A columnist for The Washington Post called for Major League Baseball to boycott training in Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis because of the Republican’s “hostile approach” to woke politics.
Post opinion writer Kevin B. Blackistone also compared baseball in the time of Jackie Robinson to modern Florida and called for the MLB to “take a stand” against DeSantis.
The column, headlined, “Baseball can no longer ignore Ron DeSantis’s tradition wars,” argued that Florida is exhibiting a “hostile approach to inclusiveness, which in some ways is being reconstituted by its current governor, Ron DeSantis.”
Blackistone argued that the identical Florida that was “home to Jim Crow laws” was coming again beneath DeSantis.
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The Post column, “Baseball can no longer ignore Ron DeSantis’s culture wars,” argued Florida is exhibiting a “hostile approach to inclusiveness, which in some ways is being reconstituted by its current governor, Ron DeSantis.” (Octavio Jones/Getty Images)
The column was savaged on Twitter, with many commentators mentioning {that a} proposed MLB boycott of Florida was paying homage to the political battle that the sports activities league beforehand waded into within the state of Georgia.
In 2021, the MLB relocated the All-Star Game away from Georgia in response to a voting legislation that the league broadly referred to as “restrictions to the ballot box.”
Fox News radio host Jimmy Failla wrote that shifting the MLB away from Florida wouldn’t truly assist the Black neighborhood within the state. “Are you suggesting he screw more black cities out of revenue like you encouraged MLB to do with the Atlanta All Star Game? Way to look out for the community!”
DeSantis aide Christina Pushaw joked that failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams can be happy with Blackistone’s opinion piece, tweeting, “The Governor of Georgia agrees with u.”
Contributing editor for The Spectator, Stephen L. Miller, additionally reminded The Washington Post that politicizing sports activities is a harmful plan of action. “That went well the first time,” he wrote.
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“It worked so well in Georgia,” one other person agreed.
Blackistone claimed that a technique for the MLB to show its dedication to racial equality can be for all 15 of its franchises “that started spring training last month in Florida” to maneuver over to Arizona and “consider making the annual exercise an all-Cactus League affair as long as DeSantis commands an attack on diversity.”
That assault on variety, Blackistone argued, has been the “hallmark” of DeSantis’ time as governor.
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Fox News’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.