Yawn^2 wrote:
If I had to bet who will be around longer and make more money, I’ll bet on the French open, not her.
Risky bet! Choosing the non-living organization over the human being with expected lifespan of ~88 years.
LRC: home of geniuses.
Yawn^2 wrote:
If I had to bet who will be around longer and make more money, I’ll bet on the French open, not her.
Risky bet! Choosing the non-living organization over the human being with expected lifespan of ~88 years.
LRC: home of geniuses.
Beat the Stigma wrote:
You perpetuate the stigma by calling this a weak excuse. Depression and anxiety can be debilitating. Naomi is a strong individual in every sense of the word and a phenom. Change will occur.
So debilitating that she can play major matches but can’t answer stupid questions? Not exactly a strong individual. She signed a contract for millions. Now work for it.
boo hoo wrote:
Beat the Stigma wrote:
You perpetuate the stigma by calling this a weak excuse. Depression and anxiety can be debilitating. Naomi is a strong individual in every sense of the word and a phenom. Change will occur.
So debilitating that she can play major matches but can’t answer stupid questions? Not exactly a strong individual. She signed a contract for millions. Now work for it.
Nike (and most of her other sponsors) say she’s right and you’re wrong.
Ouch, bro...
Even her non-participation in the French Open has generated more publicity for her sponsors than any distance runner has generated for their sponsor, ever.
But please, keep whining about how "weak" she is.
Cancun Cruz wrote:
testosteronedoesit wrote:
Looks like all of Osaka’s sponsors are sticking with her. So, she continues to get paid and she doesn’t have to do any asinine pressers.
Tennis tourneys will start making press conferences voluntary due to her high profile and the fact they will start losing top talent. She comes out like a boss and the stodgy old tennis bureaucracy looks like a bunch of insensitive clowns. They need to remember who draws in the fans and it sure as heck isn’t them.
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Top talent is not going away because of press conferences. It's an extraordinarily small price to pay for pro tennis players, who are compensated quite well.
Huh? They just lost the number 2 ranked player in the World due to press conferences. That couldn’t be a more blatant example of top talent going away due to press conferences. Your post makes no sense.
What you consider as a “price to pay” is entirely irrelevant. Do you really think you are one to speak for them? Obviously Osaka thought it too pricey.
lets whine wrote:
She's a whiney entitled, victim-playing b!tch so easy to see why you identify with her,
Sounds like whining about whining. Talk about being 2 bit loser.
Osaka is cool. You r moran.
victimhood is the currency of the 21st century
Your trolling isn’t even good anymore.
French open has been around since 1925. Yeah, I think it will do fine without babies like Osaka
You keep acting like a sponsor determines the strength of her actions. She can’t speak to media, therefore she is weak. Idk of Nike pays her to be weak.
Yawn^2 wrote:
Your trolling isn’t even good anymore.
French open has been around since 1925. Yeah, I think it will do fine without babies like Osaka
I was making fun of you because your “bet” was really stupid.
Interesting that many of you cheered when Trump banned reporter who were prodding him at press conferences or refused to answer their questions. What’s different here?
Yawn^2 wrote:
You keep acting like a sponsor determines the strength of her actions. She can’t speak to media, therefore she is weak. Idk of Nike pays her to be weak.
Well she can speak to media... just on her own terms. She doesn’t bend over for authority like you do!
sub15@50 wrote:
victimhood is the currency of the 21st century
And somehow the people with the most of it also have the most of the old currency.
These millionaire tennis players think they got that millions for what - playing a sport? No, they got paid for entertaining people with that sport. No viewers, no bucks.
2600 bro wrote:
Osaka's social media reach is far greater than the number of people that watch a post/pre match press conference...
Irrelevant. Social media serves an entirely different purpose than post match press conferences.
Cancun Cruz wrote:
2600 bro wrote:
Osaka's social media reach is far greater than the number of people that watch a post/pre match press conference...
Irrelevant. Social media serves an entirely different purpose than post match press conferences.
A useless purpose then? Look what the sponsors cared about. You are all placing a lot of weight with legacy sports media and press conferences. No one pays attention except old people - I promise. The smart people know where the future is and are lining up the for $$$ already.
Man, she is really putting Rapinoe to the test for the entitled rich athlete from a privileged upbringing victim of the year award. Lebron still has time to get into the mix though if the Lakers go deep. He'd got the old hide the Malcom X books halfway in his gym bag and pretend I've read it card up his sleeve.
2600 bro wrote:
Cancun Cruz wrote:
Irrelevant. Social media serves an entirely different purpose than post match press conferences.
A useless purpose then? Look what the sponsors cared about. You are all placing a lot of weight with legacy sports media and press conferences. No one pays attention except old people - I promise. The smart people know where the future is and are lining up the for $$$ already.
I'm quickly realizing that many of the people commenting on this thread don't actually follow or understand professional tennis.
Yawn^2 wrote:
Tatar wrote:
How can you be this naive? If the poster you replied to was fired how would that have affected her mental health? If she knew she was going to be fired she wouldn't have mentioned it to her boss as not many of us can afford not to work. You sound like you just want people to suffer in silence.
To a certain extent yes, suffer in silence. Osaka chose to play tennis and she chose to sign a contract with the tournament stating she will do interviews. No one forced this on her. No one forced her to go on about her anxiety (anxiety that seems to come and go mind you). This past week is all the culmination of her choices.
In regards to the poster, is it not the right of the company to fire someone if they do not perform on the job? The company is not responsible for the mental health of those they fire.
The company you work for is responsible for acknowledging mental and physical ill health are normal parts of being a human. Ultimately the company doesn't function without its employees and the French Open doesn't function without the players.
Osaka has not said she will never do another post-match interview, she just requested some time out.
For the record, these conferences do seem somewhat banal, she's a tennis player not a politician or a CEO. Her performance is irrelevant to everyone except herself.
never gets old wrote:
She probably was sick of answering stupid questions like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atr60tR7Emo
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Cancun Cruz wrote:
2600 bro wrote:
A useless purpose then? Look what the sponsors cared about. You are all placing a lot of weight with legacy sports media and press conferences. No one pays attention except old people - I promise. The smart people know where the future is and are lining up the for $$$ already.
I'm quickly realizing that many of the people commenting on this thread don't actually follow or understand professional tennis.
I’m quickly realizing that many of the people commenting on this thread had no idea how modern media works.
Yawn^2 wrote:
You keep acting like a sponsor determines the strength of her actions. She can’t speak to media, therefore she is weak. Idk of Nike pays her to be weak.
I don't "keep acting" like anything - I have made a single post, laughing at the irony of anonymous messageboard losers from a sport full of nobodies taking insecure shots at a successful person's fortitude.