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In response to "And while Schilling is a lot of things I do feel bad for him." by Mel Profit

i dunno, it was his own typically fatheaded hubris that did him in.....nm

Posted by x (aka dmuck) Oct 8 '13, 07:42

it's sort of a you made your bed type deal for me.

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although I think it's different slightly... - Mel Profit Oct 8, 07:56 4
- i mostly agree. but the fatal flaw was thinking that because he liked games that he knew enough to develop something that could compete with wow.... - x Oct 8, 08:02 2
  - totally agree. it was hubris. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 8, 08:05 1
    - like... - Mel Profit Oct 8, 08:06
- although, he would have had a better time going bankrupt. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 8, 07:57
agreed, I suppose. He wasn't buying tigers but it's the same thing. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 8, 07:46 8
- Schilling's d-bagness aside, I feel worse for the taxpayers in RI who gave him that loan. -- nm - Diva Oct 8, 07:51 6
  - I blame the RI officials who gave him the loan. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 8, 07:54 5
    - Most of them weren't officials - they were mostly CEOs. The Governor was the only public official on the board. -- (link) - Roger More Oct 8, 08:11 2
      - Right, I sit corrected. I blame these guys a lot. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 8, 08:13 1
        
        It's fascinating to me, because the thought is obviously "government decision makers don't understand the private sector and don't understand risk and - Roger More Oct 8, 08:24
    - they were focused like a laser beam on jobs. -- nm - Diva Oct 8, 08:02
    - This. And it's the employees I feel bad for. Many got shafted bad when he shut things down -- nm - decline Oct 8, 07:55
- total self centered belief in what you're doing can often pay off in athletics and in business.... - x Oct 8, 07:50

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