{"id":407011,"date":"2021-04-10T11:28:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T15:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=407011"},"modified":"2021-04-10T11:28:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T15:28:36","slug":"black-small-business-owner-slams-mlb-for-moving-all-star-game-from-atlanta-we-may-lose-even-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-small-business-owner-slams-mlb-for-moving-all-star-game-from-atlanta-we-may-lose-even-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Small Business Owner Slams MLB For Moving All-Star Game From Atlanta: \u2018We May Lose Even More\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fblack-small-business-owner-slams-mlb-for-moving-all-star-game-from-atlanta-we-may-lose-even-more%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=407011&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-1263.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Major League Baseball\u2019s decision to pull the All-Star Game from Atlanta, Georgia, continues to draw backlash from the Peach State.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Free Beacon <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/small-business-owners-slam-mlb-commish-for-moving-all-star-game\/\">reported<\/a> the reactions from small-business owners in the state, including Darrell Anderson, who is black. Anderson owns a limousine business in Atlanta, and told the outlet that MLB commissioner Rob Manfred\u2019s decision to pull the game would hurt the city, which is still reeling from the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the owner of a transportation service in Atlanta, I know firsthand how badly our community wanted the All-Star Game played here,\u201d Anderson told the Free Beacon. \u201cThe $100 million in revenue to this area was going to be the opportunity for all of us to recover some of the losses that we incurred during the pandemic.&nbsp;Now, not only is that revenue gone, we may lose even more because conventions that were planned for Atlanta are now up in the air thanks to this decision by the MLB.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anderson also told the outlet that the MLB needs to separate sports from politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Big Business teams up with politicians, they make bad decisions, and small businesses and their hardworking employees suffer the most,\u201d he said. \u201cPolitics should be decided at the ballot box. It has no place in making business decisions like where to hold the All-Star Game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alfredo Ortiz, president of a small-business advocacy group known as the Job Creators Network, told the Free Beacon he sent Manfred a letter last week demanding that he reverse his decision to pull the All-Star Game. Ortiz said that Manfred\u2019s decision would \u201chave an outsized impact on minority-owned businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour decision is punishing the very group you claim to be defending,\u201d Ortiz told the outlet. \u201cSmall businesses in Georgia are hurting and you pulled a multi-million dollar rug out from underneath them\u2026. Don\u2019t let activist groups weaponize America\u2019s pastime to push radical ideas that MLB fans don\u2019t support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire previously reported, Democrats and their media supporters spent days spreading misinformation about a newly passed election law in Georgia, falsely framing the new law as a return to \u201cJim Crow\u201d and claiming it prohibited voters standing in line to vote from receive food or water. Further, these same people claimed the law restricted voting hours, which it did not.<\/p>\n<p>The MLB pulled the game based on these falsehoods, and some of the people who pushed them then complained about the consequences. Failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/stacey-abrams-pushed-misinformation-about-georgia-voting-bill-now-shes-upset-by-the-consequences\">for example<\/a>, called the new law \u201ca redux of Jim Crow in a suit and tie\u201d and then released a statement upset that MLB would boycott the state based on the things she and others said about the bill. President Joe Biden also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/critics-blame-the-repeated-lies-from-democrats-joe-biden-and-stacey-abrams-for-mlb-dumping-atlanta\">spread falsehoods<\/a> about the Georgia bill and even said he \u201cwould strongly support\u201d players who advocated for changing the state of the All-Star Game. Biden later acknowledged the consequences of the MLB\u2019s decision, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-biden-admits-he-has-not-confronted-china-about-pandemic-lies-changes-tune-on-mlb-rhetoric\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s another side to it too, the other side to it too is when they in fact move out of Georgia, the people who need the help the most, people who are making hourly wages sometimes get hurt the most,\u201d Biden said at a press conference on Tuesday. \u201cI think it\u2019s a very tough decision for a corporation to make or group to make. But I respect them when they make that judgment.\u201d<\/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>Major League Baseball\u2019s decision to pull the All-Star Game from Atlanta, Georgia, continues to draw backlash from the Peach State.The Washington Free Beacon reported the reactions from small-business owners in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311961,"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-1263.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Black Small Business Owner Slams MLB For Moving All-Star Game From Atlanta: \u2018We May Lose Even More\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407011","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-1263.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Black Small Business Owner Slams MLB For Moving All-Star Game From Atlanta: \u2018We May Lose Even More\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407011","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=407011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}