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<blockquote data-quote="packedhouse01" data-source="post: 12900" data-attributes="member: 204"><p>The bottom line is that this isn't a sport anymore. It's a business and like any business the owner, (managers like Harlan) runs the shop and they can fire you at a moments notice if what you offer doesn't make the company money. The owners are their own worst enemies. The put a salary cap in place to protect themselves from themselves. How stupid is that? So now they put these limitations on themselves and that is part of the problem with contracts today. They give out huge bonuses to circumvent the salary cap that they put in place to protect themselves and players want that money up front because that is theirs. The downside of the bonus is that they don't make as much on the salary because that works more against the salary cap. So when you look at Walker, he got something like 2 mil as a signing bonus. He already has that money and now he makes in addition to that 2 mil, something in the area of $500,000 a year in salary. Well if you add that 2 mil. to his contract, then he's making considerably more than $500,000. My point being that it's not just the players that are in the wrong, they system the owner put in doesn't always work because the players look at it like the owners can end that contract anytime they want to, so the player think they have the right to hold out. So in my humble opinion the system used isn't a very good system, especially when the people who work the system are not honorable people. I don't consider Rosenhaus and Walker honorable people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="packedhouse01, post: 12900, member: 204"] The bottom line is that this isn't a sport anymore. It's a business and like any business the owner, (managers like Harlan) runs the shop and they can fire you at a moments notice if what you offer doesn't make the company money. The owners are their own worst enemies. The put a salary cap in place to protect themselves from themselves. How stupid is that? So now they put these limitations on themselves and that is part of the problem with contracts today. They give out huge bonuses to circumvent the salary cap that they put in place to protect themselves and players want that money up front because that is theirs. The downside of the bonus is that they don't make as much on the salary because that works more against the salary cap. So when you look at Walker, he got something like 2 mil as a signing bonus. He already has that money and now he makes in addition to that 2 mil, something in the area of $500,000 a year in salary. Well if you add that 2 mil. to his contract, then he's making considerably more than $500,000. My point being that it's not just the players that are in the wrong, they system the owner put in doesn't always work because the players look at it like the owners can end that contract anytime they want to, so the player think they have the right to hold out. So in my humble opinion the system used isn't a very good system, especially when the people who work the system are not honorable people. I don't consider Rosenhaus and Walker honorable people. [/QUOTE]
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