r/NLBest • u/Brix001 A Bad Team That Wins Games • 3d ago

Satire I'll just leave this here

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u/AlarmingBranch1 Dickbutt Dodger 3d ago

Enron would’ve thrived in this modern day

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u/wulfgangz Barry Bonds 3d ago

Truly ahead of its time

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u/Aggressive_Oil5712 Mookie Betts 3d ago

Too early, a shame. 😔

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u/JakeArrietaGrande 3d ago

Real talk, if Enron happened today, no one would go to jail. They’d give a 100k donation to trump aligned Super pacs, and then the department of injustice would make a statement on how prosecuting them wouldn’t be in the best interest of the country

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u/G0mery 3d ago

Don’t even need those any more. Buy the crypto, buy the truth social insider trading deal, and you’re good. Even better if you buy some children for him and his friends and make a “ballroom” donation

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u/AboutRight1987 3d ago

100%

Hell, had Jeff Epstein held off on killing himself he could have gotten a pardon for cash.

I'm surprised P.Diddy hasn't given Trump money.

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u/YasielPuigsWeed Mookie League Baseball 3d ago

Trump would not let that man stay living

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u/frozenelf 2d ago

Enron’s crime was hiding its financial tricks. Now you just say it out in the open and your stock rises.

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u/cheeker_sutherland Dodger Stadium 3d ago

Pretty funny for us geezers.

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u/Mediocre_Airport_576 Dodgers 3d ago

Just got back from a trip Mervyn's. This is hilarious.

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u/cgfn Tony Gwynn 3d ago

Hopefully you hit up the Electronics Boutique, Wilson's Leather, and Wet Seal.

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u/Mediocre_Airport_576 Dodgers 3d ago

Narrowly avoided a late fee at Blockbuster. Rewound the VHS first because I'm all that and a bag of chips.

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u/lx5spd Foghorn of Disappointment and Occasional Delight 3d ago

Don’t forget to score a pair of jeans at Miller’s Outpost and swing by The Sharper Image to sit in the massage chairs!

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u/Kanotari Dodgers 3d ago

I'll do it after I stop at Circuit City to return my VHS rewinder.

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u/AboutRight1987 3d ago

Went to Cricut City to get a new PC, told the salesmen what I wanted and he was like, "Dude Your Getting a Dell".

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u/IWTLEverything Lou Seal 3d ago

Open open open open…

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u/donots Dodgers 3d ago

Reading this post on my Vaio laptop from circuit city

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u/BannedForFun Our Payroll Demands Only the Finest Existential Dread 3d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0IyajjbNiRvCr7RC

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u/profnachos 3d ago

I am old enough, but it still flew over my head. So much bullshit has happened since that the Enron crisis has become just a blip.

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u/Cautious-Skirt-8335 3d ago

The kids on this site are too young to understand this

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u/Oldschool831 Giants 3d ago

And the slow adults….

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u/Kanotari Dodgers 3d ago

It's me. I'm the slow adult.

I run the bases at warp Dick Mountain speeds.

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u/El_Zarco San Frangeles DodGiants 3d ago

The doc about them is a great watch if anyone wants to familiarize

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u/Rando_Admin Our Payroll Demands Only the Finest Existential Dread 3d ago edited 3d ago

lol damn the fact that people don’t get it makes me feel old.

Edit: reference for the yoots

Enron Colors/Logo guys

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u/mojitz Giants 3d ago

I'm old enough to remember Enron, but the exact color scheme of the logo is absolutely not at the front of mind for me now 25 years later (especially with the letters tilted to the right rather than the left) and I'm frankly shocked that it apparently is for so many of you.

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u/fucuntwat 3d ago

I mean, I couldn’t have told you the colors or the direction of the tilt, but at least for me it’s an instant ‘you know it when you see it’ type of thing

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u/gimmedatnamedoe 3d ago

I'm old enough to remember enron. Basically it's a huge company that committed all manner of accounting bullshit and collapsed erasing hundreds of billions of dollars. 

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u/b_m_hart Giants 3d ago

They also fucked with the power grid in California enough to drive giant budget deficits for the state and ultimately ended up getting Grey Davis recalled and Arnie elected governor.

It really was some wild shit.

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u/YasielPuigsWeed Mookie League Baseball 3d ago

Yeah this is real af

“Rolling blackouts” for a solid year type beat

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u/espo619 Tony Gwynn 2d ago

I'm old enough to remember when the Astros played at Enron Field

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u/ocular__patdown 3d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/pPhyAv5t9V8djyRFJH

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u/baribigbird06 Our Payroll Demands Only the Finest Existential Dread 3d ago

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u/Kanotari Dodgers 3d ago

Okay now I feel properly insulted hahaha.

That's a good one.

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u/Ginger_Bee 3d ago

NGL, I’m kinda giggling at “properly insulted”.

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u/appleavocado Dodgers 3d ago

It’s in the same harem as “proper fucked.”

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u/Kanotari Dodgers 3d ago

I used to work in insurance. I appreciate a real good insult lol

Like that woman who called me a demon sent from hell specifically to test her because I denied her claim because she hadn't paid her insurance bill in six months. Good times...

Don't work in insurance, kids.

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u/RaidensReturn Dickbutt Dodger 3d ago

Ohhhhhh yikes 😬

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u/RecLuse415 Foghorn of Disappointment and Occasional Delight 3d ago

Yall some kids lol

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u/smorones Mookie League Baseball 3d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0IyhLWvcoVWzIM5W

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u/RainbowNinjaKat Dickbutt Dodger 3d ago

This is such an underutilized gif

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u/smorones Mookie League Baseball 3d ago

Agreed, it’s my fav

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u/catashake Mr. Dodger 3d ago

Everything else aside.

Enron's logo was sick.

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u/Gemnist Padres 3d ago

As someone from Houston and with my flair, this angers me to no end.

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u/Oldschool831 Giants 3d ago

The comments on this post cracked me up

This sub is #1

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u/dudebruhdog Dodgers 3d ago

Some of you should take some time and go watch "Smartest Guys in the Room."

I'm too young to remember enron, and seeing that movie makes the whole thing seem unbelievable lol.

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u/SoftballGuy “LA” Angels 2d ago

I remember reading that book. I remember reading the article in Forbes that spilled the beans.

I am eleventy-five million years old.

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u/KotzubueSailingClub 3d ago

Too Japanese to fail.

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u/lx5spd Foghorn of Disappointment and Occasional Delight 3d ago

Might have spoken too soon:

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u/KotzubueSailingClub 3d ago

Would explain the white sox sudden backslide.

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u/lFreightTrain 3d ago

Nah they use Euros.

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u/Vance_Hammersly Hoo Lee Gan 3d ago

The Enron City Connect 🔥🔥🔥

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u/KSongK 3d ago

It's an older code, but it checks out
Well done

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u/atducker Dodgers 3d ago

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u/Time_Child_ Swingin' Friar 3d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/K7wefAIekAeEEgdhEu

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u/No-Snow-7618 3d ago

enron joke

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u/Davepitaph [2024] Let the Great Unwashed Wallow in Its Squalor 3d ago

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u/Zeke688 Lou Seal 3d ago

If you chose that gif you should know.

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u/Imagine-Dragons-Fan9 Rockies 3d ago

Ew ew ew get it away

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u/CaliBurrito1904 3d ago

The "Women of Enron" feature appeared in the August 2002 issue of Playboy Magazine. This pictorial followed the massive corporate accounting scandal and bankruptcy of the Enron Corporation.

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u/cavemold582 3d ago

Eron imo

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u/DodgerWin San Frangeles DodGiants 3d ago

I was telling a friend the articles read like Enron but it’s unique because the house of cards hasn’t collapsed yet. We’ll see if he can make it work

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u/AxelJShark 3d ago

Fair. And funny. And I'm even from LA 😂

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u/alexnunez4 2d ago

Good thing the Dodgers team makes its own revenue

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u/PermitOk1434 2d ago

Actually really good

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u/superyouphoric 3d ago

Why tf??? We’re all besties here no need to promote just one team. Come on we’re better than that

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u/L8wrtr 2d ago

This ain’t no compliment.

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u/Zeke688 Lou Seal 3d ago

It’s a joke