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Old 12-05-2006, 04:47 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by zekester91 View Post
But isn't this the age of cell phones, are you telling me that real GM's are making trades by snail mail, why is it dumbing down the game to get instant talking of trades. why are we forced to use an email system, why can't we pretend that the trading being done over the phone. I want to go forward to a time when GM's pick up the phone and will talk about trades now instead of having to wait till they bother to respond to my email.
Are you talking to me or the Colonel? I'm saying that dim13's idea is not dumbing the game down. If you read one of my previous posts, I said that I wanted trading to be more like negotiating ("What do you want for this player, etc."). I do think that teams normally take a few days to evaluate any deal, hence the delay. It's not due to snail mail (although the drawing up of legal paperwork could take some time too). Only at certain times, like trading deadline and winter meetings, is the process expedited, as in the game.

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