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It is in their contract, quite clearly (as noted in these comments). And there are only a small handful of players who have enough money to make paying a $15K fine no big thing. Again, I applaud her for doing what was right for her own mental health, and I’m glad she’s in the position where doing so isn’t a career…

Yeah that language is actually 100% in the contract, do you really think Osaka is the first professional tennis player to try and get out of this whole thing?

You bet wrong. https://www.itftennis.com/media/2495/grand-slam-rulebook-2020-f.pdf

If you’re going to write a piece on tennis, you should probably actually know something about...tennis.

That’s not how news works though.

It’s also a problem because all of the other players have to fulfill their contracts and do press. If Osaka is let off the media hook, then the other player would need to be afforded the same courtesy, lest Osaka have the unfair advantage of being excused from press. I applaud her for doing what is right for her own…

I understand her argument, that media questioning was causing her emotional distress to the point where it could become debilitating, if not on the court then off it.

However, like any other job, she has a responsibility to report to her employer (French Open/Grand Slam officials) her concerns and then work to address…

Oh yes, shoot this into my veins. Sports takes from those that don’t watch sports are wonderful to me.

Thankfully we don’t live in that kind of world anymore, where wealthy people would have their own private islands on which to do ghastly things to vulnerable people! [Touches hand to earpiece] I’m being informed that---

There were at least two times when Penance invented something and Amalia says something like “You’ve invented the X-Ray” and “You’ve invented the amplifier.” Maybe people dismissed these as just meta jokes/anachronisms a la Zoe’s “We live in a spaceship, dear” from Firefly, but to me they didn’t make any sense unless…

Anyone else check the tv and the remote to make sure you were watching the nevers when the show started? I did.

And her mention that the others wouldn’t know any of the songs she knows, in an earlier episode.

Not to mention Amalia saying to Pennance, “You’ve invented the Amplifier!” I think critics were way too dismissive of this show and should have payed attention instead of focusing on Whedon’s involvement. This stuff wasn’t subtext, it was actually IN THE TEXT! I predicted she was from the future and inhabiting…

They’re in London the whole time. They’re only in a different when, at times, not a different where. Thus how Stripe explains that she was one of three survivers from the PDC defeat in Edinburgh, the only one who survived the long walk down.

Always great to see Claudia Black, especially in a sci-fi context (going all the way back to Pitch Black).

When I play something like Skyrim, I always feel compelled to play... I dunno... altruistically? Maybe that’s too strong a word, but even with sorta-immortal NPCs or games that have very little punishments for severe crimes, I’ve never been tempted to kill innocent NPCs. If there’s a dragon threatening a town, I want…

That mayo was either made with olive oil, which is nice enough but completely overpowering, or it’s got a ton more egg than it needs, which is both texturally unappealing and wicked bad for storage life.

Ah LOTRO you wonderful game you. Spent entire nights in pubs in that game just playing music for people with my friends.

lol, there’s always one fanboy embarrassing themselves