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Nasir and Matt celebrate America's birthday by discussing the newest decision in the hotdog in the eye at a baseball game case and the legal side of the 4th of July. They then answer, "I gave my employees the option to take the 4th of July off. Everyone except one employee decided to take the day off. I was planning on not going to the office but now do I have to show up for this one person? All my employees are hourly." Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: Welcome to Legally Sound Smart Business! This is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And this is a very patriotic Matt Staub. NASIR: Oh, nice. Our patriotic episode of our business legal podcast where we cover business news and answer some of your business legal questions that you, the listener, can send in to ask@legallsoundsmartbusiness.com and dot-USA, but not really. Don’t send it there. MATT: Dot-USA? That’s… NASIR: No, it’s dot-US. MATT: Oh, dot-US, okay. NASIR: I don’t think they have a dot-US. MATT: Yeah, which you actually will see. I’ve actually seen those. Those exist already. NASIR: Yeah, I don’t know if dot-USA exists though. Will it exist? Someday. MATT: It will after this episode, that’s for sure. NASIR: Definitely. MATT: It’s all going to be American themes. Sorry to our international listeners. NASIR: We apologize, Nigeria! MATT: What’s more American than hotdogs and baseball? This is a story we talked about. It’s been a while ago now. NASIR: Episode 1. MATT: I don’t know if it was Episode 1. NASIR: Oh, Episode 2. MATT: You’ll get it right eventually. I mean, I don’t remember which one it was but it was about the fan who was at a baseball game. I think it was a Royals game and he got hit in the eye with a hotdog by Slugger, their mascot, and a Missouri Supreme Court has just ruled – just now, I’m getting a live feed – that it is not an inherent risk of watching baseball – a flying hotdog flying towards you is not an inherent risk – which I think, in my opinion, you know, I’ve been to a lot of baseball games, I don’t know if I agree with this just because, when you go to a baseball game, you know that there is the risk. A ball could be flying at you, depending on where you’re sitting, it could be flying very fast at you and depending on where you’re sitting too, a bat could come into the stands. Hotdogs – I could knock a hotdog down if it’s flying towards me. If a baseball is flying at me as fast as it is off a bat, I can’t knock that down. NASIR: But what if he was sitting at a place where sometimes, you know, it depends where you’re sitting as far as the amount of risk. And then, also, if you’re watching the game and paying attention, then you also have lesser risk because then you can possibly see a ball or a bat coming. MATT: Yeah. NASIR: But a hotdog? This guy was damaged pretty bad. Like, his retina was detached or something like that. Had to get a new eyeball. MATT: I agree. Obviously, there’s a lot of breaks in baseball between innings and between the top and the bottom of the individual inning. So, if baseball is not going on, that’s I’m assuming the time they’re throwing the hotdogs out so you’re not expecting anything to be happening at that time. I guess he does have an argument in that sense. Obviously, he has that argument because he ended up winning but… NASIR: At the same time, why doesn’t Kansas City just pay for this? I mean, this guy got hit by a hotdog and his retina was detached. It’s like, just pay it. I mean, you have insurance to at least cover some of it. MATT: This is why I’m here – because you don’t follow baseball. If you did, you would know the Royals have had a long period of bad… I think it’s been 25 years since they’ve been in the playoffs. It’s been a long time. So, I just think it’s one bad thing after the other. That’s probably the reason they didn’t do it. This is something they should have just taken care of. NASIR: It’s probably the insurance companies that are fighting the claim anyway so it may not even be in th...