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5 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Would your boss let you miss months to get your personal life in order?  

This is a really unfair parallel to draw for a number of reasons.

For one, I can do my job when I'm not in peak physical performance.  I remember going through a bad breakup in my mid 20s and having trouble eating and sleeping and thinking to myself if I was a professional athlete I wouldn't be able to perform.  It seems plausible Eduardo is having similar issues.

My job also wouldn't guarantee me a 5 year contract worth 80 million because I'm not that valuable.

Lastly, I know for a fact that my job would offer me significant PAID time off for bereavement and other personal issues.  And my direct bosses would almost certainly bend over backwards to help me with something like that, as I've seen them do for others. 

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38 minutes ago, Pickles said:

This is a really unfair parallel to draw for a number of reasons.

For one, I can do my job when I'm not in peak physical performance.  I remember going through a bad breakup in my mid 20s and having trouble eating and sleeping and thinking to myself if I was a professional athlete I wouldn't be able to perform.  It seems plausible Eduardo is having similar issues.

My job also wouldn't guarantee me a 5 year contract worth 80 million because I'm not that valuable.

Lastly, I know for a fact that my job would offer me significant PAID time off for bereavement and other personal issues.  And my direct bosses would almost certainly bend over backwards to help me with something like that, as I've seen them do for others. 

Great response! Nailed it. 

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55 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

If he really left the team to try to save his marriage or something, she must be one hell of a woman in order to ditch a $77 million salary and go AWOL.  

Maybe he's thinking about the kids too.  (Assuming he has some).

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1 hour ago, Moose Milligan said:

If he really left the team to try to save his marriage or something, she must be one hell of a woman in order to ditch a $77 million salary and go AWOL.  

I know you are being facetious but I'm guessing it's more than just his wife, probably a more socially acceptable way of saying he's going through some real mental health problems that obviously affect his marriage and his wife (mental health problems also typically come with relationship problems, so it's logical from that point of view, too)...it's easier to put it down to family issues than mental health issues, especially coming from a Latin American culture. 

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11 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

Maybe he's thinking about the kids too.  (Assuming he has some).

I mean, who knows what’s happening?   I don’t feel I have any real basis to comment based on the limited information available.  I just hope everything turns out ok.

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I mean, who knows what’s happening?   I don’t feel I have any real basis to comment based on the limited information available.  I just hope everything turns out ok.

Right.  

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