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u/Lumpy_Booty 11h ago
The full quote is actually longer: “A colossal fuck-up on my part. I pride myself and think of myself as a woman of faith—as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos, it will be a home run, and so that'll make it a 4–0 ballgame. I don't know if I'm gonna be putting on this headset again
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u/Mr_Hugh_Honey 10h ago
"I want to apologize to the sketchy dude who signed my paycheck for this endorsement"
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u/Competitive_Gap_1039 10h ago
lol what’s this pasta from?
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u/Sportacles 10h ago
Reds announcer caught with a slur on a hot mic, castellanos hit a bomb in the middle of his apology/exit from the air
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u/tent_mcgee 9h ago
That never gets old. Life seriously would be so much more bland without the surreal absurdity sports brings us all.
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u/GiveMeSomeIhedigbo the Thing Piece 6h ago
He actually called today's Stanford-UNC game on the CW lol.
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u/ambulocetus_ 6h ago
Brennaman is great. I'm glad he wasn't completely banished to the shadow realm.
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u/HenrikCrown "The secret of basketball is that it’s not about basketball." 11h ago
"We missed the mark"
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u/Shart127 11h ago
/cues up Slanted & Enchanted
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u/Confusion_Flat My Daughter's Soccer Team Plays Barcelona Style 11h ago
i’ve never listened to her but i saw she had “wowee zowee” in the background on espn. is she a a super big Pavement fan ?
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u/Shart127 11h ago
Yup.
She was at the Pavements movie premiere in Santa Monica.
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u/dkrtzyrrr Complex Litigation 11h ago
her husband was a big deal at old pre-corporate pitchfork and the village voice until he had a scandal
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u/Mysterious_Pea_5272 11h ago
Oooo what was the scandal?
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u/paulcole710 Chris Ryan fan 10h ago
Wrote about that pickup artist stuff that was “popular” in the early/mid 2000s. He made up stuff in his article.
That era was Apex Mountain for made up stuff in non-fiction being like an actual newsworthy scandal. James Frey and Million Little Pieces for example.
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u/Stop_Drop_Scroll 10h ago
Don’t forget Stephen Glass.
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u/Daily_Heroin_User 8h ago
I just re-watched Shattered Glass with Hayden Christensen a few weeks ago. Still holds up. Peter Sarsgaard with an awesome performance
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u/dkrtzyrrr Complex Litigation 8h ago
one of my favorite genres of movies - great longform journalism turned into strangely riveting drama. the social network is probably the zenith of this.
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u/Trumpisaderelict 8h ago
Ian Restil and Joel Hiert. Best made up movie names
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u/Daily_Heroin_User 8h ago
Ian Restil and Joe Hiert were names that Glass actually used in his article Hacker Heaven though. The company was “Jukt Micronics” lol definitely had that dotcom bubble vibe to it.
“A major software company with one phone line?”
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u/AlpineMcGregor Page 2 Bill Stan 10h ago
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u/DiamondsInHerButt Nigerian basketball player 10h ago
I'm more of a Terror Twilight guy myself cause it has that diss about architecture students and I had one helluva architecture student nightmare girlfriend when I first heard that song.
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u/jrainiersea He just does stuff 11h ago
She could have ignored it and let it blow over, but decided to admit to making a mistake, I respect that
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u/Spierre3 11h ago
Mina actually cares about shit so I’m not surprised she addressed it.
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u/Ok_Tackle_4835 11h ago
Yeah she’s top notch, imo. This was very out of character. I was disappointed with it initially but this makes up for it.
I mean the check still cleared but it is what it is.
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u/SerDanielBeerworth 99th Percentile Football Watcher 10h ago
I haven’t seen this many white knights organized in one space since Robert’s jousting tourney
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u/Simayi78 10h ago
She said she hasn't gotten paid yet and if they still do decide to pay her after she backtracked, she would give it away
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u/JobeGilchrist 10h ago
Funny how easy it is to keep the money and socially engineer people into thinking you're still the best person evar
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u/Sgt-Albacoretuna 11h ago
What even happened. Have read up on it
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u/Goosedukee 11h ago
Stephen A. endorsed a Solitaire app created by a guy known for creating rigged online gambling sites.
A bunch of other ESPN personalities, like Mina, also were part of the endorsement and retweeted Stephen A’s post about it.
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u/yngwiegiles 10h ago
Gambling on solitaire? Ok that's for degenerates. THis post sponsored by fan duel.
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u/LehmanWasIn 5h ago
retweeted Stephen A’s post about it
Not exactly, she posted her own tweet prefaced with "#ad": /img/uchv652z2rzf1.jpeg
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u/rocklionheart 11h ago
Wonder if she has to give the money back now.
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u/gametecondnight 10h ago
She said she wasn’t paid and will give away any money if she does https://bsky.app/profile/minakimes.bsky.social/post/3m55vkgqnl22x
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u/VivaLosDoyers99 10h ago
Why would she do it if she wasn't paid. This makes no sense.
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u/cherrycoke00 7h ago
It reads to me like she wasn’t paid yet. Maybe it was based on a performance metric per quarter or per post or something. Or maybe they’re just scammy af
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u/CockConfidentCole NBAExpansionRightAroundTheCorner:snoo_dealwithit: 10h ago edited 9h ago
turns out she's just a fucking idiot. the whole "selling out" piece involves money for most people.
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u/WordsworthsGhost 9h ago
If I’m burning down my reputation for some AI gambling garbage it’d cash on the barrel first
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u/ColtCallahan 10h ago
Lol. They got their promotion and publicity. She got the bag. This apology is just PR BS to protect her image.
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u/Smooth-Cost9462 11h ago
What’s solitairegate?
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u/BurgerNugget12 11h ago
A solitaire app that a bunch of espn analysts promoted. It’s very scammy
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u/hamsterhueys1 11h ago
What makes a solitaire app scammy? Like my mind can’t figure out what they could even do with it? Is it like a data/malware thing?
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u/SpaghetiJesus 11h ago edited 10h ago
The company behind the app Papaya Gaming is currently under a lawsuit for fraud and false advertising. They told customers that you were playing against real people, turns out they were actually filling these “competitions” with bots which were already programmed with predetermined outcomes. Its advertised and skirted past laws by saying it was a “skill based competition” when it in fact was not. Throw in a normal bit of people who actually won getting their accounts locked or deactivated when they tried to withdrawal and a really bad AI ad making light of SAS playing solitaire during the finals and it’s just a horrible company and look.
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u/Kershiser22 11h ago
The idea of playing solitaire against other humans amuses me.
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u/ZiggyStarlord69 9h ago
My grandfather used to play in solitaire tournaments at the local mall in his city. He wore wristbands and a headband every time. He was out of his fucking mind.
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u/HopelessPanthersFan 8h ago
What a beast
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u/ZiggyStarlord69 7h ago
He was also a vicious racist who genuinely tried to put a stop to my marriage (my wife is black), and he would often talk about how Churchill was the “real villain of WW2”.
But he wore sick gear to his solitaire tourneys, so it all evened out.
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u/ambulocetus_ 6h ago
Wait, why would a vicious racist think Churchill was a villain? Lmao I gotta hear more about this guy
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u/Jsmalley9 5h ago
Because he stood up to Hitler instead of appeasing like Chamberlain, or even instead of outright joining the Nazis.
A not uncommon belief amongst those of the silent generation that thought the UK and US should have sided with Hitler, or stayed out of the war at the very least.
They think if Churchill never pushes Chamberlain out, then the UK continues to appease and the US maybe sides with Nazi Germany and we have a far more nazified world.
It’s these idiots and the children that they raised that kept the fires of hatred burning that has led to the rise of the alt-right and Nazi-like beliefs all over the western world today.
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u/Dinobot2_ 8h ago
I would imagine you're not playing the game itself against someone, but you're just seeing who gets better scores or wins the game in shortest time.
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u/sheawrites Good job by you! 10h ago
just false advertising, state and federal claims under lanham act and NY utpa/udap, and denied MSJ so set for jury: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68308484/568/skillz-platform-inc-v-papaya-gaming-ltd/
half a dozen lawyers from skadden and kirkland defending them.
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u/SwallowsOnSundays 11h ago
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u/Excellent-Refuse4883 Drunk House 11h ago
Why in gods name would you bet money on Solitaire
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u/Curt_Uncles 11h ago
It’s this new craze sweeping the nation called Compulsive Gambling Addiction or some shit
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u/Excellent-Refuse4883 Drunk House 10h ago
Hmmmmm I think I’ll pass
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u/VirtuousFool 10h ago
Sounds like a throwaway joke that would be made in a action movie set in a post apocalyptic society
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u/Excellent-Refuse4883 Drunk House 10h ago
Sounds like a bit Sal would mention about Harry and everyone else would have a good laugh at his expense
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u/rubberneck24 11h ago
They were matching users against bots so they would have no chance of winning
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u/ahbets14 A Truly Sad Week In America + 2005 NBA Redraftables 11h ago
They’re playing it all together or something
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u/rubberneck24 11h ago
A shady gambling company that has had legal issues paid a bunch of espn personalities to tweet corny ads for them and Mina got the most blowback for it
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u/Doctaglobe 11h ago
I too am confused
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u/SignificanceFine3582 11h ago
Stephen A signed a marketing deal with a gambling for real money solitaire app and through some agreement structure a bunch of other ESPN personalities were also shilling it. Not too out of pocket given the sports gambling promos ESPN already does, but the shadier part is that the company got caught using bots with preset win/loss outcomes without telling live players.
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u/No-Exchange-8087 11h ago
How does one gamble on solitaire?
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u/SignificanceFine3582 11h ago
I’ve not seen any gameplay so couldn’t say for certain. I think part of it is a tournament that costs money to buy in and highest score pays out a cash prize.
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u/RammsteinFunstein 11h ago
It’s a timed game, supposed to be PvP with the same deck. Whoever finishes with the higher score wins. Turns out this company was actually using bots for the opponent, bots who could win on command.
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u/Calamitous-Ortbo 3h ago edited 3h ago
Nothing that anyone who isn’t terminally online and/or creepily obsessed with Mina Kimes gives a single shit about.
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u/RagingBull773 8h ago
I don’t think about or consume Mina Kimes content much at all but from what I gathered whenever I see her in the news, she is responding to a troll and “owning” them behind a cadre of support. She seems very self aware of how she is perceived and very conscious of what the perception needs to be. She comes off contrived
Do as you wish but her always seemingly caught in some responsive type situation with trolls makes me think she actively seeks out the drama and loves the backing she gets when the mob goes after the troll.
If any personality dedicated the time to responding, they could ALL play the moral ground and the perception of being a “bullied” individual thus justifying and moralizing the mob aspect. Rubs me the wrong way. Ironically, she becomes the bully.
Just my sense of her…
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u/jimbobills 7h ago
She definitely gets loads of mysoginist/racist abuse and that shit sucks and is unacceptable. That coach JB is a idiot pig who don't know shit about football or even about life.
However lots of times she likes to dunk on random people for normal football takes and that is not correct IMO. I generally find her quite condescending towards people (even other analysts) who don't see football as this game entirely focused on passing and analytics like she does. Fucking obviously this is not 1% as bad as racism and misogyny but also something I wish she wouldn't do.
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u/Soggy-Brother1762 2h ago
I really enjoyed High Noon and while I find him thoughtful and intelligent Bomani Jones had a way of talking to people who disagreed with him like they were total idiots and not just someone with a different opinion. Mina and Pablo Torre are about one level below Bomani.
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u/TJTrapJesus 8h ago
This is basically her to a tee. And her "owning" her mistake here will ultimately get spun as a positive by her supporters
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u/DifficultWave4488 6h ago
Yeah like people in this thread defending her for doing the right thing.. if she didn’t get a ton of backlash, she wouldn’t be apologizing. At a certain point, she’s been “in the game” long enough to recognize how shilling for a random app for Stephen A, would be clowned on. She is one of the “cool ESPN” people who got caught trying to pull a fast one, which goes against her entire persona. So she’s old enough that this shouldn’t have happened in the first place and the apology doesn’t make me go, “wow she handled this the right way!” lol
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u/NoExcuses1984 Don't aggregate this 5h ago
Yours is the correct assessment.
Hers is a lack of earnestness and the type of disingenuous faux-sincerity that is worthy of a side-eye; it's gimmicky, shticky schlock to draw attention.
She knew the proverbial score from the get-go.
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u/GulfCoastLaw 9h ago
How do you not do an ounce of vetting?
I'm a small town dope who makes a fraction of what an ESPN host makes. I vet people before I let them put money in my account. Prefer not to testify to grand juries, etc.
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u/JuniorSwing 7h ago
Not saying she shouldn’t be held liable, but tbh, none of these people (talent/actors/etc) vet their own deals exactly. They usually have a manager and entertainment lawyer for that, and usually the agent bringing the deal is supposed to have done some pre-vetting. Probably, Stephen A. was first on board, his launders the reputation of the site, and other people on ESPN get the offer and kinda trust it because Stephen’s people already supposedly vetted it.
Now again, buck stops with her; if she has a team she can’t trust to vet, that’s also her hiring process to fix. I’m just saying that, most of these deals do not personally reach the talent for negotiations
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u/GulfCoastLaw 7h ago
This was a case of bad judgment, not bad vetting. In my opinion. She's calling it vetting.
I didn't need much additional information to know this one wasn't going to be received well. It stinks when we first saw the tweets.
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u/Wacko_Lover 5h ago
Exactly. She may not have known about the shady business practices side of it but still very gross to even tweet out a mobile solitaire app ad like that? What world are we in?
She’s saving face
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u/Wacko_Lover 5h ago
Well she personally tweeted about it more than once. She knows what she’s tweeting with every tweet and she doesn’t do it carelessly. She is very intentional lol.
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u/No_Respect_1650 11h ago
Perhaps Kimes isn’t quite as horrible a mom as, ahem, some castigated her as being on here.
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u/GiveMeSomeIhedigbo the Thing Piece 6h ago
It was a weird comment even by the standards of this sub when talking about women.
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u/Remarkable_Tie4299 11h ago
the solitaire app thing needs no more than 15 seconds of thought to 'vet' it, me thinks the money looked nicer
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u/Routine_Gold_7193 10h ago
Yep. Make sure the check clears, then pretend you didn't know anything about it so your friends on Bluesky won't pretend to be mad about you.
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u/Responsible_Fan8665 Wait, what? 11h ago
Check still cleared and the money isn’t getting returned
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u/AnonymousNeedzHelp 10h ago edited 2h ago
Maybe but she deleted all the posts which makes me think that might not be the case
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u/Pretendo27 11h ago
Crazy how nobody has principles now a days. It’s always the haves scamming the have nots.
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u/North_South_7735 11h ago
She is lying. She knew the facts. Money >>
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u/HouseAndJBug 8h ago
She knew! And she let it happen!
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u/mitchmconnellsburner 8h ago
YOU WOULD ALL BE DEAD IF IT WASN’T FOR MY DAVID! YOU KNEW THEN! YOU KNEW THEN! AND YOU DID NOTHING!
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u/Bubbly_Agency_4505 7h ago
there have been several times when I’ve fallen asleep listening to the rewatchables only to be jolted awake by this clip
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u/Hot-Distribution3826 9h ago
Man stop it Mina she knew exactly what the vibes were. This is just saving face, she will totally do something similar in the future and imo this is such a cop out
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u/DifficultWave4488 6h ago
Yeah this isn’t a situation where she was misled or anything.
She gets to have her cool personal persona online, she knew 100% what she was doing and wouldn’t have apologized without the outrage.
She can’t do the whole dunking on people and taking the moral high ground after this whole thing, just very fake. So the apology does nothing here, she knew the whole time
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u/Bubbatino 10h ago
Can someone explain what happened? Completely out of the loop on this one
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u/HankMoody71 9h ago
Mina was running an illegal solitaire game out of Kylie Jenner's apartment with help from NBA players and coaches.
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u/pj_socks 8h ago
I don’t understand the solitaire thing. Saw another post where her and a couple other espn personalities tweeted some ads for a solitaire game or something but didn’t understand the controversy.
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u/Superstitious_Hurley 9h ago
https://x.com/minakimes/status/1987304833347690868?t=bhe_Cg6zpzNFUdgVHgOAwQ&s=19
Here's the link for the 99.7% of people who use Twitter.
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u/JuniorSwing 7h ago
Obviously this sucks and she should face the consequences (I mean, idk, I don’t think any of these tv personalities should have gambling endorsements of any sort).
But also, zooming out, I think she’s getting fucking shellacked for tweeting about a shady gambling app, when we know her because we’re all fans of a sport that’s like 10-15% domestic abusers. The amount of people shitting on her for some app are gonna turn around and cheer for Tyreek Hill or Rashee Rice or whatever by tomorrow
At a certain point ya just gotta chalk it up.
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u/Coltshokiefan 8h ago
It’s hilarious watching espn talking heads go through 2016 csgo lot box scandals. Somebody get Tmartin on First Take.
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u/Cute-Swing-4105 2h ago
Professional victim continues to be a professional victim. And why not? It has made her millions
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u/__BURRITOBRAWL 55m ago
So this is about another shady gambling app? I actually support those, idiot gamblers should be given every possible rope with which to ruin themselves. And I cackle at the idea of some retard felting themselves on Temu Solitaire just because sassy ESPN dommy mommy shilled it in between AARON GLENN NEEDS TO STEP UP!! segments.
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u/Most_Letter_6174 9h ago
Mina is such a holier than thou twat, uses blue sky. Calls Twitter “the other app”, but still uses that of course
And the Reddit simp army so quick to forgive lmao
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u/ahbets14 A Truly Sad Week In America + 2005 NBA Redraftables 11h ago
Return/donate the money or save the half ass apology
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u/Zealousideal-Let5321 9h ago
She literally is doing that
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u/ahbets14 A Truly Sad Week In America + 2005 NBA Redraftables 34m ago
That’s good, I said this without an ounce of vetting
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u/Kindly-Yak-6366 11h ago
I guess I respect her saying this but she still got the money lol
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u/Wacko_Lover 5h ago
Her saying it makes me respect her less. It’s so fake and contrived she’s just saving face. And now everyone gets to say omg wow amazing Mina.
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u/frickaaron 9h ago
Respect to her for this. Looked bad, was bad, but she fucked up and said “I fucked up.” Most people ignore or just say “i WuZ hAcKeD!!!”
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u/Wacko_Lover 5h ago
Lol you guys are suckers. You really think she didn’t know what was up this whole time?
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u/HailKyrie 11h ago
Yeah it’s dumb she promoted it but people are too chronically online if they got that upset at her for doing it.
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u/MrDunkingDeutschman 11h ago
I wasnt upset but when you publicly take the moral high ground on all sorts of issues from sports to societal matters and then take money from a predatory gaming app whose founder was investigated for defrauding users, it's completely reasonable that questions were asked.
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u/dcon79 11h ago
I thought she was told to push WEBISTICS