Sammy Sofa
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How do know this wasn't the case. This was a 2 second act that could have been done regardless of the environment and easily done without anyone knowing. This isn't the copy guy walking past the women in the office without any pants on and high fiving the boss for the last 5 years. It shouldn't be tolerated in any way shape or form but taking giant leaps in logic isn't particularly constructive. Certainly if if you have other information you are privy to that speaks definitively to the work environment post away. A 2 second act? Yeah, shocker it's someone else trying to minimize this sort of thing. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/1/19/22238551/jared-porter-mets-gm-fired-explicit-texts-cubs This horsefeathers is never just a one off thing with these types of creeps. It's always, always, a pattern of abuse and harassment. The reporter was assigned to cover the Cubs, someone within the org knew and tried to get Porter to offer some kind of apology, and the reporter was afraid to push it further because of fear of retribution. If that doesn't set off all kinds of screaming alarm bells about the environment of the Cubs' organization, then that's because the person hearing them is deciding to ignore them.
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Yeah, for someone to pass this off as little more than, "hey, what dude HASN'T done this" is repulsive. This guy abused his position of power to victimize someone else, and the people he worked for seemingly knew about it at least within short order, and did nothing but nudge him out the door on a path to get an even better job.
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I don't care about your well-read copy of Robert's Rules of Order. There's no reason to defend the dude, especially in this area. He repeatedly made choices to bring people on board with known fucked up histories towards women, and the added problem with running things that way is that assholes like this get to skip out of town with a job recommendation at worst.
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Stop fostering a work environment with multiple dudes who are shitty and abusive towards women would have been a great place to start. I guess that's night impossible since apparently every dude has sent unwanted pics of their genitals, says the guy who is definitely not driving himself off of a cliff.
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I already said yikes, dammit.
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Yikes.
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Look, if you're going to get hung up on the whole "exec bro" thing, then just picture him looking like this he made all of his repeated terrible personnel decisions:
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That's a really roundabout way to shrug off something that happened on his watch. Like, it's always convenient for people to act like when it was working that the Cubs' FO was this amazing machine that basically sprang forth from his brain, but then when horsefeathers goes wrong, no matter on what level or how high up, it's always, "oh, well we can't expect him to be responsible for EVERYTHING." That’s most people though. I’d imagine that you’re saying that because you don’t have a deep reverence or level of respect for Theo. If it were someone you really looked up to, you might find yourself trying to absolve them of responsibility. Hey, "never side with management" pretty much always works.
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Yuuuuuuuup. No idea why anyone would bother with trying to defend Theo at this point. His track record of horsefeathers is long and apparent. Yeah, he won them a WS, but he's also a typical dip horsefeathers corporate bro, too. I mean, Theo can clearly form thoughts. I'd describe him as a fairly sharp corporate bro, and typical in so far as he enjoys a frat house atmosphere. Sow frat house games, reap frat house prizes. What's disturbing to me is that these types of boy's club corporate set ups are so common, and not just in sports franchises. I'm not sure if its because these guys are fostering an atmosphere so that women will stay away, or that having set ups like these are required to attract the "talent" they are targetting, or some of both. In any case, men are largely pathetic children and they suck, and if you want to blame Theo for this guy sending his dick to a lady that jilted him, I guess I don't especially care. That's a really roundabout way to shrug off something that happened on his watch. Like, it's always convenient for people to act like when it was working that the Cubs' FO was this amazing machine that basically sprang forth from his brain, but then when horsefeathers goes wrong, no matter on what level or how high up, it's always, "oh, well we can't expect him to be responsible for EVERYTHING."
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i'm not going to deny that you make a valid point by bringing up those horsefeathers. i just think those situations are considerably different than theo risking his career and reputation to sweep some dork like jared porter's creepiness under the rug. He was a supposed rising star in the organization that was allowed to leave to be an asst gm shortly after this thing happened, when they could have just elevated him to their own asst GM gig. It looks to me like they knew he was trouble and preferred to let him go. They also put no effort into bringing him back. Yuuuuuuuup. No idea why anyone would bother with trying to defend Theo at this point. His track record of shitiness is long and apparent. Yeah, he won them a WS, but he's also a typical dip horsefeathers corporate bro, too.
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Yeah, Boozey McFakemustache and his bros didn't give a horsefeathers about this kind of stuff.
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Infinitely worse. -
"Our interest has waned in your junky old beater now that we've landed this awesome hotness instead."
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I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit Yeah, EVERYONE hates Ross. Nice. Though the debacle of Ross the terrible manager also returning as a terrible manager/catcher hybrid might be balls-smashingly stupid enough to get me interested again. Like, bringing in Molina would just be boringly annoying. Doing the former instead would be the true I'm Gonna Cub So Hard galaxy-braining this franchise deserves.
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Chicago might as well be renamed "Eternal Sports Purgatory" from now, on, because none of this horsefeathers is changing any time soon. And yeah, I see you, White Sox fans. You guys are doomed, too.
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Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp And it read "TOM RICKETTS' A SIMP"
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These talks run deep, so deep, that it has put any interest in next season to sleep.
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Also: this all stems from Happ totally taking the phrase "eat the rich" a little too literally.
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Well...did you Cub or what?!?
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"Aside from their most recent history, these guys are good, kinda!"
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Athletic freaks are fun. a 23'9" inch shot just isn't that freakish though? Wider court with a longer 3 line. Put back hand checks to give the D a little extra leeway since spacing is going to be spread out more. Shorten the shot clock by a couple seconds to ensure pace stays quick? At the very least the NBA now has a great testing field in the G League to just experiment with stuff like this. How about...
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Bring on the freaks, you nerds.
