The prominent small business group Job Creators Network is placing a billboard in Manhattan demanding Major League Baseball return its all-star game to Atlanta, saying the decision to move the event unnecessarily hurt black small businesses and amounted to “all strikes & no balls.”
The billboard, set to go up Monday near MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s office, urges viewers to go to a Web site called MLBfail.com where Job Creators Network lays out the economic consequences of the decision to protest Georgia’s new election integrity law by moving the all-star game to Colorado.
“Hey Rob, All Strikes & No Balls,” the billboard reads. “MLB all-star pullout cost Georgia $100,000,000. Hurting mostly minority-owned small businesses… Move it Back NOW.”
They’re right. But what do they care, staring down from their ivory towers of dillusion.