Sports and Georgia: MLB, the Masters, and Beyond

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🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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MLB moved the All-Star Game out of Georgia, after the state passed a law hampering voting access. As MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred takes heat from many directions, baseball’s move has cast a different kind of spotlight on the Masters tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. It’s teeing off as scheduled, and that’s not surprising to ESPN senior writer and baseball historian Howard Bryant. He breaks down the business side of MLB’s decision, how it’s reverberating, and the many stakeholders in play. Then, Pablo shares a personal connection with the pimento cheese sandwich, a time-honored staple at the Masters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, back here on SportsCenter, we're following a significant developing story tonight.
0:07.7	Major League Baseball announced today that it's moving this summer's All-Star game out of Atlanta
0:11.9	in response to a new Georgia law that has civil rights groups concerned about its potential to restrict
0:17.5	voting access for people of color. If you were looking for a story about sports and democracy and race and money,
0:26.6	this has been the new cycle for you.
0:30.6	And it may seem like it all hinges on this new voting law just passed in Georgia,
0:35.6	which is now engulfing Major League Baseball and the Masters in Augusta.
0:39.8	But the real story goes a lot deeper.
0:44.1	Today, Howard Bryant breaks down what's actually happening in how baseball's calculated decision
0:50.3	echoed across Georgia, across sports, and beyond.
0:55.8	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Thursday, April 8th. This is ESPN Daily.
1:04.2	Howard Bryant, the Masters Golf Tournament starts today in Augusta, Georgia. It is one of
1:09.0	sports most premier events, an enormous platform.
1:12.5	But the energy, all leading into it, has changed pretty dramatically because of what's happened
1:18.3	with baseball and Georgia in recent days. MLB moved the All-Star game out of Georgia because of the
1:23.7	new legislation, the state passed that makes it harder to vote. So first, I just need you to tell me about this Georgia law.
1:30.5	What does it do?
1:32.2	What does law really SB 202?
1:34.3	What it really is all about is the ways to keep the traditional high numbers of African-American voters down.
1:42.4	Howard Bryant is a senior writer for ESPN and the author of the Henry Hank Aaron
1:48.3	biography, The Last Hero.
1:50.8	When you look at what this law potentially allows the Georgia legislature to do, that it takes
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