MLB should boycott Florida under DeSantis, columnist claims: ‘Baseball can no longer ignore' culture wars

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A columnist for The Washington Post called for Major League Baseball to boycott training in Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis because of the Republican's "hostile approach" to woke politics.

Post 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.

The column, headlined, "Baseball can no longer ignore Ron DeSantis’s culture wars," argued that Florida is showing a "hostile approach to inclusiveness, which in some ways is being reconstituted by its current governor, Ron DeSantis." 

Blackistone argued that the same Florida that was "home to Jim Crow laws" was coming back under DeSantis. 

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The Post column, "Baseball can no longer ignore Ron DeSantis’s culture wars," argued Florida is showing a "hostile approach to inclusiveness, which in some ways is being reconstituted by its current governor, Ron DeSantis."  (Octavio Jones/Getty Images)

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. 

In 2021, the MLB relocated the All-Star Game away from Georgia in response to a voting law that the league broadly called "restrictions to the ballot box." 

Fox News radio host Jimmy Failla wrote that moving the MLB away from Florida would not actually help the Black community in the state. "Are you suggesting he screw more black cities out of revenue like you encouraged MLB to