MLB All-Star Game Staying in Arizona

It's good to see someone has a backbone and isn't backing down to the blackmailers, boycotters and extortionists. There's a lot to complain about with Bud Selig's role as Commissioner of Major League Baseball, but he's doing the right thing here. By the time the 2011 All-Star game rolls around the current whining and sniveling over the hugely popular SB 1070 law will likely have blown over.

So it's game on in Phoenix.

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig is ignoring calls to move the 2011 All-Star Game from Phoenix because of Arizona's new immigration law.

Asked about such demands at a news conference Thursday following an owners meeting, he responded with a defense of baseball's record on minority hiring.

"Apparently all the people around and in minority communities think we're doing OK. That's the issue, and that's the answer," he said. "I told the clubs today: 'Be proud of what we've done.' They are. We should. And that's our answer. We control our own fate, and we've done very well."

Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said he wouldn't participate in next year's All-Star Game if it remains in Arizona because of the law, which empowers police to determine a person's immigration status. The Major League Baseball Players Association condemned the law and Rep. Jose Serrano, a New York Democrat whose district includes Yankee Stadium, sent Selig a letter asking him to move the game.

Ozzie Guillen needs to quit flapping his gums and worry about even having a job next year. Judging by the anemic White Sox performance this year (they're 14-20, in fourth place in the AL Central, eight games behind the Twins) he might not even see the end of this season. It's quite likely he won't have to worry about attending the game in any capacity.