04/23/2021 - Hour 3 - Dear Mr. Manfred
2 Pros and a Cup of Joe
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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Clay Travis is joined by Congressman Jim Jordan from Ohio, who has written a letter to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred regarding baseball moving the All-Star Game away from Atlanta, him throwing out first pitches, and more. Plus, Clay wraps the week with what he says is the biggest story from next week's NFL Draft.
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| 0:24.3 | Final hour of the week 14 hours up 14 hours down and we are rolling into the 15th hour now when |
| 0:35.2 | I think our guests in the first two hours Lance Taylor and Paul Kaharski both were absolutely fantastic. |
| 0:42.2 | We have got a really interesting guest coming up next. He's Congressman Jim Jordan and he has got |
| 0:48.0 | a letter that he is sending to Commissioner Rob Manfred. The battle over the All-Star game being |
| 0:54.1 | moved outside of Atlanta is not over yet. In fact, I've got a couple of excerpts from that letter |
| 1:00.9 | that I want to share with you and then we're going to have the Congressman on. But I think that |
| 1:05.9 | there are so many interesting aspects to this letter and the way that it is ended up shaking out. |
| 1:13.1 | And this situation in general the way it is shaking out is major league baseball thought that maybe |
| 1:21.8 | they were going to be able to avoid getting involved directly in politics. But I want to read the |
| 1:26.8 | opening paragraph of this letter that Congressman Jim Jordan from the House Judiciary Committee has |
| 1:33.5 | sent to Rob Manfred. Dear Mr. Manfred, we ask that you provide documents and information about |
| 1:40.4 | major league baseball's attempt to use its immense market power and resources to influence the |
| 1:46.3 | official actions of the elected representatives of Georgia. Earlier this month MLB unilaterally |
| 1:52.0 | decided to move its annual All-Star game from Atlanta, Georgia based on an incorrect and partisan |
| 1:58.0 | understanding of Georgia's election integrity integrity legislation. Because MLB enjoys special |
| 2:04.8 | and unique antitrust immunities that have allowed it to become America's only nationwide professional |
| 2:10.7 | baseball. The MLB's actions amount to an attempted economic extortion that is harmed small businesses |
| 2:17.6 | in and around Atlanta. And then the letter goes on from there. We are going to talk with Congressman |
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