www.foxnews.com/sports/pirates-paul-skenes-donate-100-gary-sinise-foundation-every-strikeout-this-season
Pirates' Paul Skenes to donate $100 to Gary Sinise Foundation for every strikeout this season
I pledge to donate $25,000,000 for every strike out I get this year in the MLB as well.
The Astros have a chance to do the funniest thing
You think those jokers could strike me out! It's on
The thing is drug_fueled_sarcasm, you have to play first base, it's not that hard though, tell em Reddit.
It’s extremely hard.
For you maybe
What about the fans?
They'll get hard
I'll keep boiling water to pull a rain delay.
I'm doing my part 🫡
I mean yeah, yur user name checks out, so that makes it worse?
What happens if you get in a Rookie of the Year (1993) situation?
I'll step in front of every pitch
I’ll match.
So hard
I will match as well.
“We’d like to offer you $25M to start this season.”
That’s it? I’m donating $25,000,001
This kid gets it. I hope he does well.
He got a 9.2 million dollar signing bonus last year and is dating Livvy Dunne. He could literally never throw a pitch again and still have done well lmao
Yeah but Baby Gronk rizzed up Livvy Dunne
I understood none of this
I assume you're as angry as I am
Fill me in, I wanna be angry too.
We don't understand any of this (except Livvy Dunne, we get that much)
Baby Gronk was a viral social media trend and is a legitimate college football prospect despite just being big for a little kid
He toured LSU for football purposes around the same time that “rizz” was becoming a popular slang term and around the same time that Livvy Dunne was reaching the level of fame she’s at today
So one thing led to another and there was an awkward video of them meeting and she hugged the kid and naturally that led to “Livvy rizzed up Baby Gronk” or “Baby Gronk rizzed up Livvy”
Because LSU used Livvy to try to get Gronk to commit
Bless you.
The honeypot is one of the oldest tricks in the book.
legitimate college football prospect
are we all on the same page as to what legitimate means?
I felt like I was having a stroke reading that and I’m kinda disappointed that I didn’t with the context. That is so fucking stupid.
No serious college program is giving tours to elementary schoolers. The kids parents have money and flaunt him around like a toy.
It’s from a meme. A recycled twitter post I think
Is it curtains for Zoosha?
Go yell at some clouds old man
“Well, 'aight, check this out, dawg. First of all, you throwin' too many big words at me, and because I don't understand them, I'm gonna take 'em as disrespect.”
Watch your mouth... and help me with this sale.
Aim high Wilis!
I heard it was the other way around
Oh shit fr? Right after K-smog and Batboy got caught flipping a grunt?
Truth
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damn that’s crazy fr, imagine if livvy was a college athlete too tho🤔
It's kinda relative tho. An injured deGrom just pulled a 100M+ contract.
If he stays healthy he could make 500m over his career.
How fucking generous of him to donate a max of what… 50k if he sets the new MLB record for Ks in a season? This type is media attention for 50k MAX? Make it 1000 per strikeout and i still wouldn’t give a shit this greedy bastard is a nasty representative of the league
dude.... what are the other new rookie call up pitchers donating? stfu and get out of here. the kid is 21 years old and has ten million dollars. I've just graduated college and I am almost certain that if most of my fellow grads had 10 mill in the bank they wouldn't be donating any of it.
Very smart. Really rooting for this guys. He was so good at LSU.
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Well, with your big nuts the two of you must have made quite the couple.
I bet they looked like a great pair hanging out.
🤨
Also GEAUX TIGERS
Who, Gary or Paul? Isn’t Gary on here sometimes?
Nearly appropriate username.
Baseball wrong. Man with four balls cannot walk.
Saw Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band summer of 2008 for Mandatory Fun in Navy school. Dude seemed cool as fuck
You said Mandatory Fun and my brain instantly wondered when Gary toured with Weird Al.
Now I have Weird Al’s “Gump” stuck in my head.
Good on him. I can't find a reason to not like this guy.
All these people bitching that it's so little to donate. You don't know if he makes any other charitable donations on top of that. Meanwhile these arm chair commenter's probably live in mom's basement and donate jack crap.
And it’s every strikeout
Has an incentive value and will garner more attention for the cause.
How many is he projected to throw this season?
He struck out 7 over 4 and he was meh that start and also on a pitch limit. As we get deeper into the season I could see 10 being low for him. He has absolutely nasty stuff and I hope he never has major injuries in his career.
Okay calm a bit... 10 Ks per game is an insane number.
7-8/game is what we should hope for.
Like they said, he had 7 over 4-5 innings in his MLB debut. It’s perfectly reasonable to assume that he’s only going to get better… and once he does the Pirates will trade him, lest they actually become good for more than 2-3 weeks per season.
I'm a pirates fan lol
I watched his game.
10 Ks per game mean you're getting 10/18 batters to strike out per game assuming you pitch 6 innings.
That's just not reasonable. It will happen when he does get 10+ in a game.
But the highest EVER K/9 rate is 14.2 (77 innings) then the next is 13.8
So to get 10Ks per game he'd have to pitch 6 innings and average the highest ever strikeout rate in MLB history.
He's good. But let's keep it to realistic numbers.
As a pirates fan I look forward to trading him for a handful of nickels (Nutting should disappear and let someone who wants to win take over the franchise)
If you don't strikeout against him you hate veterans
At least 1
The BALLS on him(to preform difficult Strikeouts on the toughest competition he’s ever faced yet...)
For a day 1 Pro Starter to say this shows generously, character, drive, commitment.
What a class act.
He threw 7 Strikeouts in 4 innings his 1st day in the Pros.
$700 dollars to help people the day he arrived just like that
$700 dollars
My dude, what do you think the dollar sign stands for?
They don't even let him bat, how will he strike out?
Does 100 seem low or do i have no idea how many strikeouts occur in a season
I'm not that well versed with baseball but I'd guess he pitches about 30 games and in those average around 5 strikeouts so 30x5x100=15000.
I donate $1,000 to the Gary Busey foundation for everyone of my hat tricks in old man hockey league.
The Gary Sinise Foundation is a good choice.
I’d like to see him pledge for every walk…
Money for each walk, make yourself look shitty, get shit canned and no more earning potential.
Money for each strikeout, make yourself look great, get a shitload more earning potential.
I wonder which has the better motivation.
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That’s just going to be an internal fine with his pitching coach
How Piratey! (don’t trust a swashbuckling man)
Alright. This kid needs to be in the bigs already. Heck, even if he is limited to 5 innings for a few weeks.
He is currently in their starting rotation and made his debut on Saturday with 7 strikeouts over 4 innings, allowing 3 run on 6 hits.
He struck out the first batter he faced, and I believe 2 of his 7 were in the first inning.
Lieutenant Dan!
That's awesome! u/GarySiniseOfficial is a great dude.
Gary Sinise’s foundation about to be like Paul Newman’s foundation.
If you guys want to talk in a Gary Sinise voice, the trick is to just talk with your teeth touching. Try it, it's fun.
This guy is going to be broke lol.
I pledge to donate $1 for every cake i eat this year
Good man
That's a perverse incentive! He should be giving a hundred bucks for every batter he doesn't strike out.
Actually, wait, then he's incentivizing himself to screw wounded veterans out of money. Okay, he should steal $100 from every batter he strikes out and give it to Gary Sinise. There we go, that's the plan, we'll figure out the details later.
Very cool. I always find it bizarre that Gary Sinise supports politicians that vote to cut funding for veterans.
Why do wealthy people and corporations make games out of donating money to charity. Just give them the effin money! And don't post about it either.
Because it raises awareness.
I don't disagree that those with the means should just do it. But I also don't see a problem with making it a 'challenge' like Skenes has done here. It increases awareness for the charity and can potentially add a hell of a lot more to the incoming donations with that kind of publicity.
A single large donation creates an article for a short period of time. This allows the charity to talk about the donations throughout the season and can be used to get more donations.
No good deed goes unpunished. As proven by all the donation shaming that goes on when a rich person tries to do something nice when they don’t have to do anything at all.
Well it’s proportional, say he strikes out 270 this season, and assuming he took home 3 million of his signing bonus after tax etc, that’s equivalent to someone who makes 60k donating 54$.
Now 27k is a lot of money, and it will help people, but it’s not a lot to him.
This is still an asinine comment and take on the situation. For starters, he still has a life and family to take care of; it’s his money and he is earning it; he could blow out his shoulder and never play again and he should be responsible with his money; you don’t know what other charitable causes he donates to;
But finally, this sort of publicity can be invaluable. The ALS ice bucket challenge raised 220 million dollars and thst was also propelled to viral status from a college baseball player and some other Joe schmos. This could be a trend that catches on with other pitchers.
This is still an asinine comment and take on the situation. For starters, he still has a life and family to take care of; it’s his money and he is earning it; he could blow out his shoulder and never play again and he should be responsible with his money; you don’t know what other charitable causes he donates to;
Absolutely, but there are people who will never even sniff 3 million in lifetime earnings. So most people wouldn’t feel bad for him if he only made 3 million and had to work a normal job.
But finally, this sort of publicity can be invaluable. The ALS ice bucket challenge raised 220 million dollars and thst was also propelled to viral status from a college baseball player and some other Joe schmos. This could be a trend that catches on with other pitchers.
Or we could not rely on the whims of millionaires and just tax them more and fund it adequately.
Or we could not rely on the whims of millionaires and just tax them more and fund it adequately.
Ok then how much is enough? I see people say this all the time but never actually have a specific solution. Rich people already pay the majority of taxes as it is.
Also, rich people have most of their wealth tied up in stocks and real estate. They don't just have millions of dollars chilling in their bank account. How do you tax someone on stocks that haven't been sold yet? Those stocks are constantly changing in value.
Let's say you tax someone on their stock that's worth $2 mill, then the very next day the stock tanks and is only worth $250k. Do they get that tax money back? This is why we wait until they sell the stock to tax (capital gains tax).
The fact of the matter is most rich people have little actual income on paper, and their wealth is from illiquid assets.
Ok then how much is enough? I see people say this all the time but never actually have a specific solution. Rich people already pay the majority of taxes as it is.
The 400 billionaires in the United States pay an average tax of 8.2 percent. Meanwhile the average American taxpayer pays 13%.
Also, rich people have most of their wealth tied up in stocks and real estate. They don't just have millions of dollars chilling in their bank account. How do you tax someone on stocks that haven't been sold yet? Those stocks are constantly changing in value.
And they do this to avoid paying taxes. They invest and make money on the backs of society but then can’t pay taxes on it because it’s busy making money.
The fact of the matter is most rich people have little actual income on paper, and their wealth is from illiquid assets.
Then that’s why you tax wealth as well.
Taxing the rich is a completely separate issue entirely. But for the record I agree that we need to tax the wealthiest Americans more.
That said, the Gary Sinise foundation could actually be fully funding with our current tax dollars considering our military budget is approaching 1 trillion. We just need that military budget to actually go toward the personnel that are serving or have served instead of toward missiles and private sector contracts.
It’s not really though, Paul skeens shouldn’t have to donate his money to fund the Gary Sinise Foundation, he should be taxed enough to fund it.
Yes. I agree with that…
But you’re focusing on the military budget yet ignoring the fact that the 300 billionaires in the USA pay a lower percentage of tax than the average tax payer.
It’s not about percentages and equivalencies of what he has vs what he’s giving away. At the end of the day the charity would have $27,000 more than it did. And that money goes a lot further than the $54 a person making $60k makes. You are trying to make a false equivalency. One is $27k the other is $54. It’s not the same. Absolutely nuts that you think you should dictate how another person spends their money.. and then when they DO donate people like you cry it’s not enough.
Now if you wanted to bitch and complain about corporate charity events where they match with purchases and it’s all a big tax break scheme where companies spend s 10x marketing their contribution compared to what they donate that’s one thing. This is a private citizen. Just try and be a better more positive human, how bout that?
It’s not about percentages and equivalencies of what he has vs what he’s giving away. At the end of the day the charity would have $27,000 more than it did. And that money goes a lot further than the $54 a person making $60k makes. You are trying to make a false equivalency. One is $27k the other is $54. It’s not the same. Absolutely nuts that you think you should dictate how another person spends their money.. and then when they DO donate people like you cry it’s not enough.
But if he was taxed an extra million dollars we could fund 10 charities and not rely on Paul Skeens deciding to donate.
Now if you wanted to bitch and complain about corporate charity events where they match with purchases and it’s all a big tax break scheme where companies spend s 10x marketing their contribution compared to what they donate that’s one thing. This is a private citizen. Just try and be a better more positive human, how bout that?
If you think Paul isn’t claiming this on his taxes to pay less then I have a bridge to sell you.
Fucking awesome! Oh wait nevermind it’s not cool unless you give all of your money to charity. God I hate people
Hopefully Gary doesn't use the money to fund The Sound of Freedom 2
ERA to spike at 10 this season...
So will i
$100? Cheap bastard. Thought he loved veterans? Hypocrite! Overrated!
As shitty as it sounds I don't donate much. I don't have discretionary income for it to do always respond to the very nice newsletter and donation request to the GS foundation each year. Seems like a legitimately well-intended cause
11 amazing Ks against the Cubs tonight
Paul Skenes break MLB record of walk allowed!
This is from March...
And he just happened to have his first start in the Majors on Saturday… you didn’t HAVE to comment, you could have easily cruised on by.
Yes, it is from March. But it’s good to revisit it since the kid made his first major league start this past weekend.
America #FuckYeah
Kinda seems low but I guess it’s something.
Yay another feel good story with awesome people doing amazing things that should really just piss you off that we treat our veterans and first responders like shit so that they need charity like this.
Why not just donate it without conditions?
Gary Sinise has to rely on strikeouts?
Because this likely creates more awareness.
Why complain about a good deed?
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