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Certain headlines get really funny if you pretend sports don't exist.
Or, in my case for this particular situation, if you are a foreigner and are missing a lot of context for American Sports.
The writer of this article is definitely a hornet.
The skit that "missed the mark"
I swear The Boys gets more and more blatant with how evil Corporate America is, but cmon, this episode is just completely ridiculous. Not even Homelander would be that ev....
Wait this happened in a REAL Sportsball game? This is not a bit? sugh
I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed
The skit that "missed the mark" . . .
Quit sucking up to corporate America, yahoo sports writer. The Hornets farked up a simple PR event in every way it was possible TO fark up. They baited and switched a PS5 with a t-shirt and thought no one would find out about it.
And they have so damn much money that giving him the PS5 would have been like you or me flicking a penny to the kid.
People suck sometimes, I swear.
Sometimes?
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I feel like this is so boneheaded that it has to be the case where the staff member in charge of this giveaway just wanted to keep the PS5 themselves and thought the kids wouldn't complain about the ol' switcheroo! This just even sounds like something Michael Scott would have done in The Office.
No, Michael Scott is a moron, not a jackass. He wouldn't pull this shit. He's tone deaf, he constantly thinks he's doing the right thing without realizing why what he's doing has the opposite of the intended effect even when it's obvious to everyone else. Giving a kid something he wants and then taking it away when no one's look is a move of calculated evil.
He'd imply heavily a PS5 then give the kid a Jersey, at no point would he actually have the thing in the kid's hand and then take it back.
Maybe that's just me, but I don't see Michael Scott as a character that would knowingly choose to do something immoral. He'd do a bad deed, but without realizing it.
Mike Scott's more the "We're taking away free tampons on the women's room, because we just don't have the money for luxury goods." type, who's then baffled when he's called sexist because he legitimately believed tampons were a luxury. Not the "Promote a woman? Are you insane? This is a man's office sweetheart!" type.
I could totally see Dwight taking the PS5 for himself and mocking the kid over it though. Even then he'd do it out of Chaos, not Evil.
Michael kidnapped a pizza delivery boy because he didn't want to pay full prize. This fits right in.
Season 1 Michael was a bit more of a jackass though. Maybe he could've done it.
Top tier analysis. Thank you.
I've been playing as Michael Scott in that Funko Fusion game, I've been doing "The Thing" stages as him, because it's the funniest thing I can imagine happening.
It has gotten me thinking a lot about the character and how he'd behave.
Ah so you are classically trained.
Jfc... How much of a psychopathic piece of shit do you have to be, to hurt a kid's feelings like that?! I fucking hate people.
Corporate America....
It reminds me of the Santa mall scene in a Christmas Story
It'd be nice if people stopped acting like fucking psychos.
$500 for good press or $0 for bad. Looks like Charlotte is as bad at math as they are at basketball.
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What fucking cheapskates.
Do they make their players turn out their pockets after each game in case they picked up some loose change off the ground too? Lol
One of the comments about why
How would this commenter know that?
I mean surely it could be a lie but they just took away a PS5 from a kid...
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Source: trust me bro
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I might suggest that the kid got a nicer present in the form of a reason to file suit against the team for the embarrassment and emotional distress. Using the kid for a BS publicity stunt is not acceptable.
I guess I'll continue not watching basketball or football or whatever
"Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"
The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in!
Yeah. Fuck this noise. I'm boycotting the Hornets. You won't catch me at a Hornets Football match!
I bet the price of that console was going to break their bank.
I mean I would get it if they had an empty box out on the court for the show, and then having to take away the empty show box... But they gave the kid a jersey instead? Wtf?
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See this is why everyone hates Hornets, first the bullshit with the not making any honey and then this shit. They're so aggressive.
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Reminds me of the time some asshole tried to switch some kid who was meant to walk out on the field with Zlatan with his own and got caught Link: https://youtu.be/NFYN3bY0kc8
That's fucked up.
That sounds about right, I've never gotten anything nice from a hornet. The one time I did get something from a hornet, it was a painful disappointment.
Stingy.
They're Hornets. Being stingy bastards is in the name!
wait what? did they go back to the store and ask for a refund on the PS5, lol.... someone was like "that is fine we will just apologize and save a couple hundred bucks!"
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