jackrussell;2035305 said:
I don't disagree things should probably change. But if, as you say, everyone knows something is broken and it has to be fixed, how is offering up Jake Long as the sacrificial lamb expounding on anything more than they already knew? As Jerry said, NOTHING can be done til the new CBA...it's obviously on their radar.
As I've said, while this may help Miami save money, St. Louis will STILL be paying the #1 money, so NOTHING will have changed. The way I see it, you're screwing the player and St. Louis to prove a point you admittingly say we all already know, all the while, not achieving anything on the pay scale problem.
And as much as I would enjoy Berman's head exploding...it most likely won't, and he'll just be even more obnoxious.
I think the role that something like this would serve is to provide a preliminary look at how it could be in years to come, until such time as the CBA is restructured, if it ever is. This is a wake up call to all parties involved.
I see this as a situation in which things can be scaled back to a reasonable level.
I compare this to watching a guy hook up his trailor up to his truck and pulling out of a camping grounds, many years ago. Clearly the guy was not familiar with how to do this. He struggled with it for maybe half an hour and then finally, when he was satisfied that it was attached, he pulled out and started down the dirt road and out of the camp site. 20 feet down the road, he hit a bump and the trailor poped right off the hitch. The guy realized that something was wrong when he saw the trailor dragging behind the truck with only the sway chains keeping it attached to the truck. When the guy stopped, naturally, the trailor bumped into the back of the truck and all came to a rest. Don't know if you can imagine how comical this looked to all who were watching. I'm certain the guy felt like an idiot, as well he should have for not securing the trailor properly.
Now, nothing serious happened. The truck and the trailor probably swapped a little bit of paint but you could clearly see that the ramifications of what potentially could have happened were running through the poor guys mind. He looked down, shock his head for a minute and then hussled up to reattach the trailor, making certain that the hitch and ball were securely seated before tightening it back up, once again. Took much less time the 2nd go round and after maybe 10 minutes, they were back on the road.
That guy was me, the truck was pretty new and the trailor was rented from U-haul because at the time, I could not afford my own but since I had 5people with me, I could not fit all the camping gear in my truck so I rented the damn trailor. Nothing really hurt except my own pride but, my mind was thinking, what if that would have happened down the road going a lot faster? It was a warning to me. Get your own damn trailor and don't be stupid or lazy.
That's kinda how I see this thing.
