Balta1701

An appropriate educational program? It certainly could have.

If Anheuser-Busch came in to the Cardinals and said "This makes our responsible drinking programs look really bad, we need Mr. LaRussa to not only do this, but to go and complete a treatment program and sit down and talk about it with various groups"...the Cardinals are going to say no? I mean, literally, the Cardinals had a player die that same season driving drunk while talking on a cell phone. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cops-dead-st-louis-pitcher-drove-drunk-04-05-2007/#:~:text=Louis Pitcher Drove Drunk,-May 4%2C 2007&text=AM %2F CBS%2FAP-,St.,utility vehicle he was driving.

Was Tony LaRussa's punishment for his first DUI sufficient to prevent him from doing it again?

This is less strict than the White House. We saw how that worked.

Nope but there are other people doing that. I can't run them all.

What makes you think I haven't? I have been avoiding FedEx where possible for years, and there's a reason I never used Progressive insurance, for example. It's difficult to do all of them, but i can sure avoid some big ones.

Yes. There is a reason why I didn’t support the Washington Football Club, why I no longer say the name of the Cleveland Baseball club, and why I won’t ever consider supporting the Cubs under the ownership of the Ricketts. They all have employees. I can find better uses of my money than to support liars and racists, and if the White Sox want to be in that group I have every right to make choices with my time and money and you don’t get to use their employees as a shield for those choices.

If your goal is to increase the risk of DUIs, giving LaRussa a million dollar job as a reward for successful completion of his second and then having dozens of people dissemble and cover for him in public seems like an excellent way to do so.

Pretending again that this is equivalent to the White Sox hiring LaRussa in the mailroom while he completes his jail time and a treatment program, with a pledge that if he works hard and stays clean he could be in management in 20 years is something I cannot let pass. I would even encourage the White Sox to support the city of Chicago by doing that with other employees, I mean their police ran a damn torture room. This is a million dollar promotion the day after charges were filed.

2. If a person has proven themselves to be a danger to society and a business rewards them with a promotion, why would they stop? 3. I can take my entertainment dollars elsewhere and reward a decent company and their employees. You are using these people as LaRussa’s shield. Own it. Ownership can do anything they want because we have to protect these employees. 4. Great then you agree LaRussa should be fired. 5. It has everything to do with this because Tony LaRussa said so. He set that standard, publicly criticized Kaepernick for being insincere, and repeated it 2 weeks ago. You get to choose, which is it? Do you agree with Tony LaRussa that he should be judged harshly for his 2007 insincere statement that it won’t happen again, or was Tony LaRussa just using that line as a way to punch down a black man knowing that he was a rich white hall of fame guy and that never comes back to haunt those guys?

1. I do not know where I will be in March, but right now I have no interest in cheering for this team. 2. You comparison with a line cook or standard employee is disingenuous at best. This is a line cook getting his second DUI and getting promoted to the Denny’s spokesperson because that’s the kind of person Denny’s wants representing them. 3. If someone other than LaRussa loses their job because of this, that is Jerry Reinsdorfs choice - saying LaRussa is more important than those employees, and you don’t get to use other employees as a shield to cover for all this as a consequence. 4. Do you take issue with companies that have fired people or multiple DUIs? The Diamondbacks fired their mascot for 1 and Mark Grace from their broadcast team for 2. Were they wrong? 5. Do you agree with Tony LaRussa that people should receive extra criticism for being insincere? Because that was his chosen way of publicly punching down against minorities, and his “it will never happen again” remarks in 2007 break the standard he used to evaluate and criticize black men.

I can’t wait for “there’s always a tweet” to be untrue.

145,000 today. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/11/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/ The real case numbers are approaching the spring peak.

On October 24, the US 7 day moving average for cases crossed 62,000. It crossed 124,000 yesterday, November 10. That’s a doubling in 2.5 weeks, with only minimal responses being offered. At that pace, the case load by Thanksgiving will be approaching 200,000 a day, but that’s so high that testing will be back to not up to the task of keeping up with cases.

You have his full auto repair record to verify he hasn’t had to do repairs like this before? Please share.

Would he have been caught if he hadn’t crashed and damaged his car?

I’m sure we have and if the price started with Vaughn in September I would expect it to be the same today.

Did you watch the playoffs this year?

So basically as long as Romney is the candidate.

Again, I’m ok with that. Perhaps the number one reason why his claim to have won on Election Day didn’t work was that people had been writing that it was going to happen for months and developing strategies. They aren’t replacing the leadership at the pentagon for fun.

If the state legislatures overrode the identities of the electors, they would have legally destroyed democracy and declared Trump president. The military would be able to legally justify following him.

Naw, only when Republicans lose.

I mean, at some level being able to go to the bosses and say "I've never been deluged with email like this and it's running 99% against" is a really powerful statement.

The trick would be using the State Legislatures to replace those electors with Trump electors.