Any devotee of Frank on Friday knows that what bugs me most of all is the blatant hypocrisy of the Left.  So-called progressives display a stunning ability to denounce the actions and positions of conservatives, while they, themselves do things, and espouse positions that they would roundly condemn, if they came from a conservative.  In the past week, The Wall Street Journal published columns by Daniel Henninger and Anastasia O’Grady that examined the decision by Major League Baseball (MLB)  to move its All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver, as a result of the enactment of voting reforms by the Georgia Legislature.  Last week’s F on F, explored the Georgia law, which even The Washington Post admits, expands the ability to vote, rather than restricting it.  The Leftist, Woke mob, having decided that it can’t win in Georgia unless it cheats, denounced the Georgia law as racist.  The magpies of the media dutifully repeated the lies, and corporate castrati, that is, companies that fear social media calls for boycotts, jumped in to punish Georgia.  I say “social media calls” because these boycott campaigns typically are launched, not by mass public opinion, but by a handful of internet trolls who create “bots” that make it appear that complaints are coming from  thousands of people, instead of from 12 lazy slobs living in their parents’ basements.   When Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden was asked whether MLB should move the All-Star Game, he said, “I would strongly support them doing that.”  MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred obliged, moving the game to Denver.  Manfred said he had to do it, because MLB has to uphold “values.”  Manfred didn’t elaborate, but it’s safe to assume that by “values” he meant the right to vote for the candidate of your choice, or perhaps, just good, old-fashioned Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet, American notions of decency and fair play.  But, as Henninger and O’Grady noted, Manfred’s sanctimonious “values” motivation doesn’t pass the smell test.  Due to his “values,” Manfred abandoned Atlanta over a law that gives Georgians more opportunity for early voting than voters get in New York or Colorado, and Manfred finds nothing wrong with doing business with communist Cuba.  It’s all about values, you see.  MLB values money, and fears criticism.  Greed and fear are a bad combination when constitutional rights, and even human rights, are at stake.  The fight over the Georgia law is political, not humanitarian.  The Democrat goal in calling everything racist is to get HR 1 passed, which would nationalize elections.  If Rob Manfred was concerned about American values, he would be opposed to HR 1, as it violates the text of the Constitution and the 10th Amendment.  Powers not delegated to the federal government or prohibited to it are reserved to the States.  The Constitution does not delegate authority to control elections to the federal government, it explicitly prohibits that, and reserves that power to the States.  But Manfred has a peculiar set of values, as he can denounce a law which was the valid enactment of a State legislature elected by the people of Georgia, while at the same time, pursuing an agreement with Raul Castro to permit Cuban ballplayers to play for MLB, and have their salaries paid, not to them or their families, but instead to the murdering communist bastards who control Cuba, a country where there are no elections, and gross violations of human rights are routine.  So much for Manfred’s “values” bullcrap.  President Trump cancelled Manfred’s plan to enrich Castro’s Cuba, but don’t expect Biden to stand in the way.  Democrats have a history of placating Cuban dictators in the name of baseball.

It must be pretty bad, because Daniel Henninger said something I never heard him say before, “Trump is right. Boycott baseball, and all other Woke corporations.”  Henninger wants to boycott to save progressives from themselves.  I say, “Screw ’em.”  We’re better off without them.  Henninger did make an apt comparison though.  He said Manfred’s Atlanta boycott has finished the burning of that city begun by General Sherman in 1864, by taking $100 million from Atlanta.  This fact has not been lost on the chief arsonist of Georgia, Stacy Abrams.  She stirred the pot to encourage boycotts, but now has had second thoughts.  Abrams broke with Biden, begging, “To our friends, please do not boycott us.”  “Leaving us behind with boycotts won’t save us.”  Democrat Senator Ossoff also backed off, “I absolutely oppose and reject any notion of boycotting Georgia.  Georgia welcomes business, investment, jobs, opportunity, and events.”  Temporary Democrat Senator for two years, Warnock, stayed on the fence, calling on businesses, athletes, and entertainers to protest the law not by leaving Georgia.  Georgia Democrats, now lamenting the lost revenue, are blaming Joe Biden, but it turns out, it’s not his fault.  Biden’s Chief Gibberish Translator, Jen Psaki, explained that Old Joe can’t be blamed for saying, he would strongly support the MLB move because, “He was answering a direct question during an interview.”  She’s right.  We certainly can’t expect Biden to truthfully answer a direct question.  The bottom line is the MLB decision to move the All-Star Game pleases no one.  The move hurts the very Georgians the Left claims are affected by the election law, and it puts a stake in the heart of the Atlanta economy, at a time when economic activity is essential.  Rob Manfred has accomplished just two things.  He moved the game from a Park named for a bank, to a Park named for a beer.  And he deprived countless poor Atlanta area workers of much needed income.  The result?  Instead of Atlanta fans being served chicken and waffles by African-American concession workers, Denver fans now will be served gluten free quesadillas by mindless hippies smelling of cannabis. (Trust me, I’ve been there).  The actions of Major League Baseball have left a bad taste in the mouths of many baseball fans.  Between the Manfred mess and the Wuhan restrictions, many fans will protest by skipping MLB games, so I propose a new song for the seventh inning stretch.

Don’t take me out to the ball game,
Don’t make me sit in a crowd;
Buy me a mask and a Covid test,
Require vaccines for ev-er-y guest.
You may root, root, root for the home team,
If their opinion’s the same.
Or it’s move, strike, boycott, you’re out,
At the old ball game.