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Woke to Broke: Moving All-Star Game Costs Atlanta Tens of Millions in Revenue
Brwirbart ^ | 02April | W Husebo

Posted on 04/03/2021 8:00:18 AM PDT by qaz123

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To: TexasFreeper2009

this is a win for atlanta, guaranteed MLB lost their deposits

as a venue owner, I personally love it when someone cancels, I keep their money and can rent it out to someone else potentially :)

AMEN! Ask Delta......Georgia just took their tax breaks away didn’t they? We had developers come in here and built a big shopping center with a Sam’s Wholesale Club and after a few months they closed it.....po’d a bunch of people so they thought they’d just make a distribution center out of it.....guess what? The Improvement District told them to read the contract. They are forbidden to open a distribution center. I hope the mental giant and everyone that went along with this got canned! A Sam’s in this area would have been a real money maker as evidenced by the shopping center.....idiots!!


21 posted on 04/03/2021 8:39:38 AM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: TexasFreeper2009

this is a win for atlanta, guaranteed MLB lost their deposits

as a venue owner, I personally love it when someone cancels, I keep their money and can rent it out to someone else potentially :)

AMEN! Ask Delta......Georgia just took their tax breaks away didn’t they? We had developers come in here and built a big shopping center with a Sam’s Wholesale Club and after a few months they closed it.....po’d a bunch of people so they thought they’d just make a distribution center out of it.....guess what? The Improvement District told them to read the contract. They are forbidden to open a distribution center. I hope the mental giant and everyone that went along with this got canned! A Sam’s in this area would have been a real money maker as evidenced by the shopping center.....idiots!!


22 posted on 04/03/2021 8:39:38 AM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: PeachyKeen

I couldn’t believe where they placed the stadium. The only place worse from a traffic standpoint would have been next to the I285 and I85 intersection.

I couldn’t name you more than 10 or so players in MLB. Ditto, NFL and NBA. My kids are not interested either.


23 posted on 04/03/2021 8:52:09 AM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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To: BobL

So let me get this straight - the Braves don’t even play in Atlanta anymore, but 13 miles north of Downtown Atlanta in Cumberland, Georgia. That means people who go to the game, will get ripped at the game and then drive their rental cars to ‘the city’ where the hotels are. Seems to me that the Government of Georgia just prevented a whole lot of drunk-driving accidents by helping to rid themselves of the game.

****** yes sir as a kid growing up on the south side it was always fun to go to a game last minute or anytime. Now in Snobb County you cant even drive to the game you have to ride Marta. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA couldnt happen to a better bunch of people, players included.....game starts at 4:00 cant wait for the crying LMBO


24 posted on 04/03/2021 8:53:19 AM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (Ec 1:2 The rest is, Vanity of vanities..vanity of vanities!All is vanity.)
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To: libertylover

I just gave away Rockies vs Reds tickets. I was raised a Red’s fan living in Dayton and now live in Denver with the Rockies. Won’t go now.


25 posted on 04/03/2021 8:53:51 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Don't black citizens have the right to ensure their vote is safely entered <<<

Nope!......the white liberal plantation owners are slowly losing their slaves and they know it....

They think they can maintain the plantation image they grew accustom to with virtual and nonexistent slaves voting for them 99.9% of the time......Fair elections would kill that “image” ....

26 posted on 04/03/2021 8:54:03 AM PDT by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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To: qaz123

CHINESE COMMIES DON’T WANT THIS TO HAPPEN THAT’S WHY THOSE BUSINESSES AND SPORT INDUSTRIES WITH CHINA CONNECTIONS ARE AFRAID THIS COULD HAPPEN WITH THE GEORGIA ELECTION REFORM
REVIEW THOSE GEORGIA SENATE ELECTION RESULTS

There were a series of fraudulent voting charges here. Were they enforced and corrected before this election took place ? If they weren’t is not a review called for ? They were created with the introduction of Covid 19 which Biden campaign thanks the CCP for doing; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts
If the Georgia Secretary of State is in charge of voting he has the responsibility of enforcing the state’s regulations as to who votes. And eliminate those from voter lists who don’t qualify.

Assign prosecutors to personally canvass and investigate. Check if military actually voted by asking them. Identify all voters by checking on legal age their residency and citizenship. If found they do not qualify charge Illegals including state visitors known as snowbirds also include any technical computer fraudulent Italian programming testimony when presenting to the court and get these election results tossed.

LINKED HERE ARE REASONS WHY THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING 90% of the military votes went for Biden ?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3927647/posts#28

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3924076/posts#30
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3923435/posts#21
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3923157/posts#10
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3922715/posts#18
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923312/posts#11


27 posted on 04/03/2021 8:54:58 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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To: qaz123
This entire cancel culture mania has reached the point of total insanity.

When an league moves a meaningless game to try and show it's indignation over a law that not one of it's members have read, nor understand, they are really just showing it's 'wokeness'.

It is just a teenage gesture of wanting to belong to the cool group.

Delta and coke and amazon jumping in because they are afraid to be out.

Not a single business would promote the idea that they should be barred from knowing the ID of their patrons, from bars to car rentals, hotel, will call windows at mlb games, airline passengers, to check cashing to every event of any kind, ID is required.

Axing a voter for an ID, racisssssssss, bigot, transophobe, homophobe and a coupla more.

Can anything be more hypocritical?

28 posted on 04/03/2021 8:58:42 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: alternatives?

Yes, we could not believe it either. Traffic was already horrendous . When the news got out it was already a done deal. The Cobb county commissioner was soundly defeated in the next election.


29 posted on 04/03/2021 9:00:15 AM PDT by PeachyKeen
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To: Dawgreg

No, they still have their tax breaks. Georgia House voted to remove their tax break on jet fuel, but the Georgai Senate didn’t bother to take it up before adjourning.


30 posted on 04/03/2021 9:07:12 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

No, they still have their tax breaks. Georgia House voted to remove their tax break on jet fuel, but the Georgai Senate didn’t bother to take it up before adjourning.

Why am I not shocked at this?.....just damn!!!


31 posted on 04/03/2021 9:09:45 AM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: qaz123

Moving the game may have cost “Atlanta” tens of millions in revenue, but the only revenue the State of Georgia loses will be that from out-of-state visitors; how many people actually travel from other states to attend the game.

Residents of Georgia who no longer will be attending the game will just spend elsewhere, mostly in their communities, the money they would have spent at the game.


32 posted on 04/03/2021 9:19:46 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: qaz123

So suppose the All Star game were kept in Atlanta, or its environs, as planned? Then what?

Riots, security risks, “burn the place down” from leftist agitators - you name it. I’m not surprised the mayor supported MLB’s decision to move the game. In addition to the opportunity for virtue signalling, she is relieved of a big headache plus she can ingratiate herself with the Democrat pooh-bahs...Maybe Biden will give her a nice job.


33 posted on 04/03/2021 9:34:40 AM PDT by RAldrich
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To: qaz123
Repeating my earlier comment on this:

The city of Atlanta will now lose the prestige and economic benefit of hosting the 2021 All Star Game because of the shameful voting fraud and cheating seen on video. Ruby Freeman and her co-conspirators have not been brought to justice by anyone in the State of Georgia. For this, they should lose the All Star game.
34 posted on 04/03/2021 9:41:00 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: qaz123

Baseball/football hell any ball really just go to a highschool game. College is to “woke” now too

I personally love a night at the dirt track.


35 posted on 04/03/2021 9:53:51 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said the story was false!)
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To: qaz123

Alinsky Activists punished North Carolina in 2014-2015 when they boycotted the men/women seperate bathroom bill!


36 posted on 04/03/2021 9:56:30 AM PDT by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: qaz123

Oh well.

This is what happens when elections are stolen.


37 posted on 04/03/2021 10:16:33 AM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: libertylover

At 70 years old I’ve been a life-long Reds fan, but you could offer me the best seat in the house and I wouldn’t go.

_______________________________

At 60 I too am a life long Reds fan. I keep my SiriusXM account based largely on listening to Reds games as I live in Washington now. I’m torn. The MLB as ruined itself with this move.


38 posted on 04/03/2021 10:23:21 AM PDT by NavyShoe
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To: qaz123
The hallmark of fascism is private businesses becoming arms of the government. It's what seperates communism from fascism, that thin veneer of private industry that is a total unofficial arm of the government. When it happens (as in Nazi Gernamy and modern fascist China - yest China is fascist not communist - we get this stuff. Instead of worrying about profits and revenues large government approved corporations implement official state policies and enforce them ruthlessly on customers and employees.

When I hear about woke companies declaring that they will punish the people of a state for having conservative views my heart breaks a little, because it's fascism and the USA as we knew it, the greatest beacon of progress and freedom in human history, is falling.

39 posted on 04/03/2021 10:29:57 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: blueunicorn6
Fastball Fauci

Good one!

40 posted on 04/03/2021 10:51:58 AM PDT by ealgeone
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