Gamethread #16 Battle of Subs... Margeviscius vs Caste

[AT Funchal-Madeira]

: my liberalism.

I'm hard on a guy like Scott Servais makes $800K to never adapt and live a totally spoiled, worry-free life despite sucking at his job. Where I come from, if you suck at your job, you get fired.

Yeah, in the world, the system is called communism, socialism, or you're in some third world country.... In America, if you suck at your job and don't get fired it's because you work for a union, your're in the service, you are tenured at a university, you work for CNN, or you are a bureaucrat in the city, state or federal government....

[AT Funchal-Madeira]

For those who gambled on the over/under for M's pitchers tonight, MaGill is number 5.

[IStillLoveTheMs]

: my liberalism.

I'm hard on a guy like Scott Servais makes $800K to never adapt and live a totally spoiled, worry-free life despite sucking at his job. Where I come from, if you suck at your job, you get fired.

Yeah, in the world, the system is called communism, socialism, or you're in some third world country.... In America, if you suck at your job and don't get fired it's because you work for a union, your're in the service, you are tenured at a university, you work for CNN, or you are a bureaucrat in the city, state or federal government....

You won't get an argument from me there... but I will say, there's plenty of people making millions of dollars who do suck ass at their job but are good at gaming a rigged system so they get to keep cheating their way to the top. I think it goes both ways and is not so black and white. What I is see rich people taking advantage of a system where poor people get scape goated as the problem... as "lazy people who take tax payers money"... I'm not sure which is worse? The poor person who needs some help... or the rich person who fucks the competitive landscape of capitalism by cheating? Seems to me the rich person who ruins what our economic system strives to be is the bigger problem...

[D-train]

Like right there... if I'm Servais... I tell Evan White that if he takes another called strike 3 he can sit his ass on the bench and will do so until he figures out how to extend a fucking at-bat and prove that he's worth the spot he's been given.

Agree.

[AT Funchal-Madeira]

Nice route by Lopes....

[AT Funchal-Madeira]

Time for the Mariners to "git rolling", knock down the cabin door and crash this plane in a wooded field somewhere....

[D-train]

: my liberalism.

I'm hard on a guy like Scott Servais makes $800K to never adapt and live a totally spoiled, worry-free life despite sucking at his job. Where I come from, if you suck at your job, you get fired.

Yeah, in the world, the system is called communism, socialism, or you're in some third world country.... In America, if you suck at your job and don't get fired it's because you work for a union, your're in the service, you are tenured at a university, you work for CNN, or you are a bureaucrat in the city, state or federal government....

You won't get an argument from me there... but I will say, there's plenty of people making millions of dollars who do suck ass at their job but are good at gaming a rigged system so they get to keep cheating their way to the top. I think it goes both ways and is not so black and white. I just see rich people taking advantage of a system where poor people get scape goated as the problem... as "lazy people who take tax payers money"... I'm not sure which is worse? The poor person who needs some help... or the rich person who fucks the competitive landscape of capitalism by cheating? Seems to me the rich person who ruins what our economic system strives to be...

Well I was a poor person in 1985 making 5.50 an hour working at a butter factory and a poor person in 1990 making 6.20 an hour as a bank teller after four years of college. I didn't get an ounce of help but somehow I am now a relatively wealthy person that I didn't game the system (whatever that means) and I am not even that smart or ambitious. I just didn't make excuses or feel sorry for myself for having blue collar parents with no connections or not getting into UW Business school because of affirmative action. I just kept going and it all worked out.

[D-train]

This team will not win 10 games

That didn't work when you are stuffed into a garbage can in high school and it isn't going to work here but keep trying.

[IStillLoveTheMs]

Yeah, in the world, the system is called communism, socialism, or you're in some third world country.... In America, if you suck at your job and don't get fired it's because you work for a union, your're in the service, you are tenured at a university, you work for CNN, or you are a bureaucrat in the city, state or federal government....

You won't get an argument from me there... but I will say, there's plenty of people making millions of dollars who do suck ass at their job but are good at gaming a rigged system so they get to keep cheating their way to the top. I think it goes both ways and is not so black and white. I just see rich people taking advantage of a system where poor people get scape goated as the problem... as "lazy people who take tax payers money"... I'm not sure which is worse? The poor person who needs some help... or the rich person who fucks the competitive landscape of capitalism by cheating? Seems to me the rich person who ruins what our economic system strives to be...

Well I was a poor person in 1985 making 5.50 an hour working at a butter factory and a poor person in 1990 making 6.20 an hour as a bank teller after four years of college. I didn't get an ounce of help but somehow I and now I am a relatively wealthy person that I didn't game the system (whatever that means) and I am not even that smart or ambitious. I just didn't make excuses or feel sorry for myself for having blue collar parents with no connections or not getting into UW Business school because of affirmative action. I just kept going and it all worked out.

And I think the way you did it perfectly honorable. It's THE way to get it done.

And I also think that the way you've accumulated your wealth is in no way part of the problem. You did it right... it's those who have accumulated a ton of wealth by NOT doing what you did... by cheating... by getting advantages because of a corrupt system that I have a problem with. They spit in your face and make your hard work not as valuable.

I'm not a fan of affirmative action. I want people to attend programs like UW business school because they are qualified... that said, I think that underprivileged communities do have a much more difficult time preparing people for that task because many factors contribute to a system that suppresses their education environment. Instead, I would like to see money pumped into early education in underprivileged communities so the groundwork can be laid that they get into a place like UW Business school on their own merit when the time comes.

[D-train]

Right on. Your a good dude, brother. Go M's.