Chip Bok for April 03, 2021

Bok is the one playing politics. The commissioner is just worried about the fans.

I love a comic with zero context. /s

Let’s ask Mr. Potato Head how bad playing politics is.

At least Bok is staying in his lane by publishing lame cartoons.

Dear God, MLB has played politics for at least 100 years, doing whatever it can to protect its antitrust exemptions, its favorable tax treatment, especially of player contracts, and the ways it manipulates franchise relocations and expansions.

To the extent that what the GA rong-wingers have done is politics, then the MLB is playing politics. To the extent that what they did is an obvious attack on the rights of a lot of the people who pay for tickets and watch on the TV, it’s just plain business.

PS: Other states have instituted insane restrictions, and they have also paid this sort of price. Kemp et al are not only wrong, they’re STUPIDLY wrong.

MLB: BLM.

@TPG Good one! You, the one talking about “Marxist terrorism”, now that is rich.

It wouldn’t be so funny if you weren’t on the domestic terrorism bandwagon, but oh boy, what a joke!!!

Yep! Just any idiot can become a republican senator. That just the way it is…

Two weeks from this last Thursday I will be wearing my old school Brooklyn Dodgers uniform shirt with 42 on the back. And so will every player, coach, and manager on every MLB team, and even the umpires, for that day. I wonder if Chip will grasp the significance. Probably not. Stupid Chip.

Why reward a state that passes bills prejudiced against the race of many of the players, Baghdad Bok?

Which politics is Bok referring to? Moving the All-Star Game? I guess Bok jus’ wanna keep them darkies down on da plantation whilst master, well suffice it to say it ain’t nice.

first basketball, football, olympics, …………………..the cancer of politic$$$$$

I always wonder why people engaged in despicable behavior act so outraged when called out on it?

So Chip, when certain States pass new laws to do their best to make it more difficult for certain people from being able to vote . . . . isn’t that “playing politics” ?

When I watch sports it’s on TV and the event doesn’t have to be in any certain State. Stop you’re whining. . . . . along with Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham and Moscow Mitch. Yelling voter fraud is like the boy who cried wolf all the time until nobody listened to him and he was no longer. The same is happening to your Grand Old Party.

At least SOMEONE is playing an American dedicated wholeheartedly to democratic ideals. Have you forgotten that, through the efforts of GQPers that corporations are ‘people’ too – and government is therefor partly of, by, and for them?

Right wing racism goes unloved.

lets see… fighting for social justice has been deemed “political” with the dems being for it and the pubs being against it… now fighting against voter suppression is being deemed “political” with the dems being against it while the pubs are for it. Good to know where the republicans stand. … then they will act shocked when minorities don’t vote for them and cry cancel culture when businesses want nothing to do with them.

Kind of goes without saying.. it is an American “ism” afterall.

I think MLB is really trying to make “America Great”. If you are honest and believe in democracy, you don’t want to restrict voting, you want news that is fair and balanced. How would you enjoy baseball if the umpires called the plays based on bribes and cons.

Not politics, idiot. Human decency, morality, and support of true democracy.

If you are one of the many classes of people we discriminate against in this country you break from it, so why should bigots and racists?

The issue here in this cartoon is not gun control or gun rights, it’s the attempt to limit the right to vote. This country started out with only white men with a certain amount of property having the. vote. That was expanded to white men over 21. Then the civil rights amendments after the Civil War extended the franchise to freed Black men. Then after Reconstruction, the South (and other places) made it next to impossible for African Americans to vote. Then women finally were enfranchised. Jim Crow voting restrictions were addressed in the voting rights act of ’65. Now Republicans, because they have no program other than cutting taxes for the rich and deregulating as much as they can, are trying to limit voting for fear of losing the power they have.

Actions have consequences. The Governor of Georgia should have expected consequences for signing the most ridiculous voter suppression law ever created. It’s not a surprise, as voter suppression was the only way he could get elected.

This is Kemp’s fault.

Duh… once you allow Corporations to be individuals for the purpose of donating money to political campaigns (see Citizens United) you should not be surprised when Corporations start acting as individuals by getting involved in political issues and/or speaking out like political donors do…

Could this be the end of Citizens United? (fingers crossed!)

If corporations can do it….

MLB has come a long way since the era of Jackie Robinson. Kudos to them for standing up for voting rights.

Of course, Bok would play the victim card. Repugs always do when they get caught with their bigot pants down.

If the big woke corps are going to tell manfred and MLB what to do, I hope the same corps can buy enough tickets to replace the lost revenue from the fans who are tired of this noise.

Does this mean MLB will finally be subject to anti-trust?

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