Admin Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 http://www.kansascity.com/sports/mlb/kansas-city-royals/article127016599.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerhead Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Terrible. Poor dude. Losing two family members in less than two years. Prayers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerhead Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Terrible. He's been through a lot. Curse of the fish? His dad died when he was a Royal. Life in DR is just rough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 His dad died when he was a Royal. Life in DR is just rough. I guess they want to stay there, but barring that, he has the money to get his family over here, I wonder why he doesn't, just for safety's sake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el_gmac Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 FUBAR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Probably because for 1/5 the cost his family can live like kings in the DR. Yeah, probably. Blah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Or it's his money and he doesn't need to support his entire family. Up to him. I wouldn't float my entire family. My life. My skill. My work. My money. Nah, I get that. I wouldn't float them either but definitely move them to a safer place. IDK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverBullet Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 He doesn't have to support his entire family but this was his brother. That's immediate family. If I was rich I'd do enough to protect my parents and my siblings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverBullet Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 You're a kind person [uSER=2328]@SilverButthole[/uSER]. Would you be willing to help your brother throughout his life even though he is able bodied and capable of sustaining himself? What if he became a parasite because you were always helping? Does that become your fault for enabling him or his fault for being a parasite? Do you think it will matter to your conscience? Helping family is great. I do it all the time, but I will never help financially. It's a dark path and no one wins. What an overanalysis. Nobody is saying Volquez needs to be writing checks to his family every two weeks. All he had to do was pay to get his brother living in the United States. Buy him a small place to live here and then let him on his own after that but at least he'd be out of whatever was dangerous to him in the Dominican Republic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollythewog Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 He doesn't have to support his entire family but this was his brother. That's immediate family. If I was rich I'd do enough to protect my parents and my siblings. how do you know he doesnt? his brother was out at 3am at a club and was in a fight when he got stabbed. That isn't unique to the DR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverBullet Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 So Volquez, or any wealthy athlete or celebrity from a place of poverty should just keep their earnings to themselves and not do something to help their immediate families? And yes polly I don't know if Volquez was or wasn't helping his family, I was just making a point based on what was already spoken about in this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverBullet Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 They can do what they want with their own money. That's my thing. I don't think he should take any heat for not bringing his brother or family over and setting him up. That's not his responsibility no matter how wealthy he becomes. That's fair, you have your reasons and they're valid because I know they're true. For the record, my brother IS a parasite. I also don't think Volquez is really getting any heat over this either, I think we were all just thinking out loud about how any of these people can help their families if it all. My mom is also Dominican so I can tell you they aren't at the bottom of the totem pole either. There are ways to live decently over there without having to be the richest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piazza31 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Or it's his money and he doesn't need to support his entire family. Up to him. I wouldn't float my entire family. My life. My skill. My work. My money. Your Grief. Your Heartache. Your Perogative. If they all lived stateside, yeah fuck that, but in a country like th eDR, bring em here, hope they learn a skill to sustain themselves,and if not send them back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piazza31 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 For the record, I've helped friends monetarily and family. Money comes and goes but if I can help them by relieving some stress from the burden of bills or money I won't hesitate. Granted its not someone I've known for only a year or two- I'll help. My theory with it is, give em help, dont say a word anymore about it. They know they owe me, let guilt get them to pay me back, or let them run away. I've yet to have someone not pay me back, even when I lent a friend $5500, he paid me back with cash four months later, and there was never a doubt in my mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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