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The Lead

Why Rob Manfred Moved The MLB All-Star Game

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🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

On Friday, many people were caught off guard by Commissioner Rob Manfred's decision to move the 2021 Major League Baseball All-Star Game out of Georgia, in response to the state's controversial new voting law and growing public pressure. And on Tuesday, MLB announced that the game would instead be held in Colorado. Amidst all the noise and political posturing surrounding the decision, The Athletic’s Evan Drellich joins us to break down what actually drove Manfred's decision to move the game, and what it reveals about the state of Major League Baseball.

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A big announcement from Georgia, Major League Baseball moving its 2021 All-Star game out of Atlanta, Georgia, in reaction to the state's controversial new voting law.

1:05.0

On Friday, Major League Baseball made a move that caught many people off guard and re-ignited a very charged debate.

1:11.0

The league commissioner said today that moving would be the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport.

1:16.0

Yesterday Major League Baseball came to fear and lies from liberal eyes.

1:21.0

We are absolutely honored and thrilled that Major League Baseball has selected Denver and the Colorado Rockies as the new home for the summer's All-Star game.

1:31.0

Today amidst all the noise surrounding the decision, the Athletics Evan Drelick breaks down what actually drove Commissioner Rob Manfred to move the game.

1:40.0

This wasn't about the Commissioner of 30 mostly white Republican billionaires waking up and saying we're going to have a new moral compass today.

1:48.0

MLB wasn't trying to make this great political stand. Rather it felt that it was going to make a political stand either way.

1:56.0

From Wondering and the Athletic, I'm Andre Skelto. It's Wednesday, April 7th and this is the lead.

2:03.0

So Evan, before we get into the controversy, can you just remind us what was the original plan for the 2021 MLB All-Star game?

2:13.0

It was going to be a smooth, calm week down in Atlanta, Georgia where you would have the All-Star game, the home run derby, the draft and basically a week of fan festivities around all those events.

2:25.0

Henry was a man of grease, a man of patience.

2:29.0

After the passing of Henry Aaron to have the game in Atlanta where he spent so much of his career was going to be a special part of it that you would have.

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