http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...ns-serving-keynote-speaker-harvard-university CEO doesn't apply. Paul Allen owns the Trail Blazers. There is no board of directors. He isn't the CEO. He's the owner. The sole owner of the team. When we refer to Paul or Mark Cuban as the "owner" of the team, nobody is implying that he owns the players. He owns the organization. The players are not property. They can quit basketball and leave whenever they like. They do, however, have contracts for exclusive rights to play for their team, but they signed those contracts of their own free will. Just another example of making a big deal about the use of a word in the fight for political correctness.
Yeah, not sure anyone refers to Paul Allen as Damians "owner". It'd be "Hey, there's Paul Allen, he owns the team" Never before have I heard someone refer to the owner of a sports team as "my owner "
Mostly because this situation doesn't come up. In what scenario does the owner of the team walk in and nobody knows who they are?
I'm so white I clap when the sizzling fajitas come to the table, so I won't pretend my opinion has any weight... but as a grammar nerd, I would say that it's an interesting mental flip where "my owner" totally is shorthand for "my team's owner", but can turn into "my owner" without any implied "team" if you say it enough. That and, to be honest, NFL owners feel really near the line between the two sides of that phrase... Again, I'm lily white, suburban, and defer to any and all opinions closer to reality than my own... just thought the grammar and psychology of language was interesting here.
It’s the new thing some of these athletes do. “I’m not owned by anything whitey don’t you know we were slaves!” Well uhhh whether you’re white, black or fucking purple that persons the owner of the team. No fucking shit he doesn’t own you. It’s kinda a given but if you love pulling the race card, it’s a great one to use.
S&W said it better than I... "Your lack of grammatical clarity does not impose a relationship whereby you are chattel, and negates the logic of your assumption of that role."
I wouldn't say so. His rights are restricted, of course...he can't play for another team in the NBA or under reciprocity agreements. But he could very well say tomorrow morning "Eff You, Mr. Lacob, I'm going to draw unicorns for underprivileged children all day long" and there isn't a thing the "owner" could do about it.
Very silly post. Tuition free and Healthcare without premiums never meant free. Sanders has said this over and over but conservatives just can't wrap their minds around it.
You're right, it was a silly post. I regret any semblance of gravitas it implied. I couldn't care less about barfo's voting tendencies, as I'm sure he's similarly aloof of mine.
One of mine as well along with Otis Redding, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and The Temptations.
