The skit that “missed the mark” occurred in a break in play during the second quarter of Charlotte’s game against the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday. The child was brought onto the court with Hugo, the Hornets’ mascot, dressed as Santa Claus. After a letter to Santa requesting a PS5 was read out loud, a cheerleader came out with a bag containing the video game console.
The young fan was visibly overjoyed as he received the pricy gift. However, according to an online acquaintance, he was less happy when the cameras turned off and a Hornets staffer took it away, replacing it with a jersey.
The skit that “missed the mark” . . .
Quit sucking up to corporate America, yahoo sports writer. The Hornets farked up a simple PR event in every way it was possible TO fark up. They baited and switched a PS5 with a t-shirt and thought no one would find out about it.
And they have so damn much money that giving him the PS5 would have been like you or me flicking a penny to the kid.
People suck sometimes, I swear.
Sometimes?
No offense, but that’s the wrong take here. “People” (as in The People, or the majority) didn’t do this, a giant 3 billion dollar organization did. Sure, it’s composed of people, but this is unregulated capitalism run amok…
Nah. There was a meeting of actual humans who got together and decided to trick a child hoping no one would notice. Said meeting likely cost more than the said console did in salaries, too.
Edited to clarify. Most people wouldn’t do this. Get a group of randos off the street and they wouldn’t do this to a child.
I just think we shouldn’t shield these evil people by pretending it’s “the business” doing it. It’s humans. Really really shitty humans, but they made the decision to do this to a kid, on camera, thinking it wouldn’t immediately backfire in this age of social media.
So not only are they assholes, but also fucking stupid.
Certain headlines get really funny if you pretend sports don’t exist.
Or, in my case for this particular situation, if you are a foreigner and are missing a lot of context for American Sports.
The writer of this article is definitely a hornet.
The skit that “missed the mark”
What fucking cheapskates.
Do they make their players turn out their pockets after each game in case they picked up some loose change off the ground too? Lol
I bet the price of that console was going to break their bank.
I mean I would get it if they had an empty box out on the court for the show, and then having to take away the empty show box… But they gave the kid a jersey instead? Wtf?
I don’t understand how what you’re describing is better. If you make the kid think he’s just gotten a PS5 then to take it away is incredibly cruel. Giving him a jersey is just insult cherry on the shameful cake. Unless I am misunderstanding what you’re proposing?
Pretty sure they are saying use an empty box on the court (lighter, no risk of breaking), and then take away the empty box afterwards (implied to give them an actual, not-empty box afterwards).
Ooooh. I definitely didn’t get that implication and thought the same as the commenter above. Couldn’t figure out how that’d be understandable lol.
I think they meant like theyd still give em a ps5 it just wouldn’t have been in the box on camera.
Sorry yeah I’m missing a whole ass sentence there haha… As bork picked up, once off the court, take the empty box and replace with the full box.
Ahhh I think I get it now
PlayStations?
Children.
I thought that was still ongoing, what with all the school shootings
Still a work in progress. Christian School recently, so I guess Bibles and the ten commandments in the classroom doesn’t stop anything. Who would have thought?
That’s fucked up.
Goddamn hornets, this is why everyone prefers bees
Speak for yourself. Bees are an invasive species given an unfair advantage through their alliance with humanity. If they aren’t native to an area, they are a pest that competes with local pollinators and drives them toward extinction
Bees did nothing wrong
But why just speak for yourself when you could speak for everyone?
You’re welcome!
describes every domesticated animal
free roaming domesticated animals are a pest on the ecosystems, but we do european bees on a completely different scale
European bees wouldn’t be as big of a problem if people didn’t tear down native shrubs and import European plants. Plant native! Garden wild! Stop using pesticides!
Stingy.
They’re Hornets. Being stingy bastards is in the name!
wait what? did they go back to the store and ask for a refund on the PS5, lol… someone was like “that is fine we will just apologize and save a couple hundred bucks!”
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Man, I wish I had gone to your school.
I would have went back to school the next day and the kids would have presented me with two broken PS2s taped to a broken PS1 and giggled while singing, “I love your PS5, it makes me holler! Where’d you git it, Family Dollar?!”
Fat kid in the background with a Taz tattoo on one arm and a confederate flag on the other (at the ripe old age of 10) would have shouted, “LIKE HIS SHOES! AHAHAHAHAHA!”
Then the kids would start stabbing each other over whether Ford or Chevy trucks are better.
Shit, we didn’t even need an argument to stab each other.
I’ve still got bits of pencil broken off in my limbs from school.
Haha me too.
And Greg. I stabbed Greg in the leg. I bet he grits his teeth and thinks about me every time he takes a shit.
I grit my teeth and think about Tim every time I notice the graphite in my hand.
He on the sex offender registry now though…so he’s worse off than me with his knocking on doors to inform his neighbors he’s a sex pest everywhere he goes ass.
Haha, you live around here?
Might have to get more specific. For example, I recall a trailer park pinecone war that pitted kids from one half of the trailer park against those low-life bastards from the other half. I’m from the good half, obviously.
Ooooh I got one better! My bunch had a chestnut shell war that pitted kids from one holler against another holler (hollow, but properly pronounced. :p). The smallest kid was captured and thrown into a pile of chestnut shells and kicked around until he was bloody from head to toe after the two groups formed an alliance against the weakest member.
That kid today is covered in tattoos from head to toe that look like a kindergartener drew all over him. Folks call him Gump. He is all sorts of messed up.
I ran when it started and the next day I heard, “Look at sissy over ‘ere. He ain’t got no scabs ‘cause he ran away like a lil queer!”
Edit: Was making the comment about Tim the sex pest and remembered that Gump was on the registry too. Something about hillbillies and incest. Damn.
At my school everyone just casually used slurs like they were in a republican locker room
Ahh nostalgia for the simpler times. /s
Psych!
nice troll.
One of the comments about why
Yikes.
Unfortunately, this applies to 99% of people in power I know of, if they think they’ll get away with it, they’ll do it.
You don’t usually get into places of power by being thoughtful and considerate.
How would this commenter know that?
By having met her.
I mean surely it could be a lie but they just took away a PS5 from a kid…
what? lies? on the internet? why would anyone do such a thing.
I know, right? I’m human like you and totally not a dog
Ew, humans. snarls
Now I feel like I’m back on Reddit.
tips le fedora
No, that’s Red Hat, not Reddit. Easy to get them confused.
Source: trust me bro
It’s entirely plausible this person knows the lady in question.
You want Lemmy adoption… you get folks with stature in the machine sharing mundane recon… you don’t believe anything.
That’s a Reddit comment though.
Whoosh. Sorry, don’t follow. What do you mean?
The comment in the screen shot is Reddit, not Lemmy.
Look, I’m just engaging in critical thinking here. I don’t believe everything I read on the Internet especially since people love just making up random crap just so they can have a story to tell.
That’s fair. I try to do the same. But we suspend belief all the time to survive the shit. Let some light in whether proven and your day might be better 🤷
I might suggest that the kid got a nicer present in the form of a reason to file suit against the team for the embarrassment and emotional distress. Using the kid for a BS publicity stunt is not acceptable.
