alliance supporting the decision after it was made. The Player\u2019s Alliance made no suggestion of an issue prior to MLB\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>Further, as GOP consultant Dan Foster pointed out, the activist focus on the MLB was because of its prominence, when there are many other companies that will continue to operate in Georgia without being criticized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of what makes this so alienating is the randomness of it. Think of how many corps\u2014including CNN!\u2014will go on doing business in Georgia unmolested because they weren\u2019t the first two or three that popped into the activists\u2019 heads. They get to go about their lives, this time!\u201d Foster wrote. \u201cWho\u2019s going to ask every CNN employee, every day, how their company can in good conscience keep their headquarters in Atlanta? Nobody is, because most of us are not sociopaths.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"13.172727272727\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Who\u2019s going to ask every CNN employee, every day, how their company can in good conscience keep their headquarters in Atlanta?<\/p>\n<p>Nobody is, because most of us are not sociopaths.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 That Guy (@DanFosterType) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanFosterType\/status\/1379860184370188295?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Beyond the decision, the media\u2019s portrayal of the new Georgia voting law has been completely false. As The Daily Wire has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/water-and-jim-crow-debunking-the-most-egregious-georgia-voting-law-falsehoods\">reported<\/a> numerous claims from the media about the law were false, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/joe-biden-media-claim-georgia-law-prevents-giving-water-to-voters-in-line-thats-not-true\">refuted claims<\/a> from President Joe Biden and others that it banned people waiting in line to vote from receiving water.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post\u2019s fact-checker spoke to experts who said \u201cthe net effect was to expand the opportunities to vote for most Georgians, not limit them.\u201d In that same fact-check, the Post noted that claims about the Georgia law restricting voting hours was also false.<\/p>\n<p><em>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&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An \u201cinformed source\u201d admitted to CNN that the MLB\u2019s decision to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta, Georgia, came in part because media outlets would have hounded players about &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311858,"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-911.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Source Tells CNN If MLB Didn\u2019t Move All-Star Game, Media Would Have Hounded Players","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399943","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-911.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Source Tells CNN If MLB Didn\u2019t Move All-Star Game, Media Would Have Hounded Players","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399943","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=399943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}