“Harmony exists for no other reason than to make her owner happy.”
That’s an organization who won’t hire a non-francophone coach. You can imagine how they reacted to having a black player who was at times outspoken and actually showed personality.
He has a great glove so if he can hit .250 and steal some bases, he should be able to put together a pretty decent major league career. You could see the emotion on his face when he was at first- even without the pressure of an entire continent, nine years in the minors is a long time
Earlier this week, the Pittsburgh Pirates were losing to the Cubs and they replaced Antonio Bastardo on the mound…
Even if my team got crushed I would rather see them on TV in the playoffs a couple times.
They should tweak the lottery system so the 8-seeds get into the lottery and have better odds than all but the worst three teams.
And now he’s busy in Milwaukee turning Giannis and Thon Maker into absolute monsters. Thanks Timberwolves!
My brother died a few years ago. It wasn’t quite as sudden as Isaiah’s sister (congestive heart failure), but it was still unexpected- he was only 32, in great shape, and he never let on exactly how badly things were going for him.
I’m maybe (actually, “probably”) giving Barkley too much credit here, but I took his comments to mean “we shouldn’t be sitting here looking in at his grief. It’s wrong, this guy needs to be with his family, not thrust into being a spectacle for thousands in person, and millions on TV.” Which is how I felt. Maybe he…
Why doesn’t the NBA mind the player-for-a-day thing when it comes to Derrick Rose?
Ultimately the airline as does every business.... reserves the right to refuse service to ANYONE. Regardless of the reason. They don’t even technically have to provide a reason, remember this as a customer. Did the airline screw up? Yes. Should they have had their employees wait the night and let the customers stay…
id sue the bitches just for the bad press. companies must not degenerate their customer care this way. what if it escalates into a norm of fearing the airlines.
I’m not a lawyer, but it seems that in relenting and letting him back on the plane after all that, United made this worse for themselves when it comes to defending the (pretty much inevitable) lawsuit.
I suspect it was a flight crew dead-heading to where they were to get onto (and run) a flight. The FAA has rules about how long a pilot can be awake and on duty (13 hours, last I checked). Maybe that made driving a rental impracticable - and United’s fuck-up was to put them in standby status, as would happen for…
It’s very unlikely that United broke a law as passengers can be denied boarding or removed from a plane for many, many reasons beyond bad conduct or suspicion of criminal activity. Such as “passengers who have or cause a malodorous condition” - no lie, fart too much, and the airline can tell you you’re not allowed on…
Someday he’ll lose a step but he will be the last one to know it. When he does, all the brilliance and fun he brings to a team will instead just destroy them as he keeps chasing empty stats while the team doesn’t win shit
“United employees” is the key here. They don’t automatically get preference over all passengers - but they do over some passengers, based on fare class, frequent flyer status, et cetera. The “random selection by computer” was likely just a flight attendant’s oblique way of saying that the airline gives employees…
I don’t understand how an airliner has so much power over their customers that they can force already-boarded patrons off a plane in order to accommodate someone with a lower-tier ticket type (the lower tier type being a standby ticket, where the ticket holder has agreed to wait for am unclaimed seat).
that you can’t force someone to volunteer, because that’s completely contradictory.