To: customerservice@website.mlb.com:
To whom it may concern,
I have been a fan of Major League Baseball, and specifically the Chicago Cubs, since I was four years old watching Bruce Sutter close out games on my grandmother's lap. For many years I have known that the commissioner, owners, and players have interests that compete with mine, and I have accepted that. My interests and the interests of fans like me who love the game, still had some influence on the game. That is clearly no longer the case.
In addition to the constant reminders from MLB that I am somehow an evil person for wanting to watch baseball without any political or cultural commentary, I witnessed baseball's cowardly response to a virus that has no effect on 99.9% of the population. In the ultimate irony, Vitamin D from sunshine is perhaps the most effective prevention against upper respiratory infections, meaning that MLB could have saved lives simply by playing out their summer schedule completely normally. And now, a completely uninformed and irrational response to a state law is being used as a reason to deny the fans of that state an opportunity to witness the All Star Game.
What this really shows is that there is a much more important customer to Major League Baseball than people who love the game. That customer is the United States Federal Government. I certainly can't compete with them for influence and I am not interested in trying.
I wish you the best of luck with your new best fan.
Warm regards,
David Burns
Amen from a former fan.
ReplyDeleteWhat a pathetic, cowardly move by MLB. I already quit MLS due to their over-the-top genuflection to BLM.
ReplyDeleteIt would be great to see layoffs and poverty in professional sports! Truly.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to care about the "vaccination" passport being required for entry into sports arenas. The national anthem and fornication with the military were bad enough, but it's like they're just trying to find ways to turn people off professional sports. Soon, the only people who will respect professional sports will be the progressive metro-sexuals who have never played nor understand the rules or strategies of the major sports, and who are unlikely to be bothered watching.
ReplyDeleteFrom the Boston Globe: “....Red Sox Nation can breathe a socially distant sigh of relief.”
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From the Boston Globe: “....Red Sox Nation can breathe a socially distant sigh of relief.”
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BARF!!