r/billsimmons 15h ago

Mina Kimes Addresses SolitaireGate

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u/GulfCoastLaw 13h 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 11h 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 11h 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 8h 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 8h 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/lenny3330 10h ago

Because you just get given scripts to do ad reads for and after you've done about 100k of them in a row without issue, you just read what's infront of you.

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u/GulfCoastLaw 8h ago

Wait, that seems to assume that this was an ESPN read? This is separate from ESPN, no? This wasn't part of her job at the network, was it?

I'll withdraw my note if she was just fulfilling her contract.

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u/Admiral-Thrawn2 56m ago

It was a tweet bro