Words vs. Actions

MLB is nothing if not media sensitive. The website includes a new offering—Resources for understanding allyship, anti-racism and advocacy. I clicked on “social justice.” There’s a lot on the 1619 Project, the NYT’s take on the taint of slavery throughout American history, but nothing on MLB’s culpability for present-day urban conditions. How can the baseball establishment call for change if it’s busy funneling money out of public coffers to finance ballparks? Social justice demands, or should demand, ballclubs paying for their own facilities and then meeting their annual tax bill. It’s what property owners across the U.S. do all the time. Anything else is just talk.