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OT: More man love for Donaghy!
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Damn, beat with a pipe! I guess he got what he deserves? 
Sounds like a mob job. This whole country is taken over by mobsters! They might as well LEGAL LIZE IT.
Sounds like a mob job. This whole country is taken over by mobsters! They might as well LEGAL LIZE IT.
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Damn, beat with a pipe! I guess he got what he deserves?
So a guy that never inflicted personal harm on anyone "deserved" to get beaten with a pipe?
I wonder what Michael Vick "deserved" then?
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What Vick probably "deserved" was for one of the dogs to turn on him and bite off a finger... but that is neither here nor there.
Donaghy took a lot of money to get into bed with mobsters - and now he is whining that the sex was rougher than he expected. Sorry, but I have zero sympathy. The guy is a scumbag, and has nobody to blame for his problems but himself.
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Yet Vick, who murdered animals, is back in the league making millions. That seems fair. I would imagine that if and when Donaghy is fully released, he should be allowed a second chance as well? After all, the NFL is 100% against gambling on anything, yet Vick not only gambled on the dog fighting, he funded it.
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1) Sports officials may talk about the evils of gambling, but anyone with half a brain understands the difference between generic gambling activities and game fixing. If Donaghy had merely broken league rules about refs placing bets in a casino, then yes, he probably would deserve a second chance. What he actually did, was exponentially more harmful to the NBA.
2) As disgusting as Vick's vices were, they had nothing to do with Vick *as a player*. Vick still has value to teams. Donaghy was a crappy ref who had no value to anyone even before he fixed his first game. He could have been fired and replaced years ago - and NOBODY would have noticed or cared. People who have value to other people get forgiven easier than people who don't. That is cold, hard reality.
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shit sucks ^^^
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Agreed. #1 was a true fiasco. #2 was simply a PR matter (to the league; not making judgment calls on other people's morals). If mainstream media and viewers truly cared about the dog fighting issue, they would be as familiar with the other names involved as they are with Vick. But no, it's just another case of celebrity obsession.
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I think that's a crock. I know more about OJ Simpson and his case than with other cases involving murder.
It's not just dog fighting, so don't say if people truly cared about it they would know the others.
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I can't really believe what I'm reading. A guy who helped fix games deserves getting beat with a pipe? Um...no.
No one deserves to get beat with a pipe. This isn't a video game and this isn't martial law.
No one deserves to get beat with a pipe. This isn't a video game and this isn't martial law.
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I don't know
I think child molestors should not only get beat with a pipe, but fucked by one as well.
Maybe also if you beat someone with a pipe, you should, in turn, get beat with one. Sort of a different take on an eye for an eye. Maybe more like an iron for an iron?
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You picked a horrible example... That was one of the biggest media circuses of recent memory. People only cared about it because of the name.
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I don't know
I think child molestors should not only get beat with a pipe, but fucked by one as well.
Maybe also if you beat someone with a pipe, you should, in turn, get beat with one. Sort of a different take on an eye for an eye. Maybe more like an iron for an iron?
There is a bear trap in plain sight in the middle of the floor. Somebody walks up to the trap and intentionally sticks their foot in it.
You want to argue whether the outcome is "deserved". My response is that the outcome was both predictable and self inflicted.