There is an Illinois woman suing the Cardinals and Busch Stadium because someone was able to get the scoreboard operator to display a text message, during a game, that her daughter had a sexually transmitted disease.
While tragic that this all happened and irresponsible for whomever was operating the text scoreboard to allow that message to go "live", my question is this:
Roughly 45,000 MAY have seen this at that game. How many hundreds of thousands are reading about it in the newspapers across the Midwest and on MLB.com? Is this mother causing MORE damage to her daughter's life by dragging this out? Where should a parent draw that fine line?
Interesting moral dilemma, isn't it?
2007-11-09 17:06:52 · 11 answers · asked by pricehillsaint 5 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Wise up, Mike! It happened at a MLB game. There are quite a few parents AND teenagers on this site. What better place to openly discuss a serious issue? Not everything is that team sucks or this guy is hot!
2007-11-09 17:24:30 · update #1
...and the Mr. Sensitivity Award goes to Stephen R! Good luck getting a date on Y!A, Yahoo Personals, or anywhere else outside of prison. LOL
2007-11-09 17:45:14 · update #2
That's the entire point, Gene & Chip, is it about the money, is it about the girl's rights, is it to defend her honor, is it to recapture her innocence? Has the mother made matters worse by trying to doing what she thought was right.
2007-11-10 11:18:09 · update #3
I say shes making it worse. Now, like you said, everyones going to know about it, instead of the people at the game. Besides, if it was just at the game, not everyone might of believed it, ya know, just blow it off. But now that the moms suing, it drags more attention into it.
But I can see where the mom is coming from. It's her daughter. She doesn't want people demoralizing her daughter like that. She probably felt she needed to take action.
2007-11-09 17:15:22 · answer #1 · answered by McMoose--RIPYAHS 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
So what if it was displayed or not. There probably was a little code at the stadium that they use like at concerts. So who cares? The mom should be laughed out of court. It's not the Carindal's responsibility to police what people are doing. It could have been done as a joke which is really mean it could be true who knows? But I doube the score board operator had anything to do with it. In most cases it probably was one of the text messages that was able to make it to the scoreboard what we like to call first come first serve. The mom is going to lose.
2007-11-09 17:32:37 · answer #2 · answered by Steven R 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This is outstanding!! Now hundred of thousands of people know NOT to sleep with her. Maybe some good health will come of this. The mother should shut up and instead of worrying about Busch Stadium she should focus on her daughter as she is obviously having the time of her LIFE!!! The scoreboard did a lot of people a favor!! This one's a slam dunk easy answer.
2007-11-10 01:56:46 · answer #3 · answered by Legends Never Die 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The scoreboard display, from a different article, was:
"(Girl's name) has an STD! Eww!"
The article included only the initials, but the full name was displayed at Busch.
I'd say legal action is warranted.
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Edit: Unfortunate that this note has to be added, but -- and this is important -- the girl in question is reportedly clean and does not have, nor ever has had, any such infection.
The scoreboard message, therefore, was a public lie. Making this a libel suit. Big money in libel.
2007-11-09 22:19:25 · answer #4 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'd have to say I disagree. Once 45,000 people saw it, it was out. She is defending her family. I think I'd do the same.
In our high school a daffy old Latin teacher ran the scoreboard at the basketball games. For years he flashed a Latin sentence at the end of the game. One bright student figured out what it meant, and it was, well, off color. A little sex joke.
The school fired the guy. He had it coming. It was just so senselessly pointless to do and nothing good could come from it. That's the way I see your case. Once the student figured out the sentence, it was out. If I were a parent, I would NOT walk away from this one.
2007-11-09 19:36:53 · answer #5 · answered by Sarrafzedehkhoee 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The big question is were first and last names shown? If no names were shown, than how is anyone gonna know who its about? Even if a first name was shown, that's still not enough to identify someone.
2007-11-09 18:22:56 · answer #6 · answered by Buffalo1 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think she, and the cardinals should be ashamed, welcome to mty fan list, great hypothesis, anyway, i believe that that they are both at fault. Whoever allowed this tio happen should be fired, mother should have sued, and shouldnt have made it as big as it is, now i know, this daughter is a worldwide story, their goes her life down the tube!
2007-11-15 09:55:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A hard lesson for the young lady, not a moral dilemma.
2007-11-10 02:36:17 · answer #8 · answered by salisbury59 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the mother should just let it go, she is only makeing things much worse for her family. maybe she should spend more time with her daughter and she wouldnt have these issues to deal with?
2007-11-09 18:08:35 · answer #9 · answered by Steve O 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
in response to ur last added detail whod want a date on a website whats your problem dude you asked a dumb question you got dumb answers whos fault is it really i say yours
2007-11-09 18:21:25 · answer #10 · answered by Steve 3 · 0⤊ 6⤋