WSL hit with new suit…
Are we witnessing the end of the WSL?
Rumors abound of pitches to sell.
Pipe in December a seemingly guaranteed no go.
The Stumble at the Ranch.
(Read Longtom’s “Niggling boredom, jarring resentment” here…)
And now, the death of all corporations, litigation.
ASP Holdings, LLC, aka the WSL, is currently being sued in federal court by Evanston Insurance Company.
Evanston and the WSL allegedly entered into an insurance contract in 2017 that covered Paul Speaker, Terrance Hardy, and Jonathan Miller in their capacities as Executives of the WSL.
Speaker, Hardy, and Miller were sued in 2017 over alleged actions stemming from Zosea’s acquisition of the WSL.
Evanston is seeking “a judicial declaration to the effect that the [policy] does not provide any coverage for a lawsuit captioned, Michael Barnes, et al. v. Zosea ASP Holdings.”
According to the complaint filed in June of this year, the WSL tried to invoke their insurance policy in the Barnes dispute.
At issue is the fact that the policy allegedly only covered WSL executives in their official duties.
The litigation was stayed pending completion of Barnes v. Zosea.
That suit was settled last month.
What will the WSL’s death rattle look like?
Kelly’s retirement?
Elo’s return to Oklahoma?
The shuttering of the Surf Ranch?
Ah, unfortunately, I lack sufficient knowledge on the subject to have any opinion.
Clearly the greatest photo placement/usage to go with a story on Beach Grit… great job as always Derek and Chas and the BG empire. Just one question, I hope someone can answer about the photo above… is that Elo on the left or on the right?
I’m the BG Legal Department; we, don’t as a matter of policy, think, unless Wiggs [WPS] (our minister of dis-information), leads the charge
After having carefully considered this case pro boner, I’ve come to a decision and I’m ready to rule.
A .06 percent positive return of 15,000 tested individuals unanimously renders the verdict in favor of the Goat.
All fees and court costs to be paid by Cunty kuntard
Court is now adjourned
Its not a real job get real no way no way
All smiles. Taste the smell of it, as it encapsulates you.
Brutus and Nick Carroll chip in and say they can fix the WSL , but dont.
What will the WSL commentators do when this thing shits itself? Real estate agents? Also, what the fuck is Strider doing in Bali with ‘his homies’ and is he a rapper? Teets for days
It doesn’t matter how it ends as long as when it does Joe Turpel is the one who delivers the news with a solemn report that “there will be no hopping on the ski to reset this time” while a single tear rolls down Pottz’s cheek in the background
This is too perfect.
Pottz’s was later heard saying that if they could have just rode out of that final floater on the inside and completed the wave the WSL would have made it through to the next round…
A perfect ending!
I like Quit Lit more than Lit* Lit.
*Litigation
But it was a good article so it could be said that the Lit Lit was Lit. Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.
Ahhh….a tripLit!
OKLAHOMA ,
ELO ‘s flying back and weeping on the plane .( or sweeping down the plain …. as in Nick Carroll’s tattoo …. My Brother’s Sweeper)
No waves to greet
And it smells like shit
When the wind comes right behind the rain …..
Rosa Luxemburg, prolly couldn’t have said it better.
Thanks Twillsy …. Way to much fun in great waves … must be a QS 1000 .
Just remember hipsters a contest is also a chance for the tribe , be it local or international , to congregate , surf , get pissed , talk shit and surf with only 4 blokes or ladies .Hell you my even get laid ….. with someone of the opposite/ or same sex ?
M. Ziff will decide the fate of the WSL no? There are sport owners globally that operate teams at a financial loss as vanity projects or hobbies and I imagine the budget of the WSL as a whole is a fraction of PSG, Juventus, Man Utd. or an F1 team.
WSL’s death rattle is M.Ziff not signing checks. As long as he is willing to do so the WSL survives.
I’m still waiting for the legal exposé of how Hurley strong-armed beachgrit to retract some frivolous gossip.
New Hurley or old under Bob Hurley ?
https://beachgrit.com/2020/…
It’s amazing how dark this comments section has become since those innocent February days
Plague and Politics perhaps ?
I had a nasty old female professor at Uni in France , and she said to me
“ James , it takes courage to be happy “….good advice , possibly , to one and all in these somewhat , insecure times .
Hurluley’s origin story seems lifetime ago huh?
It was a different epoch when lofty dreams of building lifestyle brand empires were possible.
If every year was new chapter of stuff akin to JJF at Margs “that one time”, then I would be missing the whole rattling mess, dearly.
Predictions for the next 12 months:
Kelly & Elo on a podcast together singing desperate praises as the engine wheezes its last, investors can be heard in the background lowering the lifeboats and singing dirges.
Instagram dedicates some effort to monetising various sports mini-stars al a YouTube channels.
‘Mick’ McaullyMcMcMcCulkin will undergo a harrowing surf chrysalis stage and emerge gaunt and shredding like a soft top corelord. He and JOB will do a vlog episode where they lay various boobytraps for people on the NS and Kai Borg ends up in hospital.
The Yeppoon Whomping Donut gets fixed again and mange’s to produce an evenly slightly bigger wave an Occy almost manages to properly stand up in a barrel before the whole thing cracks and falls into the lake. The holding company pulls the plug figuratively and turns it into a stocked jetski dynamite-fishing lake for wealthy Chinese tourists.
Schroff becomes an inspirational figure to several local shaping communities around the world and they band together, pool resources and create a unstoppable creative co-op which produces a hit musical based on maraschino cherries, chainsaws and disliking Latino place names.
Derek Reilly is invited to write Donald Trump’s biography and titillate Melania with cheeky innuendo.
You forgot to mention Hurluley’s pivotal role in propping up the careers of non-surfing surfers who play tennis
Ssssh!
I was waiting for the stock rollout announcement.
(I have no idea what that means, but it sounds good)
That I’d read.
or….. people will wake up and get back to business.
The Schroff part sounds inevitable
Kelly will catch the co-virus and after a 2 week quarantine at his Chinese adjacent girlfriends Hawaiian grandmother’s house he’ll be saved by his self administering of the last case of the only ever production run of purps.
His Chinese adjacent girlfriends Hawaiian grandmother won’t fare so well though…
(pssst, cos Kelly wouldn’t share his purps)
I’ll be honest it’s taken this ship longer to sink then I expected.
I believe Nick Carrol once write that Ziff’s wealth is so large that he can pay for the woozle indefinitely, without worry.
This makes me think he’s probably using it as a tax write-off.
Or maybe he really cares about the dreams of Caroline Marks and whoever else he mentioned in his embarrassing Waterman of the Year speech
Were you able to listen to it?
Oh he can. But there’s such a thing as momentum. It’s hard to know how many people have just switched off the whole idea in this long down time, and who would switch back on to it in a re-start. A more important q than this rather dreary lawsuit I suspect.
It’s all the dumb cunts that inflated their life jackets before exiting the vessel, with intent or not isn’t known.
I haven’t ruled out the possibility that we’re all being punk’d.
Ashton Kutcher is going to come flying out of the barrel at Lemoore any day now.
that`s what happens when you have tech billionaires with nothing better to do with their money and that old dream of being in the “cool” gang for the first time in their lives
Haven’t really missed anything about the WSL since last year..
I miss living with the eternal hope that a spectator will tea-bag the plexiglass during a post-heat interview.
Go Big ….Praying for “Spit the Winkle” …..a chocolate move .
You dont miss pro surfing? did you watch that early morning heat at j bay in 2017 where filipe smoked jordy with world class rail carving?
If so you are a fuckin kook?
I watched a hell of a lot of dribble to get to the good bits.
The last 6 months though I’ve spent way more quality time with my family and more time actually surfing than watching other people do it.
Who’s Michael Barnes?
Where am I ?..