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The Texas Rangers are planning on going full-capacity in 2021 after having an empty stadium all last year. Makes sense, considering young and healthy people have nearly a zero chance of dying from COVID.
Maybe the business of having fans in the stands is forcing sports leagues to operate with common sense? No matter what the reason–we’ll take it.
A sportscasting friend and I talked last night about how the fate of America may at least partly be in the hands of the Texas Rangers baseball team.
— John Ziegler (@Zigmanfreud) March 21, 2021
We both agreed that the greatest danger here is @MLB shutting them down for making other teams look bad. https://t.co/KJHmieuDWx
“The greatest danger here is Major League Baseball shutting (the Rangers) down for making other teams look bad,” John Ziegler from Mediaite tweeted.
He’s on the money.
Dr. Fauci squirmed when Florida decided to reopen, while he praised L.A. county for treating COVID like a flesh-eating virus. Imagine if the Rangers open up at full-capacity and the Dodgers still operate at anything less than that? The numbers could (and likely will) show, at least by mid-season, that allowing fans in attendance has no correlation to deaths from COVID. That’s why the Rangers are truly doing the country a service by opening their new stadium to patrons and not cowering to fear projected from social media.
This had to happen this way
Wasn’t a Texas or Florida-based sports organization always going to be the first to run their team with guts? The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants–who thought it would be them? Arizona ditched their mask mandates and then all of sudden California’s skid mark governor Gavin Newsom allowed restaurants to open indoor dining. Go figure, right?
Long story short: Texas is leading with guts and business sense, while also taking science into account. The rest of these sports organizations will do what they do best: follow.
The Rangers are not going to be remotely good this year, but I respect the hell out them. For this and immediately telling the twittertards that they weren’t changing their name.
Yeah baby lets play some ball
Might as well put the tarp over those outfield seats in the upper deck. They are not good.
I bought tickets to a home game with the Angels last week. Most high risk people in Texas have been vaccinated so we have nothing to fear but fear itself. Schools have been open since early September so life is almost normal except some businesses requiring a mask to enter. We only need to things to happen to make Texas Great Again…if you moved here from California go back and give us Trump’s border policies. Enough of the woke foolishness.
By years end Texas will have received multiple hundreds of thousands of new blue voters.
The people coming in from Central America don’t think like the Cubans do. It’s unfortunate.
Simple law: if you enter the US/Texas illegally…from ANY country, you forfeit the right to vote. Permanently.
Democrats will fight it…but screw Democrats.
Also the people from California coming in don’t think like Americans.
At this rate, the Orioles should be unveiling their new ballpark in 2 years.