Why?
Because of the Baseball All-Star Game Georgia Law move….
Republican Sens. Mike Lee (Utah) and Ted Cruz (Texas) have joined calls to end MLB’s antitrust exemption following the its decision to pull the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta.
MLB announced the move on Friday, saying it would relocate the game in protest of Georgia’s voting restrictions signed into law last week. The decision has sparked blowback from GOP lawmakers across the country.
GOP Rep. Jeff Duncan (S.C.) said earlier Friday that he had told his staff to start drafting legislation to remove MLB’s decades-old antitrust exemption “in light of @MLB’s stance to undermine election integrity laws.” …
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Baseball’s antitrust exemption dates back to a 1922 Supreme Court decision, and under the 1998 Curt Flood Act passed by Congress, MLB players maintain the same rights as other professional athletes under antitrust laws, but other aspects of the sport are exempt, including franchise relocation and broadcast negotiations.
Other professional sport leagues, including the NFL and NBA, do not have this exemption….
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Democrats and voting rights activists have condemned the law, arguing it will disproportionately make it harder for voters of color to make their voices heard in elections.
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred defended the league’s decision to move the game, writing in a statement that it is “the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport.”
“Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box,” he added….
Note…
This retaliation threat is bound to go nowhere….