No, I’m asking why Don Sweeney should speak to the victim. If this guy was hired by 7/11, would the 7/11 manager call the victim and tell them? Why is that Don Sweeney’s role?
I mean, he was given the chance to apologize and accept responsibility as an adult and refused to do so until it became clear he wouldn’t get to the NHL as a result. He had the same opportunity his non-NHL classmates did.
That doesn't appear to be the case with Miller, though. The person who bullied you apologized to you because it sounded like he knew he was wrong. According to the statements made by his mother, the victim has yet to receive any direct apology from Miller. The only apology that's been given was court-ordered.
It sounds like multiple teams were after him and it was shit or get off the pot. He shat.
Good question. The team needs to all get singing along with Mitch or not in at all.
Yeah, his quotes on this are almost bizarre, or at least read that way. Outside of my personal feelings on the signing (ie this is gross and a shame), from a team building perspective the amount of "this might be a mistake" and "players questioned it" I'm reading doesn't inspire a ton of confidence in Sweeney the GM.
Trying to follow the bouncing puck here.
That's where I was going. Is there some personal connection with him or the Jacobses? Sweeney isn't dumb. He would have to know there would be questions; and if this is his deal, I think he'd have better (if not entirely satisfactory) answers.
He can change on some other team as well.
the mother admits that Miller tried to reach out via social media to apologize. It sounds almost identical to Salems Lot situation.
The upside is winning more hockey games. Tyreke Hill is a face of the NFL, announcers gush about him every week. In the end, I doubt many Chiefs fans want to give their Superbowl back.
I agree. Playing in the NHL isn't a right. No one is suggesting that Miller gets deported to an island for what he did as a 14-year-old. If he wants to be a stock broker or sell insurance or pump gas, he can do whatever he wants with his life. But truly reprehensible actions have consequences and one of them is that you might not get to be a professional athlete. Sorry, but those should be the rules.
I don't understand this. What if he was a brilliant heart surgeon? Should he not be able to work at Mass General? What if he was a clarinet player? Should he be able to play with the BSO? What if he doesn't really like hockey, wants desperately to be an architect, but he knows that hockey is the best way to make a living? Should he be allowed to play hockey but not be an architect?
He wasn't an asshole. He traumatized a kid. It wasn't a one time thing. And he has only ever seemed to show "remorse" about it when he's needed to do it to keep his career going. Like it's a box to be checked.
I don't follow the Bruins all that closely - mostly root for them in the abstract and watch when there's no other sports on - but this makes ZERO sense to me. Who's making you make this signing? Just move on and let someone else take the chance. I can see saying, "we've talked to him and the victim's family and we're confident he's made his amends," or something, but "well, it was worth a flyer, I guess" is very strange to me.
Yeah, speaks to the fact they know the situation and are signing him anyways because they think he's a good player. Ridiculous.
I was trying to find a way to say something like this. If the Bruins or other NHL teams dont want him, so be it. But "playing in the NHL" is not such an exalted profession that "bad people" (for lack of a better word) should be excluded from playing in it, but are free to do other "less exalted" jobs.
I think kids who traumatized kids are as assholes. I said he might still be an asshole. Use whatever word you want.
Because playing professional sports and representing a city or region is a privilege which comes with, or should come with, special requirements. It's a forward facing job (unlike driving a big rig) and it doesn't necessarily provide a greater good (unlike a heart surgeon) except by providing entertainment. It's also essentially a hero role; how admired are Patrice Bergeron or Zdeno Chara, for example?
They think he's a good player.
I think that your asshole meter needs to be checked. He repeatedly called a Black student with special needs, the N-word and tricked him eating a lollipop that he marinated in a urinal. That's some sociopathic bullshit and maybe you're right, maybe unless he undergoes intense therapy and psychoanalysis, maybe he shouldn't be allowed back into polite society. I don't know if I'm willing to go that far, but I'd wager it's a lot better than "boys are boys"!
I don't think the current record plays into it. Other than the PR bomb on the lockeroom he's going to have no impact on the 22/23 Bruins. The timing of the signing is more because of Miller's situation. Miller was not playing anywhere. He had his scholarship to UND rescinded and played last season in the USHL which is a junior league. He's too old for that league this year. It sounds like the Bruins were not the only NHL team vying for his services. If they wanted to sign him, it was probably now or never.
What hit are they realistically going to take? If he does nothing and gets released he’ll be forgotten about. If he is good then most fans will be very forgiving since winning trumps all. The amount of people that stop supporting the Bruins altogether will be low and the impact to their ability to attract players will be zero.
This is where I land. No upside indeed. Maybe a 12 year old doesn't know better but I thought maybe Sweeney did. Thx Don for this distraction to what has been a great season so far.
My dude. Bullying is way worse now, especially with social media, than it ever was when we were kids. When we were kids it was limited to our classroom, or grade if we were unlucky.
This is not really responsive to their argument.
It’s better in some ways and worse in others. Social media’s scope and ubiquity are qualitatively different. But the degree to which physical bullying is condoned today by certain institutions is also qualitatively different.
Jeeze, you were even better at getting bullied than I was as a kid.
