Washington Post columnist Kevin B. Blackistone argued Major League Baseball should consider moving its training operations out of Florida to punish Ron DeSantis.
A columnist for The Washington Post called for Major League Baseball to boycott training in Florida underPost opinion writer Kevin B. Blackistone also compared baseball in the time of Jackie Robinson to modern Florida and called for the MLB to"take a stand" against DeSantis.
Blackistone argued that the same Florida that was"home to Jim Crow laws" was coming back under DeSantis. The column was savaged on Twitter, with many commentators pointing out that a proposed MLB boycott of Florida was reminiscent of the political battle that the sports league previously waded into in the state of Georgia.
DeSantis aide Christina Pushaw joked that failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams would be proud of Blackistone’s opinion piece, tweeting,"The Governor of Georgia agrees with u."
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