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file this one away as a really good "billionaires are super dumb" example
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Nodoze posted:It sounds like Watson doesn't want a white coach lmao i mean, would you
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Jan 17, 2021 20:19
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I don't have anything in particular against the Texans, but I'm enjoying this process just out of trainwreck curiosity "how bad can internal politics gently caress up a team? let's find out!"
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Jan 17, 2021 20:22
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i feel like we're frontloading too much drama early in the offseason by the time watson actually gets moved months from now (which will presumably be the denouement of said drama) everyone will have gone insane and eaten their own brains
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Jan 26, 2021 13:07
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I understand that a lot of pro athletes are very religious. But how the gently caress does this appeal to them? i'm very certain all the pats players who gushed about Easterby did so because they knew the brass liked him
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Feb 7, 2021 20:40
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when it comes to the watson situation i don't know how much i blame it on easterby and how much i blame it on a sort of intrinsic cultural divide between the people who own sports teams and the people who play on sports teams i don't want to say millionaire athletes are more *normal* than billionaire financiers, since to reach the position of pro athlete you have to be a crazed obsessive by any normal person's standards but if you're an athlete you probably didn't grow up that rich (barring the rare born-with-a-silver spoon character like brady or a manning), probably grew up with something approximating normal relationships, still experience a degree of precarity since your career is short and the golden parachute doesn't work for you in quite the same way it does for finance guys, etc watson's issues with the organization are totally understandable from a regular person's perspective (doesn't like Cal, feels disrespected by Cal, doesn't have confidence in the organization since Cal is so attached to easterby), but Cal probably can't compute them since those aren't things your brain understands if you grew up amid billionaire wealth. PupsOfWar fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Feb 18, 2021 |
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Feb 18, 2021 19:22
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Declan MacManus posted:otoh, if there’s one thing rich and powerful people understand, it’s respect. i don't know about that or rather i don't know that they understand it in the same sense that a player would they understand hierarchy, they spend their whole lives either schmoozing to bigger rich guys or expecting smaller rich guys to schmooze to them but like..."I respect this person's abilities and appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with them" type respect, no you have that with teammates and family and coworkers, which billionaires don't have basically what I'm getting at is billionaires are all solipsistic sociopaths who believe they're the only person who exists , they might understand social inputs and outputs in the way you'd understand pushing a button, but they don't understand relationships beyond that. They're like squids. when watson says "cal, i don't like you, i refuse to work for you any more" i think cal doesn't get it because the only "work" a billionaire ever does is cutting deals with people they don't care about in order to gain advantage over other people they don't care about. Not one of them would ever think of refusing to do something on principle or out of personal disdain.
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Feb 18, 2021 23:19
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I don't doubt that DeShaun dislikes Cal but my impression as a casual outsider was that it's more about how poorly Houston has managed it's assets (and rightly, he doesn't want to waste his physical prime on an awful team) is that not correct? I'd buy that if watson had signed his big extension before the hopkins trade But he signed it afterwards, and after o'brien's other famously bad moves Gotta be something there beyond concern over the roster
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Feb 18, 2021 23:38
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Eifert Posting posted:Pat McAfee was wearing a pro Easterby shirt on his show the other day. I have no idea whether or not it was supposed to be ironic easterby is really good for talk radio, think of how much more boring this offseason would be without him
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Feb 27, 2021 19:40
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Pershing posted:I wonder if this doesn't diminish his trade value but just changes what teams would trade for him. steelers dialing in
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Mar 18, 2021 22:29
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tarbrush posted:As someone said earlier, Weinstein et al generally had reputations, however tacit and squashed. How did he keep this quiet Well, I hate to say it but this sort of thing probably happens to massage therapists pretty often (especially if they do house calls) and law enforcement probably blows it off most of the time due to stereotypes about the profession (Also due to cops being shitheads and like half of them being rapists themselves) It makes sense nobody heard a peep out of the women until they became aware there were a bunch of them who could come forward at once The contract standoff may also have lessened fears of retaliation if it seemed like watson would no longer enjoy the same amount of protection from powerful houston institutions
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Mar 20, 2021 00:13
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Chromatic posted:I too watched that scene from He Got Game when Big State had those porn stars sleep with Denzel Washington's kid so he'd play there The only unusual thing about the Pitino prostitute scandal at Louisville is that Louisville used professional sex workers for this purpose rather than just peer-pressured sorority girls like most major sports colleges
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Mar 20, 2021 00:16
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:an evangelical huckster going full Rasputin Wait do the mcnairs have a child with an obscure chronic disease only rich people get
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Mar 20, 2021 00:57
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Despera posted:"HANDJOBS" says robert craft i mean, nobody's accused kraft of getting his gently caress massages anything other than consensually, right?
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Mar 20, 2021 04:23
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:The lawyer is doing these women no favors. There are law firms who represented multiple high profile Me Too accusers that would undoubtedly be doing a better job. i mean, i expect masseuses (nor most people) don't really follow law hierarchy wouldn't be surprised if the first woman just searched "HOUSTON BEST LAWYER" and buzzbee came up due to that award he won then once he was handling the first couple plaintiffs he'd end up with all of em since he was the once looking for them and building a case file
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Mar 21, 2021 01:28
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It's hosed up hernandez had to take the rap for all those people tebow killed
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Mar 21, 2021 21:11
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GD_American posted:Is Buzbee still the only attorney for any of the plaintiffs? i think it is considered bad practice to open a competing/redundant case to suits that have already been brought for the same thing like if you were one of the women and tried hiring some different lawyer, that lawyer would probably just tell you to join the existing case since buzzbee has already been putting together the resources, files, and paperwork within the same jurisdiction i don't know if the judicial system would even hear both cases
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Mar 23, 2021 02:02
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Scipiotik posted:What? No, not even close. Well, why have a lot of the high-profile multi plaintiff #metoo cases been handled this way, then If there is no legal reason for it, there must be a practical reason, such as the first attorney to file having all the info and paperwork together already
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Mar 23, 2021 03:38
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Scipiotik posted:What cases are you talking about? cosby, weinstein many plaintiffs sharing an attorney seems to be the done thing in cases like this
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Mar 23, 2021 04:24
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Amy Pole Her posted:I mean, Gloria Allred didn’t even represent everyone so nope this isn’t right either. "gloria allred only represented several dozen of cosby's many accusers" isn't a counterexample to "it's common for many plaintiffs to share counsel in these cases", my man
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Mar 23, 2021 04:38
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Amy Pole Her posted:Well I was discussing Weinstein for one. i mean, i don't know why you want me to walk you through this, but alright initially i thought "well, perhaps there is some legal convention that causes people to share counsel" and expressed this this seemed like something to dig into since "why is everyone using buzzbee, he seems weird and dumb" has been a preoccupation of posters here the poster Scipiotik contradicted this and seemed to know more about it, so I thought "well, if it's not legal convention there must be practical considerations that make people want to do it this way" in both the cosby and weinstein cases you had many plaintiffs using the same counsel and being heard as part of the same case, which seems consistent with the buzzbee sitch regardless of whether there were others who were not grouping up. PupsOfWar fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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Amy Pole Her posted:Pups my friend there’s a huge mountain of difference between “huh it sure seems like a lot of the plaintiffs in these cases use the original filing attorney. Must be easier on paperwork” vs completely fabricated statements like “most attorneys will tell you to go to the other lawyer” I mean, that's fine, but if we're gonna belabor the matter you might want to check the part where I didn't argue with anyone who said I was wrong about that initial speculation "maybe such-and-such thing is true" "actually no because of so-and-so" "well, if not that, seems like this other thing then" pretty normal way for a forum conversation to go
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