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Originally Posted by rylinus
These are not really negotiations at all.
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I was always under the impression that was the entire point. These are guys who will attend
one meeting - out of courtesy - but their decision is already made. You're not negotiating with them; you're throwing huge piles of money at their faces hoping they'll blink.
They have already picked out a college, are guaranteed a ride on a full baseball scholarship, they've signed the lease on the apartment, their highschool sweetheart is moving in too since they got accepted at the same place, and they've already adopted two dogs. Their names are Wuffles and Carl Barks and they're the best dogs in the entire world. Are
you going to be the one to tell them that their daddy can't come live with them after all because he has to go to Nowheresville, Wyoming to play minor league ball?
Obviously as grown men in the baseball business we know that there's nothing a huge pile of money can't buy - including a prettier girlfriend and any number of better dogs - but these are 18-year-olds; you can't expect them to understand grown-up stuff just yet.