The Red State World Series: A Democrat Nightmare

As the Atlanta Braves celebrated on the mound after beating the Los Angeles Dodgers in six games in the NLCS, potential storylines began to form. 

It’s the first World Series for the Atlanta organization since 1999, first baseman Freddie Freeman finally gets to taste success after the lean years in Atlanta, the possible redemption story for their opponent in the Houston Astros. 

And then I remembered something … the Left gave us a storyline six months ago when they decided to ruin sports with their politics. 

For those who need a little refresher, Major League Baseball moved its 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta in April in response to Georgia’s Election Integrity bill. The bill was intended to fix the voting process in a state that was mired in controversy during the 2020 Presidential race. It was meant to make elections safer and more transparent and featured a number of voter integrity provisions, including a voter ID requirement.

But in the most predictable of moves, the Left made it about race, telling Americans that the bill specifically targeted the black community. President Biden went so far as to call the bill “Jim Crow on steroids.” 

So, what did Major League Baseball do? All too predictably, commissioner Rob Manfred caved to Democratic pressure, punishing residents of Georgia and the small businesses that depend on the Braves ballpark by moving the game to Denver, Colorado. 

Democrats widely applauded MLB’s move, with former president Barack Obama congratulating the league on Twitter for “taking a stand on behalf of voting rights for all citizens.” 

It’s what makes Atlanta’s World Series berth so damn hilarious. 

Now, we would prefer that politics and sports remain separate, allowing sports to remain as one of the last places of refuge when we’re looking to get away from it all. But the Left doesn’t allow that anymore, so we’re going to point out the hilarity of it all.

No one thought the 88-win Braves were World Series bound at the beginning of the MLB Playoffs. The 107-win San Francisco Giants and the 106-win LA Dodgers were standing in their way, favored to represent the National League in the Fall Classic. 

I can only imagine the horror on the face of Democrats as Atlanta shortstop Dansby Swanson threw to first base for the final out of game six, sending the Braves dugout streaming to celebrate on the pitcher’s mound. 

Major League Baseball — and the Left — punished the city of

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