Sure thing, since you obviously can't grasp it. The timing had to do with MONEY as well as time. Not just one. They dropped him as soon as they could financially handle it and had his replacement (Matthieu) in place. Or did this not occur to you?
Oh, I see now.
You're saying had they dropped Berry any earlier, then that would have cost them money. You know, because dropping a player costs you money, and makes it more difficult to fit other players under the cap.
So, they had to wait until they committed to more money before they could afford to pay Berry less money.
Makes total sense.
Silly me for thinking it might be a choice between keeping Berry and seeing if they could find a player they felt better about on the market before the 3/15 deadline, but waiting until they did.
Yeah, I'm the fabricator. I'm the foolish one. And for that matter, yeah, ***I'm*** the one who, when he learns he was wrong ***isn't man enough*** to back down and say so. (How ironic that you evidently refuse to even acknowledge that you missed something while you were pounding your chest about me missing something... or, did you also miss that?... you're replying to everything else I said
except that post, and unlike you apparently, I make a conscious attempt not to presume.)
Honestly, you're welcome to say it could be a bad idea to sign Berry. That's a defensible opinion.
What isn't defensible is pretending that all that matters is what you, a common fan, know about the situation, and that there is no professional opinion that might matter.
You can defend being cautious and reflecting on the history as a basis for that. I'm not sure anyone even disagrees with that... surely not I.
But you cannot defend refusing to acknowledge that there might be other current information that could come to the table that could be compelling.... you're being irrational to pretend to know that what you don't know (and none of us do, it's not just you) is somehow immaterial.
Tying that thought and the previous one together... I back down when I'm wrong. It's happens every now and then. Have you ever?