Re: Badmouthing - team vs player

"Bob-Nob" <bobnob15@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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OceanView venit, vidit, et dixit:
"Bob-Nob" <bobnob15@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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He signed the contract. If he wanted a no-trade clause in there,
he shouldn't have signed until it was granted. By signing a
contract that lacked a no-trade clause, Arroyo was saying that
he was okay with the possibility of being traded, years, months,
weeks, even minutes later. Why should the Red Sox not make a trade
based on Arroyo's mistaken understanding? If I sign a contract with
you and think that it means you'll give me all your GI Joe toys,
but the contract doesn't say that, are you a jerk for not giving
them to me? No, nor are the Red Sox jerks for trading a player
who signed a contract that had no no-trade clause in it.

This the LETTER of the contract, and though correct, is a cold way of
doing business, of putting a team together. Yes, it's a business, but
it's also a 'team'.

But it's not as if asking for a no-trade clause is something unusual
in baseball. If it mattered that much to him, he should have asked
for it. He didn't, apparently, or was fine with its not being in
there. That's down to him, not them. They weren't deliberately
misleading him, he just didn't insist on its being in there, and
because he didn't, he was able to be traded.

I'm not saying, 'everything we say to everyone has to be
written down or more fool them for believing us,' but they
were writing down exactly what each party owed the other and
'no-trade clause' was definitely not one of those things in
a business in which no-trade clauses are hardly unusual. And
Arroyo still signed the contract. He seemed like a nice guy,
and it's unfortunate that he misunderstood the Sox, but that's
his misunderstanding, so far as I can tell, not theirs.

Catch you later.
--Robert Machemer


I agree that he made a mistake, but I stand by it being a sincere lack of
goodwill on their part. He had started, done middle ans short relief foe
them, and even given up (in season) his music career, and responded by
seizing his oversite to ship him out. I'm sure he won't do that again, but
for a team trying to overcome the stigma that "nobody effing wants to play
here" (Nomar) they didn't help themselves much.
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