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   From: transheuser-busch@gmail.com   
      
   On 28 Feb 2022, Steve Cummings  posted some   
   news:svj682$1uedv$83@news.freedyn.de:   
      
   > Let's have some empty stands and see how that works out for TV   
   > advertising.   
      
   During the dark days of COVID, baseball was such a strange spectacle.   
      
   Recall those social distancing rules between players and umps, endless   
   testing protocols and, of course, fanless stadiums.   
      
   Now that COVID is basically over you would expect things to return to   
   normal, right?   
      
   That depends on what your definition of what normal is.   
      
   If it’s the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, you have a new normal in   
   Major League Baseball thanks to the Los Angeles Dodgers.   
      
   The Dodgers, for some reason, think inviting this Catholic-offending,   
   trans-queer advocacy group to its annual Pride Day celebration is good for   
   business.   
      
   Sure, there will be the usual celebrations in the mainstream media about   
   the team’s embrace of diversity.   
      
   But this doesn’t seem like something the average fan might get behind as   
   baseball attendance struggles to reach pre-pandemic levels and cord-   
   cutting eats into TV revenue.   
      
   Baseball execs should know from firsthand experience it’s best not to go   
   too far out on a limb on woke politics if you want to make most fans   
   happy.   
      
   Recall what went down in 2021 when MLB moved the All-Star game out of   
   Atlanta over the allegedly racist Georgia voter registration law.   
      
   It backfired.   
      
   The law’s chief sponsor, then-Gov. Brian Kemp, is still the governor,   
   elected last year over the law’s chief opponent, Stacey Abrams.   
      
   Black-voter turnout increased sharply despite such allegedly bigoted   
   hurdles like showing a proper ID to cast a ballot.   
      
   MLB, meanwhile, pleased no one — not black-owned businesses in Atlanta   
   that could have used the money from having the game played in Cobb   
   County’s Truist Park.   
      
   Certainly not average baseball fans who don’t want woke politics shoved   
   down their throat when they’re trying to digest a hot dog and beer that   
   can run them $20.   
      
   Yet here we are again.   
      
   Every year, the Dodgers hold something called “LGBTQ+ Pride Night.”   
      
   There will be an awards celebration, a DJ in center field and, people will   
   indulge in some adult beverages from Pride-colored cups.   
      
   As you might expect, I prefer my sports sans this stuff but if you’re   
   going there, this seems like a pretty innocuous way to do it.   
      
   But the woke progressive movement, like the Marxist revolutionaries before   
   them, won’t stop until they have re-educated the masses into total   
   conformity with their ideology.   
      
   We are light-years beyond acceptance of trans people as friends, neighbors   
   and co-workers.   
      
   Thuggish treatment   
   Witness the thuggish treatment by trans activists of swimmer Riley Gaines   
   for simply speaking up against trans men competing in women’s sports.   
      
   Or in our nation’s schools, where the activist-inspired proselytizing of   
   kids to accept the fluidity of gender identity persists.   
      
   The well-organized trans movement has been busy targeting the boardroom.   
      
   That’s why Budweiser thought it was a good idea to diss its longtime   
   right-of-center beer-drinking customer base by having trans influencer   
   Dylan Mulvaney promote the brand while giddily sipping a cold one in a   
   bubble bath.   
      
   Target featured LGBTQ displays in its stores for its Pride Month campaign   
   that oddly included children’s clothing.   
      
   I can go on and on but back to those Catholic-mocking “Sisters.”   
      
   Last year, its San Francisco chapter held an Easter celebration with men   
   in drag escorting an Easter bunny.   
      
   There was also an Easter egg hunt for the kids and a contest for the best   
   “Hunky Jesus” or “Foxy Mary.”   
      
   You get the idea: Not exactly stuff that would be sanctioned by the   
   Catholic archdioceses to celebrate the resurrection.   
      
   LA is a city of Latinos who are overwhelmingly Catholic, which someone in   
   the Dodgers’ marketing department conveniently ignored.   
      
   They attend baseball games and aren’t crazy about being fed trans   
   propaganda with that expensive Dodger dog and beer.   
      
   When word spread that the Sisters were heading for the Dodgers’ Pride   
      
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