Major League Baseball is expected to announce it's moved this year's All-Star Game to voter- friendly, blue Colorado:
Coors Field in Denver has been chosen to host this year's All-Star Game, sources told ESPN's Buster Olney on Monday.
MLB opted to move the game out of Atlanta due to voting laws passed in Georgia last month.
It will mark the second time the homer-friendly home of the Colorado Rockies will host the Midsummer Classic. The American League beat the National League 13-8 at Coors in 1998.
This year's All-Star Game originally was scheduled for July 13 at Truist Park, home of the Braves. However, on April 2, MLB announced that it decided to move the game out of Atlanta because of a new Georgia law that has civil rights groups concerned about its potential to restrict voting access for people of color.
Colorado is an all- vote- by- mail, automatic registration state with a Democratic Governor. It's also temporarily home to a Hackwhacker daughter, so all good so far. Politically, it's main blemish is the existence of low IQAnon and militia- adjacent Rep. Lauren "Bullets" Boebert, but no state's perfect.
The game and its attendant hoopla is expected to pump around $100 million into the local Denver economy (suck on that, Georgia Republicans!).
(Photo: Georgia Jim Crow Republican Gov. Brian "KK" Kemp, who lost tens of millions of dollars for his state with the flick of a pen/ Mark Wilson, Getty Images)
