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Chichevache posted:His job is to win games, not sell merchandise. Being told to sacrifice his comfort to make the owners a few more bucks has to chafe, especially when they might be trying to trade him. For reference: imagine your company was going to force you to live somewhere else, like Detroit or San Francisco. I think I'd put up with the location if my work was paying me $9m a year.
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Samfucius posted:Oregon lady posts some crazy racist poo poo, is forced to cancel her upcoming festival, claims hackers "photoshopped" racism onto her page. This is rather odd because Eugene is such a hippy dippy place. I moved here 4 years ago from Texas. It's the "white guys with dreadlocks" capital of the world.
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Gromit posted:I think I'd put up with the location if my work was paying me $9m a year. If you have a wife and kids they might feel differently.
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Jul 24, 2016 03:36
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But the reason you're being paid $x million a year is because you get good results. If someone (who's trying to get rid of you) tries to make you wear something that could hinder those results well gently caress em, just be a dick cause why not, they are. Is that the gist of the scenario?
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Jul 24, 2016 03:38
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My incredulity is less "This dude is being hindered in being able to do his job" and more at "This dude who makes more per game than I make in an entire year's retaliation of choice was to cut up all the shirts like a vengeful ex"
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Jul 24, 2016 03:41
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Hell i woulda cut up those shirts for half of what they paid him
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Outrail posted:But the reason you're being paid $x million a year is because you get good results. If someone (who's trying to get rid of you) tries to make you wear something that could hinder those results well gently caress em, just be a dick cause why not, they are. Basically. Dude's also got anger issues, which helps explain why he took the knife to the jerseys. Just potentially sucks if you're a Sox fan, although unfortunately they're up right now. (I'm a Tigers fan, the team they're playing tonight.) It's just funny to imagine him cutting up the jerseys like "ha, make me wear it now you fuckers." Beer_Suitcase posted:This is rather odd because Eugene is such a hippy dippy place. I moved here 4 years ago from Texas. It's the "white guys with dreadlocks" capital of the world. Yeah, white is the key descriptor there. The Atlantic has a nice article specifically on Portland up right now. Edit: Malachite_Dragon posted:My incredulity is less "This dude is being hindered in being able to do his job" and more at "This dude who makes more per game than I make in an entire year's retaliation of choice was to cut up all the shirts like a vengeful ex" That's what makes it funny. Emily Spinach has a new favorite as of 03:49 on Jul 24, 2016 |
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Jul 24, 2016 03:45
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Entire Russian team banned from Rio due to the country's massive doping problem. Individual athletes who train and get tested outside of Russia can appeal to compete under a neutral flag.
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Chichevache posted:If you have a wife and kids they might feel differently. If you have 9 mil a year you can buy a new wife and kids
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Jul 24, 2016 04:08
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LivesInGrey posted:Entire Russian team banned from Rio due to the country's massive doping problem. Individual athletes who train and get tested outside of Russia can appeal to compete under a neutral flag. 
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RareAcumen posted:Sorry, what? Those post it notes had the beginnings of the next great American novel on them!
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Trig Discipline posted:If you have 9 mil a year you can buy a new wife and kids Why the gently caress would you make that mistake twice?
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Chichevache posted:Why the gently caress would you make that mistake twice? It's not a mistake if you can afford to make it.
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Jul 24, 2016 04:40
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This is the same guy who threw a fit because he thought a 4 year old kid in the stands was stealing signals for Miguel Cabrera, right? e: it was V-Mart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmJ75MExOSw Stex T has a new favorite as of 04:51 on Jul 24, 2016 |
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Outrail posted:It's not a mistake if you can afford to make it. Ah, the Star Citizen defence
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Gromit posted:I think I'd put up with the location if my work was paying me $9m a year. I think I'd fork out the money for a loving tailor. Someone explain this to me - so the first pitcher gets to choose the shirt he wears from a pile? How is that not the stupidest loving thing for a multimillion dollar sports team? Why doesn't everyone have their own set of clothes tailored to their comfort and needs?
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Gorilla Salad posted:I think I'd fork out the money for a loving tailor. They do. The White Sox starting pitcher gets to pick which uniform the team wears, apparently. Although the manager dumping out a box of shirts and the players rifling through them is 
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Gorilla Salad posted:I think I'd fork out the money for a loving tailor. They do have tailored uniforms. Baseball teams have several uniform styles, home games feature predominantly white uniforms, while away games feature predominantly grey or other non-white uniforms. (Mostly because teams could clean dirt and grass easier at home because they weren't given lovely laundry facilities) In addition, teams have alternate uniforms, mostly used on Saturday or Sunday games. A team will elect to use one of the alternates by some means or just use the standard home/away jersey. In the case of the White Sox, they let the starting pitcher choose what style to do for the day. Except for today, since the club was running a throwback uniform promotion, and wanted the fans and players to dress up in one style, and the cut of the uniform didn't agree with Sale
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LivesInGrey posted:Entire Russian team banned from Rio due to the country's massive doping problem. Individual athletes who train and get tested outside of Russia can appeal to compete under a neutral flag. So they all get to compete for Sweden? Although I gotta admit, not being forced to compete in the Rio shitlympics doesn't really seem like a real punishment.
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Jul 24, 2016 07:55
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The whole thing reads like a kid who works at Wal-Mart cutting his name tag in half and getting sent home.
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Except pitchers are big about their delivery being unhindered and unchanged. Like it's a big deal if their necklace feels odd. Having a shirt tucked in/untucked would be a big change and could be enough to throw them off
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Jul 24, 2016 12:10
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Millionaire man-child has strop.
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canyoneer posted:Here's a real robot vacuum story. This tweet introduced me to the word "Perkele" https://twitter.com/petterihiisila/status/5205145862
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LivesInGrey posted:Entire Russian team banned from Rio due to the country's massive doping problem. Individual athletes who train and get tested outside of Russia can appeal to compete under a neutral flag. This may not actually be happening.
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Arctic Baldwin posted:Except pitchers are big about their delivery being unhindered and unchanged. Like it's a big deal if their necklace feels odd. Having a shirt tucked in/untucked would be a big change and could be enough to throw them off I do get it, but as a non-sports sportster or whatever you sporties call yourselves when you're sporting them sports--- what would have been the harm if he had worn the shirt and had a bad game? Everyone including his boss would have just poo poo down his neck for subpar performance even though everyone apparently knows how important comfort/consistency is to pitchers? At that point you'd think if it was such a well-known pitching issue they'd have hired a tailor in advance to specifically help him adjust.
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mind the walrus posted:I do get it, but as a non-sports sportster or whatever you sporties call yourselves when you're sporting them sports--- what would have been the harm if he had worn the shirt and had a bad game? Everyone including his boss would have just poo poo down his neck for subpar performance even though everyone apparently knows how important comfort/consistency is to pitchers? Well, we don't know what conversations/ideas they had previously before Sale's temper tantrum. It's worth noting that this isn't the first meltdown Sale has had this year. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2016/03/18/chris-sale-adam-laroche-flap-we-were-lied-white-sox-management/81967004/
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This is bigger Schadenfreude. IOC corrupt as poo poo.
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AxisofIdiocy posted:Oh hey I got a few videos where I follow streamers into their games and mess with them while they broadcast. Please make more of these.
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mind the walrus posted:I do get it, but as a non-sports sportster or whatever you sporties call yourselves when you're sporting them sports--- what would have been the harm if he had worn the shirt and had a bad game? Everyone including his boss would have just poo poo down his neck for subpar performance even though everyone apparently knows how important comfort/consistency is to pitchers? mind the walrus doesn't understand physical activity, big suprise
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mind the walrus posted:I do get it, but as a non-sports sportster or whatever you sporties call yourselves when you're sporting them sports this is beautiful
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AxisofIdiocy posted:Oh hey I got a few videos where I follow streamers into their games and mess with them while they broadcast. I expected these to be poo poo because videos like this usually are. Nope, good poo poo. I especially loved fatalistic fat Russian in volume 2.
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oh dope posted:this is beautiful Minus ten points for not throwing in a "hand egg" or two.
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Jul 24, 2016 23:03
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Kids shouldn't be allowed on furniture that nice anyway
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mind the walrus posted:I do get it, but as a non-sports sportster or whatever you sporties call yourselves when you're sporting them sports--- what would have been the harm if he had worn the shirt and had a bad game? Everyone including his boss would have just poo poo down his neck for subpar performance even though everyone apparently knows how important comfort/consistency is to pitchers? if a pitcher has a bad performance, even when not really his fault, he gets assigned the blame. there is a stat called win loss record that basically doesn't tell you anything besides you won the game (could be a 10-9 game or it could be a 1-0 game, which are significantly different levels of personal performance) that people pay wayyyy too much attention to still. there is a tailor for the uniforms and generally the white sox starting pitcher (that's Sale) gets to pick which uniform they wear so they are most comfortable. this time, management decided what uniform they were going to wear and Sale was pissed that his performance wasn't taken into consideration
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