New Astros Owner Could Be MLB’s Donald Sterling
Houston businessman Jim Crane is about to buy the Astros for $680 million. According to Forbes, this could put MLB in an uncomfortable position, Donald Sterling-level uncomfortable. Crane’s company, Eagle Global Logistics, settled lawsuits for both hiring discrimination against minorities and women and multiple instances of Iraq War profiteering.
Here are some details from the original Houston Chronicle article about the discrimination allegations.
Crane told his subordinates not to hire blacks because “once you hire blacks, you can never fire them.” On other occasions, Crane explained the reason he wanted to keep blacks out of the company was that his top managers are bigoted and they would mistreat the minorities, “giving them no choice but to sue Eagle.”
Witnesses also said Crane did not permit the company to advertise job openings because he did not want to create a paper trail of unhired qualified minorities.
Worth noting: Only 203 of the 2,073 discrimination claims against the company held up on review. Also worth noting: the company had more than 200 substantiated incidents of racial and sexual discrimination. Rumors Bud Selig will force him to make amends by wearing a No. 42 Astros jersey for an entire season are unconfirmed.
The Department of Justice has also sued Eagle Global Logistics four separate times for war profiteering, both for overcharging the government and for paying out kickbacks to land lucrative contracts. The company was allegedly charging an extra 50 cents per kilogram in “war risk surcharges” on every shipment it made to Baghdad. No strangers to siphoning public funding, his fellow MLB owners should appreciate his ingenuity.
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June 15th, 2011 at 3:06 PM
yet they won’t let Mark Cuban buy a team because he actually CARES too much about winning.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:07 PM
Possible racist? War profiteer?
As long as he signs draft picks and drops Wade I’m willing to look the other direction.
/misplaced values.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:09 PM
This was also a comment from his 2nd wife, which led to their inevitable divorce.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:10 PM
needs more big words. duffy was on fire yesterday.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:11 PM
I would love to work for this guy. He wouldnt be able to fire me.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:11 PM
Well, he looks like a grease ball. I’ll give him that.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:13 PM
You have to be one bad SOB to get sued by the US government for wasting their money. Either that or maybe the company competes with Halliburton?
June 15th, 2011 at 3:13 PM
I’ll admit to having to look up the word ‘tome’ yesterday
June 15th, 2011 at 3:13 PM
I would love to work for this guy. He wouldnt be able to fire me.
You would have to kill in the phone interview
June 15th, 2011 at 3:16 PM
Yeah, THAT’S what he’s all about.
/bigger attention whore than Donald Trump
June 15th, 2011 at 3:17 PM
He can be as insensitive as he wants as long as he changes the horrendous uniforms back to the original colors.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:19 PM
Good thing the numbers of black athletes are declining, he won’t have to worry about signing them.
/Wonders if the Caribbean, Dominican, etc… players count as black
June 15th, 2011 at 3:19 PM
Kidding?
June 15th, 2011 at 3:19 PM
He can be as insensitive as he wants as long as he changes the horrendous uniforms back to the original colors.
The current ones aren’t bad, too much red and a little too ornate. But not bad.
But if they wanted to back to calling themselves the Cold .45s I wouldn’t argue.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:19 PM
Pay us or we’ll put you in court for years.
/isn’t that extortion?
June 15th, 2011 at 3:20 PM
Of all the words, you had to look up that one? The Hancockian whatever it was confused me the most.
This guy sounds like a winner, too.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:23 PM
hancockian embroidery.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:23 PM
Literally never heard it before. Thought it was a typo.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:23 PM
Best Astros uniforms ever.
Then these.
The tequila sunrise jerseys are third.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:24 PM
I’ll admit to having to look up the word ‘tome’ yesterday
Beau monde got me yesterday.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:24 PM
/isn’t that extortion?
When the government does it, it’s called ‘negotiating’.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:25 PM
Ah see, I took French in high school
June 15th, 2011 at 3:30 PM
Ah see, I took French in high school
I took French from grade 2-12, hadn’t heard the term.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:30 PM
DAMNIT WAITER, AH TOLD YOU AH WANTED MY PIE BEAU MONDE. AH DON’T SEE NO AH-CE CREAM ON HERE DAMNIT.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:33 PM
Apportez-moi vos plus beaux danseuse française canadienne exotiques, s’il vous plaît.
I have that copied into a sticky on my computer for when I asked how to say it months ago. It is my golden ticket in Montreal.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:34 PM
i miss marge schott.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:35 PM
I have that copied into a sticky on my computer for when I asked how to say it months ago. It is my golden ticket in Montreal.
You may want to stay away from the entirely francophone establishments.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:37 PM
I want a French Canadian, dammit. Only been with two and both were most enjoyable. They were both Americanized of course, so no hairy lady parts.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:38 PM
The Department of Justice has also sued Eagle Global Logistics four separate times for war profiteering, both for overcharging the government and for paying out kickbacks to land lucrative contracts.
Guess we know where the missing $ 6 billion went. Dude, lot better things to blow that on rather than the Astros.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:39 PM
I want a French Canadian, dammit. Only been with two and both were most enjoyable. They were both Americanized of course, so no hairy lady parts.
All the French Canadian women I’ve met(5 or 6) were attractive, had great skin, and of course, dark hair. Nothing wrong with that combo.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:39 PM
Guess we know where the missing $ 6 billion went. Dude, lot better things to blow that on rather than the Astros.
Fah-Q.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:39 PM
It really is vomitous, even to read.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:40 PM
Did they have upper lip hair? How about back of the neck hair?
June 15th, 2011 at 3:40 PM
Can he change them back to the Colt .45′s?
June 15th, 2011 at 3:40 PM
Did they have upper lip hair? How about back of the neck hair?
Haters gonna hate.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:41 PM
You can find a French Canadian at bilingual establishment. If you’re in Montreal and find yourself in a place that refuses to serve in English, you should get out of their quickly. Odds of you getting beaten and/or robbed go up exponentially in those places.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:43 PM
I came across quite a few in Maine. They always had dark hair, and they always had hair in places that girls shouldnt have hair.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:43 PM
If you’re in Montreal and find yourself in a place that refuses to serve in English, you should get out of their quickly. Odds of you getting beaten and/or robbed go up exponentially in those places.
Bingo.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:45 PM
No. Oddly enough, both had a beauty mark right about their lip. One had one by the other lips, too.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:46 PM
It’s called a mole. I bet they had hair growing out of the mole, but they pluck it.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:46 PM
I came across quite a few in Maine. They always had dark hair, and they always had hair in places that girls shouldnt have hair.
Well obviously, that’s unacceptable. I’ve only met Americanized French Canadians. (Wow, the nationality description tri-fecta!) They knew what was up as far as where hair was allowed.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:48 PM
pretty please?
June 15th, 2011 at 3:48 PM
I’m guessing NFL did not approve of the images
Semi-NSFW
http://www.livingthepartylife.com/post/5585559282/friday-may-20-tits-official-miami-launch-at-club-play
Great club name though.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:48 PM
CJ were you here the other day when TBL posted a video of Bradley Cooper doing an interview in french? So hot.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:50 PM
I watched that with my husband.. he stopped the video halfway through because I was drooling too much
June 15th, 2011 at 3:50 PM
It’s provincial policy to send the ugly chicks to Maine. They retain the pretty girls to keep the strip clubs stocked.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:51 PM
I laughed
June 15th, 2011 at 3:52 PM
I’ve only met Americanized French Canadians.
Define Americanized? I’m visualizing a steady fast food diet leading to excessive weight gain.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:54 PM
I’ll throw in with the pro-French Canadian girl camp. I’ve met two traveling around Europe, and in both cases, they were hot.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:55 PM
man would it suck to date a big fat guy/gal and have to get by by gawking at celebrity interviews.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:57 PM
Another Quebec travel tip. Do not, under any circumstances, assume that French Canadians are pacifists/surrender monkeys like their European cousins. In my experience, the militant francophone ones are constantly looking for a reason to fight the nearest ‘Anglo Bastard’. They fight dirty and they fight in packs.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:57 PM
This comment doesn’t even make sense.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:58 PM
saying it would suck to date a huge fatass doesn’t make sense? I disagree, but to each his or her own.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:59 PM
This comment doesn’t even make sense.
I was thinking the same thing? What’s it referring to?
June 15th, 2011 at 3:59 PM
When were we talking about dating a huge fatass?
June 15th, 2011 at 3:59 PM
Also do not wear Leafs gear in Quebec.
/may or may not have found that out the hard way
//I was young and stupid
June 15th, 2011 at 4:01 PM
Also do not wear Leafs gear in Quebec.
You are a brave soul.
June 15th, 2011 at 4:01 PM
I think he’s saying that CJ and I must be with fat, ugly guys because we “got off” to Bradley Cooper speaking in French?
June 15th, 2011 at 4:02 PM
all that means is that you have terrible taste in celebros.
/fagley cooper
June 15th, 2011 at 4:05 PM
You can get away with it if you’re actually in the Bell Centre. You’ll catch plenty of verbal amuse but most of it’s pretty light-hearted stuff. You can even talk shit back to them as long as you don’t throw around words like ‘Frog’. Wearing Leafs gear at a bar in Montreal is another story. I strongly advise against it.
June 15th, 2011 at 4:06 PM
Verbal amuse? That’s a new one. I’m retarded.
June 15th, 2011 at 4:06 PM
CJ likes short guys like Wes Welker, and I have no idea of SG’s taste in men.
June 15th, 2011 at 4:08 PM
and I have no idea of SG’s taste in men.
I don’t think that this has been established.
June 15th, 2011 at 4:10 PM
/scribbles vigorously in notebook
June 15th, 2011 at 4:11 PM
It’s not important. What IS important is that we shouldn’t “gawk” over any celebrities as this would indicate we’re dating unattractive overweight people.
June 15th, 2011 at 4:13 PM
It’s not important. What IS important is that we shouldn’t “gawk” over any celebrities as this would indicate we’re dating unattractive overweight people.
Ha! Well played SG.
June 15th, 2011 at 4:14 PM
and I have no idea of SG’s taste in men.
It’s not important.
Looks into crystal ball:
- must look like Bradley Cooper,
- must speak fluent French
- fin.
June 15th, 2011 at 4:23 PM
I once let a guy get to second base with me because he spoke to me in french. He could have been calling me a fat, ugly prude with bad breath but it sounded hot so he got to touch my bags o’ fat.
June 15th, 2011 at 4:25 PM
I once let a guy get to second base with me because he spoke to me in french. He could have been calling me a fat, ugly prude with bad breath but it sounded hot so he got to touch my bags o’ fat.
I enjoyed reading this thoroughly.
June 15th, 2011 at 4:29 PM
I did too, thanks SG. Any more stories?