Is Major League Baseball sending a message that it truly wants to be MAGA's National Pastime?

Why do I have a feeling that a lot of these things go together?

• The plummeting of Black players to 7% of the MLB total
• The de-pushing of all Western teams (read: The Dodgers especially) in favor of what is increasingly becoming The Preferred Six (NYY, BOS, HOU, Cobb County, CHC, STL), bringing the game back to before the California expansion...
• The ping-ponging of Aroldis Chapman, AFTER HIS SUSPENSION, between two of the Preferred Six...
• The Guerriel incident from last year's World Series
• The Cubs acquiring Daniel Murphy, known homophobe...
• And another with our wonderful friends from the Confines...

Addison Russell is basically being called out for beating his own wife, Melisa Reidy-Russell.  (Deadspin, hat-tip to my anonymous friend, who is now prepared to walk from baseball if the Cubs actually win the Series this year!)

June of 2017, Russell's (now ex-)wife posted a post on Instagram about being cheated on and lied to.  A friend added physical and mental abuse to the charges, but she would not cooperate with MLB, simply because she wanted a quick resolution for her son.

And now MLB has basically done the Janay Palmer routine on her as a result!

Melisa added a blog post yesterday, and MLB has basically done the "Commissioner's List" job on Addison.  The investigation has apparently been ongoing fifteen months now.

Of course it's a fucking PR problem, Deadspin!  The Cubs are one of the Preferred Six, and it's clear that, barring anything stupid like, oh...  letting the games be played and umped fairly, the Cubs are the clear favorite the league wants to face the Red Sox, Yankees, or Astros in the World Series!

So, if they don't do something now, people like us who don't have head up Cubbie Ass will more than angrily keep mentioning it!