Sen. Kennedy slams MLB Commissioner, says he made 'baseball a blue sport'
MLB moves annual all-star game out of Georgia amid pushback against new voting law
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}During his appearance on 'Fox & Friends' Monday, Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., slammed MLB's decision to move the All-Star game out of Georgia in response to the state's new voting law, suggesting that Commissioner Rob Manfred's move has brought politics into the sport.
SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: He's just made baseball a blue sport. He did. I don't get it. I don't get it. I mean, his attendance is declining. If it were my job, I would try to be adding fans.
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The only thing I can figure is that Mr. Manfred is part of what I call the managerial elite - the entrenched politicians, the bureaucrats, certain members of the media, the academics, the corporate phonies - who think they're smarter and more virtuous than the people they make money off of. And, as best I can tell, Mr. Manfred just wet his pants with delight at the chance to virtue-signal here. And all they did was make Major League Baseball a blue sport. I don't get it.