Why they should move the MLB All-Star game to Des Moines

Major League Baseball decided to pull this year’s All-Star game out of Atlanta because of Georgia’s voter disenfranchisement laws.

That raises the important question: Where should the game be played?

The obvious answer is Des Moines.

Here’s nine reasons why:

1. We could probably get Caitlin Clark to throw out the first pitch and Luka Garza to sing the national anthem.
2. We have Froot Loops pizza.
3. Imagine the social media boom when sluggers get their picture taken on the rocket ship slide and carousel at Union Park.
4. Raygun will make a T-shirt.
5. The local Gannett Outlet Store will do so many stories on it, you guys. So. Many. Stories.
6. We gave hundreds of millions in tax breaks to Google, Facebook and Apple — some of the world’s richest companies — to put warehouses full of servers in farm fields. Our legislators are willing to peel the gold off the Capitol dome to associate themselves with greedy corporate hustlers who run MLB.
7. We love competition. Example: Iowa hosts the first-in-the-nation Iowa Caucuses, a contest in the presidential nomination process that is so important the winner is sometimes settled by a coin flip a week after everyone has moved on. Think what we could do to speed up a baseball game!
8. When Iowa disenfranchises voters, we still allow beverages for those waiting in line, unlike those creeps in Georgia. Those beverages could be Major League Baseball’s officially sponsored sufferage drink
9. Lots of old white men in this town — MLB’s target audience.