zach
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Couldn't have happened to a better person.
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Curt Schilling's 38 Studios Lays Off All Staff, Things Looking Bleak
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Frow
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Meh blaming the Governor for scaring off potential investors. When your poor business practices put a huge burden on an entire state and your employees wake up one day to find out they didn't get a check and have lost their health insurance I don't think that really screams "invest in me!"
Frow
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http://deadspin.com/5916674/curt-sc...es-for-bankruptcy-faces-federal-investigation
Not much of a surprise, officially filed for bankruptcy and under investigation.
Not much of a surprise, officially filed for bankruptcy and under investigation.
fsulevine
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With everything Schilling speaks about fiscal responsibility and other GOP talking points, he WREAKS of HYPOCRISY, almost... almost as much as the Paul Ryan budget... okay, well not "almost", but it does wreak a ton of hypocrisy. But the Paul Ryan budget is about as hypocritical as a homophobic priest convicted of molesting 1,000 altar boys.
George_Calfas
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notjomommasclint
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I'm sorry people lost their jobs and money.. I'm not sorry curt is going to suffer. He is a miserable **** sucker and I hope he ends up as the front man for a game of leap frog in a rhode island prison.
HPC
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In an interview with WEEI, Schilling states he lost approximately "$50 million dollars" of his own money and is basically now broke and is hoping to return to ESPN as soon as possible.
"While he conceded that he ''absolutely'' was part of the reason the company failed, he said public comments made by Chafee last month questioning the firm's solvency were harmful as the firm tried -- but failed -- to raise private capital to stay afloat."
"While he conceded that he ''absolutely'' was part of the reason the company failed, he said public comments made by Chafee last month questioning the firm's solvency were harmful as the firm tried -- but failed -- to raise private capital to stay afloat."
schillingfan
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What a mess. While I loved him as an athlete, he's really made a mess of his personal life since retiring from baseball. I guess this is why he auctioned off his entire memorabilia collection a year ago with Hunt Auctions.
VizquelCollector.com
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I was eating a cookie and that got me laughing/coughing/choking and I spit parts of it out onto my desk. That was damn funny and I wish there was a thanks button.
Schilling (apparently unwisely) invested tens of millions of his own dollars in this company. I feel bad for him, his family, and the workers he hired. To think that Schilling somehow shafted all the people he hired is pretty unfair. He didn't go in trying to lose $50 million of his own money and have these people lose their jobs.
mchenrycards
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I agree with this. The company he started was a start-up software gaming company. I think we all know how the majority of those companies end up and I am pretty sure the employees also entered into their employment knowing the same thing. While it is sad they lost their jobs, if they didnt realize this could happen because of the nature of their business then they just have not been paying attention to the gaming software market.
Jack Straw
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I figured he was smarter than this? What could his gig at ESPN possibly pay him?
Frow
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Saying people should expect that they would wake up one day and suddenly realize their health benefits are being shut off after they rush to the hospital for treatment and then find out they aren't being paid for work that had been doing when the check suddenly doesn't hit the bank account both with no notice, is the most idiotic and ridiculous thing I've heard today. When you enter into a contract of employee the expectation is that you as employee don't screw around and they as an employer pay you for your work. On top that to expect this to happen 3 months after your fairly successful product is released is even sillier.
When you look at the lineup this studio had with executives from AOL/Comcast/EA, R.A. Salvador, Todd MacFarlane, Ken Rolston, and not to mention purchasing Big Huge Games the creates or Rise of Nations and Age of Empires IIII: TAD can you not think of any safer company to start with.
PujolsCollector
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I can not believe people are mad at Schilling for this. Obviously he put a lot of time and money into this project and comes out with nothing. He tried to create jobs and help out the economy. The project failed now Schilling is broke and is looking to move on insted of putting himself in debt and plunking more money into an already failing studio.
notjomommasclint
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I bet if he weren't lecturing people on spending, chiding handouts while receiving a big one, up front with his staff, and not such a peckerhead in general people might have sympathy for him.. Me? I hope he gets fired from espn and ends up jobless, homeless, and hairless by 6pm
